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    Lilliput [v40 #5, #239, May 1957] (2/-, 80pp, octavo, cover photo)
    • 4 · Espress-Oh! · Lemuel Gulliver · cl
    • 9 · Late in the Season · John Inglis Hall · ss
    • 17 · Getting in the Groove at Indianapolis · William Boddy · ar
    • 20 · Cat Nipped · Jack Schaefer · ss The Pioneers, Houghton Mifflin 1954; western.
    • 29 · Zoo Keeper · David Langdon · hu; cartoons.
    • 31 · Morry Freeman’s Concert Grand · Charles Raven · ar
    • 36 · The Trouble with Tame Tigers · Roman Proske · ex (r); from My Turn Next.
    • 37 · The Toughest Fighting Man Ever? · Roderick Milton · ar; about the Roman army.
    • 43 · Fiendish in the Pit · Ronald Duncan · ss
    • 46 · A Man and His Cricket · Graham · hu; cartoon sequence.
    • 48 · Keep your Passions half a yard apart · Richard Lane · ar; about Harry and Alfred Wheatcroft.
    • 52 · Outlaws of Cyprus · Gibson Cowan · ss
    • 59 · Good Books Lately · [Various] · br
    • 61 · The Ballistics of Golf · John Stobbs · ar

    Lilliput [v40 #6, #240, June 1957] (2/-, 80pp, octavo, cover photo)

    Lilliput [v42 #1, #247, January 1958] (2/-, 72pp, octavo, cover photo)
    (Down to 72 pages).

    Lilliput [v42 #3, #249, March 1958] (2/-, 80pp, octavo, cover photo)
    Magazine has a facelift. Now all on glossy paper and slight increase to 80pp. Most of the old features remain though pepped up with more photos, but the Gulliver column has gone and replaced by a series of guest writers starting with Alex Atkinson.

    Lilliput [v42 #4, #250, April 1958] (2/-, 80pp, octavo, cover photo)
    • 4 · Home, Sweet Home · William Sansom · ar
    • 11 · Hi-Fi and Low-Down · Woodrow Wyatt · cl; record reviews.
    • 12 · The Private Life of Public Relations · John Prebble · ar
    • 18 · A Is Your Rohrschach showing? · Psychiatrist · ar; analysis of ink-blot interpretations by nine celebrities including Peter Cushing, Mike Hawthorn and Bud Planagan.
    • 21 · Protective Custody · Francis Fytton · ss
    • 24 · Profile of the Establishment · Henry Fairlie · ar
    • 34 · How Cornish Morry beat the book · Charles Raven · ar
    • 38 · Field Day · John Moore · ar; true school stories #2.
    • 40 · Their Kind of Woman · Raymond Bennett · pi
    • 43 · A Man in the Spring · Graham · hu; cartoon sequence.
    • 45 · Kicked any good cripples lately? · Alex Atkinson · ar
    • 56 · Slaughter in the Sun · John Curtis · ar; about Rorke’s Drift.
    • 61 · Elephantasies · Hoffman · ct
    • 62 · Bottling Your Own Wine · Raymond Postgate · cl; food column.
    • 64 · Good Books Lately · [Various] · br

    Lilliput [v42 #5, #251, May 1958] (2/-, 80pp, octavo, cover photo)
    • 2 · Hi-Fi and Low-Down · Richard Gordon · cl; record reviews.
    • 4 · Rich Uncle in St. James’s Street · Maurice Edelman · ar
    • 12 · The Spades Dig In · Samuel Selvon · ar; a long and very un-pc survey of west Indians settling in Britain.
    • 18 · The (Not So) Blissful State of Hypomania · Paul Cross · ar
    • 21 · The Headpiece · Ray Bradbury · ss
    • 24 · Night and Day in Greenwich Village · Alan Brien · ar
    • 28 · Private: State · Anon. · pi; a pictorial comparison with brief commentary of public vs state schools.
    • 34 · The Compleat Con-Man · Charles Raven · ar
    • 37 · A Man on a Cruise · Graham · hu; cartoon sequence.
    • 38 · Ending It All · Francis Williams · ar; true school stories #3.
    • 40 · The Language of Love · Arnold L. Haskell · ar; about eroticism in dance.
    • 44 · Inside Wolf · Robert Muller · ar; about Wolf Mankowitz.
    • 46 · The Poisoner who got away · Julian Symons · ar; about a triple murder in Croydon in 1928.
    • 58 · Claret Keeps out of the Red · Raymond Postgate · cl
    • 60 · Death Factor in Road Racing · Piero Taruffi & A. E. Hotchner · ar
    • 64 · Good Books Lately · [Various] · br

    Lilliput [v42 #6, #252, June 1958] (2/-, 80pp, octavo, cover photo)
    From this issue all the fashion, food, motoring, handyman and other commercial advice, plus reviews are shunted to a “Service Section” in the latter third of the magazine and I’ll no longer list any of these unless something unusual pops up.

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