Captain Pugwash and the Huge Reward - A Tale of Smuggling in the Ancient Town of Sinkport (Signed, with Cartoon)

<p>First edition, first impression. 44pp, with line drawings throughout.  Signed by the author on the half-title page, where he has added above his signature a small head and shoulders doodle of Captain Pugwash.  In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine.  8vo.  Cloth very gently rolled at spine ends, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated glossy dust jacket, a little bumped on extreme edges, short flat crease on front inner flap.  Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.</p> <p>The <em>Captain Pugwash</em> books are a series of children's stories but filled with adult, if somewhat risque wit. The stories are about Captain Pugwash, a somewhat bumbling and comical pirate captain, and his crew aboard the ship called the <em>Black Pig</em>.  While Captain Pugwash is perhaps John Ryan's best-known character, he has also created Mary, Mungo and Midge; Sir Prancelot and Harris Tweed.</p> <p>Blurb from dustwrapper: "When Captain Pugwash retires from active piracy he is amazed and delighted to be offered a Huge Reward for performing what seems to be a simple task. Little does he realise what villainy and treachery lurk in the little town of Sinkport, or what a hideous fate may await him there".</p>