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Seller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
First Edition
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1950). 40pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good in lightly worn dust wrapper. First edition of this collection of poetry published just before and in the same year as Peake's Gormenghast (1950).
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950
Seller: Windsor Rare Books, Windsor, BERKS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. A lovely tight copy in an excellent unclipped dust jacket which has just minor rubbing to extremities. Contents are very bright and clean. 40pp, 8vo. Title printed in red.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1950
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Octavo, viii, 40 pages. Blue cloth lettered in gilt; endpapers and first and last leaves a little tanned; an excellent copy with the very good unclipped dustwrapper lightly worn at the edges, and a little torn and creased near the foot of the spine. 'Commissioned as a war-artist to record my impressions of work in a glass-blowing factory near Birmingham, I found on entering the huge, ruinous, grimy, wharf-walled buildings a world upon its own, a place of roaring fires and monstrous shadows . And so what I actually wrote was an attempt to give substance to the firelit flutter of words and images - a substance very different from the drawings that I made, though dependent in the first place upon the visual impression of jugglers in a world of grime and firelight' (Peake's own description of the inspiration behind this collection of poems, from the dustwrapper blurb).
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1950., 1950
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo (22.5x14.5cm), hardback, viii + 40pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (price clipped, rubbed, lightly chipped at spine extremities and corners, a bit grubby- protective cover). Blue with gilt lettering. Light wear, bumped, a few little marks, offsets to endpapers, a tad age-toned. Contents clear and bright. Pictures available on request.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, title printed in red, pp. vii, 40, crown 8vo, original mid-blue cloth, backstrip and upper board gilt lettered, tape shadows from previous covering to free endpapers, dustjacket with a design by Peake, a trifle rubbed to extremities, very good.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode., London, 1950
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, d/w. Dust-wrapper lightly rubbed at edges.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine copy. First Edition. 222 x 141mm, fine blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & upper cover, pp.viii, 40. Neat ownership name & date on front free endpaper. Top edge & inner section of free endpapers a little darkened. Unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. An unusually well-preserved copy of the author's second book of poems, which, together with his novel 'Gormenghast', earned him the Royal Society of Literature Award. .I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1950
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, cloth. First edition. Peake's second book of poetry. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket priced 7/6 on front flap (with Mervyn Peake illustration on front panel) with touch of wear along top edge, mainly upper spine end and upper corner tips. A lovely copy. (#158531).
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950., 1950
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
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].