The Real Captain Cleveland

PUBLISHER
Martin Secker, London.

BINDING
Navy blue cloth boards, navy stain to top block edge, gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn with scuffing around edges, corners and ends of spine are bumped. Spine discoloured. Block edges and outer leaves are badly foxed, and most of the printed pages are also affected, although mostly on margins. The plates do remain largely clear. Fold out facsimile of a letter is quite well preserved and little marked, with one 5 cm tear. Tissue guard to frontispiece is intact and mostly clear, small tear on top corner. Faint original owner's name on title page. Two black and white pictures of coastal scenes have been pasted inside the front cover.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
First edition 1912.

DESCRIPTION
The real story of notorious pirate John Gow, who was the model for Walter Scott's fictional Captain Cleveland in his novel "The Pirate". Illustrated with ten monochrome plates and a folded facsimile letter. 256 pp. Octavo.

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