Peake, Mervyn

Peake&Apos;S Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake; Maeve Gilmore · 1981 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.80 | $60.02 | ¥9,532)

Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press, 1981 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce U.S. first edition of this charming selection of the works and illustrations of Mervyn Peake, in the original dust wrapper. The very scarce first U.S. edition. In the publisher's origina...

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

Mervyn Peake · 1945 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.22 | $233.41 | ¥37,068)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated comical tale by Mervyn Peake, the first edition of this work with colour illustrations. The second edition, and the first edition with colour illustrations. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Captai...

Shapes & Sounds

Mervyn Peake · 1941 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.13 | $260.09 | ¥41,305)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition collection of poetry by Mervyn Peake, in the original unclipped dust wrapper that was designed by the author himself. First Edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, which was designed and i...

Poems and Drawings

Mervyn Peake; Maurice Collis [Foreword] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€298.89 | $333.45 | ¥52,955)

London, The Keepsake Press, 1965 . First edition. Unbound. An exceptionally scarce trial state of Peake"s intimate combination of poetry and drawing, surviving from a handful of rejected sheets. A complete set of eight loose leaves from the pre-publication trial printing, neve...

Boy in Darkness

Mervyn Peake; Maeve Gilmore [Intro.] · 1976 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.71 | $86.70 | ¥13,768)

Exeter, Wheaton & Co. 1976 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first separate edition of Peake's haunting Gormenghast novella, introduced by Maeve Gilmore and illustrated with Peake's characteristic artwork. In the publisher"s original pictorial wove card wrappers.  ...

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

Mervyn Peake; China Mieville · 2011 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.60 | $120.04 | ¥19,064)

London, Vintage Books, 2011 . Cloth. All three volumes, bound as one, of Peake's beloved fantasy classic, accompanied by the original promotional wraparound. Three volumes bound as one, containing Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. In the publisher's origina...

Titus Alone

Mervyn Peake · 1982 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.58 | $65.36 | ¥10,379)

London, Methuen, 1982. Cloth. A very smart copy of Mervyn Peake's third installment in his Gormenghast series, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A reprinted edition, reset and illustrated. First published in 1959. Bound in the publisher's original quarter c...

The Inner Landscape

Mervyn Peake; J. G. Ballard; Brian W. Aldiss · 1969 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.58 | $126.71 | ¥20,123)

London, Allison & Busby , 1969. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of science fiction stories by Mervyn Peake, J. G. Ballard and Brian Aldiss. The first edition of this collection of stories. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unc...

The Glassblowers

Mervyn Peake · 1950 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.76 | $73.36 | ¥11,650)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Mervyn Peake. First edition. A collection of verse, including: To Live at all is Miracle Enough, Swans Die and a Tower Falls, Each Day we live i...

A Reverie of Bone and Other Poems

Mervyn Peake · 1967 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.27 | $220.07 | ¥34,950)

London, Bertram Rota, 1967. Paperback. A limited edition anthology of poems written and illustrated by Mervyn Peake. A limited edition of 320 copies, of which this is numbered 130.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of twenty-four poems by Mervyn Peake, with fo...

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

Mervyn Peake · 1967 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.67 | $100.03 | ¥15,886)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1967 . Cloth. The first American edition of Peake"s first book, an eccentric pirate fantasy, profusely illustrated by the author in its striking revised two-colour format. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth boards.  Complete with...

Letters from a Lost Uncle

Mervyn Peake · 1948 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€286.93 | $320.11 | ¥50,837)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this eccentric Arctic adventure, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper and illustrated throughout in Peake's unmistakable style. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bi...

The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb

Mervyn Peake · 1962 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.07 | $280.09 | ¥44,482)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Lt, 1962. Paperback. A scarce advance proof of one of Peake's most striking illustrated poems, set amid the destruction of wartime London, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original brown paper wraps, comp...

Mervyn Peak: Selected Poems

Mervyn Peake · 1972 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.78 | $66.69 | ¥10,591)

London, Faber and Faber, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this collection of poetry by twentieth century British writer Mervyn Peake, a review copy for Scottish literary scholar Isobel Murray. The first edition. In the publisher's original purpl...

Shapes and Sounds

Mervyn Peake [pref. Maeve Gilmore] · 1974 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.69 | $93.36 | ¥14,827)

London, Village Press, 1974. Paperback. A posthumous edition of Mervyn Peake's poetical anthology written while writing the first drafts of his Gormenghast series, signed with a new preface by his wife Maeve Gilmore A posthumous edition of Shapes and Sounds, the wartime a...

Titus Groan

Mervyn Peake · 1979 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.76 | $73.36 | ¥11,650)

London, Book Club Associates, 1979 . Cloth. A smart, illustrated "Book Club Associates" edition of the first installment in Mervyn Peake's fantastical Gormenghast series, neatly encased in the scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, together w...

Titus Alone

Mervyn Peake · 1959 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€352.69 | $393.47 | ¥62,487)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode , 1959. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Mervyn Peake's third work in his 'Gormenghast' trilogy. First edition.  With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.  Titus Alone is the final novel in Merv...

The Life of Titus Groan & Titus Alone

Mervyn Peake · 1946 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,165.67 | $1,300.44 | ¥206,523)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946-1959. First edition. Hardback. An exquisite set, comprised of the first and last books of the Gormenghast Trilogy, both first editions. A set comprised of Titus Groan, first edition, second impression and Titus Alone, first edition, first im...

Titus Groan Gormenghast Titus Alone

Mervyn Peake · 1992 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.60 | $120.04 | ¥19,064)

New York , The Overlook Press , 1992. Paperback. A lovely complete set of the 'Gormenghast' triology, the best-known written work by English writer, artist and poet Mervyn Peake. The three volume completed set. In the publisher's original paperback.This fantasy ...

The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb

Mervyn Peake · 1962 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.22 | $233.41 | ¥37,068)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated narrative poem set in wartime London by Mervyn Peake. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb' is set dur...