Pirate Treasures from the Burns Library An Exhibit of Maps and Books

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This presentation copy to Graham Greene from his wife Vivien dated December 10 reads “I am still frantically hunting for something post-able & that you might not have already. Please take this as an IOU for a present which perhaps I can put in your hands when you are next over here, V”

Robinson Crusoe Pop-Up

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe: A Unique Book of Color Pop-up Changing Pictures. New York: Merrimack Pub. 196?.

Author Flann O’Brien’s copy

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: As Related by Himself. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1869.

English writer Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was the author of Robinson Crusoe. One of its likeliest inspirations was the story of castaway Alexander Selkirk, who sailed with – and was later rescued by – William Dampier. Defoe’s second novel, Captain Singleton, included the story of the main character’s experiences as a pirate.

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. The 3d ed. London: W. Taylor, 1719.

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Who Lived Twenty-eight Years in an Uninhabited Island. With an Account of His Deliverance. Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1845.

Author Graham Greene’s copy

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island, with original illustrations by Wal Paget. London: Cassell, 1903.

Byron’s The Corsair

Byron, George Gordon Byron. The Corsair: A Tale. 5th ed. London: Printed for John Murray … by Thomas Davison …, 1814.

Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random

Smollett, Tobias George. The Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. with Memoirs of His Life; to which is Prefixed, a View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance, by John Moore, M.D. Volume II, The Adventures of Roderick Random. London: Printed for B. Law [etc.], 1797.

Scott’s The Pirate

Scott, Sir Walter. The Pirate. London: T. Nelson & Sons, [19–?].

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