Figures of Speech

Peake, Mervyn

Twenty-nine illustrations of figures of speech with a key at the end of the book identifying them; the cover images, adjacent, are 'severing relations' and 'keeping his end up' respectively.

Publisher: Victor Gollancz. First English edition 1954
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Owner signature, two pages with pencil and coloured pencil markings. Good in dustwrapper chipped at edges and missing a small piece from the top of the front panel.


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