C M Peake (63 results)
Language: English
Published by Arco Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Books & Salvage, Toms River, NJ, U.S.A.Books & Salvage
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Book is in Very Good condition. Cover is clean with slight marks on front, minor stain in middle of back cover. Binding is tight, edges are square, corners show minor bumping. Pages are clean with no writing or high lighting. Book shows general shel…f wear throughout. An Awesome Copy! A Great Buy. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). None.
Language: English
Published by Faber, London, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United KingdomAlexander's Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. 1st Edition. First edition. first printing Octavo hardback. 124 pp, illustrated. Near Very Good condition in Near Good dust jacket (small closed tears at some corners, loss of material at top and bottom edges of spine area of jacket which is also rather embr…owned). Label on the inside cover that it was presented to the South Wales Sanatorium Talgarth in 1943 (when it was used as a military hospital for wounded soldiers There are also hospital stamps on some pages. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).
- Hardcover
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Visible Voice Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Acceptable. Arco 1944 Hardcover with jacket. Cover is blue, brown, and white. Word "Search" has torn from jacket and is hanging on by a thread, with other tatters along jacket edges and tear to one page bottom. 155 pages. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Old prices in pencil on front fly leaf, otherwise clean text block…. Tight binding.

Language: English
Published by Faber and Faber, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chap Books, LEWES, United KingdomChap Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Fair copy of first edition. Pages fully intact, but tears and marks to dj, with red ink stain to top rear of cover boards. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).
Published by London: [1944], Faber and Faber, 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.Alec R. Allenson, Inc.
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. 3rd impression. 124 p.; 20.5 cm. [First printed in 1943] VG orig. tan cloth in edgeworn dj. drawings by Mervyn Peake (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Faber, London, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United KingdomFrances Wetherell
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name and date on front free.endpaper otherwise a firm, clean copy. Line drawings by Mervyn Peake. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).
Published by Methuen & Co, 1907
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.Cape Cod Booksellers
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Methuen, 1907, First English Edition, 8vo, 176 pages. Book bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket, 24 illustrations all present, name on fronmt endpage. Scarce english edition in very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tilly's Bookshop (Eleven30 Group Ltd), Warrington, MER, United KingdomTilly's Bookshop (Eleven30 Group Ltd)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. grey boards with titles to spine in a clear protective wrapper, dulled edges, pen name front end-paper, frontispiece, 124pp, pages clean and good condition. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).

- Softcover
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.PBShop.store US
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United KingdomPsychoBabel & Skoob Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First Edition hardcover without dust jacket, in good condition for its age. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Board edges, corners and spine ends are notably bumped, and tanned around the edges and spine. Page block is blemished, and pages are sunned, however remain clear a…nd unmarked throughout. LW. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). Used.

- Softcover
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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- Softcover
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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- Softcover
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United KingdomPBShop.store UK
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Published by Faber & Faber, LONDON, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, CanadaNeil Williams, Bookseller
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. Thirteen full page and 9 smaller drawings by Peake. Printed to wartime standards. Light wear. 124.

- Hardcover
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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- Hardcover
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.PBShop.store US
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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

- Softcover
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United KingdomRia Christie Collections
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Condition: New. In.

- Hardcover
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United KingdomPBShop.store UK
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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Summertimes: In Celebration of 100 Years of the Muskoka Lakes Association
Reid, Ron; Gray, William M.; Peake, Sean; Pryke, Susan; King, Paul; Tatley, Richard; Mason, D.H.C.; Boyer, Barbaranne; O'Brien, Brendan; Smith, Graham; Gockel, Paul; Ross, Judy
Language: English
Published by Stoddart Boston Mills Press Book, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1994
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, CanadaAlex Simpson
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. 192pp. with numerous b/w and colour illustrations. Creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, small tears and creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 23.8 x 31.2 x 2 cm, wt1.75Kg Please note the book is oversized and it ma…y require extra postage. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Summertimes: In Celebration of 100 Years of the Muskoka Lakes Association
Reid, Ron; Gray, William M.; Peake, Sean; Pryke, Susan; King, Paul; Tatley, Richard; Mason, D.H.C.; Boyer, Barbaranne; O'Brien, Brendan; Smith, Graham; Gockel, Paul; Ross, Judy
Language: English
Published by Stoddart Boston Mills Press Book, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1994
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, CanadaAlex Simpson
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. 192pp. with numerous b/w and colour illustrations. Price clipped DJ has edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 23.8 x 31.2 x 2cm, wt1.75Kg Please note the book is oversized and it may require extra postage. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United KingdomSilver Trees Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in light grey cloth covers. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; owner's name neatly to flyleaf; binding tight; no foxing. No dust jacket. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1953
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.Evolving Lens Bookseller
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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Good price clipped dust jacket. A few chips, tears and weak stains to jacket. Toning. Minor foxing to end papers and page edges. No markings to text, illustrated throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
More imagesPublished by Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United KingdomRaymond Tait
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Add to basketOriginal Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. The boards have damp staining to top and bottom of the spine with this also affecting two inch triangular areas at the top and bottom corners of the front and rear panels next to the spine. Some discolouration to the boards generally. Tape marks to top…and bottom corners of both the front and rear free endpapers. Page 69 is heavily creased with two small nicks in the edge. Pages browned. The jacket has a number of tears to the spine with loss at the top and bottom and two holes near the centre. Chipping to the corners with some loss. Circular stain to the front panel and various patches of discolouration. Jacket and interior illustrations by Mervyn Peake. First printing. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square, London, W.C.1, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United KingdomOrlando Booksellers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Second impression of the true first edition, published in September 1943. The first impression appeared in July 1943. ***Very good in buff-coloured cloth-covered boards with dark blue titles to the spine. The boards show some marks commensurate wit…h age and handling over the last 80+ years but are generally clean. There is some browning to the top edges of the boards. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no previous ownership inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. ***In a very good dustwrapper, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, with red and black titles, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 6s. net. The dustwrapper is very fragile and has narrow foldover flaps (to conform with wartime paper restrictions). The dustwrapper is complete, with just some minor wear to the top and tail of the spine. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Please note there are two closed tears to the centre of the spine but no loss (please see scans). Spine and edges of dustwrapper darkened. ***206mm x138mm. 124 pages. ***'C. E. M. Joad's Young Soldier goes on a pilgrimage to find the Better World that has been promised him after the war. He meets in turn a disillusioned old hand, all cynicism, a statesman, all platitudes, Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Reverend Hateman, the clergyman, lashed to their weather vanes and singing psalms of hate and destruction in a storm to Wagnerian music, Mr. Transporthouse with his puppets, Mr. Ema and Miss Ame, planning his ameliorated world of thinner bread and thicker butter for the masses, spread with jam in the shape of education up to university standard and honey in the form of labour-saving flats and a preserved country-side, not to speak of subsidised opera companies, repertory companies, concert companies and travelling picture shows; the Ultra-red Robot insisting that there will be no butter, no jam and no honey because if heads are hard, pillows will be hard too, and the Red-tape Worm pointing out on the contrary that, if the pillows are soft, the heads must be soft as well, and planning accordingly a Brave New World in which universal softness prevails; a chorus of Astrologers, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists and Oxford Groupers offering their different brands of aspirin for the sick headache of humanity, Mr. Heardhux, for the most part in his astral body but assuming a corporeal mouth and tongue for the purposes of discussion and prescribing withdrawal from a world that is doomed, and the philosopher, platitudinous and common-sensical, swallowing none of the recipes but stealing a little from the lot, and prescribing salvation both by faith and by works - all these characters and many more being gorgeously portrayed in the flesh by Mr. Mervyn Peake. ***At the end the Young Soldier finds, in so far as he finds anything at all, that the New World he seeks, like the God of Shaw's Black Girls, if it is anywhere at all, is inside himself.' (Quote taken from the dustwrapper flaps) ***Second impression of the true first edition, illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. Copies are now hard to find in their original fragile wartime dustwrappers. ***Of interest to collectors of the work of Mervyn Peake. ***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. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).

- Softcover
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Irving Book Company, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Irving Book Company
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Hardcover. First Edition. Thin 8vo. 5.375 x 8.125 in. 124 pp. Grey linen cloth; in plain illustrated dust jacket, titled in red. Illustrated with several reproductions of Mervyn Peake's 'gorgeously comic' black & white line drawings. Very near fine in very good, unclipped jacket. Very light spotting to top edge. Light edgewear t…o jacket, with small, closed tear at top of front panel and moderate toning to spine panel. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.
More imagesPublished by Faber and Faber, 1943, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United KingdomRothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB)
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Add to basket1st 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).

Published by Zodial Book (Chatto & Windus), 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United KingdomAcanthophyllum Books
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Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketHard covers. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Slight damage to spine. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square, London, W.C.1, 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United KingdomOrlando Booksellers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in July 1943. ***Very good in buff-coloured cloth-covered boards with dark blue titles to the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Slight spine lean. Top corners of rear board slightly bumped…. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with a contemporaneous owner's name, place and date to the top of the front free endpaper in blue fountain-pen ink: 'M. K. Flint, Stratford, Aug '43'. No foxing. Pages clean. ***In a very good dustwrapper, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, with red and black titles, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 6s. net. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some small loss to the head of the spine, with some rubbing and creasing to the extremities. Two short closed tears to the top edge and two short closed tears to the bottom edge of the front panel. One short close tear to the top edge of the back panel. Spine and edges of the dustwrapper darkened. ***206mm x138mm. 124 pages. ***'C. E. M. Joad's Young Soldier goes on a pilgrimage to find the Better World that has been promised him after the war. He meets in turn a disillusioned old hand, all cynicism, a statesman, all platitudes, Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Reverend Hateman, the clergyman, lashed to their weather vanes and singing psalms of hate and destruction in a storm to Wagnerian music, Mr. Transporthouse with his puppets, Mr. Ema and Miss Ame, planning his ameliorated world of thinner bread and thicker butter for the masses, spread with jam in the shape of education up to university standard and honey in the form of labour-saving flats and a preserved country-side, not to speak of subsidised opera companies, repertory companies, concert companies and travelling picture shows; the Ultra-red Robot insisting that there will be no butter, no jam and no honey because if heads are hard, pillows will be hard too, and the Red-tape Worm pointing out on the contrary that, if the pillows are soft, the heads must be soft as well, and planning accordingly a Brave New World in which universal softness prevails; a chorus of Astrologers, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists and Oxford Groupers offering their different brands of aspirin for the sick headache of humanity, Mr. Heardhux, for the most part in his astral body but assuming a corporeal mouth and tongue for the purposes of discussion and prescribing withdrawal from a world that is doomed, and the philosopher, platitudinous and common-sensical, swallowing none of the recipes but stealing a little from the lot, and prescribing salvation both by faith and by works - all these characters and many more being gorgeously portrayed in the flesh by Mr. Mervyn Peake. ***At the end the Young Soldier finds, in so far as he finds anything at all, that the New World he seeks, like the God of Shaw's Black Girls, if it is anywhere at all, is inside himself.' (Quote taken from the dustwrapper flaps) ***First impression of the true first edition, illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. Copies are now hard to find in their original fragile wartime dustwrappers. Of interest to collectors of the work of Mervyn Peake. ***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. Mervyn Peake (illustrator).
Published by Faber & Faber, London. 1943., 1943
- Hardcover
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, AustraliaSainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd.
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Add to basketSecond impression. 8vo, 124pp, b/w illus. Good hardback copy in browned dust jacket with minor chips. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.