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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 and some so far known only by a single example. There are subsequent edition, re-issues, foreign editions, paperbacks, proof c...
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The Collected Works in Ten Volumes.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £7,650.00

Publisher: Queen Anne Press, 2012.:

Seller ID: 33089

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. Fine Binding (limited to 26 sets lettered A-Z) by Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Typesetting and picture arrangement by Li banus Press. Cover design by Webb & Webb. Each volume is printed in at least two colours. Finely-bound in goatskin with leather onlay designs featuring crystals, exotic shell and iridescent beetle wings, hand sewn head- and tail bands, top-edge gilt pages...
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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.
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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £2,200.00

Publisher: Country Life, 1939.:

Seller ID: 38072

1st Edition. A little wear to the spine and ever so slightly shaken in an extensively professionally restored dust wrapper. 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 a number of Drake's books recently acquired, a number of which are inscribed by Peake to Drake and his wife. This title not inscribed.
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Mervyn Peake Exhibition at City of Westminster Public Library.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £30.00

Publisher: 22 January to 24 February 1968.:

Seller ID: 38199

Single sheet, 7½ x 5½ inches. Fine. “A comprehensive exhibition covering Peake’s work as novelist, playwright, poet and illustrator, including original drawings and manuscripts of the Titus Groan Trilogy.” The first major exhibition with 2 previously unpublished drawings on the handbill.
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Bookplate. Ex Libris N. Asherson.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £45.00

Publisher: [1951]:

Seller ID: 38202

Loose bookplate, probably removed from a book. Peake’s only known bookplate design, produced for Nehemiah Asherson, an ear specialist who treated Peake’s wife and children.
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Theatre Programme. Man and Superman, by Bernard Shaw.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £80.00

Publisher: King’s Theatre, 1946.:

Seller ID: 38203

4 page programme with a drawing by Peake on the front cover.
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Theatre Programme. Man and Superman, by Bernard Shaw.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £50.00

Publisher: King’s Theatre, 1946.:

Seller ID: 38204

4 page programme with a drawing by Peake on the front cover. Inscription in red ink at head of front cover.
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Theatre Programme. The Insect Play, by the Brothers Capek.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Little Theatre, [1936]:

Seller ID: 38205

Mervyn Peake’s costume designs were first used in a 1932 production and used again for this production. The programme reproduces a drawing by Peake on the front cover. His designs were very well received by the press, and two of the designs were illustrated in the London Mercury the same year.
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Swans Die and a Tower Falls.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Chalfont St. Peter: The Grasshopper Press, 1973.:

Seller ID: 38485

Broadside. Single sheet, Fine. Limited to 100 numbered copies. A poem first printed in The Glassblowers p.12, reset from a signed typescript – the signature and the address, “Chalet, Sark, Channel Islands” (in Peake’s handwriting), being reproduced at the foot of the poem. Printed on hand-made paper by the Van Duren Press PiP Broadside
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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £295.00

Publisher: Howden: Mr. Pye (Books), 1999.:

Seller ID: 32037

Facsimile Reprint of the Country Life 1939 Edition. As new in dust wrapper enclosed in blind stamped cloth solander box. One of 26 copies of the deluxe edition signed by Sebastian, Clare and Fabian Peake. This edition reverts to the black and white version of the original. PiP A1f
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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Howden: Mr. Pye (Books), 1999.:

Seller ID: 32038

Facsimile Reprint of the Country Life 1939 Edition. As new in dust wrapper enclosed in a slip case which reproduces the front panel of the dust wrapper. One of 100 copies of the ordinary edition of this reprint. This edition reverts to the black and white version of the original. PiP A1f
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Shapes and Sounds.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Chatto and Windus, 1941.:

Seller ID: 32040

1st Edition. A little wear to the spine otherwise Very Good in very defective and chipped dust wrapper. Presentation copy inscribed “To you both, Edith and Dick, with love and so much gratitude. Mervyn. November 1941 -” Edith [née Hurry] and Dick [Richard] Armstrong were friends. Edith was the sister of Leslie Hurry, artist and designer, a contemporary of Peake. PiP A2a
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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 blocking, the front board of each volume inset with an illustration from the text. The volumes numbered 1-10 in Chinese numerals...
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Poems and Drawings.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £295.00

Publisher: Hand set and printed by Fabian Peake, Phyllida Barlow & Roy Lewis at the Keepsake Press, 1965.:

Seller ID: 32079

1st Edition, first issue. Limited to 150 copies. Wrappers as issued. Almost Fine, inscribed “with best wishes from Maeve Peake - Aug 1965” There are two distinct issues for this title, unrecorded by Winnington in PiP. This earlier issue has a border surrounding the title and illustration on the front cover and not to be confused with copies of the sheets with xeroxed covers. I have attributed this issue as the first since the only presentation copy which I have seen is this issue, and the ones which I have seen presented by Maeve are also of this issue. PiP A14
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Poems and Drawings.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Hand set and printed by Fabian Peake, Phyllida Barlow & Roy Lewis at the Keepsake Press, 1965.:

Seller ID: 32080

1st Edition, first issue. Limited to 150 copies. Wrappers as issued. Almost Fine, with a presentation letter from Maeve Peake dated April 16 1965 loosely inserted. There are two distinct issues for this title, unrecorded by Winnington in PiP. This earlier issue has a border surrounding the title and illustration on the front cover and not to be confused with copies of the sheets with xeroxed covers. I have attributed this issue as the first since the only presentation copy which I have seen is this issue, and the ones which I have seen presented by Maeve are also of this issue. PiP A14
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Poems and Drawings.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Hand set and printed by Fabian Peake, Phyllida Barlow & Roy Lewis at the Keepsake Press, 1965.:

Seller ID: 32082

1st Edition, second issue. Limited to 150 copies. Wrappers as issued. Fine. There are two distinct issues for this title, unrecorded by Winnington in PiP. This presumed second issue lacks the border surrounding the title and illustration on the front cover and not to be confused with copies of the sheets with xeroxed covers. PiP A14
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A Reverie of Bone and Other Poems. Drawings by the Author.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Bertram Rota, 1967.:

Seller ID: 32084

1st Edition. Limited to 320 copies. Almost Fine in wrappers as issued. PiP A15a
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Twelve Poems.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Hayes: Bran’s Head Books, 1975.:

Seller ID: 32094

1st Edition. Wrappers, Fine in translucent dust wrapper. One of 350 copies. PiP A20
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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 Schools, Book One [1957].
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