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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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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: 32081

1st Edition, first issue. Limited to 150 copies. Wrappers as issued. Rather browned and rubbed. Presentation copy inscribed on the last page “To Dennis - with best wishes from Maeve - Good Friday - 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 pres...
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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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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].
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The Drawings of Mervyn Peake.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Grey Walls Press, 1949.:

Seller ID: 37993

1st Edition. 1st issue. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, now rather dull. Very Good in worn and browned dust wrapper. Signed by Peake on the end paper with an additional presentation inscription on the following page “Doreen with love from Mervyn Chelsea. 1951.” PiP A7a
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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.

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...
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Poetry Quarterly.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn contributes

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.
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The Past Must Alter, by A.J. Guerard.

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.
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Harlequin Phoenix, by Thelma Niklaus.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustates

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.
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Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

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
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Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £400.00

Publisher: Chatto and Windus, 1940.:

Seller ID: 32101

1st Edition. 2nd issue with the dedication ‘For Sebastian’ on the page following the contents. Very Good in slightly rubbed dust wrapper with a few short closed tears. PiP B1a
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The Hunting of the Snark; an Agony in Eight Fits, by Lewis Carroll.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Chatto and Windus, 1941.:

Seller ID: 32104

Deluxe edition. This edition bound in pink cloth with slightly rubbed and browned dust wrapper. 1400 copies of this edition were printed, fewer than the Zodiac edition. PiP B2c
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The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World, by C.E.M. Joad.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1943.:

Seller ID: 32106

1st Edition. Very Good in browned and chipped dust wrapper. PiP B3a
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All This and Bevin Too, by Quentin Crisp.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Nicholson & Watson, 1943.:

Seller ID: 32108

1st Edition. Wrappers as issued. Just a little wear at the head of the spine otherwise a Very Good copy. Notoriously fragile, the spine is very susceptible to wear. PiP B4a
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Folio Society, 1948.:

Seller ID: 32134

1st Edition, variant issue. Yellow dust wrapper printed in black. End papers a little browned, rear cover a little damp marked, Good in stained and badly chipped dust wrapper. Only the second copy I have seen of this variant design, the rear panel of which is unprinted. I have been unable to assign priority with confidence. PiP B11a
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