Book Description

Black and white illustrations throughout, these are integrated with the text which is printed on a darker grey paper and in a form to give the impression of being a facsimile of the original typed letters. The dust jacket is designed to appear as an envelope with a stamp on the front and seal on the rear.
Dealer Notes
The dust jacket has the original 7s 6d price cancelled and has 3s 6d stamped underneath.
Author Peake, Mervyn
Date 1948 (1st edition)
Binding Pictorial yellow cloth boards blocked in red. Dust jacket. 18x12cms.
Publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode, London
Illustrator Mervyn Peake
Condition Covers little scuffed and bumped, slight lean to spine. Dust jacket soiled and marked, edge worn and torn, lacking small pieces from spine ends. Edges of inner flaps creased. End papers little foxed and age browned. Light vertical crease to a few pages.
Pages Pages unnumbered.

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