Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

New York: Macmillan, 1967. 1st edition US. Hardcover. As new. Peake, Mervyn. 1st ptg. tall 8vo, full yellow pictorial cloth, illustrated by the author in line on bright goldenrod backgrounds. The story of a menacing pirate and a strange Yellow Creature he finds on a desert isle. A fine, bright copy in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's… Read more about this item

Candlewick Press, 2001. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Second Edition. Very good or better in very good jacket. Minor edgewear to head and foot of spine and very minor bump to foot of both boards halfway across length. Minor rubbing to jacket covers with minor chipping to foot of spine and bottom right back cover. Else,… Read more about this item

Country Life. London: Country Life (1939). A first edition. 4to., original pictorial paper boards, backed with the original green cloth spine; pp. 48; An about very good copy. Missing its jacket. The boards and all pages have browned with age. The upper board has wear and rubbing to the corners. The lower board has marks, a couple of small splash marks and a… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945. Small 4to.Illustrated. Unpaginated. Cream-coloured cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Dust wrapper slightly edgeworn. Parisian bookseller's stamp to ffep. Colour illustrations and hand lettering throughout by Mervyn Peake. This is the second edition, but the first edition with colour illustrations. The scarce first edition published in 1939, but had the majority… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Small 4to. 50 pp, illustrated "the original edition of this book was published early in the war but destroyed by enemy action. The artist has coloured the plates for this edition." unclipped dustwrapper with some minor closed tears and old brown paper tape renforcing the head and tail of the spine. Previous owners' bookplates to… Read more about this item

Walker Books, 2010. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. A special anniversary edition to celebrate a swashbuckling fantasy that remains as contemporary today as it did 70 years ago.Captain Slaughterboard is the most ferocious and wicked pirate you could ever imagine. He likes nothing better than cutting people up with his cutlass or making them walk the plank. Then… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Small 4to.Illustrated. 50 pp, illustrated "the original edition of this book was published early in the war but destroyed by enemy action. The artist has coloured the plates for this edition." Unclipped dustwrapper with minor spotting and light marking. Some chipping and bumping to extremities of jacket and book respectively. Ink inscription to ffep, otherwise… Read more about this item

London. Country Life. 1939. . First edition, first impression. 4to. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards. With the Peake-designed dust jacket. Some mild, typical browning early and late but a very good copy in the somewhat frayed dust-jacket with minor loss at the spine ends and one corner. Peake's first book and of considerable scarcity. It has been… Read more about this item

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The second edition of Peake's first book (the vast majority of the first edition, published by Country Life in 1939, was destroyed during the Blitz). 4to. Forty-seven unpaginated pages of text. Beige cloth lettered in green at the upper board. Printed on alternating pink, blue, yellow and white sheets… Read more about this item

Walker 2009 Hardcover. Very good. Dj, heavy. Previous owner stamp on first page. Heavy - extra postage may be required.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus, with illustrations in color by the author. An original edition was published early in the war in London by Country Life in 1939, but many were destroyed by the enemy in the blitz. "The artist has coloured the plates for this edition" - from the dust… Read more about this item

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945, . Second edition; large 8vo; publishers yellow cloth, lettering to upper board in green; pictorial dust-jacket; a superb copy. The 1939 Country Life printing of this book (the first edition), was almost completely lost due to 'enemy action' during the war and is now an almost mythic rarity. For this the revised… Read more about this item

London: Walker Books Ltd, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Slim 4to, pp48 illustrated by Mervyn Peake throughout with new introduction by Fabian Peake. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clipped DJ in very good condition with a few small marks. Light blue boards with titles to spine and circular design to front board in near fine condition. Inside near… Read more about this item

New York: MacmillanCompany, 1939" [ie., 1967]. First American edition of Peake's-perennially-popular-pirate-phantasy. Fine condition in very good dust jacket.. 18 x 25.5 cm. Unpaginated (about 50 pp.) Duotone plates throughout.

Cambridge: Candlewick, 2001. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto. 9.5 x 12 in. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of drawings by Peake. Very good in original paper-covered boards with a small closed tear to the head of one page and very good pictorial dust jacket with a 1" closed tear to head of front dust jacket… Read more about this item

NY: MACMILLAN. 1967. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition. Fine in a priceclipped, otherwise Nf. dj. (Faint dampstain at upper lefthand corner of rear panel of dj. A short edge nicks in dj. ) Scarce in dj. Author's FIRST book. Published originally in Britain. .

Nelson, London. 1967. . 4to, unpaginated. A very good hardback copy in price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is worn and torn with pieces missing. Contents clean. .

Howden, East Yorkshire: The Estate of Mervyn Peake/Mr. Pye, 1999. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Limited to 126 copies of which this is 44. Originally published by Country Life in 1939. Unpaginated. 27 cm. B&w illustrations on each page. Green cloth spine with illustrated paper covers. Matching dustjacket. In grey cloth and illustrated paper slipcase with very light… Read more about this item

Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1945. 8vo., Second Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous coloured illustrations by the author throughout; original yellow cloth upper board lettered in green, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear at bottom edge of front panel and lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. This is the… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1967. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. 10" by 7.5". Mervyn Peake. A smart edition of Mervyn Peake's first published work, a colourfully illustrated yet darkly humorous children's tale. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A 1960s edition of this incredibly popular dark children's book, first published in 1939.'Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor' follows the titular… Read more about this item