TITUS GROAN BY MERVYN PEAKE 1946 FIRST EDITION (GORMENGHAST TRILOGY)

[PEAKE, MERVYN]. Titus Groan. London: Eyer & Spottiswoode, 1946.

FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, IN SECOND IMPRESSION DUST JACKET. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (22 x 14 x 2.5 cm); pp. 438. English text. Bound in publisher's red covers and supplied with the original unclipped dust jacket with '18/ - net' intact. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers very well-preserved. Interior with some trivial spots to endpapers, otherwise excellent and without previous ownership markings. Dust jacket a little rubbed at the head.

Notes: First edition with second impression dust jacket (as with most copies). A masterpiece of gothic literature, being the first volume of the Gormenghast trilogy. It was followed by Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959). Winnington A4b; Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-285.