Piracy, Pirates
We come for our own and we shall have it; smuggling in Poole and Dorset
Bristol: Bristol Radical History Group, 2008. Pamphlet. 24p., 6x8 inch staplebound pamphlet; in very good condition. Bristol Radical Pamhleteer #2. More
Cat.No: 311866
The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper
Minneapolis: Queen of Swords Press, 2020. Paperback. 172p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Lesbian pirate fantasy. More
Cat.No: 300083
Songs of Men, an Anthology Selected and Arranged by Robert Frothingham
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, November 1918. Hardcover. xx, 169p., a small elegant production in 6.5x4 inch goldenrod boards (paperings vary in first run, no priority) with a textured black cloth spine and simple title-label. Externally unblemished and bright, quite sound, but within, however neatly done, are numerous extra texts tipped in..... More
Cat.No: 311817
The Women Pirates Ann Bonney and Mary Read a play
London: Pluto Press, 1978. Paperback. 74p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Read, raised as a boy in England, met up with Bonney in Charleston, becoming lovers and pirates. Charles Dance and Ron Cook appeared. More
Cat.No: 126449
Un Aventurier Anglais au Bresil; Les tribulations d'Anthony Knivet (1591) - Introduction, traduction & notes d'Ilda Mendes dos Santos
Paris: Chandeigne, 2003. Paperback. [318]p., illustrated with several b&w plates in facsimile. Softbound in 8.5x6 inch matte-white laid-lined wraps printed in pale green, a lovely design choice, and enclosed in a pictorial green dust jacket. A perfect, as-new copy. Collection Magellane. Knivet shipped with a "corsaire," pirate Thomas Cavendish; one..... More
Cat.No: 278882
A true historie & account of the pyrate Captain Misson, his crew & their colony of Libertatia founded on peoples rights & liberty on the island of Madagascar. [Interior title: The story of Misson and Libertatia]
London: A Distribution; Dark Star Press, 1991. 29p. booklet, 4x6 inches, reprint of 1980 edition. Very good. Spectacular Times. More
Cat.No: 258498
A true historie & account of the pyrate Captain Misson, his crew & their colony of Libertatia founded on peoples rights & liberty on the island of Madagascar. [Interior title: The story of Misson and Libertatia]
London: A Distribution; Dark Star Press, 1991. 29p. booklet, 4x6 inches, reprint of 1980 edition. Neatly ex-library. Spectacular Times. More
Cat.No: 258575
Gay News: #147 July 13-26, 1978: Gay Pride: Homosexuals on the march
London: Gay News Ltd., 1978. Newspaper. 40p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, ads, news, editorials, reviews, services, gay guide and diary of events, very good on newsprint. Report on Lesbian Pirates Anne Bonny & Mary Read. Gay Pride reports. More
Cat.No: 321896
The Law of the Sea
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1951. Hardcover. 302p., first edition, hardbound in openweave blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. A pleasant copy, with a couple of caveats for collectorship: spine panel is a bit dimmed with handling (lettering remains legible), find a penetrating fleck to half-title..... More
Cat.No: 319060
The Pacific Ocean. Illustrated by Stephen J. Voorhies.
New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1940. Hardcover. 322p., illustrated with five b&w line maps and doublespread endsheet maps in two colors. Hardbound in sound blue buckram boards gilt and black. Front cover bears three droplet stains, else an entirely clean unmarked copy, More
Cat.No: 296809
The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast: Hadrami Chronicles. With Yemeni and European accounts of Dutch pirates off Mocha in the seventeenth century.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. Hardcover. x, 233p. + 14 plates, cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches, one fold-out map, bookstore stamp on free front endpaper, front hinge cracked and repaired with clear tape else good first edition in a price-clipped and edgeworn dj with a sunned spine panel. More
Cat.No: 272533
Sailor Jim
Santee, CA: Blueboy Library, 1976. Paperback. 183p., old black marker on old price sticker on cover; otherwise very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Blueboy Library 80008. Pirates! Arrrrr!! More
Cat.No: 21783
The Body Politic: gay liberation journal; #25 August 1976: Entrapment Olympic Crackdown
Toronto: The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press, 1976. Newspaper. 20p., + 8p. Our Image Review supplement #4, folded tabloid newspaper, illustrations, photos, news, reviews, opinion, resources, ads, wear at folds & toning else good on newsprint. Also: Susan Baker on the Lesbian Pirates, Bonny and Read! More
Cat.No: 302356
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The Gay Adventures of Captain Goose [reprint of "The Gooser"]
New York: Masquerade Books, 1994. Paperback. 228p., fine first Badboy edition and printing in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Badboy (169-1). Hey Sailor! The captain and crew of the H.M.S. Faerigold! Yo ho ho and a bottle of AstroGlide! Originally published as 'The Gooser'. by Greenleaf Classics in..... More
Cat.No: 142987
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The Gay Adventures of Captain Goose [reprint of "The Gooser"]
New York: Masquerade Books, 1994. Paperback. 228p., good first Badboy edition and printing in chipped and worn original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Badboy (169-1). Hey Sailor! The captain and crew of the H.M.S. Faerigold! Yo ho ho and a bottle of AstroGlide! Originally published as 'The Gooser'. by..... More
Cat.No: 241567
L'Afrique Barbaresque dans la Litterature Francaise aux XVI et XVII Siecles
Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1973. Hardcover. xvi, 407p., illustrated with period images in b&w, hardbound in textured white boards lettered in blue, enclosed in the dust jacket. Text is in French only. An essentially sound copy, but not fully presentable, as marginal damp damage has uglified edges of the rear cover..... More
Cat.No: 279502
Shades of the Past, or Indiscreet Tales of Japan. Decorations by Jean Williams.
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. Hardcover. 357p., sketched vignettes here and there, a small b&w plates section (period photography, mostly 1859 site/architecture), first edition (so stated) in glittery-yellow cloth boards gilt, 7.5x5 inches, enclosed in the dust jacket. Handsome production in very good shape: several touches of offset soil..... More
Cat.No: 294268
Pluck and Luck. The Slave King, or Fighting the Despoiler of the Ocean, and Other Stories. January 12, 1927
New York: Westbury Publishing Co., 1927. Magazine. 30p., newsprint cover and text, staplebound 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps. Very acidic and fragile, but complete and can be handled and read. Pluck and Luck no. 1493. More
Cat.No: 226556