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Published by Gerards Cross. Colin Smythe Ltd, 1973
ISBN 10: 0900675934ISBN 13: 9780900675935
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Gerrards Cross. Colin Smythe Ltd. 1973. Originally published in 1962 by Dent; this is the first edition thus by Colin Smythe Ltd. Hard Cover. Chocolate brown boards with gilt titles to spine. Gift inscription to the ffep dated 1978. 22 black and white illustrations in felt pen by the author. Near fine. Dust wrapper is clipped but with hardly any wear; mild toning. Near Fine. Photograph of Mervyn Peake to the rear. A narrative poem about a sailor wandering in London during a World War II air-raid who finds a newborn baby in the debris.
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Published by Colin Smythe Limited, 1973
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, Hardback with Unclipped Dust Jacket. 42 Pages, Illustrations. Few very light marks to jacket. Overall a near fine copy in likewise jacket. Extra postage may apply for overseas orders. All books are posted in a sturdy book box.
Published by Colin Smythe Limited, Gerrards Cross, England, 1973, 1973
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo (21.5x14cm), hardback, 43pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (unclipped, light wear, bumped, light creasing, triangular section at lower right front where coating has lifted, white background a little grubby). Light wear, faint offsets to endpapers, lightly foxed. Pictures available on request.
Published by Dent, London, 1962
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper, with lust minor handling to the extremities. Review slip loosely inserted.
Published by London J.M. Dent 1962, 1962
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
A corrected proof, bearing printers / proof reading corrections. Paper covers (front cover detached but present). Slight staining to covers. Includes Peake s own illustrations. 44 pages. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches).
Published by Dent, 1962., 1962
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
1st Edition. Very Good in very slightly rubbed dust wrapper. PiP A13a.
Published by Dent, UK, 1962
Book First Edition
Soft Cover in Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). First Edition. A UK uncorrected proof copy in wrapper. The Wrapper : A Very Good ++ wrapper, unclipped, unfaded and bright. Light wear to the upper edges. Looks sharp. The Book : The book is square, bright and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. Clean, unfaded plain covers. Unmarked text block is gently toned. Light creasing to the spine. No foxing. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. An attractive copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.
Published by Dent, London, 1962
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition, first printing, with the unclipped, unfaded and bright dust-wrapper. Original black cloth lettered in gilt at the spine. No old owner names of inscriptions. Booksellers ticket laid in at foot of front pastedown. A fine copy in the like dust-wrapper. Tucked in at the front is the catalogue for Maeve Gilmore's exhibition at Woodstock Gallery, Mayfair, London, April-May 1964. Book.
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Some foxing to interior. Text is unmarked, twenty-two illustrations by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by J.M. Dent, London., 1962
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 43. 22 drawings by the author.Presentation copy from the author in a close to wholly illegible hand: his name is clear enough, the date looks like 1957 and the rest is illegible although "Lesley" is one possibility. The author was already suffering from dementia and the drawings that he produced for this poem, which was written 15 years earlier, are among his very last works. Spine slightly bruised at head. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper a little rubbed at the edges.