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Peake's Progress: Available Copies

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Sunfading to the DJ

A Heavy copy, may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 576 pages. The wraps are worn, creased, scarring. The first few pages are curling up. There is a small tear on the first page. Damp stained on page edges- not affecting the text. There is slight foxing on the first few pages and last pages of the book. There is tanning and a few mark around the block of the book. The pages are bright and attractive, and the text remains clear. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, sun fading to spine and creasing

The wraps are a bit shelf rubbed.Internally clean and tightly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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.

With an introduction by John Watney. Large octavo, maroon cloth covers, 576 pages. Black and white illustrations, plates. Dust jacket is complete, unclipped, and not chipped, but is sunned at spine and top edge of of front panel. 092717D

Light spine crease, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 576 pages, Weight Over 1 kg. Brilliant, disturbing, fantastical and addictive, Mervyn Peake at one time or another during his brief life touched on almost every literary form. For the aficionado and for the first-time reader, this selection of his less well-known works offers a treasure trove of short stories, poems, nonsense verse and drawings - all of them adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly original writer.

VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Cover is worn and creased along edges. Cover is tanned and lightly scuffed, not affecting legibility of text. Top edge of spine is bumped and chipped. Spine is creased, and binding glue is visible between front cover and first page, but binding is secure. Stamp from previous seller on first page, not covering text. Text block is tanned and smudged, but besides light tanning due to age, pages themselves are otherwise clean and unmarked. As is.

1st edition, Allen Lane, 1978. Damp affected, with stain on back board & dust jacket. Page fore-edge lightly foxed; dust jacket faded Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket

Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 2.03

Hardcover Book Condition Near Fine, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket: Very Good - badly faded on the spine and spine edge of the front and rear panels. As usual the fugitive pink of the dust wrapper has faded to a pale blue where exposed to light. Not price clipped but no rice shown. First UK Edition, First Printing.

Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 576 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. Subjects: Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968. Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968Peake, Mervyn Laurence 1911-1968. Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968. Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968 1900-1999English literature 20th century. English literature 20th century. English literature. English literature 20th century. DrawingLittérature anglaise 20e siècle. English drawings Peake, Mervyn - IllustrationsEnglish literature, 1900-1945 - Texts English drawings Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968 English literature 1900-1945drawings illustrationsEnglish literature texts 1 Kg.

Clean & tightly bound hardback book, page edges foxed, no inscriptions, in an unclipped foxed dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and covers and rubbed at the edges. 576 pages, photos on plates, illustrations in the text

Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 576 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. Subjects: Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968. Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968Peake, Mervyn Laurence 1911-1968. Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968. Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968 1900-1999English literature 20th century. English literature 20th century. English literature. English literature 20th century. DrawingLittérature anglaise 20e siècle. English drawings Peake, Mervyn - IllustrationsEnglish literature, 1900-1945 - Texts English drawings Peake, Mervyn 1911-1968 English literature 1900-1945drawings illustrationsEnglish literature texts 1 Kg.

A nice clean copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket

1st edition. Very Good in price clipped dust wrapper badly faded on the spine and top of the front panel. The fugitive pink colour of the dust wrapper usually discolours to a pale blue when exposed to light, as here. PiP A22a

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

Clean text. Great condition. Most of our orders are shipped on the same day with USPS media mail. Expedited shipping available.

1st American Edition. Fine in dust wrapper faded on the spine as usual. PiP A22b

Some fading to jacket. Couple of small tears to jacket. Heavy book so postage outside the UK will be more than quoted. 576pp.

Fine copy in slightly faded dust-wrapper which has a small closed tear at the head of the upper panel

Edited by Maeve Gilmore with an introduction by John Watney. 231 x 154mm, dark maroon cloth, spine lettered & blocked in silver, pp.576, 16pp black & white plates, 48 line-drawings in text (one double-page), dark grey endpapers. Fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with photographs of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore on flaps. Light-sensitive spine panel sunned from pink to green. Contains much previously unpublished material.I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

London 1978. Thick Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. 576pp. With 14 full-page plates and num. text-illusts. Fine.

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-9 [10] 11-576, illustrations, boards. First edition. An important miscellany of previously unpublished or uncollected drawings, fiction, poetry and other nonfiction, including Peake's "Notes for a Projected Autobiography." Most of the fiction collected here is fantasy, including "Boy in Darkness," "Mr Slaughterboard" (which foreshadows the Titus books), and "The House of Darkstones" (the first drafts of TITUS GROAN). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. This copy has the printed price clipped and the publisher's £10 price sticker. (#161280)

nur geringe lagerspuren, sonst sehr gut, 576 pp - nur a-817

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