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

Price: US$742.76 + 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$868.06 + 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