illustrator mervyn peake (19 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

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

8vo. Original decorative cloth, top edge red (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protective cover). Pp. 288, illus with pictorial endpapers and 8 coloured plates by Mervyn Peake (no inscriptions).

Zustand: 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. . . . .

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

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

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

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).

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. 3 Kg.

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.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Thus. The first edition illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Treasure Island was Peake's favourite childhood book. Contains many full page and in page illustrations with the map from the original illustrated edition printed in colour on a glossy paper. Bound in original blue cloth with top edge dyed blue. Spine ends and tips of corners rubbed.Repair to small tear at foot of spine. Inside, bookplate on inside cover. Blank rear endpaper creased. Dj spine edges rubbed with a little creasing at the foot. A couple of short edge tears. Edges rubbed. Small nick to top front corner. Now in a clear removable protective wrapper. Please note: orange in photos is from reflected light. 8vo, 244pp,515g.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.63 [1]. With copious in-text line drawings by Mervyn Peake. Publisher's dark blue cloth, illustrated gilt motif to upper board, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 2/6 net to rear panel. Text itself is bright and clean, some spotting to endpapers and jacket flaps. Pictorial bookplate of Anthony Francombe to front flyleaf. Sunning to jacket spine, minor rubbing to panels. Mild edgewear with some loss to top of spine. Very good. Peake worked as a book illustrator after the Second World War, and was best known for his illustrations in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1954), 'Treasure Island' (1949), and 'Bleak House' (1945, published 1983). Although these illustrations do not share his trademark grotesque and Gothic style, his typical distorted, exaggerated faces add humour to Laing's witty collection.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE 1952, 8vo, 190 x 125 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, YELLOW CLOTH, SPINE GILT LETTERED AND DECORATED with small gilt ornament under title and small gilt falcon at tail, black and white frontispiece, 260 pages. 8 delightful two tone plates (green and white, yellow and brown and variations) plus black and white illustrations, full-page and in the text. Large ink inscription on front endpaper (lots of 'x's), ink name and address on rear endpaper (see images). Otherwise very good plus in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: very lightly soiled, 5 mm (¼") chips at head and tail of hinges and corners, another to lower edge of upper panel, spine bit darkened, 15 mm (¾") closed tear to upper panel, 40 mm (1½") closed tear to lower panel). Lyonne is a pyjama-case cum hotwater-bottle cover who has an exciting and wonderful life as king of the nursery. The second issue was bound in blue boards lettered black and the coloured illustration on page 59 (image 3) in the first issue moved to the frontispiece. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Printed paper wraps with publisher?s dust jacket, in Mylar. , Ownership inked on half-title, dated 1948.Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 ? 1898), known as Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer, widely known for his iconic children?s books, most notably being Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is its sequel., Size : Small 8vo. (185 x 120 mm), A very good example of these quintessential works by Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and its sequel. 1st edition with Peake?s illustrations. Illustrated in black-and-white. , 348 pp. Section torn away along top edge of jacket rear cover.

First Edition. INSCRIBED First Edition in English. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.95 [1]. INSCRIBED by the translator, Vyvyan Holland, to the author, publisher and critic Alec Waugh in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'For Alec / who knows / far more / about this / subject than / any of us / from Vyvyan / april 24. 1956.' Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and blue box on upper board. Tobacco scent; spine toned. Very good. Written by one of Greene's mistresses, and translated from the original French by Oscar Wilde's son Vyvyan. This cutting dialogue between a younger and an older woman lays bare the psychology of men in their relationships with women, and the strategies women have developed to take what advantages they can. Signed.