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    By Various; G. Peter Winnington [ed.]
    Not Stated   The Mervyn Peake Society
    8.5" by 6"
    The first twenty issues of The Mervyn Peake Review, forming a valuable collection of critical opinion regarding Peake and his work.
    By Various; G. Peter Winnington [ed.]

    1975-1986 The Mervyn Peake Review: Numbers 1-20

    Not Stated   The Mervyn Peake Society
    8.5" by 6"
    The first twenty issues of The Mervyn Peake Review, forming a valuable collection of critical opinion regarding Peake and his work.
    £295.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 903M1
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Very Scarce

    Twenty issues in the publisher's original paper wraps.

    A collection of the newsletter ‘The Mervyn Peake Society Newsletter’, which became ‘The Mervyn Peake Review’ after the first two issues. This newsletter features numerous critical articles and reviews on Peake's work, essays on aspects his life, a list of recent and forthcoming publications concerning Peake, as well a selection of his original artwork.

    ‘The Mervyn Peake Review’ was issued by the Mervyn Peake Society between 1975 and the end of the 1990s, for subscribers only. For the first nine years, the newsletter was issued twice a year; after this its publication was sporadic.

    Contributors include: G. Peter Winnington (also the editor); Brian Sibley; Hugh Brogan; Jacques Favier; Diana Gardner; and Laurence Bristow-Smith.

    Issue no. 10 contains an index to the rear, listing articles, reviews, and the name of the contributor, for the contents of the first ten issues.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally smart, with the occasional scattering of spots to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, except for some marginal age-toning to no. 19 and 20. Top edge spotted.

    Near Fine

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