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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor: Available Copies

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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 panel along spine. Still a bright and crisp copy. Originally published in 1939.

First Edition/First Printing! Minor read/shelf wear.

1 inch chip on jacket front jacket in protective sleeve some foxing on endpapers. Price Clipped. First American Edition. Noted SF writer's pirate story for children. Black and white drawings throughout.

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.

Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within

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 one day, on a remote island, he spies a strange Yellow Creature - and from that time on, he's a changed man. How he loves the Yellow Creature! They become the best of friends, always together, sailing the oceans. But will Captain Slaughterboard ever drop anchor for good? From the cult novelist Mervyn Peake, with a new introduction by his son, Fabian. Dj, heavy. Previous owner stamp on first page. 48 pages.

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 fine. A very good copy.

1st printing. An unread book. The 70th Limited Anniversary Edition.

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.

Unpaged. Illustrationjs (drawings). Some damage to the very foot of the spine, else a clean, tight, VG+ copy in a good-only dust jacket (rubbed, light chipping, few short tears). Size: Large 8vo (10.25" tall)

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

unnumbered pages. .its.Mervyn!!!

With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Collectable 70th limited anniversary edition Book as new Wrapper is not price clipped. Background colour on spine is faded. Creasing to top spine and very neglgible creasing to extreme tip of top front corner

First edition thus. Hardback. 2001 edition, 1st impression. Quarto. (48)pp. Original pale blue boards. Near fine in a lightly used, very good indeed dust jacket.

Pale blue hard cover with titles on spine and circular picture on front, and no cover wear. Unclipped dust jacket is in fine condition. Beautifully illustrated in colour on all pages which are not numbered. 70th anniversary edition published in 2009 and in fine condition.

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 one day, on a remote island, he spies a strange Yellow Creature - and from that time on, he's a changed man. How he loves the Yellow Creature! They become the best of friends, always together, sailing the oceans. But will Captain Slaughterboard ever drop anchor for good? From the cult novelist Mervyn Peake, with a new introduction by his son, Fabian. #0921 (Price sticker on back.)Format Hardback in Dustjacket | 48 pagesDimensions 240 x 308 x 12mm | 632gPublication date 20 Jan 2010 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. (Please note: Over standard weight or size. Orders via ABE Books or Biblio or from Overseas may incur additional postage charges. We will contact you prior to processing order to request your approval or contact us to confirm postage cost.)

Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).

Nearly fine/very good first edition thus with just a bump at spine-foot and scrape-incipient tear to bottom rear paste-down, clean and bright interior of this attractively produced first printing by Candlewick Press. Originally published in 1939. This wonderfully strange illustrated pirate fantasy by the cult novelist Mervyn Peake is scarce in any printing. Fresh oversized pale blue boards with illustration to the front board, blue endpapers, afterword by Fabian Peake dated London, 2001. The dust jacket about fine with colorful drawings to front and back panels, protected in a clear Brodart cover. Peake's idiosyncratic drawings gloriously realize his eccentric characters Captain Slaughterboard, the Yellow Creature and the entire colorful crew.

1st. U.S. Edition. Very Good in chipped dust wrapper. For this edition the hand lettering of the text was abandoned in favour of type and yellow was the only colour used. PiP A1c

OLWd. mit OUmschlag, [48] unpaginierte Seiten mit Abb., 4° (19 x 25,5 cm), Hinterseite des Umschlags leicht angeschmutzt, unscheinbar abgegriffen, sonst perfekt, insgesamt sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: German

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 marks.

[48] pages : illustrations. Publisher's binding good, front and rear panels creased at lower fore-corners, minor bumping to extremities; binding cracked at head following title page, short inscription at head of front free endpaper, else contents very good. The unclipped dust jacket shows mild age-toning and light wear to extremities. 200 grams.

First edition hardback with dustjacket.Yellow pictorial boards have no damage. Previous owners bookplate inside front board. Slight wear to DJ edges with a small tear to bottom edge. Very good condition.