Peake, Mervyn

Shapes & Sounds

Mervyn Peake · 1941 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.37 | $173.46 | ¥27,545)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Mervyn Peake"s first collected volume of poetry, one of 1,000 copies issued, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the  publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards....

Poems and Drawings

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

£375.00 (€448.17 | $500.35 | ¥79,457)

London, The Keepsake Press, 1965 . First edition. Paperback. An notably scarce trial state of Peake"s intimate combination of poetry and drawing, retaining the xerox wrap, surviving from a handful of rejected sheets subsequently assembled in this form. In the plain grey card w...

The Craft of the Lead Pencil by Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake · 1946 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.68 | $86.73 | ¥13,772)

London, Allan Wingate Ltd, 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Peake"s charming guide to drawing, published in the same year as "Titus Groan" and illustrated throughout with his own pencil studies. In the publisher's original cloth binding binding.  First ed...

Drawings by Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake · 1949 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.68 | $86.73 | ¥13,772)

London, The Grey Walls Press, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of the drawings of British artist and author Mervyn Peake, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original grey cloth binding. In the orig...

Works of Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake · 1946 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.05 | $260.18 | ¥41,317)

London, Victor Gollangz Limited; Allan Wingate; Peter Owen; Colin Smythe Limited, 1946-1973. Cloth. A fantastically illustrated set of works by British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake. A fantastic four volume set of works by Mervyn Peake.Peake was a British ...

Mr. Pye

Mervyn Peake · 1969 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.63 | $100.07 | ¥15,891)

New York, The Overlook Press, 1969. Cloth. A charming American edition of Peake's quirky tale following the evangelism of Mr. Pye on the Channel island of Sark, including his illustrations. A charming American edition of Mr. Pye, the satirical novel of salvation and sin, ...

The Glassblowers

Mervyn Peake · 1950 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€292.81 | $326.90 | ¥51,912)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of poetry by noted English author and illustrator Mervyn Peake, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition.  In the publisher's original blue cloth bindi...

A Reverie of Bone and Other Poems

Mervyn Peake · 1967 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.05 | $260.18 | ¥41,317)

London, Bertram Rota, 1967 . First edition. Paperback. A superb numbered first edition of Peake"s final lifetime poetry collection, uniting twenty-four of his poems with four of his own drawings in one of only 320 copies. In the publisher"s original stiff card wraps. Complete ...

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake · 1950 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.56 | $120.08 | ¥19,070)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the second novel in Mervyn Peake's popular Gormenghast series of fantasy books. The first edition.  In the publisher's original red cloth binding.  The second book in the Gormenghast fa...

THE ADVENTURES OF THE YOUNG SOLDIER IN SEARCH OF A BETTER WORLD

JOAD C.E.M. PEAKE Mervyn [Illustrator] · 1943 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£15.00 (€17.93 | $20.01 | ¥3,178)

Faber and Faber, 1943 1st edn. 8vo. Original grey cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 124, illus with b&w drawings by Mervyn Peake (previous owner's neat 1943 inscription on front endpaper).

The Green Book Summer 1980 Vol 1 no 3 a Celebration of the Native Genius of the British & Celtic Peoples

Spencer, Keith & Tanner, Robin & Peake, Mervyn & Jefferies, Richard · 1980 · Greensleeves Books

£25.00 (€29.88 | $33.36 | ¥5,297)

Very Good pgs:21. 1980, booklet, bright clean copy, illus, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 Elizabeth Devon

Mr. Pye

Peake, Mervyn · 1972 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€11.00 ($12.28 | £9.20 | ¥1,950)

Penguin. 1972. 25400. Paperback. Good attractive copy Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Cover a little browned

Complete Nonsense

Peake, Mervyn; Maslen, R. W.; Winnington, G. Peter · 2011 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£44.90 (€53.66 | $59.91 | ¥9,514)

Carcanet Press Limited. First Edition. Good Condition. VG- 1st ed 2011 Carcanet Press Limited paperback, illustrated. Light edge wear to bottom edge front cover, small chipped area to lower rear corner, bright and unmarked. Size: octavo. Elegantly produced high quality volume,...

Peake's Progress: Selected Writings & Drawings of Mervyn Peake

Peake, Mervyn; Gilmore, Maeve · 2011 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£106.90 (€127.76 | $142.63 | ¥22,650)

The British Library. Later Edition. Near Fine Condition. Near Fine. VG+/Near Fine later ed 2011 The British Library hardback, unclipped DJ, illustrated. Owner inscription in ink to front endpaper, clean, tight copy; dust jacket protected in clear sleeve. Size: octavo. Quantity...

Sometime, Never - Three Tales Of Imagination,

Golding, William / John Wyndham / Mervyn Peake, · 1957 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€32.00 ($35.73 | £26.78 | ¥5,673)

Erstausgabe, New York, Ballantine (= 215), 1957, 8°, 160 S., Text: englisch, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Buch an unterer Eckkante minimal bestoßen, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar Die Erzählungen im einzelnen: William Golding: "Envoy Extraordinary" / John ...

Titus Groan

PEAKE, Mervyn · 1946 · Cotswold Internet Books

£344.40 (€411.60 | $459.52 | ¥72,973)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket 1st ed. 1st edition, 1st printing. Page fore-edge foxed, with light foxing on end papers; binding tight. 1st state dust jacket (no '2nd impression' or reviews); dj not price-clipped, showing price of 15s; ...

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PEAKE Mervyn · 1945 · Island Books

£370.00 (€442.20 | $493.68 | ¥78,397)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. 8vo., Second Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous coloured illustrations by the author throughout; original yellow cloth upper board lettered in green, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed t...

The Gormenghast Trilogy complete. Titus Groan [with] Gormenghast [with] Titus Alone. Introduced by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. 775 COPIES WERE PRINTED

PEAKE Mervyn · 2022 · Island Books

£1,250.00 (€1,493.90 | $1,667.84 | ¥264,856)

Folio Society, 2022. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spreads, numerous full-page illustrations in the text and coloured headlines; open-thread bindings of pictorial cloth, black edges, black endpapers, a fine set in publisher's printed cloth clam...

Mr. Pye

PEAKE, Mervyn · 1953 · Cotswold Internet Books

£24.75 (€29.58 | $33.02 | ¥5,244)

London, Heinemann, 1953. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) 1st ed. 1st edition, 1953. Gift inscription on front free end paper, & on copyright page; binding tight; spine a little yellowed, with very worn & dull gilt lettering; slight wear to cloth at board edges. Pho...

Titus alone

PEAKE, Mervyn · 1992 · Cotswold Internet Books

£3.45 (€4.12 | $4.60 | ¥731)

London, Mandarin, 1992. Used - Very Good. VG paperback Reprint. Pages slightly yellowed. Photo:. ISBN: 0749300531