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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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The Craft of the Lead Pencil.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Allan Wingate, 1946.:

Seller ID: 41142

1st Edition. Original cloth boards without dust wrapper as issued, rubbed as often found, internally a little light spotting. PiP A5a
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Titus Groan.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946.:

Seller ID: 41145

1st. Edition. Brick red cloth, Very Good in slightly worn and discoloured dust wrapper. See in both this brick red cloth and a brighter finer grained cloth, this issue is more commonly seen with a 2nd impression dust wrapper. However the issue point doesn’t seem to be as straightforward as that. I have seen both colours of cloth with both this first issue dust wrapper and a 2nd impression dust wrapper. PiP A4a
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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 ...
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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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The Pot of Gold and Two Other Tales by Aaron Judah.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1959.:

Seller ID: 32147

1st Edition. Near Fine in dust wrapper. The uncommon first issue with the price 9/6 on the dust wrapper. Later issues have the dust wrapper price clipped and overprinted with a price of 60p. Winnington reckons the 60p issue is a later binding, but more likely rediscovered copies with the dust wrapper altered. PiP B21a
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Droll Stories Collected in the Monasteries of Touraine and Given to the Light by Honoré de Balzac. Translated into Modern Engllish by Alec Brown.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Folio Society, 1961.:

Seller ID: 32148

1st Edition. Brown canvas, Very Good in slip case split along one edge. PiP B22a
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Mervyn Peake/Oscar Wilde; Extracts from the Poems of Oscar Wilde

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Gordon Spilstead, 1980.:

Seller ID: 32149

Printed on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper and bound in Tussah silk with a slipcase illustrated by Maeve Gilmore. Fine in very slightly rubbed slipcase. One of 200 copies signed by Maeve Gilmore PiP B23a
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The Sunday Books (Les Livres de Dimanche), text by Michael Moorcock.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Paris: DeNoël, 2010.:

Seller ID: 32152

1st Edition. Original decorated cloth. Fine. “This delightfully odd book calls for some explanation. While the Peake family were living on Sark in the late 1940s, each of MP’s two sons had a notebook in which MP drew or painted a picture every Sunday. Sometimes he did a painting on a separate sheet and pasted it into place. There was not necessarily any connection between the pictures from one week to the next. Generally they were simply what the boys asked for – an aeroplane, a car, or a train, for instance. Being the sons of MP, they often requested pirates. What Michael...
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The Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pan Books, 1946.:

Seller ID: 32158

1st Pan Edition. Original cloth, Very Good. One of the first Pan books, (and one of only a handful issued in hardback), using Mervyn Peake’s drawing of Pan on the title page before it became more stylised in 1947.
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The Glory of the Sons; a History of Eltham College School for the Sons of Missionaries, edited by Charles Witting.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Eltham College, 1952.:

Seller ID: 32163

1st Edition. Near Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. Mervyn Peake contributed five small drawings. Of course, he also attended the college from 1923 - 1929, forming his closest friendship there with Gordon “Goatie” Smith.
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The Glory of the Sons; a History of Eltham College School for the Sons of Missionaries, edited by Charles Witting.

By: PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Eltham College, 1952.:

Seller ID: 32164

1st Edition. Near Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper with a short tear on the joint of the rear panel and flap. Mervyn Peake contributed five small drawings. Of course, he also attended the college from 1923 - 1929, forming his closest friendship there with Gordon “Goatie” Smith.
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