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xviii, 247 pp. Compiled with a Foreword by Merle Johnson. Illustrated with 38 plates (14 in color with 2 tipped-in); plus several wood engravings and drawings throughout by Howard Pyle. (4to) white cloth-backed gray boards, color illustrated cover label. No. 27 of 50 copies. First Edition.

With a full page doodle by Merle Johnson, signed and dated Feb. 2, 1926. Drawing is of a pirate ship, a man on an island, a monkey watching it all ("oldest inhabitant"), and a shark in the water, ("I'll git im when he tries to swim off.") Signed by Merle Johnson on limitation statement. Publisher's code "D-V" on the copyright page. The first printing from new plates, limited to 50 copies.