RHYMES WITHOUT REASON
by PEAKE, MERVYN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Good /Good
- Seller
-
Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
UNITED KINGDOM: EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE. Bound in yellow cloth with clear blue titles to front board and spine, this dated hardcover First Edition is VG in Good Jacket(unclipped). 39pp with 16 Chapters each with Rhyme and full-color plate, both by Mervyn Peake. Book is all VG but Jacket is only Good 15% of jacket's back pane missing. Irreguarly shaped hole 11cm x 3cm plus chips to top edge of back panel. Front return flap has two closed tears and chip at top/bottom of crease. Thus book is VG with Good Jacket . Collectible - Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1944.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002121061
- Title
- RHYMES WITHOUT REASON
- Author
- PEAKE, MERVYN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE
- Place of Publication
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- 39
- Keywords
- Mervyn Peake: "Rhymes Without Reason" 1944 Eyre & Spottiswood hardcover First Edition VG/Good
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" till.
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- Plate
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