Under a Canvas Sky: [Living Outside Gormenghast] Tapa dura - 2011

Constable, 2011-05-26. Hardcover. Good. 2.9977 in x 21.7834 in x 14.3891 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Constable, 2011 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… Leer más

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… Leer más