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!

London: William Heinemann, 1905. First edition. This novel was turned in to a (now lost) silent film in 1920. Bound in green cloth, with black and silver decoration to the front. Silver title to spine. 368 pages. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
Elizabeth Robins was an American actor, playwright, novelist, and important suffragette. For a time Robins wrote under the name C. E. Raimond in an attempt to keep her acting and writing careers separate. Covers lightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded. Prelims are moderately foxed, page edges also. Otherwise a good copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Signed gift inscription from the author. First edition. Green cloth boards, with illustrated vignette and gilt decorations to the front. Gilt title and decorations to the spine. Charming story, with b/w illustrations throughout. 200 x 150 mm (7¾ x 6 inches). Boards are a little bumped and rubbed. Light soiling. Page edges are toned, and prelims have some light foxing. Overall a good signed copy.

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).

New York: Dover Publications, INC, 1972. First thus. Softback book of 152 pages, mainly satirical and erotic b/w illustrations. In a very good condition, with minimal sign of handling. Closed page edges have blue ink to top - pages themselves not affected. 175 x 215 mm (7 x 8½ inches).

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, 1905. First edition. Second impression. Red cloth boards with gilt stamped title and decoration. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece, plus nine other colour plates illustrated by George Wright. Signed and dedicated by the author to the FFEP, dated 1909. Boards lightly bumped to edges. Pages and tissue age toned, with some foxing. 224 pages + publishers advertisements. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. First UK edition. Publisher's red cloth. In an unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches). Both book and dust jacket in a very good / near fine condition. The preceding books are: 'A Family Affair' and 'Death at the Chase', in which Bobby Appleby played only a minor part. This time he does most of the detecting; and even finds the corpse!

London: G.P. Putnam's, 1912. Scarce First Edition in dust wrapper. Signed to the front end paper by the author, and dated April 1914. Olive green wrapper with coloured vignette to the front of the wrapper, adverts for Putnam fiction to the rear. The author's first novel.
Wrapper is clean, but with a little chipping to the edges, and with a touch of loss to the head and tail of the spine. The boards of the book are spotless, with just a touch of bumping to the edges. Internally clean and tidy, with a little foxing to the end papers. 376, iv pages. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).

London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1892. First edition. Brown cloth binding with gold and silver blocked design and titles to front. Fully illustrated with charming chromolithographs, some full-page. All edges gilt. Boards a little bumped and scuffed, pages age toned and with some foxing, but overall in good shape. Features poems by (among others) Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Shelley, Weatherly, and Gilbert.40 pp. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1965. First edition. Cream decorated cloth with gilt titles. Plastic protective covering. The plastic has a couple of closed tears to it. The book is in Fine condition inside and out. X. 108. pages. 225 by 145mm (8¾ by 5¾ inches).

London: W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth bound first edition. Binding is an Art Deco design by Dulac. Slightly darkened, but no significant marking. Fading to spine. Internally sound with foxing to end papers. 252 pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).

London: Richard Bentley, 1840. Original dark green blind stamped buckram, with gilt design to the front board. Gilt is rather rubbed. Bumping and a touch of chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally clean, but slightly darkened with a few foxing spots. A nice, unrestored copy. 228 pages. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).

London: Turret Books, 1968. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Signed in ink to title page by Sillitoe. With the original gilt printed dust jacket, in green boards with title to spine in gilt. The dust jacket is faded to edges and spine. A small closed tear to the dust jacket on the top of the front cover. The extremities of the jacket are rubbed and nicked. Bookplate tipped-in to FFEP. Boards clean and bright. Internally appears unread / fine. 38 pp. 235 x 155 mm (9¼ x 6 inches).

London: W. H. Allen, 1960. First edition, first impression. With the original dust jacket, in green boards with title to spine in gilt. Signed in ink to title page by Sillitoe. The dust jacket is darkened to top on both front and back, and spine is darkened with small closed tear to the head. The extremities are rubbed and nicked. Bookplate tipped-in to FFEP. Rubbed to verso of title - appears to be where a reference number has been removed. Page 24 has once been torn and repaired. 111 pp. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).

London: Gollancz, 2003. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches). 421 pages

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 230 by 140mm (9 by 5½ inches). 309 pages.

Knotting: Martin Booth, 1980. Small square octavo, in beige card. Stapled. Three poems. One of 125 copies - the first 50 of which were signed. This is # 55. Unpaginated. A near fine copy - no fading, tight binding, no inscriptions. 8 pp. 165 x 165 mm (6½ x 6½ inches).