Published by Methuen Childrens Books, 1974
ISBN 10: 0416795404 ISBN 13: 9780416795400
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex Library, wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, some wear to surface of covers, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing and some small marks and stains on edges, front end paper missing, sellotape stains on front end paper and rear end paper and paste down, library ink stamps on first few pages, smells a little musty.
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Published by Methuen, 1978
Seller: Berryville Old Book Shop, Berryville, VA, U.S.A.
Paperback. 30 pgs. 13 (of original edition's 16) with ilustrations. Very good softcover copy.
Large 8vo. 32pp. Original laminated boards ( no dustwrapper issued ). Colour plates. A very good copy. First edition in this format ( following from 1944 edition).
Published by Methuen, 1978., 1978
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
2nd Edition. Paperback issue. Contains only 13 of the 16 poems of the 1st Edition. PiP A3c.
Published by Methuen, 1974., 1974
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
2nd Edition. Laminated boards, Very Good without dust wrapper as issued. Contains only 13 of the 16 poems of the 1st Edition. PiP A3b.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Binding grubby. Prior owner details to fly leaf.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1944
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing small quarto hardback 32 pp Colour illustrated. Good condition (covers a bit dust soiled and slightly foxed). No inscriptions.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd., London; Faber and Faber, London, 1944
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1) Rhymes without Reason, written and illustrated by Peake, slim cream cloth hard cover with green titles, and cover wear confined to some 'grubbiness' of boards; quite clean interior with 36 pages and numerous full page colour plates; 1st edition published in 1944. 2) Selected Poems, slim cream paper soft cover with 46 pages, reprint published by Faber in 1981. Both books in very good condition.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this collection of poetry by artist and author Mervyn Peake, with his colour illustrations throughout. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking scarce dust wrapper.Illustrated by Mervyn Peake with sixteen full page colour illustrations.This work features a collection of fun and whimsical nonsense poems, illustrated and written by Mervyn Peake, an author and artist who is best known for his 'Gormenghast' fantasy series. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking scarce dust wrapper. Externally very smart with slight fading, handling marks and the odd spot. Internally firmly bound with pages lightly age toned to the extremities with the odd minor mark. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1944
Seller: Merandja Books, Cornwall, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A hardback book with cream boards and in very good condition, dated 1944, First Edition. Neat inscriptiojn at the top of the first blank introductory page of the book.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good copy. Illustrated by the author (illustrator). First Edition. 228 x 174mm, pale yellow cloth lettered in turquoise on spine & upper cover, pp.40. 16 full-page coloured plates with facing verses. Top edge stained blue. Inscription on front free endpaper, lower cover soiled, with a few juvenile ink-marks. Missing final plate neatly replaced with colour facsimile. New rear free endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper with design by Peake. Peake's whimsical conceits are enriched by his own interpretations in paint; their freshness is quite undimmed by the passage of time. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Published by EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, UNITED KINGDOM, 1944
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound in yellow cloth with clear blue titles to front board and spine, this dated hardcover First Edition is VG in Good Jacket(unclipped). 39pp with 16 Chapters each with Rhyme and full-color plate, both by Mervyn Peake. Book is all VG but Jacket is only Good 15% of jacket's back pane missing. Irreguarly shaped hole 11cm x 3cm plus chips to top edge of back panel. Front return flap has two closed tears and chip at top/bottom of crease. Thus book is VG with Good Jacket.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1944
Seller: Peter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold, West Molesey, Surrey, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First Edition. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1944. First edition of this book, 39 pages in overall clean condition just some very light browning to endpapers, previous owners details neatly written on front endpaper, small diagonal creases to bottom corners of pages where previous owner has turned pages, these are soft creases like bends in the paper not hard folded over creases.Many full page colour illustrations by author ,all present as published. Dustwrapper is a little marked with some losses and tears, not price clipped. Outer boards are a little dusty to edges and top and bottom of spine. Though not perfect still a presentable example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Good Plus/Good. Illus. by Mervyn Peake. 9 ¼ x 7 Inches. Hardcover.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London., 1944
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Royal octavo. 39 pages. 16 colour plates by the author.Near fine in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper chipped at head of spine, with a few short closed tears, tape-marks on the reverse.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1944
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine association copy, with inscription from the great English actress Peggy Ashcroft, to John Hayward, the T.S. Eliot scholar and long-term house guest. Also, attached to the endpaper, is an envelope containing a Cecil Beaton photo of John Gielgud and Ashcroft as Romeo and Juliet, in which they were appearing together at the West End at the time this book was first issued! 8vo. 23.5 by 18 cm. 39 pp. With sixteen brightly colored and highly whimsical color plates, one for each of the nonsense verses by Peake. Peake was that rarity equally adept with the paint brush as with words. (The closest precedents might be Blake or Thackeray.) At the time this work appeared, though, Peake was far more established as a visual artist. Minor soiling to the cloth cover. The DJ has a narrow two inch long chip along the upper rear hinge, a few other small edge chips and other signs of light wear, but remains overall intact and attractive, and is now protected with a mylar layer. The DJ is NOT price clipped!.