Recent Arrivals from R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE+.Handwritten, ink dated 1992 Christmas gift presentation inscrptn to belongs to box/panel but no price-clip (£4.75) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy/glazed,sharp-cornered,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated card boards and pictorial coloured endpapers by John HARROLD; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped,with a couple of horizontal… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip (originally £1.30p) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.The diagonal price-clip has cut acoss some of the story's text on reverse.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated card boards and colour pictorial illustrated endpapers by John HARROLD; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Corner tips minisculely bumped… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE. Childish-hand Christian name (Rebekkah) to name-panel,but no price-clip (£7.50).Bright,clean,crisp,sharp-cornered glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by John HARROLD illustrated boards which are virtually indent-free apart from some minimal indents to rear board; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE.Owner's ink handwritten name (in childish scrawl) to 'belongs to name-box/ panel inscrptn but no price-clip (£6.99) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy/ glazed,wrap-around colour pictorial illustarted card boards and repeted colour pictorial illustrated endpapers by John Harrold; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creases to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - boards virtually indent-free.A… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.This copyrighted collection of short stories first published together 1991.Four of the stories have never before been published in either the UK,Australia or South Africa in book form.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE.Black ink familial,gift inscrptn to ownership name panel but no price-clip though (£5.99).Bright,clean,crisp,sharp-cornered,glossy/glazed, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by John HARROLD, illustrated boards which are virtually indent-free; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE+.Owner's neat inked name to top left-hand corner of inside of front board and no price-clip (£1.80) to front free endpaper.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,glossy/glazed,colour pictorial artwork illustrated cover - design on front repeated to rear cover - with yellow+black lettering,black lettered red spine; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks,tears or… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE+.Owner's neat inked name to top left-hand corner of inside of front board and no price-clip (£1.65) to front free endpaper.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,glossy/glazed,colour pictorial artwork illustrated cover - design on front repeated to rear cover - with yellow+black lettering,black lettered red spine which is lightly sunned/faded; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks,tears or splits… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[First published by this publisher 1980,this example,its 2nd impression.1981.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be an export edn. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with dark brown lettering within a yellow panel to front, similar lettering to spine whose colour illustration continuation is inevitably sunned/faded,rear panel… Read more

UK,8vo HB+d/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy. monochrome, subject's full portrait photographic front panel of dw/dj with white lettering,a white spine with brown and slightly sunned/ faded yellow lettering,rear panel with white background and black lettered publisher's listed other titles with a critics' review to each; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[First published 1977,a 2nd imp 1980 and this 3rd imp,1981.] NFINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj,though publisher's adhesive price label in situ.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,pink+black illustration with superimposed oval vignette b/w steam locomotive photograph illustrated front panel of dw/dj with black lettering,red spine with white letters and b/w publisher's logo to foot of same,rear panel with white lettered… Read more

UK,8vo wraps,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and an absence of any price.Bright,crisp,clean.generally sharp-cornered,non-rusted double-stapled,glossy,contemporary,sepia photograph (of paddle steamer ferry 'Brunel' heading for Weir Head with Calstock Viaduct in the background) illustrated front card cover with brown lettering,rear cover with brown+white paddle-steamer ferry illustration to cream background; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges… Read more

UK,slim 8vo wraps,3rd printing.[Originally published 1985.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no publisher's price present. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy colour pictorial illustrated card covers with blue,yellow+white lettering to front. Front illustration shows 'Warrior' in 1861,from a colour lithograph by J. T. Dutton,showing the ship under both power and sail.Contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound and includes extra ephemera,laid in loose,namely a folding/folded HMS Warrior illustrated deck Guide+key… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Bright,crisp,unblemished, sharp-cornered,publisher;s original speckled khaki board with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine and clean plain white endpapers.Top edges faintly and… Read more

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's colour portrait illustrated front with white,yellow and pale green letters, red stripe spine with yellow+ white lettering,rear panel with pale yellow lettered critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or… Read more

UK,slim 8vo paperback Original,p/b 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 either the only format,or published prior to any other format.] NFINE - it is the opening… Read more

UK,slim 12mo s/back,SIGNED,1st edn.[No publisher credited but a local ( Bodmin) Specsavers and 2 Cornish food companies are associated with it's sponsorship and publication. Printed by Cambrian Printers (UK),2016.The original,first 12 titles in this series were all (UK),12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edns.] FINE.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,coloured pictorial artwork by Jani Tully Chaplin,illustrated card covers with red letters to front,black letters to rear cover; with… Read more

UK,slim Qrto wraps,illustrated,monthly magazine,1st thus. [Training Corps Air Gazette magazine,believed to have begun its monthly publishing,a year earlier,from January 1941.] VG++. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp, sharp-cornered clean,colour illustrations/paintings of a pair of RAF wartime aircraft to each of the front+rear paper covers (Short Sterling and Short Sunderland; A Catalina and the Short Stirling) respectively,rusted staples;… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn.FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy wrap- around,colour ppictorial artwork by Michael Foreman,illustrated dw/dj,with dark blue+black lettering to front and to spine; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart… Read more

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.N o owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,cream background with b/w Tenniel 'Alice' illustration to front,Wm. Blake's b/w thumbnail-size illustration to rear panel of dw/dj,with bright, crisp,gilt lettering to front,gilt+black lettered spine which has a small (approx. 1.5cm) creased abrasion to rear-facing spine's edge - very minimally affecting concomitant area of board beneath,rear panel with black lettered… Read more