Porto Bello Gold
by Arthur Howden Smith
Illustrated by Henry C. Murphy (COLOR PLATES)
Grosset & Dunlap Inc, c1924, no other printings listed, 330 pages. GOOD+ to VERY GOOD Condition Illustrated Hardcover. This book has light cover wear(see Scan), bookplate on inside front cover (no name on it), light fading on spine, light foxing on endpapers & a few small gutter holes on back. Pages & Binding are NICE & TIGHT! NO writing! Published with uneven pages on purpose. Map of Spanish Main on Endpapers!
A prequel to TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson. Filled with GLORIOUS COLOR PLATES by Henry Murphy.
How did Captain Flint and Murray sack the Spanish galleon and bury their ill-gotten treasure on the Dead Man's Chest and on Treasure Island?
This 1924 novel is Arthur Howden Smith's prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale.
Blending seamlessly with Treasure Island, the action takes place a few years earlier, and the reader is introduced to the smooth-talking Long John Silver, the villainous blind pirate Pew, and poor Ben Gunn.
KEYWORDS: Nautical Fiction, Pirates, Piracy, Robbers, Thieves, Treasure, Ship Mates
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