Illustrator Mervyn Peake (46 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. A new edition with new foreword by bestselling novelist Sarah Waters and many new color illustrations by Peake that were not included in the original, rare 1946 Eyre & Spottiswode edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First published by Eyre in 1946 and now very scarce, this is a faithful facsimile of this famous edition of the Grimm Brothers by Peake, down to the color frontispiece. A superb copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. In tan cloth with blue type. Bottom front corner dinged and others lightly rounded. Tiny dent to rear board. Very short gift inscription to ffep. Clean interior and solid binding. Jacket is price-clipped, tanned and brittle with tiny chips at spine ends and corners, a few short edge tears/nicks and short split to front spine crease. Some rippling to front panel - perhaps due to previous use as a coaster. 1st Printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A novel of sin and salvation by the author of The Gormenghast Trilogy. Publisher's stamp on bottom foreedge. A clean, else unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover; bound in blue cloth with a yellow illustration on the front cover, yellow lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Good condition; Minor fading at crown and foot of spine, corners bumped. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1960. 62 pages. Old seller price on front free end paper in pen. All other pages are free of any writing or markings. Binding is tight. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Condition: Good. 1944. Hardcover. In dust wrapper. DW showing some age and with minor nicks and tears. Previous owner's inscription to inside front cover and ffep. Remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. None. First Edition. Publisher's black illustrated cloth and decorative endpapers. Text by Michael Moorcock to a fanciful portfolio of inimitable artwork by Peake. A pristine copy free of blemishes.

Condition: Very Good. 18 pages, illustrated. With list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. First Thus. Very different, sometimes creepy pen-and-ink (with some color) illustrations by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), best known for his artwork on the Gormenghast books, bring these 14 traditional verses to life in totally new ways. Orig. published in 1940, this is the First Printing of the reissued edition published in London in 1972 (First, thus). With decorative paper over boards, this hardcover is in VG- condition: exceptionally clean & unmarked inside with just a hint of tanning to pages. Exterior shows light soil & slight staining, including a very mild semicircular stain to head of spine spreading onto both boards; no impact on interior. All illustrations, created by Peake in 1940, are crisp & clean. No DJ. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. 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.…

Super octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: Good. 1944. Hardcover. In dust wrapper. DW showing some age and with minor nicks and tears. Previous owner's inscription to inside front cover and ffep. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1944. Hardcover. Good copy 8vo .First edition. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A set of Grimm fairy tales written more for adults than for children, although, as with the better-known tales such as Hansel and Gretel, the stories are very linear, and, of course, feature magical events. Very minor shelf-wear to spine. Beginning of minor spine wrinkle.…

Condition: Very Good. 1944. Hardcover. Good copy 8vo .First edition. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

1st edn. 8vo. Original grey cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 124, illus with b&w drawings by Mervyn Peake (previous owner's neat 1943 inscription on front endpaper).

Second printing (as stated upon copyright page; first published Spring 1945). 168 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket decorated with wraparound illustration by Mervyn Peake; dj rubbed with chipping, tears, and bumping/creasing; foxing to flaps; front flap retains publisher's printed price at upper right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Publisher's cloth with boards stained/discolored; spine ends and board corners bumped; spine's gilt stamping remains bright. Reddish-purple top edge; toning/foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Some interior foxing/toning; bumping to bottom fore-edge corners of interior leaves by diminishing inward. Binding is firm. With Preface, b/w illustrations by Mervyn Peake (as unpaged plates including frontispiece with others as illustrations inset amongst text), Bibliography, and Index. Features 12 chapters titled as: "The Art of Magic;" "Witchcraft and Religion;" "Maleficium;" "Familiars;" "The Discovery of Witches;" "Fraud and Malice;" "Alien Worship;" "The White Witch;" "Witchcraft in High Places;" "Prophets and Astrologers;" "The Decline of Belief;" "The Ebbing Tide.".…

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 124 pages including frontispiece, illustrations 21 cm. Subjects; Reconstruction (1939-1951) England. World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects England. World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; Satire. 1 Kg. …

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 124 pages including frontispiece, illustrations 21 cm. Subjects; Reconstruction (1939-1951) England. World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects England. World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; Satire. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. Witchcraft in England by Christina Hole (Book Club Edition, 1977) A square firm copy. Bright color and lettering. Bookplate to front pastedown. Sunned spine, bright cover. No tears. First published 1977, Copyright 1977 stated. This edition published 1977 by arrangement with B.T. Batsford, Ltd., stated. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Mervyn Peake(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK.…

FIRST EDITION 1959, small 4to, 215 x 160 mm, 8½ x 6¼ inches, red boards, black vignette to upper cover, black lettered spine, 62 pages. 7 line drawings (4 full-page) by Peake. No inscriptions, 3 small slight marks from old sellotape on lower cover, 1 to each pastedown (see images), otherwise a Fine crisp clean copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER, (dw: not price clipped but publisher's new label over the old 1959 price of 9s 6d, this is printed: "12s - £0.60 net", indicating that this copy like many others, although a first edition of 1959, was not put on the market until about 1970 when prices were decimalised (see image). Very slight creasing to dustwrapper at head of spine, a couple of tiny pale soil marks on lower panel). Not an ex library copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).

(Reprint) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. (spine sl.faded) 37pp. b/w ills. Very Good copy. First published in 1949. The classic poem interpreted visually with Peake's stunning gothic illustrations.

dj. First Edition. London, Grey Walls Press, 1949. 8vo, 244 pages. Four black and white plates by Mervyn Peake. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine, dust jacket. Edges foxed, slight soiling on top of dust jacket and creasing in spine of jacket, gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1949. § First edition. The definitive anthology of New Romantic writers, including the essay "How a Romantic Novel was Evolved" written and illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Other section focus on Romanticism in Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poetry.…