Captain Kidd and his Skeleton Island by WILKINS, Harold T - 1935

London: Cassell and Company, Limited,, 1935. The discovery of a strange secret hidden for 266 years. Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to the spine, red top-stain, coloured map to the endpapers. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 14 other plates, illustrations to the text. Frontispiece slightly rippled at the fore-edge, else a very good copy on slightly rubbed, price-clipped jacket. First edition. Challenges Lord Birkenhead's belief that Kidd's trial was "scrupulously fair," proposing that he was in fact "railroaded to the gallows," and publishes for the first time a version of the Kidd-Palmer treasure map.