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Peake's Progress: Available Copies

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

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**Bundle Up & Save On Postage** 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.

A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail

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

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

1st Paperback edition. Fine. Selected and edited by Maeve Gilmore.

Hardcover Book Condition Near Fine, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket: Very Good - complete but 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 (see picture). Not price clipped but no price shown. First UK Edition, First Printing.

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

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

8vo, 576pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket with faded spine. Previous owner's signature.

Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing

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

Light scuffs & scratches to the jacket, faded with nicks & tears to the edges. Light wear & bumps to the board edges & corners. Tanned & foxed textblock edge. Very faint marks & tanning to the endpapers. Content is in very good, clean condition.

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

Sailing ship stamp on bottom edge of book.; First published stated.; 5 X 1 X 8 inches; 576 pages

First Edition. First edition. Pages clean, no markings, light wear to edges. Includes removeable plastic cover. Complete with 16 plates and numerous line illustrations. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

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

The book is very good and well bound with minor soiling to the page edges. Contents fine. The dust jacket is heavily sunned to and around the spine with minor soiling & edgewear. Sent from our bookshop in the UK.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 576 pages

Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

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 original cloth binding, with the unclipped dust wrapper. Extensively illustrated throughout with Peake's designs, including sixteen pages of plates between 283-285. Collated, complete. A delightful selection of poems, short stories and excerpts from Mervyn Peake's works, edited by his wife, the British artist and writer, Maeve Gilmore. Peake was best known as a core author of fantasy fiction, namely for the impressive Gormenghast series. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely condition with minor shelf wear and a light scattering of faint marks. Dust wrapper also very pleasing with minimal shelf wear and the odd mark. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

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

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)

The first edition of this charming selection of the works and illustrations of Mervyn Peake, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the unclipped dust wrapper. Extensively illustrated throughout with Peake's designs, including sixteen pages of plates between 283-285. Collated, complete. A delightful selection of poems, short stories and excerpts from Mervyn Peake's works, edited by his wife, the British artist and writer, Maeve Gilmore. Peake was best known as a core author of fantasy fiction, namely for the impressive Gormenghast series. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely condition with only very minor shelf wear and the rare mark. Dust wrapper equally pleasing with only subtle discolouration, one or two marks and minimal edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean with only faint marking to the endpapers. Near Fine

A decent copy of the 2011 edition 1st printing. The jacket has some creasing and a couple of small tears. The text block has some spotting/marks. Internally in lovely clean and unmarked condition. Please see pictures.