Prayers and Graces. A Little Book of Extraordinary Piety

by Allan M. Laing, Mervyn Peake

$48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1944. Poetry FIRST EDITION. Octavo 17 x 13cm , pp.63 1 . With copious in-text line drawings by Mervyn Peake. Publisher's dark blue cloth, illustrated gilt motif to upper board, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 2/6 net to rear panel. Text itself is bright and clean, some spotting to endpapers and jacket flaps. Pictorial bookplate of Anthony Francombe to front flyleaf. Sunning to jacket spine, minor

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