![]() ![]() ![]() With b/w text illustrations throughout, including 6 plates. However, the other titles listed on the dustwrapper date this reprint to at least 1945. One of Meader's earlier offerings, this was originally published in 1931. One spring day back in 1821, Jim Slater stole out of his father's farmhouse before daybreak and ran away to Providence to become a sailor. Offended by the cruelty he witnesses aboard, he escapes at his first opportunity, only to end up having to survive in the Louisiana wilds. Read reviews and buy The Black Buccaneer - (Dover Childrens Evergreen Classics) by Stephen W Meader (Paperback) at Target. A novel by Stephen W Meader Here is a first class tale of adventure with vivid characters and accurate setting. The adventures of Jim Slater, a young boy who runs away from home to become a sailor, and ends up working on a slave ship bound for Africa. Interior bindings slightly fragile but intact with clean pages. Spine well sunned dustwrapper has moderate tears, abrasions and soiling extremities chapped w/ some material loss large dampstain on rear some repairs (with postage stamps) on dustwrapper verso inner panels price-clipped. But unbeknownst to 14-year-old Jeremy Swan, his island home is ripe for plundering by sea raiders, who swoop down and drag him away. Octavo 21cm bright blue publisher's cloth, stamped in black, in color pictorial dustwrapper 233pp, frontis, 6 plates. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |