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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.

Creasing vertically down covers. Wrapper is badly creased and browned/damp to rear panel; edge-torn and chipped, with pieces of loss.

Stock no. 2113051

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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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