Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, from the Writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle

xvii, [1], 246, [1] pp. Black cloth spine over paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, grey titles & double border on front board, color picture plate mounted on front board. CONTENTS: Foreword by Merle Johnson; Preface; Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main; The Ghost of Captain Brand; With the Buccaneers; Tom Chist and the Treasure Box; Jack Ballister's Fortunes; Blueskin, the Pirate; Captain Scarfield; The Ruby of Kishmoor. ILLUSTRATIONS: An Attack on the Galleon (color frontispiece); On the Tortugas; Capture of the Galleon; Henry Morgan Recruiting for the Attack; Morgan at Porta Bello; The Sacking of Panama; Marooned; Blackbeard Buries His Treasure; Walking the Plank; 'Captain Malyoe Shot Captain Brand through the Head'; 'She Would Sit Quite Still, Permitting Barnaby to Gaze'; Buried Treasure; Kidd on the Deck of the 'Adventure Galley'; Burning the Ship; Who Shall Be Captain?; Kidd at Gardiner's Island; Extorting Tribute from the Citizens; 'Pirates Used to Do That to Their Captains Now and Then'; 'Jack Followed the Captain and the Young Lady up the Crooked Path to the House'; 'He Led Jack Up to a Man Who Sat upon a Barrel'; 'The Bullets Were Humming and Singing, Clipping along the Top of the Water'; 'The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury'; So the Treasure Was Divided; Colonel Rhett and the Pirate; The Pirate's Christmas; 'He Lay Silent and Still, with His Face Half Buried in the Sand'; 'There Cap'n Goldsack Goes, Creeping, Creeping, Creeping, Looking for His Treasure Down Below!'; 'He Had Found the Captain Agreeable and Companionable'; The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque Fellow; Then the Real Fight Began; 'He Struck Once and Again at the Bald, Narrow Forehead Beneath Him'; Captain Keitt; How the Buccaneers Kept Christmas; The Burning Ship; Dead Men Tell No Tales; 'I Am the Daughter of That Unfortunate Captain Keitt'.