MOONRAKER; or, The Female Pirate and Her Friends / By F. Tennyson Jesse
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, golden quarter cloth with black lettering over black boards with a white/black skull & crossbones, illustrated with four B&W [woodcuts?]: 3 full-page & 1 double-spread by author-illustrator Jesse, publisher's green topstain, map endpapers, electrotyped by Vail-Ballou Press, 226 pages + [2] A Note on the Type. Item #4463
SCARCE ILLUSTRATED COPY in SUPERIOR CONDITION with a remarkable young woman as "cabin boy" pirate adventure. Tight, bright, clean copy in a comparable dust jacket (unclipped).
F[ryniwyd] Tennyson Jesse (1888 – 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (who also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson ). Some of her other titles include: The Sword of Deborah, Beggars on Horseback, and The Milky Way.
Price: $70.00