TITUS GROAN

by Mervyn Peake

$6,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Octavo, pp. 1-5 6-7 8 9-438 439-440: blank note: last leaf is a blank , original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Peake's first novel and the first book of the unfinished Gormenghast sequence. The whole is perhaps the most intensely visual fantasy ever written. It is like a Gothic fantasy stripped of all plot accretions, of all intrusions of the

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