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Anthony Smith Books

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.

Description

Large 8vo. First American edition. (First published in the UK by Country Life in 1939.) Original pictorial boards. Illustrated from cover to cover by the author. Spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed. Line of writing to top of front pastedown blocked out with black felt tip. ‘From my friend Mervyn | Graham Greene’ in black ink on the flyleaf. On the verso in shaky purple ink, ‘Mervyn Peake 1967’ and at the foot of that page a note in black ink, ‘* Signed at Burcot, Ox. with the assistance of Dr. Jim Gilmore, wife Sylvia and the N.O.C. for Mr. Green [sic]. (1968 and not 1967 as Mr Peake writes.) Elizabeth.’ Contents fine. Near fine.

Price

£7500.00