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Mervyn Peake: A Personal Memoir: Available Copies

TIGHT CLEAN COPY.OLD ENGLISH PRICE INSIDE FRONT COVER.MANY B/W ILLUSTRATIONS.CRISP CLEAN COPY WITH COLOR ILLUSTRATION ON COVER.

Good condition book with dust jacket. DJ is near complete with a little edge/surface wear and a small tape repair to upper spine - price clipped. Book has clean and bright contents but a gift message to ffep

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

128 pages. Edges of DW and pages sl browned.Tiny stain to top edge of DW front.

the book and jacket are a little shelf rubbed. mild foxing. all pages are clear and intact. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

128 pages. Illustrated. Ex-library.Tape shadow inside dust jacket.

4to, Hardback with Unclipped Dust Jacket. 128 Pages, Illustrations throughout. Few light marks to jacket. Overall a very good plus copy in likewise jacket. Extra postage may apply for overseas orders. All books are posted in a sturdy book box.

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

128pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous b/w illustrations. A fine copy of the first edition.

1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), dustwrapper (cover lightly toned - otherwise VG, not price clipped). Pp. 128, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

Victor Gollancz, 1984, 1st edition. Hardback, d/j, 4to, 128pp, illust. D/j price-clipped and slightly bumped. A good copy. 0575034319

Uninscribed. No wear to book or dust jacket. 128 pages.

128 pages. 28 by 20 cm size.

Hardcover, in unclipped dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy, nearly as new. Illustrated.

Size: 10"-12" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0575034319. ISBN/EAN: 9780575034310. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 38552.

Peake's widow described Smith as "Mervyn's only and best friend." His account of their friendship is illuminated with 8 photographs. Also with 49 illustrations by Peake, including a full-color reproduction of a previously unpublished illustrated letter from Peake in 1935. Tiny chip to top corner of jacket spine, else a fine, unclipped and unmarked copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Some minor bubbling in the laminate on font panel of jacket. 280 x 200 mm. 128 pp. B&w illustrations

1984 1ST FINE /FINE

277 x 202mm, dark brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pp.128, including 49 illustrations & 6 photographs. Pale grey endpapers. Dustwrapper features a Peake painting, 'The Beggars are Coming to Town' on upper panel & a page from an illustrated letter to the author on lower panel. 'Goaty' Smith's childhood, like Peake's, was spent in China, but their lifelong friendship began during their schooldays at Eltham College. The book contains a wealth of previously unpublished material. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

An intimate look into the life and personality of Mervyn Peake, as told by his long-time friend Gordon Smith through letters, memories and illustrations. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.In the original cloth binding.Forty-nine monochrome illustrations and six monochrome photographs. Collated complete.This memoir, dedicated to English writer and artist Mervyn Peake, stems from author Gordon Smith's close friendship with him.Acting as insight to the mind behind fantastical worlds and wild illustrations, Smith brings together letters, remembered incidents and Peake's own illustrations throughout. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the original cloth binding. Externally, in excellent condition with only minimal bumping to extremities, heaviest to the tail of spine. Dust wrapper has light edge wear and handling marks to the wrap, otherwise very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Very Good Indeed

Book is in NEW condition. 1.4

LIBRO

Good