The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb by Mervyn Peake, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Edition. 43pp. Single long poem with 22 illustrations by the author. The poem has an aspect of the Second World War as its theme. It is however a rewarding poem to read for its insistence on man's compassion - despite an age of violence. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. No inscriptions. Tightly bound. Appears hardly read. Unclipped orange and black dust jacket with white and black lettering on face and black lettering on the spine. Light toning to top inside edge of the dust jacket. Now protected in a clear archival wrapper.

Black Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (iv), 43pp. Name and contemporary date on ffep. No dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS UNREAD. No wear to hard back book. Dust jacket still has price corner and very light shelf wear.43 pages. Pages are clean tight. Name on f.e.p.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing, with the unclipped, unfaded and bright dust-wrapper. Original black cloth lettered in gilt at the spine. No old owner names of inscriptions. Booksellers ticket laid in at foot of front pastedown. A fine copy in the like dust-wrapper. Tucked in at the front is the catalogue for Maeve Gilmore's exhibition at Woodstock Gallery, Mayfair, London, April-May 1964. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The boards are minimally rubbed. Internally clean (one signature and minor foxing) and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. iv, 44 pp. With 22 illustrations by the author. Fine in original black boards lettered in gilt on the spine and in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the poet's wife: "To Cozette from Maeve - April 1967.".

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated narrative poem set in wartime London by Mervyn Peake. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb' is set during an air-raid during wartime London, following a sailor as he wanders around the city, only to discover a newborn baby in the debris.A long narrative poem written and illustrated with in-text illustrations throughout by Mervyn Peake. Peake was an English author and illustrator who is best known today for his 'Gormenghast' books. He also illustrated editions of 'Hunting of the Snark', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Brothers Grimm', 'Treasure Island', and 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Minor edge wear to the dust wrapper, heavier to the head of the spine. Wraps are a little discoloured with a few light handling marks, with a few spots to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Verse illustrated by the author. A fresh fine copy in like dust wrapper with price corner clipped, likely by the US distributor who has penciled a $3.25 price at upper flap corner. Photos on request.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Some foxing to interior. Text is unmarked, twenty-two illustrations by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.