A Book of Pirates

1st edition, first printing. viii, 200pp, four plate illustrations and further drawings in text. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (boards just a little rubbed and rounded at spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a small black mark on half title verso. True stories of pirates, told in a narrative, engaging manner, reading more like fiction than history. Chapters on Captain Kid; Captain Avery; Privateers and Pirates; Blackbeard; Captain Condent; Pirates and Buccaneers etc. 8vo.