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Mervyn Lawrence Peake

Male : Novelist & Illustrator. Parents medical missionaries. In 1933 he moved live to Sark, where he lived in a colony of artists for 2 years. Married Maeve Gilmore 1937. Suffered a nervous breakdown during wartime military service. Died after a long illness (Parkinson's Disease)
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Kuling, Central China

Date of Birth : 1911 Date of Death : 1968 Age : 57

Other Work : Taught at Westminster School of Art

Education : Tientsin GS, Eltham College, Croydon School of Art & Royal Academy Schools
1939-1945
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
(1939 Country Life)
(1945 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
(1967 Macmillan US)
Shapes and Sounds
(1941 Chatto & Windus) (1941 Transatlantic, NY) - Verse
Rhymes Without Reason
(1944 E & S) (1974 Methuen) - Verse

1946-1950
Titus Groan
(1946 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
(1946 Reynal & Hitchcock, NY) (1968 E & S)
(1968 Penguin pb)
(1968 Ballantine NY)
The Craft of the Lead Pencil
(1946 Wingate)
The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
(1949 Grey Walls) (1949 British Book centre, NY)
Letters from a Lost Uncle from Polar Regions
(1948 E & S) (1948 Collins, Toronto) - ss
Gormenghast
(1950 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
(1950 British Book Centre, NY)
(1967 Weybright & Talley, US)
(1968 E & S)
(1968 Ballantine NY)
(1969 Penguin pb)
The Glassblowers
(1950 E & S) (1950 Collins, Toronto) - Verse

1951-1970
Figures of Speech
(1954 Gollancz)
Boy in Darkness
(1956 E & S) - Story, with others
Titus Alone
(1958 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
(1967 Weybright & Talley, NY)
(1968 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
(1968 Ballantine, NY)
(1970 Penguin pb)
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
(1962 Dent) (1973 Colin Smythe) - Verse
Poems and Drawings
(1965 Keepsake Press) - Ltd Ed 150
A Reverie of Bone & Other Poems
(1967 Bertram Rota) - Ltd Ed 300
Boy in Darkness
(1969 A & B) (1976 A Wheaton)
Mr Pye
(1953 Heinemann) (1969 Allison & Busby) (1972 Penguin) - pb

After 1971
Selected Poems
(1972 Faber)
A Book of Nonsense
(1972 Peter Owen) (1975 Dulfour) (1974 Picador)
The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
(1974 Davis-Poynter, London)
Mervyn Peake, Writings and Drawings
(1974 Academy Editions) (1974 St Martin's Press, NY)
Twelve Poems
(1975 Bran's Head Books) - 350
Peake's Progress : Selected Writings and Drawings
(1979 Allen Lane) (1981 Overlook Press)

PERIODICALS
The Ballet
Harvest
Lilliput
The London Mercury
Radio Times
Satire
The Transatlantic Review

Ride a Cock Horse & Other Nursery Rhymes
(1940 Chatto & Windus)
(1972 Chatto & Windus)
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Paul Britten AUSTIN : The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Tom Thumb
(1954-55 Stockholm) - 2 vols
Offered in 1996 for £240
HONORE DE BALZAC - Droll Stories
(1961 Folio Society)
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD - The Wendigo
(1952 Lilliput)
LEWIS CARROLL - The Hunting of the Snark
(1941 C & W) (1948 Zodiac Books)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1946 Zephyr, Stockholm)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
(1954 Wingate)
S T COLERDIGE - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1943 C & W) (1949 Zodiac) (1971 C & W)
MAURICE COLLIS - Quest for Sita
(1946 Faber) - 500 copies (1947 Day & Co, NY)
QUENTIN CRISP - All This and Bevin Too
(1943 Nicholson & Watson)
Charles DICKENS : Sketches from Bleak House
(1983)
H B DRAKE - The Book of Lyonne
(1952 Falcon Press)
Oxford English Course for Secondary Schools Book 1
(1957 OUP)
GEORGE GISSING - New Grub Street
(1958 OUP) - jacket only
BROTHERS GRIMM - Household Tales
(1946 E & S) (1973 Methuen)
D K HAYNES - Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch
(1949 Methuen)
CHRISTINA HOLE - Witchcraft in England
(1945 Batsford)
C E M JOAD - The Aventures of the Young Soldier in Search of a Better World
(1943 Faber)
Aaron JUDAH - The Pot of Gold & Two Other Tales
(1959 Faber)
Allan M LAING -
(Ed) Prayers and Graces (1944 Gollancz)
(Ed) More Prayers & Graces (1957 Gollancz)
EDWARD LEAR - A Book of Nonsense
(1972 Peter Owen)
T NIKLAUS - Harlequin Phoenix
(1956 Bodley head) - jacket & frontispiece only
E C PALMER - The Young Blackbird
(1953 Wingate)
Allegra SANDER - Men, A Dialogue Between Women
(1955 Cresset Press)
R L STEVENSON - Dr Keyll & Mr Hyde
(1948 Folio Society)
Treasure Island
(1949 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
J WYSS - The Swiss Family Robinson
(1950 Heirloom Library)

READING
Quentin Crisp : The Genius of Mervyn Peake
(1946 Facet)
Bernard Denver : Mervyn Peake
(1946 Studio)
Pearse Hutchinson : Mervyn Peake
(1959 Comhan)
Michael Moorcock : Architect of the Extraordinary
(1960 Vector)
Maeve Gilmore : A World Away - a Memoir of Mervyn Peake
(1970 Gollancz)
Hugh Brogan : 'The Gutters of Gormenghast'
(1973 Cambridge Review)
John Batchelor : Mervyn Peake - A Biographical and Critical Exploration
(1974 Duckworth)
Maeve Gilmore & Shelagh Johnson : Mervyn Peake - Writings & Drawings
(1974 Academy Editions)
Hilary Spurling : The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
(1974 Davis-Poynter, London)
John Watney : Mervyn Peake
(1976 Michael Joseph)
Maeve Gilmore : Peake's Progress
(1978 Allen Lane)
Gordon Smith : Mervyn Peake - A Personal Memory
(1984 Gollancz)
Sebastian Peake : A Child of Bliss - Growing Up with Mervyn Peake
(1989 Lennard £14.95)
Tanya Gardiner-Scott : Mervyn Peake - The Evolution of a Dark Romantic
(1989 Lang Peter, US $44.95)
G Peter Winnington : Vast Alchemies - The Life & Work of Mervyn Peake
(2000 Peter Owen £18.95)

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