2001 Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First Candlewick Press edition, first impression. The author's first book. This work is based on a story he had written around 1936, and was first published in 1939 by Country Life. A darkly humorous children's picture book concerning the nautical exploits of the titular captain and his rambunctious crew aboard their ship The Black Tiger. After some episodic adventures they capture a small humanoid, referred to only as the Yellow Creature, with whom Slaughterboard develops a strange platonic infatuation. Written and illustrated by Mervyn Laurence Peake, a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books.