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Rhymes Without Reason
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Rhymes Without Reason Cloth - 1944

by Mervyn Peake

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  • Hardcover
  • first

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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 7". Mervyn Peake. 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
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  • Title Rhymes Without Reason
  • Author Mervyn Peake
  • Illustrator Mervyn Peake
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good Indeed
  • Publisher Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
  • Date 1944
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 903Z15

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