Search Results: Authors starting with C from R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

UK,8vo wraps,p/back,1st edn.[UK,hardback 1st edn was published a year earlier, 2011.This is the 1st p/back edition.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered, matt,colour photographic illustrated front cover with orange+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn,xi-xvpp+3-256pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2 comprising 14 chapters+ conclusion and 4 chapters respectively and further reading list.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with b/w facsimile page of very first draft of Anthony Coburn's first script for 'Unearthly Child' to it's reverse,epigram,acknowledgements and contents list/table. Doctor Who is the world's… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner incrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt colour,subject portrait painting,with b/w+silver embossed lettering,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? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain blue eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xiiipp+4-306pp [paginated] includes intro,Pts I+II comprising 6+5 chapters respectively,16pp colour, contemporary illus/plates in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp82/3 and pp210/1 respectively,acknowledgements,notes on sources,a biblio,notes on typography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents+illus lists/tables.… 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 laminated,coloured pictorial illustrated upper wrap with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges - no nicks or tears present - and corners NOT bumped.Head of spine/ backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing, light creasing to top edge also.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - appears an unread copy - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners.Bright,clean,plain green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-322pp includes b/w line illustrated half-title+title pages,contents list,author introduction and 13 chapters.… Read more

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,519pp.B/w photographic montage eps,b/w photographs. 'What's it all about' is a book of anecdotes,insights,full of stories of romance,humour,lust,bad behaviour,good deeds,rough times and halcyon days.Candid,vibrant and warm,here is a captivating self-portrait of a man who is at once sublimely ordinary and simply extraordinary. It is also about the companions on his life journey, from Roger Moore,Sean Connery and Cary Grant to name but a few; to his extraordinary love affair with his wife,Shakira.It is also about the movies - from ALFIE to SLEUTH to THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING to HANNAH AND HER SISTERS - and about the craft.In the course of 27 films he has worked with such… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4th imp.[Complete number line 4.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£20.) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,author/subject's portrait colour photograph to upper panel of dw/dj,with gilt raised letters and both dark+pale blue,white lettering,and subject's contemporary,earlier b/w portrait photograph to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - some minor,superficial scoring/ indentations to dw/dj. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain burgundy eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-ixpp+1-406pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,acknowledgements,a prologue,23 chapters… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£20) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, author/subject's portrait colour photograph to upper panel of dw/dj,with gilt raised letters and both dark+pale blue,white lettering,and subject's contemporary,earlier b/w portrait photograph to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. A tiny snick/closed tear,internally sellotape repaired and strengthened,to front,top corner.Majority of light creasing is to top edges,a slight diagonal crease in vicinity of said snick/tear, some minor,superficial scoring/indentations to dw/dj.Top+fore- edges bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,both co-authors' SIGNED,1st edn. FINE++/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but both co-author's handwritten signatures,with a dedication from just one of them: 'Happy cooking,Katie Caldesi' and 'Giancarlo' signature - without dedication - below,both signatures to the title page.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,scenic colour photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with red,white and blue lettering,a food colour photographic rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj design repeated to matt bds which also have immaculate plain white eps.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,both co-authors' SIGNED,1st edn,6-159pp [paginated] includes 9 chapters/sections,profuse food+scenic colour photographs throughout the text and the book,an index and acknowledgements to rear.Plus… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE++/FINE+.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel of dw/dj (scene from an 1833 Christmas card),a small,round stained glass portrait of Charles Dickens (set into a window of 48 Doughty Street, London,W.C.1,home to Dickens 1837 now Dickens House Museum) to rear panel of dw/dj,with white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A small indentation/puncture to approx middle of spine/backstrip of dw/dj - board beneath appears unaffected.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain brown cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate colour painting illustrated eps (Christmas fayre/… 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,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with 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,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xivpp+1-434pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a foreword by Arsene Wenger (ex-Arsenal manager),21 chapters and an index,plus [unpaginated half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and a contents list/table. Award-wnning author Michael Calvin is back with his new book exposing the lives of football managers. He goes into… Read more

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Keri Smith, illustrated dw/dj with blue and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major 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,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped white ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain black eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-363pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title with precis,author's doodle-signed title page,dedication,separator page,a prologue, 2pp blanks at rear of book, acknowledgements with publisher's blurb to recto. Author's outstanding debut.… Read more

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Owner inscrptn to fep inked out,dw/dj price-clipped.Minimal creasing dw/dj edges. Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,248pp includes b/w+colour illus,maps,appendix,a biblio and an index. The European seamen who explored the Pacific made some of the longest and most hazardous voyages in history.They had to endure squalor,brutality,hunger,thirst and an appalling death rate. However,when they reached the islands of the central Pacific they were made welcome by a people who,in innocence,offered them food,drink,shelter and sex,and asked for nothing in return.'What a country!' wrote the French explorer de Bougainville, 'What a people! I thought I had been transported to Paradise.' Yet within a century of de Bougainville's landing,the people of the Pacific islands had been decimated by deprivation,disease and the total collapse of their culture - left with nothing to look forward to… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,ink signature to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with neglgigible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - one tiny,tiny closed nick to top,right-hand corner of upper bd.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate cream eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,10-368pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page and dedication page. Debut novel. It's the late 80's and 24-year-old Kerry has… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,price-clipped to dw/dj.8vo,256pp includes journeys of expeditions to Antarctica,a biblio,an index,b/w+colour illus and maps interspersed throughout the text and the book. Antarctica - five and a half million square miles of windswept ice - is the most desolate,yet in some ways the most beautiful area on earth.Its exploration has been a unique challenge; a contest between nature at her most awe-inspiring and man at his most inquisitive.The Ancients concept of Antarctica was of a Great Southern Continent filled with 'Brazil Wood,Elephants and Gold', but the voyages of the sealers into the tempestuous waters south of Cape Horn,and early explorations culminating in Cook's brilliant achievements,brought about man's first groping contact with the new continent and finally disproves the theories of a fabulous, populated landmass. The first sighting of the mainland is attributed to the little-known Russian, Thaddeus von Bellinghausen,whose landfall,due to… Read more

UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US Astounding SCIENCE FICTION sci-fi digest.] VG-.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by VAN DONGEN,illustrated front cover and priced 2/-,with blue,red,and b/w lettering,and white lettering to black spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (Water staining to inside of front cover and partially visible externally.Creased lower front corners,rear corner with small torn loss to it.British adverts to insides of both covers.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip,tiny splits to head+foot gutter's edges.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking,i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/detached pages.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,clean with light page- edge toning,solid and sound.Book has obviously been carefully read and has no… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black,red and fluorescent mauve gilt lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj marked internally with water-stain dye from bds,slightly affecting both top+bottom edges of front panel of dw/dj; rear panel and it's edges without any water-staining - clear and clean.The dw/dj's internal staining has NOT bled through to exterior of dw/dj and is only visible upon internal examination.Concomitant slight dulling from fluid stain,to front bds top+bottom edges.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually 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 bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and… Read more

UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US Astounding SCIENCE FICTION sci-fi digest.] GOOD+.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by Kelly FREAS,illustrated front cover and priced 1/9,with blue,yellow and white lettering,with white lettering to black spine; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (light diagonal creasing to front lower corner and an accidental crease to body of cover,creasing to both rear corners and an accidental diagonal crease to body of it's cover too - no other major nicks or tears present.)British adverts to insides of both covers.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip and it's gutter's edges of front cover with some slight buckling/wrinkling too.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking,i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/detached pages.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned;… Read more

UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US Astounding SCIENCE FICTION sci-fi digest.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright, clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by Kelly FREAS,illustrated front cover and priced 1/9,with blue,red and black lettering,and b/w lettering to red spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (front top corner with 2 creases,a vertical full height crease to body of cover,rear corners generally sharp - no other major nicks or tears present.) British adverts to insides of both covers.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip and it's gutter's edges of front cover with some slight buckling/wrinkling too.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking,i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/detached pages.Top+fore- edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,clean with page-edge toning,solid and sound.Book has… Read more

UK,slim 12mo Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US 'Astounding SCIENCE FICTION' sci-fi digest.] VG. No owner inscrptn.Bright, generally clean,colour pictorial artwork by VAN DONGEN, illustrated front cover and priced 1/9,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (both front corners and fore-edges slightly creased).British adverts to insides of both covers.Rear cover lightly grubbed.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip and it's gutter's edges on front cover with some slight buckling/wrinkling to both covers too.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking,i.e. pages are completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/detached pages. Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,clean with page-edge toning,solid and sound.Book has obviously been carefully read and is without any intentional reading dog-ear corner creases but has some… Read more

UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US Astounding SCIENCE FICTION sci-fi digest.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright, clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by Kelly FREAS,illustrated front cover and priced 1/9,with blue,red+white lettering,and b/w lettering to red spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (both front corners creased and fore-edge with an approx 1.5" long missing piece of cover,both rear corners also creased - no major nicks or tears present.) British adverts to insides of both covers.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip and it's gutter's edges of both covers with some slight buckling/wrinkling too.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking,i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/ detached pages.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,clean with very light page-edge toning,solid and… Read more

UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US Astounding SCIENCE FICTION sci-fi digest.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by VAN DONGEN,illustrated front cover and priced 1/9,with blue,red and white lettering,with white lettering to black spine; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (front top and rear top+lower corners minimally creased - with no nicks or tears present.) British adverts to insides of both covers.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip and it's gutter's edges of front cover with some slight buckling/wrinkling too.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking, i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/detached pages.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,clean with page-edge toning,solid and sound.Book has obviously been carefully read and is without any intentional… Read more