The Sunday Books (Les Livres Du Dimanche)
Paris: Denoël, 2010 (November 9th) hardcover without dust-wrapper;
by Mervyn Peake & Michael Moorcock;
translated by Lili Sztajn;
original price: 24 €;
138 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-2-207-25943-6;
cover artist: Peake (also interior).
The Sunday Books is a series of previously unseen, full-colour drawings by Peake (1911–1968), presented as a graphic novel with brand-new text by Moorcock. The first edition appeared in France (in French), making the following year’s joint U.K./U.S.A. edition (see below) the first in the artist’s/author’s native language.
Contents:-
p. 10: untitled introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
pp. 32/33: contents pages;
p. 34: ‘Les Incroyables Aventures Du Captain Crackers Et Ses Farouches Pirates’ (‘The Incredible Adventures Of Captain Crackers And His Fierce Pirates’);
p. 82: ‘L’Émouvante Confession Du Chef Wampum Scrumpum’ (‘The Moving Confession Of Chief Wampum Scrumpum’);
p. 116: ‘Les Hallucinantes Courses Du Cauchemar’ (‘The Hallucinating Nightmare Races’).
London and New York: Duckworth and Overlook (as Duckworth Overlook) hardcover, 2011 (July); without dust-wrapper;
original prices: £18·99 (U.K.), $27·95 (U.S.A.);
138 pages;
I.S.B.N.s: 978-0-71564-171-2 (U.K.), 978-1-59020-711-6 (U.S.A.).
Contents:-
p. 10: untitled introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
pp. 32/33: contents pages;
p. 34: ‘Captain Crackers’ Shanty’;
p. 82: ‘The Shipwrecked Circus: or, The Desert Island Redskins’;
p. 116: ‘The Nightmare Races’.
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