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

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. VG/VG. Owner inked name+date to front free endpaper but no price-clip to dw/dj.Graduated dark grey colour (sea/ skyscape?) background illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white silhouette lined illustration of subject battleship and red-lettered part-title and black-lettered author name, spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title +author name as front panel and publisher's white-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel with white background with age-acquired foxing/spotting and critics' black-lettered reviews of Roskill's two-volume'd 'Official History of the War at Sea.' Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no major nicks,tears or splits present - though both headfoot of spine with miniscule chipping and reciprocal creases. Top edges aged/toned with dust-flecking spots,fore-edges brighter but sporadically foxed/spotted; contents bright,tight,clean and solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour,portrait photograph to upper wrap with red and white letters,white letters to spine/backstrip.Minimal shelf-wear and light creasing to top and bottom edges with no nicks or tears.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled and fore-edge clean with contents near pristine.Black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi+1-192pp includes foreword,12pp b/w photographs between pp82/83. Nigel Dempster,doyen of the gossip columnists,reveals the true Princess Margaret - her life,her loves and her sorrows.Princess Margaret is the most controversial - and therefore the most intriguing - member of the Royal Family.Loved for her beauty and wit,criticized for her widely-publicized emotional entanglements,she has lived her entire life in the shadow of her elder sister.But whatever… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Tom Adams,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with capitalised gilt lettered author name and other b/w lettering (title etc),red spine/backstrip with gilt lettered author name and white lettered title and publisher,rear panel with yellow background and red+black lettered critics' reviews and some light and heavier scoring but without adversely affecting the board beneath.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned but with minimal,light and sporadic blemishes; contents bright,tight,text body clean even with page-edge toning,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – possibly unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Mike Roffe,illustrated front panel and spine of dw/dj with black lettering,rear panel with list of author's other titles in the series; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges very lightly toned,but clean and without any foxing/spotting,fore-edges brighter and similarly clean with minimal page-edge toning internally; 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 dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-184pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Murder and chicanery involving a… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy,crisp,colour photographic upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear or creases - no nicks or tears present - and no bumped corners.Top+fore-edges both bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Unblemished,plain,purple paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,3-440pp includes half-title+title pages,25 chapters and an epilogue. In the halls of justice,the only justice is in the halls.Diane and Lisa Pierman,prominent professional identical twin sisters,are barbarically assaulted by an arrogant gangster.Prosecutor Sal Milano,who harbours an unspoken desire for Diane,handles the case personally,fiercely determined to bring it to a swift end.But… Read More

LONDON.HAMLYN,1997.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,glossy, laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/d;j with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Minisculely bumped with miniscule, with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip and only one corner minisculely bumped.Top+ fore-edges bright and pristine; contents bright,tight and pristine. Unblemished,charcoal-grey paper-covered bds with white ink printed letters+knot silhouette to upper bd+spine/backstrip with immaculate,t wo-colour knot photographic eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-160pp includes double-page two-tone colour knot photographic half-title+title pages,contents list/table,directory of knots,author introduction,5 chapters/sections each with double- page monochrome photographic separators,profuse two-colour diagrams,a glossary,a biblio,the international Guild of Knot Tyers and an index.… Read More

LONDON.HAMLYN,1997.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,glossy,
laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/d;j with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Minisculely bumped with miniscule, with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip and only one corner minisculely bumped.Top+ fore-edges bright and pristine; contents bright,tight and pristine. Unblemished,charcoal-grey paper-covered bds with white ink printed letters+knot silhouette to upper bd+spine/backstrip with immaculate,t wo-colour knot photographic eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-160pp includes double-page two-tone colour knot photographic half-title+title pages,contents list/table,directory of knots,author introduction,5 chapters/sections each with double- page monochrome photographic separators,profuse two-colour diagrams,a glossary,a biblio,the international Guild of Knot Tyers and an index.… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
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UK,slim,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - no publisher price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial oval-vignetted upper wrap,printer's device to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges.Dw/dj's bottom corner to upper bd has an internal sellotape repair/strengthening to small closed tear,no other corners affected.Front inner flap of dw/dj has a vertical crease towards it's outer edge - the only two faults to the dw/dj.Top+fore -edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright, clean,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt HBC monogram to upper bd and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate pink eps.UK,slim,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,64pp [unpaginated] includes b/w vignette illustrated half-title page,verso of which has an oval colour pictorial vignetted frntis,b/w line illustrated title page,33 colour illus,31 of which are colour plates - all by… Read More

UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally,first published UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,by Andre Deutsch, (London),1961.This the first UK p/back edn.] VG. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from thin card cover. Bright,clean,subject b/w portrait photographic front with pale blue+yellow lettering, blue+white lettering with SH1254 and publisher's logo to black ground spine/backstrip,rear cover with subject's montage'd monochrome portrait photographs; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - rear top+bottom corners tips with miniscule dog-ear crease.Small abrasions to front cover,spine reading creases and some minimal rubbing to same's edges.All edges browned except for white edges of photograph plates; contents bright,tight and generally clean - minimal page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - carefully read. UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn,7-62pp [paginated] includes an introduction in script format,four TV scripts,32pp subject-related b/w… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Serialised in abridged form in the UK, 'Woman's Journal',April - July 1962,in the same year as the book's first unabridged publication.] NFINE/VG. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt,mauve background to front+spine with pinkish-red lettered author name,pale blue capitalised title and black-lettered capitalised 'Crime Club Choice' to front panel's colour design by Kenneth Farnell,illustrated dw/dj,with repeated colour design+ colour lettering to spine/backstrip,and a white background with light grubbing and sporadic foxing/spotting rear panel with critics' black-lettered reviews of author's 'FALSE SCENT' novel respectively; with some negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners.Small closed tears,chipping to both head+ foot of spine/backstrip and to same's rear gutter's fold/crease with some minimal paper loss,all corner tips of dw/dj with miniscule rubbing and reciprocal paper loss – but no other major nicks,tears or splits… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,2nd edn,facsimile reprint. [The true 1st edn, 1871 by publishers Heard and Sons,Truro: and Longmans, Green,Reader and Dyer,London.A 2nd edition,with addenda,was published in 1892.This edn,1969,is a facsimile reprint of that later edn,so 1st thus.] VG+/VG.An ex-public library example,so no owner inscrptn,but the usual alpha-numerical library notation to recto of title page,a Plymouth Public Library black ink stamp to bottom edges of pages and ink numerical notation to foot of spine/backstrip of protected dw/dj.Residue of removed library's card docket and the tipped-in withdrawn+returned history page, to front pastedown and ffe.Part of the dw/dj's precis has been pasted to recto of ffe and the remainder of the dw/dj has had it's front+rear inner flaps trimmed and removed and discarded and the dw/dj has then been sealed to the bds,beneath the eps,in clear plastic/polythene.Bright,clean,silver background with blue ink illustrations of 2 crystals to upper panel of dw/dj,with blue ink… Read More

UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn. VG+. Owner's neat handwritten,blue ink initials and contempraneous date (10.5.49) to top,left-hand corner of front free endpaper.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain airforce blue cloth boards with black lettering to front+spine; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present,moderate and light foxing to white endpapers.Top edges with inevitable but light faint, sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges similar but slightly darker foxing; contents bright,tight and generally clean,most internal foxing mainly to prelims,i.e half-title+title pages+contents list/table.UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,v-vipp+7-271pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,27 chapters; plus [unpaginated] foxed half-title+title pages.Gerard Fairlie (b. 1899) a British thriller writer who produced some exciting tales of international crime and espionage,including series characters Victor Caryll and Johnny Macall,but whose principal claim to… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - price to rear panel of dw/dj - but a residual 'ghost' of an absent adhesive label with no printed price beneneath it to front inner flap.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around black background with colour photograph of hangman's rope noose to front of dw/dj,with capitalised red-lettered part-title and other white-lettered sub-title and authors' names in capitalised, white-lettering to front panel; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+authors' names as the front,and publisher's capitalised,red-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel with subject's b/w portrait photograph. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present intact and complete. Top edges with merest hint of dust-flecking but no foxing/spotting,fore-edges bright,crisp and clean also without any 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 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn per se,but owner bookplate pasted to ffe,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated dw/dj with red+gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Scattering of some minimal,superficial,light scoring+indent - all without penetration and without affecting the boards beneath.Top edges faintly and sporadically dust-soiled with faint residue of foxing/spotting,fore- edges bright and cleaner,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain black endpapers - bookplate excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-323pp [paginated] includes prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 60 chapters; plus [unpaginated]… Read More

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy colour pictorial painting [Hannibal Crossing the Alps,by JacapoRipanda (fl. 1490-1530)] illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,yellow-lettered title,author name and foreword's author's name too,spine/backstrip with similarly lettered+coloured author name+title and publisher's capitalised black lettering+b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with colour photograph of a Hannibal headed coin. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks, tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges clean without fblemish or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread, other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate… Read More

UK,slim Qrto original wraps,limited,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 in that publisher's country of origin,or sometimes, worldwide.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj, softback original wraps - as issued - a softback original and first appearance in print in this format.A stated limited edition,but without numeration or actual limitation numbers.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy Hannibal Lecter portrait colour illustrated upper wrap,author's portrait colour photograph to rear wrap,with white+ red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,crisp - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread? UK,slim Qrto original wraps,1st edn,1-144pp [paginated]… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges and minimal creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - though contents bright,tight and clean.Author's 4th book.
Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated dw/dj with red+gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears - virtually as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright tight and pristine.Bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain,black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-323pp [paginated] includes prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 60 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,b/w Chinoise-style illustrated frntis,and acknowledgements and note about author to rear.
He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature.At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front,a boy in the snow,mute,with a chain around his neck.He seems utterly alone,but he has brought his… Read More

UK,slim,rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 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 dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork,by Emma Chichester Clark,illustrated dw/dj,with red,green and blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.To front illustrated panel,the gingerbread house depicted is sprinkled with iridescent glitter.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,sharp-cornered,publisher's original color illustrated paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,pink+brown letters to spine and immaculate colour illustrated endpapers.Front board with cream background label with title in cross-stitch style letters and a colour,oval vignette below it.UK,slim,rectangular Qrto HB+ dw/dj, illustrated 1st edn,64pp… Read More