New York: Random House, [Date: 1953]. Book club edition. Some white spots to front cloth, mild damp stain, a very good copy in a good dust jacket edge wear, closed tear to upper front panel, shallow chips to head of spine panel, closed tears to rear panel. (24760). Octavo, cloth. Light tan cloth and dust jacket not priced with "Young Readers Of America" slug at head of front flap, no ads to rear panel. The story of the Barbary Pirates and the fledgling U. S. Navy. 1953. Random House [US]