Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

Peake (Mervyn).   Illustrations by the author Country Life,  1939 First Edition   4to Cloth-backed pictorial boards A little foxing and soiling to boards, browning to end-papers, title-page and final page as usual, otherwise a very nice copy in somewhat browned dust-wrapper which has a few tears without loss and a few chips, notably at the head of the spine panel  The author’s first book. Scarce, many copies having been destroyed in the Blitz. 

Price: £2500