Rhymes Without Reason by Mervyn Peake (10 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition with this publisher. Fading to spine and edges of covers.

2nd Edition. Laminated boards, Very Good without dust wrapper as issued. Contains only 13 of the 16 poems of the 1st Edition. PiP A3b.

2nd Edition. Paperback issue. Contains only 13 of the 16 poems of the 1st Edition. PiP A3c.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. From 1976 this illustrated book of poems was illustrated by the author (originally dates from 1944). This copy is in good order, small bumps to the end board corner, otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Methuen 1974 Hardback , First thus in this edition. Like copy, laminated boards not issued with jacket. This copy has an inscription from the author's wife - " Sue with love from Maeve September 1974".

First Edition. Written and illustrated by Peake. 1st edition hardback. Cream boards slightly bruised at corners but generally VG.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this collection of poetry by artist and author Mervyn Peake, with his colour illustrations throughout. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking scarce dust wrapper.Illustrated by Mervyn Peake with sixteen full page colour illustrations.This work features a collection of fun and whimsical nonsense poems, illustrated and written by Mervyn Peake, an author and artist who is best known for his 'Gormenghast' fantasy series. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking scarce dust wrapper. Externally very smart with slight fading, handling marks and the odd spot. Internally firmly bound with pages lightly age toned to the extremities with the odd minor mark. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First Edition. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1944. First edition of this book, 39 pages in overall clean condition just some very light browning to endpapers, previous owners details neatly written on front endpaper, small diagonal creases to bottom corners of pages where previous owner has turned pages, these are soft creases like bends in the paper not hard folded over creases.Many full page colour illustrations by author ,all present as published. Dustwrapper is a little marked with some losses and tears, not price clipped. Outer boards are a little dusty to edges and top and bottom of spine. Though not perfect still a presentable example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Good Plus/Good. Illus. by Mervyn Peake. 9 ¼ x 7 Inches. Hardcover.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1944. First edition. Hardback in DW. Slim 8vo. Illustrated in colour. First colour plate slightly bled to poem page opposite. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Endpapers browned otherwise a clean and sound copy of a scarce book in price-clipped wrapper that has a few close tears to edges, a 3cm tear along top of joint between front panel and flap and head chipped to head and tail of spine and corners.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine association copy, with inscription from the great English actress Peggy Ashcroft, to John Hayward, the T.S. Eliot scholar and long-term house guest. Also, attached to the endpaper, is an envelope containing a Cecil Beaton photo of John Gielgud and Ashcroft as Romeo and Juliet, in which they were appearing together at the West End at the time this book was first issued! 8vo. 23.5 by 18 cm. 39 pp. With sixteen brightly colored and highly whimsical color plates, one for each of the nonsense verses by Peake. Peake was that rarity equally adept with the paint brush as with words. (The closest precedents might be Blake or Thackeray.) At the time this work appeared, though, Peake was far more established as a visual artist. Minor soiling to the cloth cover. The DJ has a narrow two inch long chip along the upper rear hinge, a few other small edge chips and other signs of light wear, but remains overall intact and attractive, and is now protected with a mylar layer. The DJ is NOT price clipped!