Mervyn Peake, 6 titles: 'Poems and Drawings', London, The Ke...

Hammer

£130

Mervyn Peake, 6 titles: 'Poems and Drawings', London, The Keepsake Press, 1965, limited edition (one of 150 copies only), frontispiece and 4 full-page line drawings by Peake printed in brown, [16]pp, pale blue plain card stapled wraps; 'Letters from a Lost Uncle', London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948, 1st edition, [ii],[130]pp, illustrated throughout with line drawings in soft pencil interspersed with typewritten text and passages in the author's hand, original pictorial cloth; 'Titus Groan', L, E & S, 1946, 1st edition, 2nd impression (dust wrapper stated "Second Impression" to inside front flap), 438pp, original cloth, d/w; 'The Craft of the Lead Pencil', L, Allan Wingate, 1946, 1st edition, [2],19,[3]pp, full page and in text ills. by Peake, original pictorial boards; 'Figures of Speech', L, Gollancz, 1954, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor', L, Nelson, 1967, 3rd edition of Peake's classic children's book, first published in 1939, small 4to, original pictorial laminated boards (6)