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London: Jarrolds Publishers Ltd, 1957. CY1 - A first UK edition hardcover book in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has price clipped, wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some tears on the edges and corners, stains, tanning, and light shelf wear. Book lightly bowed, tanning and light shelf wear. Translated from the Spanish by James Cleugh. 8.5"x.5.75", 216 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, Jarrolds, 1957. Hardcover. 1st English language edition (Spanish 1953). 21.9 cm (8.6 inch) tall. 216 pages. Condition of book: Book Very Good (light general wear; small owner stamps on endpapers & title page)/ Dust jacket Very Good overall in clear cover (details: light general wear; light rubbing on white area on back; flap corner clipped, but '16s. net' intact). Translated from the Spanish by James Cleugh. Pirates, History. Our books ship from Tampa Florida by the next business day.

Jarrolds London, (1957). Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 246 pp. Good+, with sunned spine and edgewear, neat former-owner stamps and light foxing (age darkened spotting). From Preface: These stories have been arranged in chronological order and contain references to the history of their periods. They constitute, accordingly, something in the nature of a summary, in broad outline, of the history of piracy in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean and the West Indies, from the earliest times until its decline in the eighteenth century. The book is intended for all those people whose admiration of the heroes of adventure by sea is mainly stimulated by fanciful tales. The present collection, it is hoped, will induce them to study the actual deeds on which their favourite yarns are based. Apart from the dialogue, which has been introduced to make the information imparted more readable and interesting, the material used in the following pages has been taken from serious hisotries which, like those of… Read More

London: Jarrolds. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1957. First English Edition. Hardcover. Nice bright firm copy; Light foxing on endpapers; minor wear on jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages .

London: Jarrolds, 1957. Hardcover. Translation by James Cleugh. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 216pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear; slightly toned endpapers. A tight, handsome first English edition of this Spanish study first published in 1953. Superb jacket art.