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Peake, Mervyn.. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. Eyre & Spottiswoode., London., 1945.
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition 1945. Illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake, all the pages are printed on different coloured papers. Short tear to the bottom of the title page. Contents slightly loose. Publishers beige cloth very slightly stained & marked and very slight rubbing to the edges, still generally a pretty good copy. Scarce.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 4to. unpaginated. Beige cloth boards with green titles. Some minor markings and discolouration to boards. Slight spotting to end papers. Multi-coloured pages with fantastic b&w illustrations by the author. Overall a Very Good copy. Scarce.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard drops anchor. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945, 1945.
Price: US$87.70 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Antikvariat Valentinska, Praha, Czech Republic
Mervyn Peake. Captain Slaughterboard drops anchor. Eyre & Spottiswood, London, 1945.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [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.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Written and illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1945. 2nd edition. The book is in very good condition with no marks with a single name/date written on the top corner of the fep. The dustwrapper is in very good condition and is not price clipped. The top/base and edges of the spine are worn with some loss. There is some wear and light loss to the top edge of the front cover, which is also has a crease across to the bottom corner. The rear cover is a little dusty. The wrapper comes with a clear unattached protective cover. Humfordmillbooks welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: Humford Mill Books, Morpeth, NORTH, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945., 1945.
Price: US$136.28 + shipping
Description: 2nd. Edition. Some light damp staining to the foot of the cloth otherwise Very Good in dust wrapper. For this edition colour was added to the illustrations.
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945., 1945.
Price: US$143.46 + shipping
Description: 2nd. Edition. Very Good in dust wrapper a little browned on the spine. The first edition of 1939 is uncommon as most copies were destroyed in a warehouse fire; for this edition colour was added to the illustrations.
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
MERVYN PEAKE. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 and copiously illustrated in colour by the author (the first edition was only produced with black and white drawings). A little damp marking to the board edges and some resulting crinkling to head and base of the preliminary and final leaves. Short tears to the base of five leaves. A very bright copy in very good internally reinforced non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, chafed with just a little loss to the spine ends and with two or three minuscule edge tears.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 internally quite clean. This is the second edition, but the first edition with colour illustrations. The scarce first edition published in 1939, but had the majority of copies destroyed during The Blitz in London. Small 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Peake (Mervyn). Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition. 4to. Original cloth lettered in green. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d. An attractive example of the second edition of Peake's first published book, the first edition mostly being destroyed in a warehouse bombing during the blitz. Peake's reworking of the images for this edition included colour for the first time. Rare in such condition.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Peake (Mervyn).. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1945.
Price: US$201.74 + shipping
Description: Illustrations, some with colour, throughout by Peake on coloured paper 4to Very nice, bright copy in slightly chipped and somewhat soiled dust-wrapper; Times Book Club label on rear pastedown The first edition of 1939 which had only uncoloured illustrations was largely destroyed during the Second World War.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945., 1945.
Price: US$215.19 + shipping
Description: 2nd. Edition. Almost fine in dust wrapper with just a little soiling and small closed tear on the front panel. For this edition colour was added to the illustrations.
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Mervyn Peake.. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre and Spottiswoode., London., 1945.
Price: US$217.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 48 pages with coloured illustrations by Mervyn Peake, dark cream cloth boards, titles in green on cover, wrapper under a clear removable cover has a tiny piece from top edge lost, a small area of rust spots on rear cover and a little light dustiness, but all very good, no tears. Contents near fine. Slim square octavo. 1945. 1st colour illustration edition after the 1939 1st, the stock of which were destroyed in the war.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Mervyn Peake. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A colourfully illustrated comical tale by Mervyn Peake, the first edition of this work with colour illustrations. The second edition, and the first edition with colour illustrations.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'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 cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A couple of light marks to the boards, including a small damp stain to the tail. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Edge wear to the dust wrapper resulting in small chips and closed tears, chips heavier to the head and tail of the spine, with some tape repairs to the reverse. Wraps are a little age-toned with light handling marks. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Aged tape repairs to closed tears to a few pages, including the title page, and unrepaired closed tears to a few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn.. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Color Edition, First Impression. A Fine copy in thin blond colored boards, in a Fine yellow illustrated dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Unpaginated. Illustrations by the Author. Originally published in 1939. Q14468
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Peake, Mervyn.. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1945.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2nd edition, first edition thus & first edition with color illustrations, crown 4to (10 x 7 ½), pp, [48] illustrated throughout in color after drawings by the author. "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." (From the front flap blurb). Original green lettered natural linen in original black printed pictorial yellow & white dust jacket. Near fine copy just a bit bumped at the head & with some light spots in near fine unclipped dust wrapper with a bit of fray at the head-cap, a minor ¼ closed tear at the rear panel and a closed small snag at the upper back-strip of the dust jacket. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H7785
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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 of copies destroyed during The Blitz in London. "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." Small 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spotiswoode, 1945.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1945 Eyre & Spottiswoode Hardcover 2nd Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations by Mervyn Peake as shown. Dustjacket has had a few minor repairs in its history (No sellotape).
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Eyre and Spottiswoode - London 1945. 10" x 7 1/4" - 46pp. Hardcover - light tan cloth with title and author stamped in green on the front cover. (The original edition of this book was published early during the second World War, but many were destroyed by enemy action). The Artists has coloured the plates for this revised edition. In collectible state with no markings or tears - the original dust jacket with minor light stains on the back cover - otherwise a bright, unfaded example.
Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Description: 248 x 182mm, pale cream cloth lettered in green on upper cover, pp.[48]. Small waterstain at foot of spine (not affecting leaves). Unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with minor chip at head of spine panel. Peake coloured the plates for this edition. A bright, attractive copy of the author's first book. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
PEAKE, MERVYN. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Description: Second edition, the first in 1939 being almost wholl destroyed in the Blitz.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
PEAKE, Mervyn.. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. London Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.
Price: US$332.75 + shipping
Description: 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 edition Peake added colour to the illustrations with the paper also printed a variety of different colours. Truly notable not only for Peake's poetic writing style but also that of his fine illustrations, Captain Slaughterboard (a brilliant name!) tells the story of the titular captain and his raggedy crew aboard their ship The Black Tiger.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very nice copy of the second edition of this children's illustrated classic, nearly all copies of the first edition from 1939 having beeen destroyed in an air-raid. This edition features coloured illustrations, unlike the first which was only in black and white. Original pale yellow or cream boards lettered in green. Dustwrapper in yellow and black not price-clipped and with just minimal rubbing to corners and spine. A superior copy of a fragile and highly collectable work.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Mervyn Peake. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor,. Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1945.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Peake (Mervyn)Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, second edition, illustrations by the author, printed partly in colour or against a coloured background, ?lacking front free endpaper, neatly repaired tear to foot of title, original cloth, dust-jacket, some minor chipping and creasing to head, but a generally sharp and near-fine example overall, 8vo, 1945.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Description: SECOND EDITION. The original edition of this book, which had b/w illustrations only, was published early in the war but destroyed by enemy action. This is a pirate story designed for boys and girls who like their pirates bold, bad and realistic. 48 amazing full page colour illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Buttermilk linen texture cloth covered boards with green lettering on upper cover. Evidence of removal of previous bookplate on blank ffep. Complete with yellow pictorial dustjacket, very slightly marked and with very slight wear to top corners only. Overall VG+/VG+. This book was produced in conformity with the authorised economy standards. Slim 4to. Unpaginated (48pp).
Seller: Bookstand, Poole, United Kingdom
Peake, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (SIGNED). Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Peake's first book -- the 1945 is actually the second edition, with color screens added to the internal pages, as most copies of the 1939 true first were reported "destroyed by enemy action early in the war." Large, slim octavo hand-signed to the blank FFE "Mervyn Peake '47." This copy acquired from the Old Aberdeen Bookshop, Aberdeen, whose proprietor informs us "The signature is genuine according to the lady who sold this book. Given to her mother by the author in Sark, Channel Islands, UK." And indeed, the distinctive autograph signature matches others available Online. None of the usual warping to the boards, here, though there's also no dust jacket, alas. Charming if somewhat odd pirate fantasy. (Actual relationship of the pirate captain and the Yellow Creature remains unclear, and thus possibly non-traditional.) Reduced from $1,200.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Mervyn Peake. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1945.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 7 1/2" x 10". Second Edition (very few actual Firsts of 1939 survived a bombing and fire in WWII). Full-page color illustrations throughout by author Mervyn Peake, in a darkly whimsical style bordering on the absurd. A children's tale of pirate adventures. This copy is at least Very Good Plus: tan boards with only the slightest bumping to the spine ends and almost imperceptible discolorations here and there; bottom of back board has some faint spots darker than the cloth's color; both boards have very slight bowing outwards from the middle vertically (so that boards are a bit closer together at the ends when viewed from top or bottom; boards are thin, large and very hard). Internally nice without any writing, marks or signs of use except for fingernail scoring in one spot on the leading edge of the first few pages; free endpapers are slightly wavy. Dustjacket in great condition as well with slight bumping at the spine ends, a bit of curling at the top edges, a small (1cm +) light brown splat (series of tiny dots) at the upper edge, and price is clipped inside front flap; otherwise Fine with bright yellow and black illustrations [see photo; other scans/photos available upon request]. A very nice copy of this rare children's book.
Seller: Seacoast Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$473.92 + shipping
Description: 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 first coloured edition, and the only version practically obtainable since the original edition (with monochrome illustrations) was almost entirely destroyed during the Blitz. A crisp copy of a scarce work in very good unclipped dustwrapper.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn.. Captain Slaughterboard Drop Anchor.. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London., 1945.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Description: Second edition, and first edition with colour illustrations. The illustrations in the very scarce first edition, the majority of copies destroyed by bombing, were in black and white. Quarto. A pirate story for children. Unpaginated. Head of spine and one corner slightly bumped. Very good in very good, slightly spotted dustwrapper a little nicked at edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Mervyn Peake. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London UK, 1945.
Price: US$563.58 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The original edition of Captain Slaughterboard was published early in the war but the warehouse containing all the editions was bombed in the blitz, thus the first procurable edition. Complete with unclipped dust jacket. Original pale oatmeal cloth boards lettered in green on the front cover. Two tiny marks on the front cover. Clean end papers and contents. Illustrated throughout in black and white (with spot-colour highlights). Printed on blue, pink, yellow, white, and grey paper. Minimal wear on the dust jacket and in very good/near fine condition.Square quarto.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn (author and illustrator).. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.. , 1945.
Price: US$612.25 + shipping
Description: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1945. Royal 8vo. Original fine cream cloth-covered boards lettered in green, in pictorial yellow dustwrapper; pp. [48]; printed throughout on various coloured papers including pink, yellow, blue and grey; illustrated on every page; an excellent copy in a similarly fresh dustwrapper with one small nick to top edge of lower panel, minimal dusting, and a tiny pictorial label to inner upper flap. First thus, strictly the second edition, and the first to be issued with coloured plates. The majority of the first printing of this Peake classic was destroyed in a bombing raid during World War II. At the end of the war Peake reissued his pirate story in this superior edition with the drawings printed on coloured stock.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$1472.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 the front pastedown and a small water stain to the bottom corners of the boards, not present on the pages. This is the second edition, but the first edition with colour illustrations. The scarce first edition published in 1939, but had the majority of copies destroyed during The Blitz in London. Small 4to
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom