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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor: Available Copies

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.36

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.36

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.36

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This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.32

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

1977. Reprinted. Unpaginated. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Two-colour illustrations by author. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

First edition, clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations, pages 17 and 18 have a small stain, all other pages are in good condition with vivid and bright illustrations, light shelf wear to the dust jacket, dust jacket is wrapped in a protective covering. LF

Hardcover in good condition, with clipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and edges are creased and nicked, with chips and tears also noted. Bumps to front lower board edge and spine ends. Page block is tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

Circa 60pp, illustrated throughout. In pale blue paper-covered boards, decorated, with titles on spine. Pale green endpapers. 4to. Gently pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, very slightly bumped at edges, small mark at spine base. With a new foreward by Fabian Peake, this edition of Mervyn Peake's curious story of a pirate, Captain Slaughterboard is both elegant and entertaining.

Publisher's advanced copy with three loose signatures laid into a dust jacket. Quite uncommon thus.

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

1967. This edition. Unpaginated. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

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.

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)

Paperback book with pictorial card covers. Unpaginated with illustrations in black, white and yellow by author. Spine sunned, inner book bright and clean. A curious children's book by the author of Gormenghast. 'A story about a pirate, a desert island and a yellow creature?.written for all children who know about pirates and all adults who have not yet lost the gift of dreaming.' Early reprint.

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4to. (44) pp. Publisher's black lettered and illustrated pale blue boards, dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. A few minor marks to the jacket, very good. First published in 1939, this being the 70th Anniversary Edition.

unnumbered pages. .its.Mervyn!!!

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.)

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.

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 captain and his crew abroad the Black Tiger, as they capture a small humanoid known in the tale as the Yellow Creature.Written and illustrated by Mervyn Peake, an English author who is best known today for his 'Gormenghast' books. He also illustrated editions of 'Hunting of the Snark', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Brothers Grimm', 'Treasure Island', and 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. This edition is illustrated throughout in a bright yellow in Peake's iconic style. In the original publisher's paper covered boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the extremities. Minor edge wear to the dust wrapper, with a few small closed tears and chips, including a larger chip to the rear flyleaf. Light handling marks to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine