FUNNYBONES
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg.
Stock no. 1831159
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1989. Very good condition.

A frightfully funny Hallowe'en classic tells the story of three skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton - who venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, only to find that everyone is in bed. Who will they scare now?! Yellow glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Not paginated. ISBN: 0434925039. 1" split to front edge of spine. Lower corners lightly bumped. Boards lightly scuffed. Remains of old label to rear board. Contents clean.

FUNNYBONES
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg.
Stock no. 1330647
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1980. Very good condition.

A frightfully funny Hallowe'en classic tells the story of three skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton - who venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, only to find that everyone is in bed. Who will they scare now?! Yellow glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Not paginated. ISBN: 0434925039. Slight bumping to spine and corners. A few light scoremarks to covers. Contents clean. A nice copy of a scarce book.

OLD RAIGER AND OTHER VERSE
Written by John Masefield.
Stock no. 1830278
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Poet Laureate's first collection of verse since 1961 contains twelve pieces of varying subject, mood and length. All of them reflect Dr Masefield's lifelong delight in nature, the English countryside an its characters, in history, in the sea and the ships that sail upon it, he is able to bring his memories of earlier days to bear upon an event of rare interest to younger readers. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 73 pages. Neat name in ink to front endpaper. Foxspot to vertical edge of prelims. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine and very slightly edge-worn with a few tiny closed tears.

THE HIROSHIMA PILOT
Written by William Bradford Huie.
Stock no. 1829525
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Claude Eatherly was the pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Since then, he has been almost constantly under psychiatric care. He is said to have blamed himself for "killing 100,000 innocent people", and to have sought punishment by committing a series of bizarre crimes. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 299 pages. Foxing to text block and prelims, endpapers lightly browned. Dustwrapper is edge-rubbed with slight loss, and scuffed.

THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG
Written by Richard Wagner. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1328450
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st thus 1939. Good condition.

A Trilogy With A Prelude By Richard Wagner. 2 Volumes in 1: The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie; Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, originally published in 1910 and 1911. 48 dramatic colour plates and b/w decorations. Blue cloth, black titles. Green/white pictorial endpapers. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly rubbed. Damp spotting to cover edges. Small splash mark to lower edge of front cover. Foxing to contents.

THE DAY JEAN-PIERRE WENT ROUND THE WORLD
Written by Paul Gallico. Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi.
Stock no. 1328374
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Exciting adventures of a guinea-pig. Colour pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. Small mark to title-page (from erasure of old pencil price), light foxing to top edge of textblock otherwise a fine copy. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed with slight browning to spine.

CONVERSATIONS WITH MENUHIN
Written by David Dubal.
Stock no. 1327921
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Celebration on His 75th Birthday. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Conversations from different meetings with Musician Yehudi Menuhin. ISBN: 0434216747. SIGNED by Menuhin to half title-page (to Frank). Reprint in same year as first edition. Light vertical marks to edge of front cover. Pages are browned with some light foxing. Dustwrapper is lightly edge rubbed and sunned to spine.

RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1323387
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Reset edition. a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Green cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. 50 colour plates (printed both sides of the page) plus colour frontis. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Tiny white mark to top edge of front cover. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss and a little faded to spine.

SPOT GOES ON HOLIDAY
Written by Eric Hill. Illustrated by Eric Hill.
Stock no. 2140565
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1ST 1985. Very good condition.

Square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Lift-the-Flap to find the answer! ISBN: 043494260X. Browning to edge of front cover. All lift-the-flaps in very good working order.

TURNER'S HUMAN LANDSCAPE
Written by Eric Shanes. Illustrated by J.M.W. Turner; Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Stock no. 1322120
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 382 pages. A mass of information on the historical and artistic influences on Turner. ISBN: 0434695025. Spine slightly bumped. Price-cut wrapper is just a little creased at top edges.

OLD MANOR HOUSES
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1319359
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

12 tissue-guarded colour plates plus tinted illustrations. Colour pictorial endpapers. Grey cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby with a few light marks. Front joint cracked, rear joint just starting to crack. Some light foxing and fingering but contents generally clean.

ARTHUR RACKHAM HIS LIFE AND WORK
Written by Derek Hudson. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1318099
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1976. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An introduction to the man behind the work with comments on his technique and achievements. Bibliography at rear. Re-issued with a revised checklist of Rackham's work. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Colour tipped-in plates and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0434353507. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Old price written in biro to top corner of front free-endpaper (crossed out with pencil). Damp stains to lower corners of first 12 pages. Small mark to page 153/154. Dustwrapper is edge-worn with tape repairs and a few small chips, spine is fadded/sunned.