"Gormenghast" 1950 PEAKE, Mervyn (SOLD) Charles Cary Rumsey

"Gormenghast" 1950 PEAKE, Mervyn (SOLD) Charles Cary RumseyPEAKE, Mervyn 1950 Eyre & Spottiswoode 1950 VG VG Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus

a smart but obscure subject matter would be his account of the six months he traveled through America on the lecture circuit

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It is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales

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A modern facsimile of a volume first published in 1756

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Original gouache rendering of a Chinese lady at table

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