Titus Groan

by Mervyn Peake

$750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition, first printing. 438 pp. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Slight tarnishing to spine lettering, else Fine, in a Near Fine price-clipped, more commonly seen second impression dust jacket with toning and light rubbing. A very bright example of the first book in the Gormenghast novels that were later adapted into the BBC mini-series.

• Printing: first

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