Treasure Island. With Drawing by Mervyn Peake. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949. First Edition Thus. Pp, 255. A lovely clean copy bound in quarter calf and marbled boards, with gilt decorations to spine, housed in cloth slipcase.

Mervyn Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. His surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island being one of his favourite books.

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