Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition. No dust jacket. Orange boards faded to front and spine. Ex library, with a few stamps to front blank pages. Overall good reading copy. 311 pages. 195 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
P.C. Wren is best known for his work Beau Geste. This story involves a woman, who thought herself a widow because her husband was officially declared dead, remarrying only to meet her 'dead' husband alive many years later. The invention of a fictional South-American country called Boruela, and its wicked dictator, only add to a strange plot.

Garden City, New York: The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Part of the Matt Erridge murder mystery series. Hardback, with signed author dedication to FFEP. Dated 1978. In original dust jacket. Jacket is a little foxed, but otherwise in very good condition. Inside clean and fresh. 177 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First American edition, first printing. Signed to the half-title by Thomas. In unclipped dust jacket, which states: Author of "The Virgin Soldiers." This was his fourth novel, and is set in Israel. Fine book in a a good dust jacket, with a small tear to the front of the dust jacket. This was the author's own copy. 254 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Red cloth hardback, in original colour illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket has one or two nicks to spine. Offsetting from dust jacket to FFEP. On the title page, Le Queux is described as 'The Master of Mystery'! Overall in good condition. 312 pages plus 8 pages of adverts to rear. 180 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).

Amsterdam: H.J.W. Becht, 1915. Beautiful Art Nouveau / Jugendstil cover design on cream percaline, by Cornelia van der Hart. Third edition of this 'story for girls'. With b/w illustrations by E.C. Leegstra, and text in Dutch. 274 pages. Boards are a little darkened. Previous owner's name in neat ink handwriting to from blank endpaper. A very good book. 235 x 15 mm (9¼ x 0½ inches).

Amsterdam: Erven Martin G. Cohen, 1910. Scarce First Dutch edition of this work. Half vellum, half buckram. Boards slightly rubbed and a little darkened. Some spotting inside, but overall clean. Previous owner's signature and date to the title page. 140 pages plus index. 225 x 185 mm (8¾ x 7¼ inches). OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 63851019

. Schaarse Nederlandse uitgave van dit werk. Half perkament, half buckram. Platen licht geschaafd en iets verdonkerd. Wat vlekken binnen, maar over het algemeen schoon. 140 pagina's plus index. 225 x 185 mm. OCLC Nummer/unieke identificatie 63851019

London: Eva Svensson / Westerham Press, 1978. First edition. Copy # 411 of a limited edition of 500 cloth bound copies, signed by the president of the society David Plumb. Gilt title to black label on front board and gilt title to spine. In its original dust jacket. With many colour illustrations. 65 pp. 275 x 195 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches). In an excellent condition, looks almost unread. Dust jacket is price clipped, but otherwise in a fine condition.

London: Bradbury, Evans & Co, 1864. Hardback, three quarter red leather boards, with blue cloth boards. Gilt title vignette to front and back boards. Circa 1864 - but no date. Hand coloured title vignette, and 21 hand coloured plates. Caricatures and descriptions. Spine with light rubbing. Internally very clean and fresh. 51 unnumbered pages. 220 x 320 mm (8¾ x 12½ inches). Livre relié, trois quarts en cuir rouge, avec des planches en tissu bleu. Vignette de titre dorée sur les planches avant et arrière. Circa 1864 - mais pas de date. Vignette de titre coloriée à la main, et 21 planches coloriées à la main. Caricatures et descriptions. Le dos est légèrement frotté. Intérieur très propre et frais. 51 pages non numérotées. 220 x 320 mm

Altenburg: Stephan Seibel Verlag, 1904. First edition. Green cloth hardback boards, with gold titles and design to front board. All page edges red. 76 pages; including five full-page illustrations, and several headers and designs by Gustav Kampmann. Text in German. All in very good, clean condition. 245 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches).

. Erste Ausgabe. Grüner Leineneinband, mit goldenen Titeln und Design auf der Vorderseite. Alle Seitenkanten rot. 76 Seiten, darunter fünf ganzseitige Abbildungen und mehrere Kopfzeilen und Entwürfe von Gustav Kampmann. Alles in sehr gutem, sauberem Zustand. 245 x 195 mm.

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. First edition in this format. Hardback laminated colour illustrated boards. Unpaginated. Covers are clean with minimal handling. All but one of the pop-ups are working perfectly, and showing little sign of use. One end of a string of bats has become detached. This would be easy to repair. 275 x 200 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches).

Fungus the Bogeyman is a character created by British artist Raymond Briggs. The story follows one day in the life of this fabulous character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. A fantastic pre-curser to the likes of Shrek!

Groningen: W. van Boekeren, 1836. First Edition. Hardback in embossed cloth boards. Engraved title page. Jan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur was a Dutch poet, writer, and translator. Sometimes his writing for children used under pseudonyms Oom Jan, or Jan de Rijmer. Boards a little faded to spine. Clean and fresh inside. iv, 164 [3] pages. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).

. Première édition. Couverture rigide en toile gaufrée. Page de titre gravée. Jan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur était un poète, écrivain et traducteur néerlandais. Ses écrits pour enfants sont parfois utilisés sous les pseudonymes Oom Jan ou Jan de Rijmer. Les planches sont un peu décolorées au niveau du dos. Intérieur propre et frais. iv, 164 [3] pages. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition. Hardback in quarter brown leather with buckram boards, with gilt title to spine. Complete. Boards are slightly rubbed. Internally the pages are darkened, and there is some foxing. Overall fair to good. 300 pages. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).

London: William Heinemann, 1891. First edition. In original brown waxed cloth, with gilt stamped title to front board and spine. Quote from the book:"There are men all through the civilised world to whom a book is a jewel - an individual possession of great price. I have been asked to gossip about my books, for I also am a bibliophile. But when I think of the
great collections of fine books, of the libraries of the magnificent, I do not know whether I dare admit any stranger to glance at mine." vii, 337 pp. 190 x 145 mm (7½ x 5¾ inches).

New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 173. Ex-library book, hardback in green cloth covered boards. Expected library marks and stamps. Cloth and closed page edges slightly darkened by smoke damage, but internally clean and in good condition. 440 pages. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).

. Première édition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 173. Livre sorti d'une bibliothèque, couverture rigide en toile verte. Marques et tampons de bibliothèque habituels. La toile et les bords des pages fermées sont légèrement assombris par la fumée, mais l'intérieur est propre et en bon état. 440 pages. 225 x 150 mm