Exhibition Catalogue. Mervyn Peake Restrospective. Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London 16 February - 12 April 1987.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1987.:

Seller ID: 32197

16 page catalogue with a photograph and reproductions of 13 drawings, and introduction by John Watney and a reprint of Peake’s article ‘The Voice of a Pencil.’ View more info

Exhibition Catalogue. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) An Exhibition from 14th June - 8th July 1994.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Chris Beetles, 1994.:

Seller ID: 32198

Large format catalogue illustrating 80 works for sale, with a price list for 93 works. View more info

Shapes and Sounds.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1941.:

Seller ID: 32806

1st Edition. Very Good in chipped and worn dust wrapper lacking most of the spine. Inscribed on the end paper "To you Both with much Love - Mervyn - Nov 1941 -" From the collection of H.B. [Burgess] Drake. Drake was a schoolmaster at Eltham college during peake's time there and became a friend. He was godfather to Peake's daughter Clare and peake illustrated two of his books; The Book of Lyonne [1952] and The Oxford English Course for Secondary School... View more info

The Glassblowers.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950.:

Seller ID: 32815

1st Edition. Very Good in slightly creased dust wrapper. Inscribed on the end paper "For Rene & Bur from Mervyn May 1950." From the collection of H.B. [Burgess] Drake. Drake was a schoolmaster at Eltham college during peake's time there and became a friend. He was godfather to Peake's daughter Clare and peake illustrated two of his books; The Book of Lyonne [1952] and The Oxford English Course for Secondary Schools, Book One [1957]. This is one of... View more info

A COLLECTION.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £100,000.00

Publisher: 1922 - 2011.:

Seller ID: 33070

A once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire what is thought to be the most extensive collection of Mervyn Peake items in the world. This collection has been formed over a period of more than 30 years and consists of over 500 individual items. Of course, all the published books are represented in 1st Edition including the Rare 1939 Edition of Captain Slaughterboard in a dust wrapper, but in addition there are a large number of variant issues, some previously unrecorded a... View more info

The Collected Works in Ten Volumes.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £1,550.00

Publisher: Queen Anne Press, 2012.:

Seller ID: 33088

10 volumes. Comprising Individual volumes in the set: Titus Groan; Gormenghast; Titus Alone; Mr Pye; Letters from a Lost Uncle; Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor; Poems; Labyrinth; In Umbra; The Sunday Books. Cloth Binding (limited to 125 sets numbered 1-125) by Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Typesetting and picture arrangement by Libanus Press. Cover design by Webb & Webb. Each volume is printed in at least two colours. Bound in Japanese cloth with gold blo... View more info

Portrait of Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in a Streetcar Named Desire. Original oil painting.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £6,500.00

Publisher: c. 1951.:

Seller ID: 34664

Oil on board. c. 1951. signed. 11½ x 7¾ inches. Framed and glazed. Peake first met Lawrence Olivier in Germany in 1945 and would use this friendly meeting as an introduction in 1950 when he attempted to persuade Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh to produce and act in his play The Wit to Woo. According to Olivier, Leigh liked the play but his approaches came to nothing and they eventually gave upon it in 1952. During this period Vivien Leigh starred in Elia ... View more info

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £1,800.00

Publisher: Country Life, 1939.:

Seller ID: 36876

1st Edition. Pictorial boards a little soiled as usual when lacking the dust wrapper but a Very Good copy with very little of the usual browning to the end papers. Supplied with a facsimile dust wrapper. View more info

Shapes and Sounds. Original pencil drawing. Signed.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £2,250.00

Publisher: c. 1941.:

Seller ID: 36899

A rare unused illustration for his first book of poems "Shapes and Sounds" 1941. Peake had originally suggested that the poems be accompanied by illustrations but the publishers baulked, either due to cost, or the wartime paper shortages. This is a highly finished version of the central motif used in the final dust wrapper design for the book. Pencil 11 x 10 inches, framed and glazed. View more info

Throwing Men.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £1,400.00

Seller ID: 37786

Original drawing. Pen and Ink. 6 x 7¾ inches. One of over 40 original drawings and sketches currently for sale, the property of Clare Peake, Mervyn Peake’s daughter which we have been commissioned to sell on her behalf. Each one is accompanied by a certificate of provenance and authenticity signed by Clare Peake. A catalogue is available in PDF form free of charge on request. View more info