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RHYMES WITHOUT REASON

by Mervyn Peake

Illustrated by Mervyn Peake

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st. 1944

Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Cream cloth, pale green titles. Full-page colour illustrations. 38 pages.

Spine and corners bumped. Some grubbiness to cover edges. Some fingermarks to page margins else clean. Dustwrapper is torn to spine and front fold, slight loss at spine, it is also very slightly edge chipped and grubby. A nice copy of a scarce book.

Stock no. 1310256

Sorry this book has been sold (15/08/2016)
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Contents

  • Upon my Golden Backbone
  • All over the Lilac Brine!
  • The Sunlight falls upon the Grass
  • The Crocodile
  • The Giraffe
  • My Uncle Paul of Pimlico
  • It makes a change
  • What a day it's been!
  • How mournful to imagine
  • The Jailor and the Jaguar
  • The Camel
  • I wish I could remember
  • I waxes, and I wanes, Sir
  • The Hippopotamus
  • A Languorous Life
  • Sensitive, Seldom and Sad

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