Book Illustrations & Illustrators

With Drawings by Mervyn Peake, in-text b&w illustrations, 63 pp, green boards in d/w, d/w (and especially spine) browned, endpapers and first few pages slightly spotted, splash on verso of title-page (coffee?) and brown spots on inner edge of final page (possibly glue from the binding process), previous owner’s small bookplate on front paste-down, otherwise in very good condition, Allan Wingate 1953

19.8 x 12 cm, 190g, no ISBN

See the description from the dustwrapper flap.

Ranks as a Mervyn Peake first edition, but other booksellers charge ridiculous prices for what is a fairly slim volume.

Long out of print.