Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. 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 jacket. Thin quarto. [48]pp. Printed on variously colored papers. Yellow cloth stamped in green. Fine in near fine dust jacket lightly soiled on the rear panel. Mervyn Peake's first book.
Item #501596
