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Boy in Darkness: Available Copies

First edition. Hardcover. Very fine in like dustjacket. A novella of the boy Titus Groan and Gormenghast castle, first published in 1956 in a famous anthology called "Sometime Never: Three Tales of the Imagination", the other two stories being contributed by William Golding and John Wyndham. This is the first separate and first illustrated edition, with fine Peake-like b/w drawings by Irish artist, P.J. Lynch.

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215 x 137mm, grey cloth-textured boards, spine lettered in gilt, pp.152, pastel green endpapers. Edges very faintly foxed. Very good copy in near very good unclipped dustwrapper with sunned spine panel, & wear at ends of spine panel & corners. Peake's story was copied from a carbon typescript of the text, and contains some unhelpful misreadings. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

1st thus hardback with dust jacket Fine tall octavo 113pp., b/w pls.,

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. Could have library markings. Ships promptly!

2nd Edition. Fine in dust wrapper. Originally published in the anthology 'Sometime, Never' in 1956 an earlier separate edition in 1976 used an inferior typescript for the text. This edition restores the original complete text. PiP A21b

Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Library accoutrements in the usual locales; interior pages absent any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.55

With an introduction by Maeve Gilmore. 'Literature for Life' series. 209 x 145mm, stiff photographic wrappers (with colour photograph of ivy-clad wall of mediaeval castle), pp.[vi] 62. 7 line drawings preceding text (mainly previously unpublished sketches taken from Peake's manuscript notebooks). An episode in the life of Peake's hero Titus Groan (here anonymous), not chronicled in his novels. Elusive. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

White spine, blue title, pictorial d/j in clear covering; page edges tanned; illustrated in b/w, interior clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

First printing of this collection. Light wear to cover & edge, most evident at corners.

Illustrations by P. J. Lynch Fine copy in dust-wrapper First separately published, with illustrations by the author, in 1976.

text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have light wear at head and foot of spine and very light wear along edges and at corners. fore-edge, head and foot of book have light wear.

['BB 215'] 178 x 105mm, stiff pictorial wrappers, pp.[vi] 186, all edges yellow, Chipped at foot of backstrip, minor wear at top corner of upper panel. Golding's 'Envoy Extraordinary', Wyndham's 'Consider Her Ways' and Peake's story, a surreal episode which takes Titus beyond the confines of Gormenghast, were all specially commissioned for this book. A Ballantine hardback issue was advertised, but never published. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

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183 x 122mm, dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pp.224. Ex R.A.F library copy, with circular stamp on front pastedown & printed form tipped in to rear free endpaper (no other marks). Spine lettering dull. Good clean copy in colour facsmile dustwrapper. Dustwrapper design by [Werner] Stein. Scarce. Golding's 'Envoy Extraordinary', Wyndham's 'Consider Her Ways' and Peake's 'Boy in Darkness' (a surreal episode which takes Titus beyond the confines of Gormenghast) were all specially commissioned for this book. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

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Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.7