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: Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd: 1945. Signed. Original pale green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front board. Cream paper wrapper, with titles and a woodcut of snow drops to the front cover. Warm gift inscription from the author to the Bridgettine community of Syon Abbey. 48 pages. Captain Jack (John Newman) Gilbey b.1888 was the older brother of Alfred Newman Gilbey, RC priest and long-time Catholic chaplain of Cambridge University. He was the author of several collections of devotional poetry.

London: K.S. Bhat: 1931. Red cloth with gilt titles and design to the front cover. #97/300 (of a total edition of 350). One of a series of four anthologies of poetry and fiction published by Bhat in 1931-32. The contibutors include T F Powys, Oswell Blakeston, Laurence Powys, John Gawsworth and Rhys Davies. 225 by 150mm (8¾ by 6 inches). Good clean condition, with a touch of fading to the spine. Internally clean and tidy, with fractional darkening to the page edges. 62 pp

Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey Press, 1954. First edition. Salmon pink paper covers. Perfect bound. Cream paper. Very nice condition. The pink covers are clean and tidy, with a touch of handling, and a little fading to the spine only. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Several of the pieces had previously appeared in the Catholic Gazette, the Catholic Times and the Irish Rosary. As expected, many of the poems are expressing Roman Catholic beliefs, but others are quite light-hearted (such as "To a pair of Golden Slippers". 32 pages. .

Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd, 1898. First edition. Hardback. Portrait frontispiece pasted down to the front end paper (looks as if this is to hide a gift inscription to the verso of the end paper). Inside front board there is a label from the Library of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh, Devon. Four plates. Original blue printed and bevelled cloth, uncut, leaf-patterned end papers, a bit of foxing to the ends, else a very good copy. vii, (i), 160 pp.

London: Raphael Tuck & Son, 1900. First edition. Unusual oval shaped lithographed covers - depicting a straw hat, some flowers, straw and a sickle. A good example. Comprising ten poems, each with a charming illustration on the facing page, and a vignette border. Front cover was most likely once detached, but has been very nicely repaired. Signs of a crease on front, now flat and neat. Undated. Circa 1900. 215 x 160 mm (8½ x 6¼ inches).

london: Survivors' Press, 2006. First Edition. A collection of poetry, produced as part of "Survivors' Poetry" a mental health charity to promote writing. Clean dust wrapper, with a little marking to the front cover only. White soft covers are spotless. Inside, the work is also spotless. 38 pages. 210 by 150mm (8¼ by 6 inches)

. Première édition. Un recueil de poèmes, produit dans le cadre de "Survivors' Poetry", une organisation caritative de santé mentale visant à promouvoir l'écriture. La jaquette est propre, avec une petite marque sur la couverture avant seulement. Les couvertures souples blanches sont impeccables. A l'intérieur, l'ouvrage est également impeccable. 38 pages. 210 x 150 mm

London: Oxford University Press, 1972. In pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Dust jacket is price clipped. Book is in a very good condition, and appears virtually unread. 95 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1855. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, decorated and lettered gilt. All edges gilt. Frontispiece by Alfred Crowquill, decorative title page and numerous illustrations through the text by Richard Doyle, Alfred Crowquill and John Leech. A handsomely illustrated book of verse, first published in 1849. 180 by 140mm (7 by 5½ inches). 254, [x ads]. pp

London: Thomas Miller, 1841. First edition. Green cloth binding, with beautiful embossed elaborate gold decoration. Scarce in this original edition. With title vignette and sixteen other steel vignettes. All gilt is bright and attractive. Spine is sun faded, and has some wear to the head and tail. Internally very good, binding is a little loose, but holding. A few spots of foxing throughout. [6] + 148 pp. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1955. UK first edition, first impression. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is still bright, but has some very light signs of handling. Some small areas of loss. Head of the spine in particular. Inside the book is crisp and spotless, except for the following: over what was once the details of how to inquire about performance rights of the the play, there is a label reading Eric Glass Ltd. 110 [1] pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).

London: Aldine House, 1898. Blue cloth with gilt copy of the title page. In excellent condition. Printed in brown ink, with plates and vignettes by Brock throughout. Intermittent foxing else very good. Part of the Illustrated English Poems series. 50 pages. 210 x 160 mm (8¼ x 6¼ inches).

Oxford: The Fantasy Press, 1954. Limited Edition. This is copy #15 of 170. Set by hand in 10 point Bembo type and printed on Antique Laid paper. The elegant full-page line drawings in red ink are by Oscar Mellor.
Hardback in blue illustrated cloth, with silver figure to front board and silver titles to spine. In original plain tissue paper dust jacket. Book is in a fine condition, and dust jacket is in a very good / fine condition with just very small 'nicks' to top edge [iv], 112 pp. 215 x 130 mm (8½ x 5 inches).

London: Ward, Lock and Co. Attractively decorated hardback boards. Floral inlay to front board. No date. Circa 1872. 12 coloured illustrations by the Leighton Brothers. An unusual book. Pagination starts from page 49, as does the contents list. So pages are numbered 49 - 92. Clearly complete in itself, and too large for a sample. Perhaps this was intended as part of a larger work? It appears to comprise half of the only similar copy we can find (which has 92 pages and 24 plates but clearly a different title page and frontis). We can find no other similar online. See photos. Beautiful Leighton Brothers illustrations. 285 x 210 mm (11¼ x 8¼ inches).

Edinburgh / London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1905. First edition of Alfred Noyes' third volume of poetry. Green cloth cover with gilt stamped decoration to front board, and gilt title to spine. Boards are neat and clean. Inside the pages have some foxing to the very edges, otherwise all clean and neat. 99 pages. 195 by 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).

Manchester / Plumstead, South Africa: Carcanet Press / Snailpress, 1995. Signed by the author to the title page. First edition. Original softback. Poetry. As new condition. 64 pages. 215 by 135mm (8½ by 5¼ inches).

Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1879. The seventh volume of this Catholic & Literary monthly magazine. The magazine was founded by Rev. Matthew Russell, S.J., (1834-1912), who was the editor for almost forty years. Green cloth, with gilt and black titles and design (a harp and title in Celtic style to the front board of each volume). Stories, poems and essays. Good condition with just a little nicking / edgewear. Slight foxing to the pages. Contains the bookplate of the Library of Syon Abbey in Chudleigh - the Brigittine Monastery.