Figures of Speech by Mervyn Peake, Mervyn Peake (Illustrator) - 2003-08-11

Candlewick Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Candlewick, August 2003. Hardcover. Very Good - Cash/Very Good. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2003. First American Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New.

Cambridge: Candlewick, 2003. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Very good in very good dustjacket.

Cambridge: Candlewick Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0763621765 . Illustrated by the author. First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Cambridge MA: Candlewick Press, 2003. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This ia a reprint of a 1954 book. Reformatted with color tints added to Peake's original b&w drawings. A game-like book where you can guess what the illustrations represent, answer key in rear. Clean copy. Record # 379133

Candlewick Press. New in New dust jacket. 2003. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 0763621765 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; ""We give no table of contents here, for to do so would spoil your pleasure," wrote author-illustrator Mervyn Peake when this quirky book was first published in 1939. "Each drawing represents a particular Figure of Speech." Following were twenty-nine drawings, identified only by number: a couple with their noses on fire; a gentleman cutting pages from a book; a tropical explorer resting his heels inside water glasses. Revealed in a key at the end were the "figures of speech" the drawings portrayed (in this case,… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine and top edges lightly sunned. A game-like book where you can guess what the illustrations represent, answer key in rear.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Candlewick, 2003-08-11. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!