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Titus Groan, 1946. 213 x 134mm, strawberry red cloth, spine lettered, ruled & ornamented in gilt, pp.438 + final blank leaf. Fine copy in fine, unmarked 2nd impression pictorial dustwrapper. Dustwrapper design by Peake of crow perching on a chained crown. Gormenghast, 1950. 214 x 135mm, brownish red cloth, spine lettered, ruled & ornamented in gilt, pp.454 + final blank leaf. Title-page drawing by Peake. Very good clean copy in colour facsimile Peake dustwrapper, with design of flame-like clouds above Gormenghast castle. Titus Alone, 1959. 215 x 134mm, dark red cloth, spine lettered, ruled & ornamented in gilt, pp.224, line-drawn frontispiece by Peake. Top edge & fore-edges faintly foxed, otherwise a fine copy in very good clipped pictorial dustwrapper with design by Peake of Titus silhouetted against a rocky landscape; spine panel sunned, with short closed repaired tears at head. 3 vols. Together with: Titus Groan. A Radio Play. Introduction by Brian Sibley. 1st edition, Mervyn Peake Society 1987/88. 212 x 146mm, stiff pictorial wrappers, upper cover lettered in red in windows over Peake's original design for the dustwrapper of the first UK edition, pp.98. [Publisher's advertisement on reverse of lower wrapper numbered '99']. Edition limited to about 200 copies. Fine copy. A (very slightly) revised transcript of the original BBC script (1956), with five previously unpublished full-page sketches by Peake. 4 items. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome. Seller Inventory # 004401
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