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First edition, first printing. Three volumes Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spines, in the author illustrated first state dustwrappers. Titus Groan and Gormenghast with a title page vignette, Titus Alone with a black and white frontispiece illustration by Peake. Very good copies, the bindings firm and the cloth bright and fresh with a little bumping and rubbing to the extremities. The contents, foxed to the prelims and closed text block edges are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, creased and toned dustwrappers all of which have minor chipping and short closed tears at the spine tips and flap folds. The dustwrapper of Titus Groan has some water marks to the spine and Gormenghast some spotting to the rear flap. None of the dustwrappers are price-clipped an all are in the first state. Mervin Peake's acclaimed gothic fantasy series follows the bizarre, isolated lives of the inhabitants of a vast and sprawling castle. It formed the basis of a 2000 BBC television series and is reported to be being adapted into a new television series by Neil Gaiman and Akiva Goldsman. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

The second novel in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake, continuing the turbulent story of the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast.