Figures of Speech by Mervyn Peake, First Edition (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Edition. Lovely copy, in unclipped DJ which has signs of water staining to back. No inscriptions. Each numbered full page drawing by Peake represents a different saying or proverb. Up to you to decipher them!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding lightly rubbed. Clean and solid - but some pictures have been colour in pencil - one with watercolour paint. The wrapper is VG, nicked and a little chopped, darkened on spine and front panel. A Mervyn Peake 1st Edition in wrapper! Book.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 29 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 29 full-page drawings by Mervyn Peake designed as a Games Book. Participants have to guess the Figure of Speech that each of the drawings represents. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Tiny crease to tail of spine. Light toning to fore edge. Book Society book plate on ffep. No inscriptions. In VG+ condition. Grey/green unclipped illustrated dust jacket with black lettering on face and spine. Toning to margins of rear panel of dust jacket. Now protected in a clear archival wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback with dustjacket. White area to front and to rear have darkened with age. Previous owners bookplate otherwise internally clean. Very good / very good - condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Peake Mervyn (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st edition. Witty full page drawings by Peake depicting figures of speach. Internally clean with some age yellowing to end papers. Dust jacket grubbuwith some closed tears. Now in a protective plastic jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Front panel of dustwrapper very lightly foxed & neatly price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +. First Thus. A UK first edition thus - with a complete number string which includes the number 1. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is very bright, is unfaded, and is complete. It is unclipped. The top edge of the front panel is imperceptibly bruised. Looks very sharp. THE BOOK : The book is sound and tight. The front and back boards are bright, clean and sharp. The lower corners are very slightly bruised. The spine is bright. The pages are clean and bright. No foxing. The closed page edges are fresh. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A very nice copy. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). First American Edition.

VG/VG hardcover with price-clipped dj inside a full loose-fitting plastic sleeve. has preserved this volume well. front and rear cream panels to dj shows speckling and minor tarnish points, and some foxing to edges of the textblock - but not internally. Very good in brick-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine on which the giltwork is clear and bright. internally, the volume is in good clean condition save for faint shadow to ffep ( old bookmark once laid in? ) and a prior owner's inscription . no other inscriptions or marginalia. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A little internal foxing. In a good plus price-clipped dustwrapper which has some foxing to the inside and a closed tear at the top of the spine. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. 29 line drawings representing figures of speech.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). Illustrated by the author. First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and torn. One inscription and mild tanning. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Quarto. 24 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Humour; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 29814: 275 For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Twenty-nine illustrations of figures of speech with a key at the end of the book identifying them; the cover images, adjacent, are 'severing relations' and 'keeping his end up' respectively. Owner signature, two pages with pencil and coloured pencil markings. Good in dustwrapper chipped at edges and missing a small piece from the top of the front panel. book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. A fine copy in a very good, slightly used and faded dust jacket with a couple of edge tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Scarce Book especially in its Dust Wrapper-price unclipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 29pp. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. In blue and white dust wrapper with black titles and illustrative decoration. Some minor edge wear and markings to rear, a small loss at the tail edge of wrapper rear and head of spine having small tear. Illustrated with 29 humourous full page b&w sketches by the author. The key to which figure of speech they represent is in the rear. A Very Good copy.

VG/VG hardcover with unclipped dj inside a full loose-fitting plastic sleeve. has preserved this volume well. rear cream panel to dj shows minor tarnish points, and some light foxing to edges of the textblock - but not internally. Very good in brick-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine on which the giltwork is clear and bright. internally, the volume is in good clean condition. no inscriptions or marginalia. 1st Edition. rare with this originall dj is such good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A rare first edition hardback in its price clipped and protected jacket. Some foxing to the illustration on the jacket cover, minor foxing in the book. Superb examples of the artist's quirky wit. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Victor Gollancz. London. 1954. DW. First edition. Large slim 8vo. Pages slightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in slightly soiled wrapper which has a 2 inch close tear to front panel near head of spine.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket with one half-inch edge tear, rear panel (white) lightly soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 29p, illustrated octavo. A very good + copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket and text block are foxed.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Only. 8vo. Good with tears and minor losses, protective sleeve. 8/6 net on flyleaf. [First Edition].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine, unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Condition: Very good. White portions of dj grubby, with some blue crayon marks. Minor chipping to edges. Browning to dj flap edges. Faint foxing to final page and edge of text block. Otherwise, pages clean and bright. Minimal cockling due to binding along spine edge internally, more noticeable in the images than in the actual book. Size: 9.5 x 7 inches / 24 x 18 cm. 30 pages. Weight: 320g.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1954 Gollancz Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Near fine clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations by Mervyn Peake.

First Edition. Some foxing throughout, otherwise a nice copy in dust-wrapper which is somewhat foxed and rubbed; red crayon price on fly-leaf and upper-panel of dust-wrapper.