Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.  Mervyn Peake. (London, Country Life, 1939).  First edition, illustrations in black & white.

25.5 x 28.5 cms. 24 leaves, black & white illustrations.  Good, owner's name, endpapers, title page and final page browned, most pages clean but some marks to margins and to a couple of pages especially the double page illustration of the chase on the island. Boards browned and slightly marked and have suffered at the hands of a child with a number of indentations particularly to the rear board.

Much of the stock of this first edition was destroyed when the warehouse storing it was bombed in the Blitz so copies are uncommon.  The second edition was published in 1945 with the illustrations in colour.