Peake Joad (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). 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 and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First Edition. Name and date on front free.endpaper otherwise a firm, clean copy. Line drawings by Mervyn Peake.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 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.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. Faber & Faber, London, July 1943. First edition. Book condition:- good. Corners a little bumped and general light shelf wear. Spine slightly rolled. Covers a little soiled. Internally clean. Small closed tears to upper edge of p31. Upper corner of ffep lightly creased. Endpapers very lightly tanned. Dust jacket condition: good. Unclipped. A little wear around the edges and some chipping to head and tail of spine. Spine discoloured. Joad's Young Soldier goes on a pilgrimage to find the Better World that has been promised him after the war. At the end he finds, in so far as he finds anything at all, that the New World he seeks is, if it is anywhere at all, inside himself. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. 124pp. In grey cloth boards with blue titles to spine. Corners and edges bumped and worn. In brown dust wrapper illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Significant edge wear including several tears, the wrapper has suffered previous damp damage leaving it with a crinkled feeling to touch. Illustrated throughout by Peake. Overall a Fair 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).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. Thirteen full page and 9 smaller drawings by Peake. Printed to wartime standards. Light wear. 124.

Second impression. 8vo, 124pp, b/w illus. Good hardback copy in browned dust jacket with minor chips. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.

Second impression. 8vo, 124pp, b/w illus. Good hardback copy in price-clipped, spotted dust jacket with minor closed tears and some browning to edges. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.

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. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. drawings by Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 3rd impression. 124 p.; 20.5 cm. [First printed in 1943] VG orig. tan cloth in edgeworn dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. In tan cloth with blue type. Bottom front corner dinged and others lightly rounded. Tiny dent to rear board. Very short gift inscription to ffep. Clean interior and solid binding. Jacket is price-clipped, tanned and brittle with tiny chips at spine ends and corners, a few short edge tears/nicks and short split to front spine crease. Some rippling to front panel - perhaps due to previous use as a coaster. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in buff-coloured cloth-covered boards with dark blue titles to spine. Contemporaneous owner's name, place and date to top of front free endpaper in blue fountain-pen ink: 'M. K. Flint, Stratford, Aug '43'. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Slight spine lean. Top corners of rear board slightly bumped. Spine tight. No foxing. Pages clean. ***In a very good dustwrapper, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, with red and black titles, that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 6s. net. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. Two short closed tears to top of front panel of dustwrapper. Two short closed tears to bottom of front panel of dustwrapper. One short close tear to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. Small loss to head of spine of dustwrapper. 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 from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake, now hard to find in the original fragile wartime dustwrapper. ***Of interest to collectors 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.

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. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this tale following a soldier as he searches for the promised post-war better world, illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. The first edition, first impression.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.'The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World' is exactly as the title describes, the plot following a soldier and he sets out on a pilgrimage to discover the better world he had been promised after the War.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 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'.By C. E. M. Joad, a philosopher who popularised the science. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Lacking the rear endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn with chips and small tears, chipping heavier to the head and tail of the spine. Amateur repairs to the reverse of the wraps. Dust wrapper is a little age-toned with some light spots, including to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1943 Faber Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations by Mervyn Peake as shown.

Condition: 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.

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.

First edition. Octavo. 124 pages. Black-and-white illustrations by Mervyn Peake, many of them full-page.Covers slightly bumped at the edges. Very good in very good, slightly chipped and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper darkened at the spine and edges.

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 to jacket, with small, closed tear at top of front panel and moderate toning to spine panel. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Drawings by Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this insightful novel following a Young Soldier on his pilgrimage to find the better world that he was promised after the war. With illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with sketches throughout. Following the Young Soldier as he sets out to find the better world he was promised after the war, along the way discovering disillusioned old men, a statesman, a reverend, a baker, and much more than he ever expected. Written by Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, an English philosopher, author, broadcaster, and teacher. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake, an English writer, artist, illustrator, and poet. In the original grey cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 20 illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Dust jacket (unclipped; short tears; few nicks). 124 pages. No foxing. No signatures or bookplates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 20 illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Dust jacket (unclipped; short tears). 124 pages No foxing. No signatures or bookplates.