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

UK,heavy 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork byJohn Ward,R.A],illustrated dw/dj,with subject's portrait by him to front with capitalised,black-lettered portion of title and other red-lettered remainder of same,and black-lettered Editor name credit,ubiquitous sunned/faded spine/ backstrip with similalrly coloured+lettered title as front with exception of red-lettered portion now faded to white and publisher's capitalised black lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with colour pictorial artwork illustration.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges generally bright,crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's… Read More

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,2nd edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,unclipped dw/dj. Colour,pictorial illustrated wrap-round artwork by Paul Nash dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to lower edge which has a sellotape, internally repaired,closed tear to foot of spine/ backstrip to upper wrap and internally sellotape repaired top edge which is slightly heavier creased with some closed nicks+tears - no loss though.Top+fore-edges generally clean,bottom edge coloured,contents bright,tight and clean.Beige paper-covered bds with a pale beige cloth blind spine with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and generally clean plain white eps.US,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,7-256pp includes half-title+title pages,b/w photograph illustrated contents list, preface,double-page contemporary b/w photograph to Chapter 1,10 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text,order of battle 13 August,a biblio,photograph credits,and an index.… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour photographic/pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj with gilt+white capitalised lettering to front and to a black spine/backstrip which has a slightly sunned/faded colour thumbnail detail from front cover,and author's b/w portrait photograph to rear panel respectively; and all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,rear panel of dw/dj with minimal indents - a couple through to board beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish and no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,would appear unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering… Read More

UK,12mo p/back revised edn,1st thus. [Originally and first published,(COLLINS,1975),UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,the PAN,UK p/back appearing in 1976.This issue, the PAN,12th printing (revised) edn with number line 29-24 descending,containing several sections of the original manuscript that were omitted from the published editions of the novel.The complete text of one of the classic,fictional war stories of WW2.] FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,black background illustrated front cover with gilt embossed German Eagle+black swastika on a red background, encircled by a gilt embossed wreath,white lettering and a gilt panel at top edge,with red-lettered 'THE SPECIAL EDITION' within,white-lettered spine/backstrip,white+gilt-lettered blurb to rear cover. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges - crease to lower edge of rear cover - but no nicks,tears or splits present and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and… Read More

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line .] NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,matt,multi montaged colour photographic images illustrated dw/dj,with capitalised white-lettered strap line to top edge,bronze embossed author's name and capitalised black-lettered title and the illustrator's name credit tp lower edge - all to front panel; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered author+title as the front, thumbnail colour photograph detail from front,and publisher's black-lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with capitalised,grey-lettered author credit and genesis of the fictional story plus tan lettered prose extract.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present - both head+foot of spine/backstrip with minimal bumping and reciprocal creases minimal creasing to top edges and to front's lower edge too. Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [ Originally and first published in the US,New York,byZiff-Davis Flying Books,1979.This particular UK,1st edn,was printed in the USA.] NFINE/VG+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,wrap-around,glossy,3 colour horizontal bands - red, white and navy blue,top to bottom respectively, background to dw/dj with 3 Squadrons colour illustrated heraldic badges: Eagle Sqdns 71,121 and 133 - astride the red+white bands with white-lettered strap-line,capitalised, gold colour-lettered part-title to white band and other white-lettered sub-title and author's name to navy blue band to dw/dj front; inevitable sunned/faded spine/ backstrip with red section almost white and lettering indisticnt,original gold coloured part title sunned but visible,blue section sunned to a lighter blue with white lettered publisher name as printed,rear panel of dw/dj with 3 coloured bands with black-lettered quote by Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant General,USAF (Ret.) Negligible shelf-wear,… Read More

UK,8vo wraps,no dw/dj,as issued,p/back original,1st edn. [True 1st edn.Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] VG++. No owner inscrptn,but reading creases to spine/backstrip.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges mildly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but generally clean; contents bright, tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,7-328pp [paginated] includes prologue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,and 18pp publisher's adverts to rear.The 4th Alex Rider novel, published as a paperback original. Relaxing in the South of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Pictorial,colour wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj by Peter North; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges, three corners minisculely rubbed and both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Unblemished,clean,royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and 3 colour block (blue,white and black) pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-124pp includes double-page,pictorial,colour illustrated title page,foreword by ACM Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris - Chairman,Battle of Britain Fighter Association,pictorial colour illustrations virtually to every page by Peter North,3pp glossary and 1pp bibliography. In June 1940,the German war machine stood poised on the French coast looking towards England.Hermann Goering,flushed with recent successes of his Luftwaffe,promised… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Pictorial,colour wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj by Peter North; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges,a laminate wrinkle to upper wrap and head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Unblemished,clean,royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and 3 colour block (blue,white and black] pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-124pp includes double-page,pictorial,colour illustrated title page,a foreword by ACM Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris - Chairman,Battle of Britain Fighter Association,pictorial, colour illustrations virtually to every page by Peter North,3pp glossary and 1pp bibliography. In June 1940, the German war machine stood… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy laminated,author colour+b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.No corners bumped and miniscule bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creases.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and pristine.Bright, clean black paper-covered boards with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,14-270pp includes half-title+title pages,a contents list,translator's notes,a foreword,17 chapters,16pp of 50 b/w contemporary photographs,between pp96/7 and 2pp blanks to rear. After more than forty years Hajo Herrmann,one of the best known Luftwaffe pilots of WWII has written his autobiography.With well over three hundred operational missions and with a tally of nine RAF bombers destroyed during mass attacks on Germany the author… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy laminated,author colour+b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.No corners bumped and miniscule bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creases.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally marked,fore-edge has couple light thumb marks; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 14-270pp includes half-title+title pages,a contents list, translator's notes,a foreword,17 chapters,16pp of 50 b/w contemporary photographs,between pp96/7. After more than forty years Hajo Herrmann,one of the best known Luftwaffe pilots of WWII has written his autobiography.With well over three hundred operational missions and with a tally of nine RAF bombers… Read More

UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally and first published in serial form in 1886 and was then first published in book form 'La Terre',PARIS,France in 1887.The first English edn/translation was published by Vitzelly & Co,LONDON in 1888,but were then prosecuted and fined for publishing and distributing the 'obscene' work.The only other English translation was the Lutetian Society's strictly limited circulation,in the last decade of the 19thC.Other Zola novels had expurgated translations,but this is the first complete English edition with translation by Ann Lindsay and with a preface by Angus Wilson, of this particular title,since.] VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no dw/dj.Fairly bright and clean with minor blemish,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip - corner tips minisculely rubbed; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.The top board with three small indent… Read More

UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.[First published (London) FABER & FABER,1965,uk 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.This first UK p/back 1st edn.] VG. Bright crisp,glossy colour pictorial artwork illustrated front cover with black+red letters, production wrinkles to spine - not reading creases; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,solid and sound, little text block edge-toning but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn,5-125pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and to the rear 2pp publisher advert.A sci-fi novel of overpopulation.Was war the only way of saving a degenerate, overpopulated world?Disease-ridden,overpopulated; robots and prison-gangs tending the bare,poison-drenched countryside; the people near starvation.This is the world Knowle Noland,ex-convict, ex-traveller,and captain of… Read More

UK,8vo wraps,1st edn,4th imp.[Each of the 4 volumes published separately in the UK,but not the USA,before making the one-volume title 'Four Quartets',at a later date (1944) - see rja400311.This is the 2nd volume of the four and this copy is a 1st edn,4th imp (1941) published a year after the 1st edn,which also had a 2nd and 3rd imp in the first year,and stapled as opposed to sewn in the first state of the 1st edn.] FINE/VG+.No owner inscptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pale beige dw/dj and black ink printed lettering to upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears, slight ageing/toning to edges and to spine/backstrip - as usual/ normal - and residue of coffee/tea-cup ring to top,left-hand corner of rear cover.Bright,clean cream card wraps; contents bright,tight,and near pristine with no foxing/spotting to pages,and clean,non-rusted staples internally.Top, bottom edges and first four fore-edges of the 4 signatures are trimmed,whilst the 4 following fore-edges are… 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,montage'd players' monochrome+colour photograph portraits+US Flag, illustrated front panel of dw/dj with dark blue,white and plae blue lettering to front,white+pale blue lettered spine/ backstrip also with thumbnail monochrome photographic detail from front illustration of Clive Charles,rear panel with b/w photograph of Clive Charles and white+blue lettered quote and attribution (Clyde Best); with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain… Read More

Russia,slim Qrto HB,1st edn.[Printed in Slovenia and distributed in Russia.English text] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued? Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,generally sharp-cornered,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+gilt 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, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered - miniscule dent to both bottom corners - with bright,crisp,white+gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain blue/green endpapers.Russia,slim Qrto HB,1st edn,4-95pp [paginated] includes English translation (the whole text) from the Russian by Aleksandr N. Natarov (pp4-15),remaining paginated pages with profuse colour photographic examples of ornamental eggs; plus [unpaginated] colour vignette illustrated title page,and a… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Assumed export edn/copy as there is no publisher's price to dw/dj,and would therefore precede UK trade 1st edn.Minimal shelf-wear and very light creasing to dw/dj edges.Black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain
white endpapers;and bottom front corner with a tiny bump.Top+fore-edges just starting to lightly age; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-339pp.
Fifteen year-old Nicky Snape is found hanging from the shower in a local authority home where he is awaiting trial for his involvement in a brutally violent burglary.Charlie Resnick,Nicky's arresting officer,knows the poor,working-class Snape family well,and suspects foul play,but the enquiry is farmed… Read More

UK,small,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Stated First Edition.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, pastel coloured pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman,illustrated dw/dj panels,with red+blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly toned and minimally dust-soiled with faint sporadic foxing/spotting but still fairly clean otherwise,fore- edges brighter and cleaner and without foxing or spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - 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 RAF blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,small,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 7-76pp [paginated] includes profuse part+full page b/w line illustrations by Michael… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally and first published in 1981 by David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd.,by the same author and republished in this edition.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip - absence of publisher's price - to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated, Dartmoor scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white lettering,black lettering to a white spine/backstrip; 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.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-248pp [paginated] includes forewords to each of the 1st and 2nd editions,Eden Phillpotts Memorial Volume,20 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w… Read More

UK,12mo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,paperback Original,1st edn.[Paperback Original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/ title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back Originals are published prior to any other format.] VG.No owner inscrptn,top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned. Pulp western fiction featuring EDGE. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight 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… Read More