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By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £2,500.00
Publisher: 1931 - 52.:
Seller ID: 37997
A rare opportunity to acquire a series of four original letters from Mervyn Peake to one of his intimate and long-standing friends [Helene] Lanie Bruce spanning the years 1931 to 1952. 1. Dated November the first 1931. Three page letter written one side only. A long intimate and chatty letter enthusing about his first visit to Sark to visit his friend and old teacher Eric Drake who was trying to establish an artists' colony on Sark. This letter predates what was previously thought to have been his first visit, sometime in 1932; he eventually joined the colony in 1933. Signed Mervyn. 2. D... View more info
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 inscribe... View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £5,750.00
Publisher: Country Life, 1939.:
Seller ID: 38073
1st Edition. Original cloth backed boards, a little bruised at the head of the spine. Covers, early and last few pages browned. However, generally a Very Good copy in repaired and restored dust wrapper. Presentation copy inscribed “To John Hurry Armstrong with best wishes from his friend Mervyn.” and additionally signed in full at the foot of the end paper. John Armstrong was the nephew of Leslie Hurry, artist and theatre designer. Hurry was a friend, fellow artist and illustrated one of Peake’s poems ‘Watch, Here and Now’ published in Pinpoints, May-June 1939 a... View more info
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 The first major exhibition with 2 previously unpublished drawings on the handbill. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £4,250.00
Publisher: c. 1940.:
Seller ID: 38280
Ink wash, white water colour on blue paper. 11 x 8 inches, mounted, framed and glazed. From Peake's imaginary portfolio by the artist Hitler. When his application to join the War Artists’ Advisory Commission was shelved “...he imagined a propaganda leaflet in the form of a portfolio of pictures by the artist Hitler. The titles were conventional, such as ‘Mother and Child’ or ‘Landscape with Figures’, but they depicted a woman mourning her murdered infant, or peasants being shot. Although the Ministry of Information was initially excited by the series... View more info
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 View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £2,250.00
Publisher: [1956]:
Seller ID: 38614
Black chalk on paper, mounted on board. 8½ x 4¾ inches. Unsigned. Reproduced on p. 109 of the Drawings of Mervyn Peake. Davis-Poynter, 1974. From the collection of the artist’s niece Judith Bland [née Peake]. View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £2,100.00
Publisher: [1946]:
Seller ID: 38615
Pen and ink on paper. 13 x 9 inches. Signed “Peake”. The sheet has been torn in half horizontally and professionally repaired and cleaned. The repair is expert but noticeable. A variant drawing for Maurice Collis A Quest for Sita, 1946. p. 44. From the collection of the artist’s daughter Clare. View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £1,950.00
Publisher: January, 1936.:
Seller ID: 38616
Pen and ink on paper. 9½ x 7 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. From the collection of the artist’s daughter Clare. View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £4,250.00
Publisher: 1940.:
Seller ID: 38618
Ink wash, heightened with white, on blue paper. 11½ x 8¼ inches. Framed and glazed. From Peake's imaginary portfolio by the artist Hitler. When his application to join the War Artists’ Advisory Commission was shelved “...he imagined a propaganda leaflet in the form of a portfolio of pictures by the artist Hitler. The titles were conventional, such as ‘Mother and Child’ or ‘Landscape with Figures’, but they depicted a woman mourning her murdered infant, or peasants being shot. Although the Ministry of Information was initially excited by... View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £110.00
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946.:
Seller ID: 40071
1st Edition. Bright yellow cloth. Fine in dust wrapper faded on the spine and with some minor wear and a few very small chips but a better than usual copy for this title which is prone to severe wear on the edges of the spine. PiP B10a View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn
Price: £60.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, 1953.:
Seller ID: 40072
1st Edition. Very Good in worn dust wrapper with repairs to the reverse. PiP A10a View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Spring, 1948.:
Seller ID: 32181
Peake contributes three poems, ‘Truths have no Separate Fires but from their Welding,’ ‘O This Estrangement Forms a Distance Vaster,’ and ‘Poem.’ All were reprinted in The Glassblowers [1950], the second with revisions. View more info
By: PEAKE, Mervyn dust wrapper design
Price: £180.00
Publisher: Longmans, 1937.:
Seller ID: 34274
1st Edition. Very Good in slightly worn dust wrapper. The wrapper has an old adhesive residue from the removal of adhesive covering. Consequently it is not the best copy but only the third that I have seen. Peake’s earliest dust wrapper design. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: The Bodley Head, 1956.:
Seller ID: 37992
1st Edition, 1st issue in red cloth. Fine in dust wrapper with a short closed tear to the front panel. Front and spine panel of the dust wrapper by Peake, with a frontispiece reproducing the front panel. View more info
Price: £550.00
Publisher: Chatto and Windus, 1940.:
Seller ID: 32100
1st Edition. Ist issue without the dedication ‘For Sebastian’ on the page following the contents. Fine in browned and slightly rubbed dust wrapper with a short closed tear to the rear panel. At the last minute Peake had the book dedicated to Sebastian and some early copies were issued without. PiP B1a View more info
