The Pirate City An Algerine Tale; R.M. Ballantyne Series

5.25"x8.25". 377 pgs. No DJ. 5th Printing. Each color of cloth boards in this series represents which geographic region the story is located in. This title the cloth boards are Navy which represents Europe. Title, with gilt line above and beneath, and a Scotch Thistle emblem in gilt on front. All this is mirrored on spine. Frontispiece "Mariano Escapes." May have other B&W illustrations. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library & unmarked. Dime size soil spot/splatter on side edge. "To say that Mrs Langley was dumbfounded is but a feeble way of expressing the state of her mind. Although a lady of great moral courage, and accustomed from infancy to self-control, she felt, on first beholding her timid little daughter, strongly disposed to seize Fatma by the hair of the head, and use her as a bludgeon wherewith to fell her Algerine mother; but, remembering the dignity of her position as, in some sort, a reflected representative of the British Empire in these parts, and also recalling to mind the aptitude of Algerine gentlemen to tie up in sacks and drown obstreperous Algerine ladies, she restrained herself, bit her lips, and said nothing." Goodreads rating 3.93.…