Peake, (Mervyn). Shapes and Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941.

Price: US$66.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Black cloth backstrip with grey boards. Lightly foxed throughout and some shelf wear. Size: Octavo. Category: Poetry;

Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes and Sounds. Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 1941.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo (8.5"x6"). 23pp. 1/4 bound in black cloth & grey paper with white-stamped title to spine. Original bookseller's sticker (Charing Cross Rd.) to front pdep. Pages toned, lightly foxed, smudges to pages 2-3. Dust jacket illustrated by Peake, covered in protective mylar: 2" chip missing from head spine extreme & 1" chip missing from lower, corners chipped, closed tear to mid-spine, light tone, not price-clipped. Peake's third book & first book of poetry.

Seller: Downtown Books & News, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.

Mervyn Peake. SHAPES AND SOUNDS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine++ hardcover copy. First Edition. Missing the jacket. Otherwise, a very nice copy. Pages are clean and white. No bumped corners to book. Cloth spine is very clean with just a touch of the white lettering on spine rubbed but clean and readable. A very decent copy. = WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH USPS TRACKING. = WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 34 YEARS.

Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes & Sounds. Chatto and Windus 1941, London, 1941.

Price: US$161.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: viii, 23 pp. Publisher's original quarter black cloth over boards with lettering in white to spine. In the original dust wrapper designed by Mervyn Peake. Dj worn to extremities and torn along spine with loss. Slight stain to lower fore-edge. Internally clean. No ownership names. The author's first collected volume of poetry. Only 1000 copies printed. 8vo.

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes and Sounds. London; Chatto & Windus;, 1941.

Price: US$161.03 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. The author's first collection of poetry. Near fine with an ownership inscription to the front free endpaper and some foxing in a very good dustjacket (designed by the author) with wear and splits to the spine with some loss. Note, ABE will suggest that this is a signed copy. This is not the case, the book is NOT signed by the author.

Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom

Mervyn Peake. Shapes & Sounds. Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$167.47 + shipping

Description: The first edition of Mervyn Peake's first collected volume of poetry, a smart volume in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper, designed by Peake.The first collected volume of poetry by Mervyn Peake, wide in range and themes, including a total of twenty-four poems.Including 'London, 1941', 'The Cocky Walkers', 'They Move With Me, My War-Ghosts', 'Rather Than a Little Pain', and 'Van Gogh'.Peake was an English author and illustrator who is best known today for his 'Gormenghast' books. He also illustrated editions of 'Hunting of the Snark', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Brothers Grimm', 'Treasure Island', and 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with a few minor marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Chip to the head of the front endpaper. Bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper with light edge wear, repaired to the reverse, repairing chips and loss to the spine. Wraps are a little age-toned with some spots. Tape marks to the flyleaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Mervyn Peake. Shapes & Sounds. Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$251.21 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A wonderful first edition collection of poetry by Mervyn Peake, in the original unclipped dust wrapper that was designed by the author himself. First Edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, which was designed and illustrated by the author himself.This is a wonderful collection of poetry by Mervyn Peake, which contained new poetry from the author as well as reprints of his contributions to The London Mercury, The Listener, The New English Weekly, and the Spectator.Contents include 'They Move with Me, My War-Ghosts', 'I, While the Gods Laugh, the World's Vortex Am', and 'What is it Muffles the Ascending Moment?' along with over poems.Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for his Gormenghast books, which are often compared to the work of J. R. Tolkien. During World War II, he was briefly commissioned by various newspapers as a war artist.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with no noticeable faults other than a bit of discolouration to boards. Dust wrapper is very smart, with minimal edge wear to wraps. A bit of chipping to the top edge of the spine, with a closed tear to the top edge of the rear wrap. Age-toning to the margins of the reverse and the fly leaves and some age-toning and spotting to the reverse behind the fly leaves. Light offsetting to endpapers.Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned, but very bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

MERVYN PEAKE. SHAPES & SOUNDS. CHATTO & WINDUS, LONDON, 1941.

Price: US$283.42 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 X 6 INCHES WITH 8 + 23 PAGES. SMALL CLOSED TEAR TO REAR OF JACKET WITH A COUPLE OF MINOR SPOTS OF FOXING, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES. OVERALL A NEAR FINE COPY WITH NO INSCRIPTIONS & NO CHIPS TO JACKET. PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY WRINKLES OR REFLECTIONS SHOWN IN IMAGES OF DUST JACKET ARE ON THE SURFACE OF THE REMOVABLE PROTECT COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.

Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes & Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941.

Price: US$289.86 + shipping

Description: 216 x 142mm, black cloth-backed light grey textured paper-covered boards, spine lettered in white, pp.viii, 24. Printed on laid paper, fore- & tail edges untrimmed. Dustwrapper design by Peake. Near fine copy apart from a brief dated & initalled inscription on front free endpaper, unhelpfully reading 'No comment'. Unclipped dustwrapper frayed along top edge, spine panel chipped at ends, with small area of loss below lettering, neatly repaired on reverse. Peake's scarce first book of poems; only 1,000 copies were printed. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes & Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941.

Price: US$302.74 + shipping

Description: 214 x 142mm, black cloth-backed light grey textured paper-covered boards, spine lettered in white, pp.viii, 24. Printed on laid paper, fore- & tail edges untrimmed. Dustwrapper design by Peake. Preliminary leaves slightly foxed, tail corners a little bruised. Dustwrapper has loss at ends of spine panel & corners of lower panel. Peake's scarce first book of poems; only 1,000 copies were printed. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes & Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941.

Price: US$322.07 + shipping

Description: 214 x 142mm, black cloth-backed light grey textured paper-covered boards, spine lettered in white, pp.viii, 24. Printed on laid paper, fore- & tail edges untrimmed. Dustwrapper design by Peake; neat internal repairs to chipped spine panel. Peake's scarce first book of poems; only 1,000 copies were printed. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.

Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Peake, Mervyn. Shapes and Sounds. Chatto & Windus, 1941.

Price: US$322.07 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1941 Chatto & Windus Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket.(DJ has had some minor repairs) Peake's scarce first book of poems; only 1,000 copies were printed. Dustjacket designed by Peake.

Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

PEAKE, Mervyn. Shapes and Sounds.. Chatto and Windus, 1941., 1941.

Price: US$360.71 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. Fine in dust wrapper. PiP A2a

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

PEAKE, Mervyn.. Shapes & Sounds.. Chatto & Windus, London., 1941.

Price: US$740.75 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. 23 pages. Twenty-five poems, several from World War Two. Cloth-backed boards. Presentation copy, mysteriously inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ''With my most sincere hope that 'The Film' will be as near as possible to what you desire - Mervyn Peake.''Covers just a little marked. Occasional faint foxing. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper designed by Peake.

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

PEAKE, Mervyn. Shapes and Sounds.. Chatto and Windus, 1941., 1941.

Price: US$865.71 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. A little wear to the spine otherwise Very Good in very defective and chipped dust wrapper. Presentation copy inscribed "To you both, Edith and Dick, with love and so much gratitude. Mervyn. November 1941 -" Edith [nà e Hurry] and Dick [Richard] Armstrong were friends. Edith was the sister of Leslie Hurry, artist and designer, a contemporary of Peake. PiP A2a

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

PEAKE, Mervyn. Shapes and Sounds.. Chatto & Windus, 1941., 1941.

Price: US$865.71 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. Very Good in chipped and worn dust wrapper lacking most of the spine. Inscribed on the end paper "To you Both with much Love - Mervyn - Nov 1941 -" From the collection of H.B. [Burgess] Drake. Drake was a schoolmaster at Eltham college during Peake's time there and became a friend. He was godfather to Peake's daughter Clare and Peake illustrated two of his books; The Book of Lyonne [1952] and The Oxford English Course for Secondary Schools, Book One [1957].

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