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PEAKE, Mervyn (illustrator). RIDE A COCK- HORSE and Other Nursery Rhymes. Chatto and Windus, London, 1940.

Price: US$140.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition, Second Impression with "For Sebastian" dedication page. The first book that Peake was commissioned to illustrate. Frontis and 14 other full-page illustrations by Peake, 10 of which are hand-coloured. Extraordinary pictures, showing full promise of the career to come. According to Gilmore and Johnson Walter de la Mare was fascinated by this book and wrote to Peake to among other things ".that most other illustrated books look silly by comparison". Boards are iighlty worn with some mild soiling and dents on the Fore-edge. Two-thirds of the spine is missing, exposing the mull. Contents in excellent condition. 29 pp.

Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada

PEAKE (Mervyn)(illus.). RIDE A COCK-HORSE And Other Nursery Rhymes.:. London: Chatto & Windus, 1940., 1940.

Price: US$187.23 + shipping

Description: First Ed., first issue.(without the didication page)Frontispiece and 14 full-page illustrations (10 in colour) by Peake.32pp. Roy.8vo(25.5x18.5vm). original pictorial boards.

Seller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB, Tokyo, Japan

. Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes. Chatto and Windus, London, 1940.

Price: US$292.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Clean tight copy in excellent condition. Ivory boards with illustration of the "Cock Horse" on front. Incription to previous owner on fep. Dedication "for Sebastian" Jacket in mylar has light smudging along edges and tiny nicks on top back edge. Triangular clip at front bottom flap. Delightful full color and b/w illustrations with each of the sixteen rhymes Date of 1940 on title page.29. pp. E-mail if you have questions.

Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.

MERVYN PEAKE. Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes. With illustrations by Mervyn Peake.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1940.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition, second state - with the printed dedication 'For Sebastian'. 4to. 28pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards reproducing two of the colour illustrations. Fourteen nursery thymes, each one accompanied by a full-page illustration, ten of which are hand-coloured. Tips of corners rubbed with a tiny indentation to top edge of boards and some careful repair to the head of the upper gutter. A lengthy but certainly not too disastrous vertical crease to the fore edge of all but two of three leaves. Binding just a little tender in several places and with some occasional staining to lower edge of thirteen leaves. Quite a bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper reproducing the board illustrations, the wrapper tanned, and a little stained, spotted and chipped at spine ends with two or three tiny areas of loss and several short tears with some internal taped repair. "[Ride a Cock-Horse] was quite easily the most beautifully produced of the books that Mervyn illustrated. The war had started, but the paper shortage and the many restrictions connected with publishing hadn't yet begun to make their indelible mark on war-time books" - Maeve Gilmore, 'A World Away'.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates. Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes.. Chatto and Windus, 1940., 1940.

Price: US$473.03 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. With 14 illustrations, 10 of which are coloured using the pochoir process. Ist issue without the dedication 'For Sebastian' on the page following the contents. Fine in browned and very slightly worn dust wrapper. At the last minute Peake had the book dedicated to Sebastian; some early copies were issued without the printed dedication. PiP B1a

Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom

PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates. Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes.. Chatto and Windus, 1940., 1940.

Price: US$582.20 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. 2nd issue with the dedication 'For Sebastian' on the page following the contents. Very Good in slightly rubbed dust wrapper with a few short closed tears. PiP B1a

Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom

PEAKE, Mervyn (illus.). Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1940, 1940.

Price: US$747.24 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, first issue (without the dedication page). This is Mervyn Peake's first commission as illustrator and his second illustrated book, following Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939); its success led to Chatto & Windus commissioning Peake to illustrate their edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1941). His illustrations for these nursery rhymes have been described as drawing out "the darkest implications of the stories". Quarto. Original pictorial boards. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and 14 full-page illustrations (10 in colour) by Peake. Jacket toned and lightly soiled, a few chips, nicks and tears.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

PEAKE, Mervyn illustrates. Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes.. Chatto and Windus, 1940., 1940.

Price: US$800.52 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. Ist issue without the dedication 'For Sebastian' on the page following the contents. Fine in browned and slightly rubbed dust wrapper with a short closed tear to the rear panel. At the last minute Peake had the book dedicated to Sebastian and some early copies were issued without. PiP B1a

Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom

PEAKE, Mervyn (illustrates).. Ride a Cock-Horse And Other Nursery Rhymes. Chatto and Windus, London., 1940.

Price: US$1624.43 + shipping

Description: First edition. First issue, without the dedication page. Quarto. 29 pages. Pictorial hand-coloured paper boards. Fourteen nursery rhymes, each accompanied by a full-page illustration by Mervyn Peake, ten of which are hand-coloured; black and white frontispiece.Signed and dated 1941 by the artist on the front free endpaper.Paper boards a little bruised at extremities with a couple of minuscule holes at tail of spine, otherwise a very good indeed copy of a fragile book in very good dustwrapper which is a bit dusty and rubbed at the edges and with a short closed tear at top edge of lower panel. Peake seems to have signed very few copies of this title.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom