CAPTAIN SLAUGHTERBOARD DROPS ANCHOR

by Mervyn Peake

$600 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Scarce first edition thus, with color illustrations, the second overall following the monochrome edition of 1939 — most of whose copies were reportedly destroyed during the Blitz. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Item #19160 Hailed as subversively imaginative by children's book historians, Captain Slaughterboard has also suffered the fate common to all mid-century

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