NMLP P-043871 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Titus Alone

Mervyn Peake · Eyre & Spottiswoode (London) · 1959

The sharpest trap for this title is the 1970 Langdon Jones revised text, which appeared under the SAME Eyre & Spottiswoode imprint (issued alongside Penguin): those copies are dated 1970, are 'first thus,' and are not the first edition — the shared imprint fools buyers who check the publisher but not the date. Penguin and Ballantine paperbacks, the Weybright & Talley and Overlook reprints, and the omnibus Gormenghast Novels / Gormenghast Trilogy volumes (including those with Anthony Burgess and Quentin Crisp introductions) are all reprints. Trilogy sets are frequently made up from mixed printings — check each volume's copyright page individually. No 1959 book-club issue is documented in the sources consulted.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-043871 for "Titus Alone" by Mervyn Peake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043871, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).