Search Results: Titles starting with B from R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn. FINE+.No owner inscrptn and absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, glossy/glazed,wrap-around blue background with colour pictorial illustrated paper-covered card boards with capitalised b/w lettered title and publisher's name to front board,rear board with colour illustration and black lettered publisher's details; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Front cover illustration of Jemima holding a tray with cups and a teapot on it with Big ted,Little Ted and Hamble sitting on the grass in front of Jemima. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 50 tyear-old age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral pop-up book.It really is an exceptional example for its cleanliness, brightness and undamaged… Read More

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.[Jean de Brunhoff,author-illustrator,best known as the creator of Babar the Elephant.Following his death in 1937,the series was continued by his son,Laurent.This edn translated from the French by Olive Jones.] VG+.No owner inscrptn and no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Laurent de Brunhoff,illustrated front bd,with black+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - but inevitable scoring and impressions to both boards.Generally sharp-cornered - only the two bottom corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original boards with bright,crisp,ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate… Read More

US,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued(?),1st edn.VG+.Qrto, pictorial colour, laminated bds.Owner inscrptn,lightly scored(?) feps,colour illus.Corners slightly bumped,rubbed.Generally and overall,a very very nice copy. LAURENT son of JEAN,took over the series after his father who died in 1937. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is… Read More

US,slim,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around sky blue background with colour pictorial artwork by Laurent de Brunhoff,illustrated elephant figures in various Yoga positions to either panel of dw/dj;capitalised white-lettered author credit, capitalised,black outlined red-lettered BABAR and capitalised,white-lettered YOGA and other white-lettered remainder of title; yellow spine/backstrip with black-lettered author surname; red+blue lettered title,miniature colour illustrated elephant figures,and publisher's black lettered name with a coloured colophon to foot of same, rear panel with 8 coloured figures of an elephant in different Yoga positions. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp,clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,blue+black wrap- around photographic illustrated dw/dj,with blue+white lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing is to top edges of dw/dj.Top edges generally bright and clean with minimal ageing/toning, fore- edges similar and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.The book has a slight lean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, xpp+1-323pp [paginated] includes a dedication with pagination to it's recto,a Beforehand+29 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title page, double page advert for author's other… Read More

UK,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Pink,colour illustrated dw/dj by Bob Graham; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges.Top edge lightly creased with lightly bumped corners and head of spine/backstrip with minimal creasing; the bottom front corner has a tiny,tiny closed tear with no loss.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged as usual/normal but generally clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine.Unblemished plain grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pink endpapers.UK,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn (approx 9" tall x 8" wide),v-xvppi+2-143pp includes half-title and b/w illustrated title page,b/w line illustrated frntis,contents list,foreword by Iona Opie,profuse b/w line illustrations by Bob Graham, notes and author index.… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with silver gilt and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,so appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain pale yellow endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-223pp [paginated] includes complete novel without chapter pagination; plus [also unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 10pp blanks at the rear of the book. When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a… Read More

UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.[First UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn by DOBSON BOOKS LTD.,1968.This edn stated FIRST NEL PAPERBACK EDITION MAY,1975.] VG-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Colour pictorial front cover with white+yellow letters,rubbed black spine with white letters and pale blue,last 5 numbers of ISBN at foot and with reding creases,rear cover with white and pale blue lettered partial author.contribs list and publisher blurb; with moderate shelf-wear,creasing and rubbing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.All edges aged/toned with some spotting and blemish; contents tight and clean with some minimal page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - carefully read.UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn,includes an Editor's introduction,13 short stories by assorted sci-fi authors; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages - dedication to Kingsley Amis to reverse of title page,separate contents and acknowledgements pages and to the rear 4pp publisher's adverts.… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,revised,3rd edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,pinkish background with black illustration illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black lettering,rear panel with publisher's advert for other titles; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - front top corner with a small closed tear.Top+fore- edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain brown cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,revised 3rd edn,5-118pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,XI (11) chapters and a glossary,41 black+grey diagrams/illustrations,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with explanatory text,title… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj, with silver gilt,red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-484pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,and 4pp blanks at rear. It is late at night on a notorious council estate in east London.A van - garishly painted with a grinning clown's face on the side - is being driven erratically. When the police pull… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.B/w pictorial illustrated upper wrap,b/w author portrait photographic rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges,with no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and clean.Green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white eps with residue of a tiny label to top corner of ffe.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+ 1-275pp. Jack Rogers is the kind of boy that any parents would be proud to call their son.In many ways,for Lee and Lydia Rogers,he makes life worthwhile as they struggle to keep their Montana ranch a… Read More

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published (1896) children's poems,with Basil Temple Blackwood (B.T.B.) as the illustrator.] FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear board. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,glazed,colour pictorial artwork by Tony Ross,illustrated boards with capitalised,black-lettered title,author and illustrator names to front board; blue spine/backstrip with black-lettered author+illustrator names,capitalised,black-lettered title and publisher's black illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with colour pictorial illustration,and immaculate pale grey endpapers with a 3-colour block (b/w+grey) illustration of of Polar bear removing its outer fur over the course of the those sets of endpapers. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present but some minimal,superficial indent to rear boards,top edge,rear top corner - else virtually scoring/indent… Read More

UK,slim,landscape Qrto (approx. 11.1/2" x 10") HB+dw/dj, illustrated 1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork illustration by Axel Scheffler,illustrated dw/dj with dark blue lettered title and author+illustrator capitalised,black-lettered names in a black illustrated bordered silver gilt panel at lower edge,with an adhesive,white background with colour illustration and capitalised,black lettered credit of 'BY THE CREATORS OF THE GRUFFALO' to a roundel - all to front of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with blue and white polka dot bands at its head and foot,a red central strip withwhite-lettered title,capitalised,yellow-lettered author+illustrators' surnames with thumbnail colour muhroom illustrations separating title from author 's surname and author surname from illustrator surname, and publisher's white illustrated colophon at the foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Previously published by LANDFORD (UK),1983.] FINE/FINE.8vo,208pp,b/w+colour plates. German badge+insignia during THIRD REICH.Use extended to not only military armed forces but to paramilitary formations,political organisations and extensive use by almost all admin+ancillary uniformed groups. Divided into 11 main categories;covering personnel of 64 different uniformed organisations/formations.Apart from well known forces; ARMED - SS et al, to obscure but equally fascinating personnel as TECHNICAL STUD SERVICE of PRUSSIA, WATERWAYS AIR RAID PROTECTION SERVICE. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,reprint.[UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn first and originally published 1973 (with b/w illustrations) by M.J. Hobbs/Michael Joseph, LONDON. VIRGIN,this publisher's,original edition in this format was first published in 2000,as a 1st edn thus.Republished in same format in 2007,as this edition/example.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Dw/dj design repeated to publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original glazed boards with bright,crisp,ink printed lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,reprint,1-59pp [paginated] includes continuous… Read More

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour photograph with glossy,Islamic-style decorative border frame to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,embossed gilt-lettered title,capitalised, embossed,white-lettered author name and other flat printed, lettered strap line; spine/backstrip with white coloured+lettered title+author name and publisher's white lettered+illustrated colophon to head of same,rear panel illustrated with a regional railway map of Mesopotamia,Summer 1917. Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges bright,crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain dark… Read More

UK,square Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn. Colour pictorial illustrated glazed,laminated bds; with negligible shelf-wear,rubbing or bumping to edges or corners and immaculate plain pale blue eps.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] includes half-title and colour vignette illustrated title page,5 double-page,full-page,full-colour illustrations and all other single page illustrations - all by Posy Simmonds. The delightful tale of a beastly baker,a hard-working cat and a rabble of rude and frisky mice. . . . Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds (b.9/8/1945) is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books.Born in Berkshire and educated at a boarding school,the Sorbonne and studied at the Central School of Art & Design,London.She is best known for her long association with The Guardian,for… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork,by Larry Rostant,illustrated dw/dj panels with glossy white and fluorescent/metallic blue gilt title lettering to front+spine/backstrip,rear panel with critics' reviews of authour's previous KYDD novels; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present - minimal bumping to foot of spine.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – pristine - unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked fluorescent/metallic blue gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xipp+1-401pp [paginated] includes… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but neat,handwritten,black ink author signature - without dedication - to verso of ffe,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's bright, clean,unblemished0,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,7-160pp [paginated] includes foreword (by Eric Jones,cameraman in 2nd balloon),9 chapters+ epilogue,profuse contemporary glossy, colour scenic photographs/photography throughout the text and the book,an appendix [on photography],acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] scenic colour photograph vignetted half-title,double-page… Read More

UK,8vo slim HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.NFINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,with capitalised,black-lettered part-title,other black-lettered sub-title and author's name; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title+author name and publisher's capitalised,black-lettered and b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with continuation of illustration and without any text. Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present and minimal,superficial scoring/indent to either panel - none with penetration to boards beneath.. Top edges minimally and sporadically dust-flecked,fore-edges clean with one blemish but without other foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight and clean top edges of all 4 sets of b/w photographs were once stuck but are now unstuck with some minimal loss mainly to top unstuck edges - photographs largely unaffected - no… Read More