----------hardcover, a Fine copy in a very lightly rubbed Fine dustjacket, signed without inscription by Winnington, 263 pages, b&w photos, ---"Mervyn Peake’s Vast Alchemies is the result of many years of research into Peake¹s life and work. It follows Peake, the son of missionary parents, from China to art school in London and his time in an artists’ colony in the Channel Islands. It covers in detail his experiences in the army during the Second World War an unhappy period during which he wrote Titus Groan and the huge influence that his visit to the newly liberated concentration camp at Belsen had on his work. The next ten years of his life were without doubt his most productive but by the mid-1950s he was beginning to show signs of the degenerative illness that eventually killed him in 1968"---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo // SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///