ISBN10: 1849015112, ISBN13: 9781849015110, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 1849015112 9781849015110 [GB]

ISBN10: 1849015112, ISBN13: 9781849015110, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 1849015112, ISBN13: 9781849015110, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.
[Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

Constable 2011 Hardcover Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

ISBN10: 1849015112, ISBN13: 9781849015110, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover First Edition About the book: Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood. Mervyn Peake was born in China, the son of medical missionaries, and the juxtaposition of his exotic surroundings and the very English manners at home had a lasting effect on him. Reading Treasure Island until he could recite it by heart and waiting for comics to arrive from England had him living a childhood bursting with imagery. He returned to England to study at the Royal Academy School and was then offered a teaching post at Westminster School of Art. There his charismatic and un-worldly presence made a huge impact: none more so than on Maeve Gilmore, a seventeen-year-old sculpture student. The couple fell passionately in love but Maeve's parents were determined their daughter would not marry a penniless artist and sent her away to forget him. She didn't and, refusing to be parted ever again, they married when Maeve was nineteen and Mervyn twenty-six. Mervyn Peake developed Parkinson's disease aged forty-five. His decline was rapid and he spent time in and out of mental hospitals until his death at fifty-seven, the diagnosis never fully understood. Clare Peake writes movingly of the impact on the family and her mother's determination to continue giving her children the happiness she ...
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt author's b/w portrait photograph,with capitalised pale pink lettered author's name,capitalised purple-lettered title and capitalised pale pink lettered sub-title to front panel of dw/dj;white background spine/backstrip with b/w miniaturised thumbnail author's portrait from front's photograph to head of spine/backstrip with purple,pink and black lettering.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Majority of light creasing tohead of spine and dw/dj's top edges.Top edges clean without foxing /spotting,fore-edges with minimal thumbing; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,plain white cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked bronze gilt lettering and immaculate plaine white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-243pp [paginated] includes,author's introduction,28 sections/ chapters,16pp contemporary b/w biographical+autobiographical photographs in 1 block,between pp120/21; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a poetry verse (Mervyn Peake - The Vastest Things Are Those We May Not Learn),a preamble before the introduction and to the rear,4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally, the book is also in an exceptional condi ...

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