Peake Mervyn Contributes (23 results)

Wrappers, a little bruised but Very Good. Peake contributes an illustration.

Wrappers, Very Good. 2 illustrations by Peake.

Wrappers, Very Good. 2 illustrations by Peake.

Wrappers, Very Good. Peake contributes 4 full page colour illustrations to nursery rhymes.

Wrappers, Very Good 5 illustrations by Peake including the first publication of Mlle Hortense, one of the Bleak House drawings, not published in book form until 1983.

Peake contributes three poems, 'Truths have no Separate Fires but from their Welding,' 'O This Estrangement Forms a Distance Vaster,' and 'Poem.' All were reprinted in The Glassblowers [1950], the second with revisions.

Original wrappers, Very Good.

Wrappers. Very Good. Reproduces "The Adventures of Footfruit"; also an obituary of Peake by Michael Moorcock.

Peake contributes three poems, 'Truths have no Separate Fires but from their Welding,' 'O This Estrangement Forms a Distance Vaster,' and 'Poem.' All were reprinted in The Glassblowers [1950], the second with revisions.

Full page illustration.

Very Good. Peake contributes an illustration to 'The Man who Returned to Dublin' a short story by Gerard Fay.

Very Good. Peake contributes an illustrated article "London Fantasy" with five illustrations from his 'head hunting.' Peake frequently illustrated people and characters round the streets of London; these images, and similar appear reguklarly in his work.

Wrapper, with staples rusted away.

Corner torn away from rear wrapper. The first publication of this poem.

Wrappers, Very Good. The drawings were later reproduced in Drawings. Grey Walls Press, 1949.

A little spotted. With 'The Reverie of Bone by Peake,' its first appearance in print; it was later issued as a separate illustrated publication by Bertram Rota [1967], and subsequently by The Woodstock Gallery illustated by Jay Pickford [1979]. Other contributions by Theodore Roethke, Laurence Durrell, Gregory Corso, Arnold Wesker, and others.…

The partial text from a radio talk in the series, 'As I See it,' with one of his illustrations to Grimms' Household Tales.

It was first reprinted in in Peake Studies 2 part iv p.14 [1992]. A short lived periodical, issued from 1937 - 39, in a style and format similar to Lilliput. All issues are uncommon.

A new chapter from the revised edition which was edited by Langdon Jones.

Printed with an illustration by his friend Leslie Hurry. It was first reprinted in in Peake Studies 2 part iv p.14 [1992]. A short lived periodical, issued from 1937 - 39, in a style and format similar to Lilliput. All issues are uncommon.

The three issues with contributions by Peake, in Fine condition. No. 2 with three poems by Mervyn Peake, plus contributions by Laurence Durrell, Jean Cocteau, Eugene Ionescu, and others. No. 3. with 'The Reverie of Bone by Peake,' its first appearance in print; it was later issued as a separate illustrated publication by Bertram Rota [1967], and subsequently by The Woodstock Gallery illustated by Jay Pickford [1979]. Other contributions by Theodore Roethke, Laurence Durrell, Gregory Corso, Arnold Wesker, and others. No. 4. with four drawings by Peake, plus contributions by A. Alvarez, gregory Corso, Gaudier-Brzeska, and others.…

The first four issues in Fine condition. No. 1. with contributions by Henry Moore and others. No. 2 with three poems by Mervyn Peake, plus contributions by Laurence Durrell, Jean Cocteau, Eugene Ionescu, and others. No. 3. with 'The Reverie of Bone by Peake,' its first appearance in print; it was later issued as a separate illustrated publication by Bertram Rota [1967], and subsequently by The Woodstock Gallery illustated by Jay Pickford [1979]. Other contributions by Theodore Roethke, Laurence Durrell, Gregory Corso, Arnold Wesker, and others. No. 4. with four drawings by Peake, plus contributions by A. Alvarez, gregory Corso, Gaudier-Brzeska, and others.…

First edition. 12mo. Numerous short prayers and graces by various authors, including some by the collector. Sixty-four pages. Thirty full-page line drawings by Mervyn Peake.Inscribed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper: ''best wishes from Mervyn - 12-1944''. Also signed by him on the title-page.Prelims, edges and endpapers slightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper with a short closed tear at head of spine.…