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DARK MONDAY: Stories.
Edition: First trade edition.
San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of dark fantasy stories by the author of The Company novels. Includes an original novella featuring pirate captain Henry Morgan, 'The Maid on the Shore.' 231 pp. ISBN: 978-1597800518.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66889More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MAPMAKER'S SONS.
Edition: First printing.
Beacon Falls, CT: Move Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in the Mapmaker's Sons series. "Tom Hawkins must find the most powerful weapon ever created and save the world . . . with many a sword fight, swamp dog, and dragon along the way.. . slim, action-packed tale." (Kirkus) Illustrated by Jon Berkeley. Double page map. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. 167 pp. ISBN: 978-0985481001.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated boards a like dustjacket (erasure on half title page)
Book ID: 90069More details Price: $25.00 -
GREAT VENTURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1952.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story writtten for young adults of the ill-fated attempt of the Scots to found a colony in Central America: New Caledonia, a story of heroism, of a young Scotch Laird and his friendship with a Guarani Indian boy, of sickness, pirates, and danger on land and sea. Illustrated with drawings by Christine Price. 239 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (dustjacket has a tape repair the upper edge, discoloration on flaps and endpapers from tape.) Contents are very clean, binding is tight. Back cover of dustjacket advertises Heinlein's The Rolling Stones.
Book ID: 33419More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ISLE OF THE WINDS.
Edition: Early vintage reprint ("Special Subscription Edition")
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - A romantic adventure novel by this Scottish writer, originally published under the title "Little Anna Mark." Although this begins - and ends - in Scotland, most of it is set in the Caribbean, among the pirates, including a search for Morgan's hidden treasure. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven internal plates on glossy stock. A title in the Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction series, bound in marbleized boards with a dark green cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt. 443 pp.
Condition: Near fine. An uncommon early edition.
Book ID: 85667More details Price: $25.00 -
THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE.
Edition: Hardcover.
London: Universal Books LTD. (1989.) dj. Hardcover - A fascimile from the original publication of 1885. Illustrations with a vintage appeal, delicately colored paintings by Kate Greenaway. Large format. ISBN: 0-86441-0182.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26471More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SEA BEGGARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in 16th century Netherlands, a peaceful, prosperous and tolerant world until King Philip II of Spain orders his army to purge the land of heretics, extending the reach of the Inquisition. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Braldt Bralds. ISBN: 0-394-504062.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61657More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA in 'Life and Letters' August 1929, Vol. III, No.15.
Edition: First appearance in print of this work.
Condition: Fair condition only in red and tan wrappers (spine slant, some soiling to the covers and edges of textblock, previous owner's name on front cover.) Nevertheless, quite uncommon and interesting,
Book ID: 38614More details Price: $150.00 -
THE SHADOW CAPTAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1925) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An account of the activities of one Christopher Rousby in the town of New Yorke during several months of the year of our Lord 1703; the narrative compiled from notes gathered and set down by Launcelot Dove, one time chief lieutenant to the famous Captain William Kidd. These, together with facts not well known to history, are here set forth." Full color frontispiece tipped in. 347 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. Uncommon in the first edition and in this condition.
Book ID: 68798More details Price: $60.00 -
MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel in the Bloody Jack Adventure series written for older children and young adults. In this, "the infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French apparently beheaded in full view of her friends and crew." 436 pp. ISBN: 978-0152061876.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj, top edge of rear cover).
Book ID: 81302More details Price: $15.00 -
SILVER: Return to Treasure Island.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Crown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - HIghly acclaimed sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, set 40 years later as the children of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver return to the island to find the treasure left behind by their parents. One review commented that former poet laureate Motion "reinvented Stevenson's world to reveal its dark underside, illuminating both its mysterious beauty and its grim immortality." 402 pp. ISBN: 978-0307884879.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 63900More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MERMAID, THE WITCH AND THE SEA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2020). First edition - The author's first young adult fantasy novel, in a "world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious Imperial lady fine a connection on the high seas." Publisher's material laid in. 357 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 89816More details Price: $21.50