MERVYN PEAKE. LETTERS FROM A LOST UNCLE

ILLUSTRATED BOOK - LIMITED EDITION

Mervin Peake - Letters from a Lost Uncle - Illustrated book - Limited edition

Author: Mervyn Peake
Format: Hardback, 145 x 223 mm, 125 pages
Publisher: Methuen
Publication date: 2001
ISBN: 0-413-74590-2

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Description

'I am now many miles further to the North-East and I am writing from a cave in a gaunt hillside. When Jackson and I sat down to rest we could see our footprints stretching back to the edge of the world...'

Lost in the frozen polar wastes, an explorer huddles in his shelter, typing with freezing fingers the journal of his lonely, extraordinary exploits, preparing to send the story to the nephew he has never seen. With his only companion, the tortoise-like mutant Jackson, the Uncle has gone in search of his ambition and his destiny: the awesome and mysterious White Lion.

Illustrated on every page with stunning, beautiful, eerie drawings, this edition has been completely re-originated from the original artwork. Reproduced here for the first time in full colour, Letters from a Lost Uncle is the triumphant product of a unique imagination and a distillation of all that is most powerful in the strange genius of Mervyn Peake.


Additional information

Limited edition of 1000, exclusive to Chris Beetles.


Related links

Artist page: MERVYN PEAKE (1911-1968)

Other publications:
MERVYN PEAKE (1911-1968). AN EXHIBITION
MERVYN PEAKE. TWO LIVES
MERVYN PEAKE. THE MAN AND HIS ART


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