The BFG. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Pp, 224. Pale cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s pictorial jacket. Jacket price-clipped, contents pages age-tone as usual, front inner hinge scuffed along gutter.

The gruesome descriptions of the horrid giants and the subtle allusions to other stories was the basis for the 2016 film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg.