Drake's Drum (Signed copy)

Signed by Draycot M Dell, the co-creator of the 1933 King Kong screenplay

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titling and design to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 254pp.

Signed and dedicated by Draycot Montagu Dell to the ffep. "To dear old Lil, with all my love, Mont. Draycot M Dell, 1921". Dell (1888–1940) was an author specialising in boy's adventure yarns and was a close friend of Edgar Wallace. He is (according to Peter Haining) the author of an early King Kong story (in Boys Magazine, Oct 1933), and possibly finished the screenplay for the famous 1933 King Kong film for which Edgar Wallace had been commissioned but died in 1932.

A rip-roaring adventure set on the ships of Queen Elizabeth's navy.

Condition

Fair. The covers are rubbed, the pages are tanned, the inner binding secure but a little delicate, however it remains perfectly readable.

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