MODERN FIRSTS from R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

UK,slim 12mo wraps,pocket book,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover (3/6).Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered - rear,top corner with small diagonal corner crease,others unaffected,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front with red,black and blue lettering and b/w Badger logo - this time to top.left corner,a slightly cocked,yellow spine with black letters and reading creases,rear cover… Read more

UK,slim 12mo wraps,pocket book,1st edn.VG++.Owner's handwritten inked name+address to title page but no price removal from card cover (2/6).Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front with red,black and blue lettering and b/w Badger logo,a flat yellow spine with black letters,rear cover with colour illustrated design with red+black letters - black lettered story blurb within a yellow panel; … Read more

UK,slim 12mo wraps,pocket book,1st edn.VG.Owner's handwritten inked name+address to title page but no price removal from card cover (2/6).Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front with red+b/w lettering and b/w Badger logo,slightly concave and minimally grubbed,yellow spine with green letters and without any reading creases,but what appears to be paper wrinkling/shrinkage of glue of the perfect binding method… Read more

UK,slim 12mo wraps,pocket book,1st edn.VG+.Owner's handwritten inked name+address to title page but no price removal from card cover (2/6).Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front with red+b/w lettering and b/w Badger logo,flat yellow spine with green letters and reading creases,rear cover with white background repeated monochrome part illustration from front cover and blue lettered story blurb;… Read more

UK,slim 12mo wraps,pocket book,1st edn.VG++.Owner's handwritten inked name+address to title page but no price removal from card cover (2'-).Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered - lower front corner with double diagonal corner crease,others unaffected,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front with red+b/w lettering and b/w Badger logo,rounded yellow spine with green letters and without any reading creases,rear cover with white background repeated monochrome part illustration… Read more

UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.[UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn first published by CAPE (London),1926.This an early,UK vintage p/back issue by DIGIT, who had also reissued author's bestseller 'Autobiography of a Super Tramp'.] VG+. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited), illustrated front cover with black lettering,black concave spine with yellow/white and no discernible reading creases,rear cover with… Read more

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Pseud. for Stephen Coulter.] NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.3-colour block (red+b/w) illustrated artwork by front panel of dw/djcolour pictorial artwork by Sherborne,illustrated front panel with white letters,spine dulled and also with white but dulled lettering for title+author,publisher name in black letters,rear panel with white background and red+black texts for publisher's advert for other author's… Read more

UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally and first published UK,in 1935. The novel arose from a set of conversations sent to Longman's publishing firm from Alexander McArthur,an unemployed worker which was then sent to Kingsley Long,a journalist who completed it into a complete novel of of life in the Gorbals,a run-down slum district of Glasgow (then) with the hard men… Read more

UK,12mo paperback original,p/back 1st edn.[Softback/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.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Top+fore-edges lightly aged; contents tight,with… Read more

UK,12mo paperback original,p/back 1st edn.[Softback/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,no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners,but obvious reading creases to covers.Top+fore-edge… Read more

UK,12mo paperback original,p/back 1st edn.[Softback/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 aged.Top+bottom,rear wrap corners lightly creased,and obvious reading creases to… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,blue ink owner name+date to front pastedown's top corner and hidden by dw/dj front inner flap,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Top+fore-edges lightly aged and minimally dust-soiled,but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also.Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.Book has slight spine roll/lean.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn,1-323pp… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,though there are a couple of vertical, diagonal creases,causing the laminate to wrinkle,to front inner flap of dw/dj and a small diagonal fold/crease to top edge/ corner of rear inner flap too.Crisp,bright,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - two tiny closed tears/nicks to both wraps'… Read more

UK,slim 12mo paperback,1st edn.[PAN (X653),1967.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, first and originally published by CAPE,1962.This is the first p/back edn, with 'This edition published 1967 by Pan Books Ltd.,'.] VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-removal from rear card cover.Fairly bright,crisp, clean and glossy,colour reproduction portion of the official map of the New York State Thruway Authority to front card cover with black,red+… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Laminated,subject b/w portrait photographic dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,corners and spine/ backstrip - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal and clean,contents bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean grey paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,bottom corners minimally bumped, and immaculate plain white eps.UK, 8vo HB+dw.dj,1st… Read more

UK,12mo promotional paperback original, p/back 1st edn.VG+.No owne rinscrptn. KODAK's association with Colin DEXTER celebrated with this new,specially commissioned Inspector MORSE collection and title story. 'As Good As Gold',published in this edition for the first time,so this is the first original appearance.The collection also includes six cases for MORSE to solve,including Morse's Greatest Mystery - and five other tales. Please… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.(Unpriced copies believed to be export copies - as there is no publisher price to dw/dj,and export copies precede the trade edn.) Pictorial,colour illustrated artwork by Raymond Hawkey,with black+red letters to upper panel,rear panel with a small b/w author,portrait photograph and red+black letters;all to a white background.Bright, crisp,clean colour pictorial illustrated… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,silvered background dw/dj with monochrome montaged photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with blue,b/w and silver gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Internally to foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj,a light water- stain without appearing to affect the bds beneath.Top+fore-edges lightly aged… Read more

UK,slim Qrto,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners.Some light scoring/indents and laminate wrinkling to bottom edges of both front and rear wraps,with a small,closed nick to rear wrap's lower edge towards rear bd's vertical edge. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Black paper-covered bds… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Original and true 1st edn November 1948,this a 2nd impression: January,1949.] VG+/VG. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (8s. 6d,) to dw/dj.Slightly edge-worn with some minor nicks and tears with related creasing on top+bottom edges,slight rubbing with miniscule loss to three corners; top coner with approx 1/2" loss,dw/dj.Chipping and loss at head of spine/backstrip lightly, partially affecting the… Read more