Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled

by Merle Johnson by Howard Pyle

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition, no. 21 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates of which 12 are in color on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout the text, this copy EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED on the endsheets with 7 watercolor drawings 5 full-page by Merle Johnson, signed “Merle Johnson” or M.J. xvii, 1 , 247 pp. 4to. Publisher's cloth

• Binding: Leather

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