Text Peake (6 results)

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Some sticky tape marks to spine tail. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to front free endpaper. Black & white illustrations by A. J. Peake. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 63 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black & White photographs and diagrams within the text (illustrator). 1st Edition. 266pp in original printed wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake [Jacket design] (illustrator). First Thus. First thus - issued in the World's Classics series - No. 587. First printing of this edition, with a new introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, and dustwrapper illustration by Mervyn Peake. ***Very good in navy-blue cloth-covered boards, with a blind-stamped OUP crest on the front board and gilt titles to the spine. The boards are fox marked but otherwise clean and undamaged. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Corners sharp. Page block edges slightly darkened and foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. Printed on very thin India paper with some lower corner creasing to pp.237-256 but no tears. Spine tight. ***In a very good dustwrapper, with front panel illustration by Mervyn Peake. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper is complete without any creasing or tears. There is some edge wear with very slight loss at the top of the spine and tips of foldovers. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***394 pages including a seven page Introduction and a Note on the Text at the front of the book. 153 mm x 98 mm. ***'"What makes her live", says Bonamy Dobrée in his introduction to this edition of "Moll Flanders" in The world's Classics, "is Defoe's amazing genius, of a high imaginative order, for entering into the very being of the persons whose biographies he pretends to write." "Moll Flanders", he claims, "is the fountainhead of the vast flood of what we have come to call novels. There had been nothing like it before." The text used here is that of the first edition which has hitherto been very difficult to obtain; Dr. Herbert Davis contributes a note on it.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A first printing in this edition, with a new introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, complete in its original dustwrapper, with drawing designed by Mervyn Peake. A nice quality production of this famous work of English literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Pictorial Dustwrapper. Illustrations By Peake, Text By Laing (illustrator). First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. PayPal accepted. Orignal bright blue cloth, gilt design and titling. Dustwrapper with a small blank chip at front and a few chips and marks to dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is spotted internally. Original price is on rear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj. First Edition. [solid clean copy, light shelfwear only, very slight bumping to spine ends; the jacket is worn at edges and corners, with a handful of tiny edge tears, small chips at the spine ends, and a rectangular piece missing from the upper right corner of the front panel]. Illustrated fantasy telling "the true story of the Archangel Uriel and his visit to the land of the free," where he gets mixed up with gangsters, finds himself falsely accused of kidnapping, is acquitted at trial, becomes a movie star and ultimately a candidate for President of the United States. The section dealing with his cinema career is particularly amusing (and might even qualify this as a tangential "Hollywood novel"). Bergmann (1898-1977) was a Viennese-born artist who came to the U.S. in the 1920s, and spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay area. As far as I can determine, this was one of only two books that he illustrated (the other being "This Way to the Circus," published the same year). Uncommon in jacket. [Note that the "M. Peake" who is credited with writing the textual accompanying Bergmann's often grotesque drawings is NOT the well-known sci-fi/fantasy author Mervyn Peake. In case you were wondering.].

HC. color illustrations (illustrator). 380pp ISBN 1895270006 very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).