The Pirates - first UK edition

by Gideon Defoe - signed

Subtitled, "In an Adventure with Scientists" this comic send-up uses piratical cliché - but that's all seven seas away from actually being piratically clichéd; the author's knowledge and blatant fondness for this well-worn genre allow him to tinker with, prod at, tweakily subvert and make funny all the things we'd expect of pirates, and without which we'd be confused, and wonder why we were reading a pirate book in the first place!

Book has black boards with the title in gold on the spine. Cover is price-intact at £7.99.