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

UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st reprint edn.[Originally and first published by this publisher in 1944.This first reprint,1947.Uncommon reprint - and also as a 1st edn - either with or without a dw/dj,for a book of its age,and given it's period of production,i.e. 1940-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing, and the poor quality of cheap paper stock generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers.At the time,any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded.With war-time paper rationing and conservation of that and other materials, pulping was actively encouraged,so publishers with restricted and limited quantities for publishing,opted towards highly acidic and therefore cheaper paper, allowing for more books to be produced. Books made with this cheaper material tend to degrade faster, exhibiting several faults,blemishes, foxing/spotting etc.,and subsequently are uncommon… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt b/w biographical montage'd (upper panel) photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white,brown and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj's spine/backstrip lightly sunned/faded.Top corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges minimally aged/toned - as usual/
normal - but generally bright and clean; contents bright,
tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,top two corners minimally bumped and creased, otherwise sharp-cornered publisher's original,plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a dark green+white striped headband and clean plain pale silver/grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj [Nan Bield towards Small Water and Haweswater scenic photograph - front,and author portrait photograph - rear]; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/backstrip and a few indents to upper wrap,which in some cases has gone through to boards beneath.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally foxed/spotted, fore-edge clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Publisher's original clean air-force blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate identical,colour scenic photographic endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-223pp [paginated] includes scenic colour photograph illustrated half-title page [High Sweden Bridge],double-page scenic colour photograph illustrated title page [Honister Pass],recto of… Read more

UK,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated,colour, scenic photographic upper wrap and colour, portrait photograph too,with b/w critic reviews to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minimally bumped to head of spine/backstrip with miniscule creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright,unmarked colour scenic photographic endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,v-viipp+1-215pp includes colour scenic photographic illustrated half-title page,3/4 double-page colour scenic photographic+b/w line illus title page,contents list, A.W. introduction,Pts 1-5 (each Part with 3/4 double-page colour scenic photographic+b/w line illus title),b/w line illus+partial OS maps,profuse colour scenic photographs throughout the text,and an… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£18.99) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj with some minimal colour tinting to photograph,with red,black,pale yellow and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - 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 black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a yellow+white speckled headband,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-353pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 comprising 25, 12,5 and 21 chapters respectively.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,epigrams,Pts separator pages and to the rear,a note about… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.Owner's neat black ink name to top ffe and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,crisp,glossy laminated wrap-around scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears - though some miniscule bumping and rubbing with reciprocal loss to lower edge's bottom upper board's corner and to the foot of spine/backstrip
also.Minimal sunning/fading to spine/backstrip - as usual/normal.Top+fore-edges generally clean; contents bright,tight
and pristine.Bright,clean,unblemished,publisher's original green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11- 203pp [paginated+2 scenic colour,double-pages to
rear unpaginated] includes half-title,double-page colour scenic photographic illustrated title-page/frntis [Yr Aran from Llyn Gwynant],photographs list,author preface,47 full-page double- page colour scenic photographs many… Read more

UK,slim 8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn thus.[Originally published by David & Charles,1983.A new edition of the late author's work,updated by his son Gabriel Hemery.] FINE.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,green/white pictorial line illustration by Brian Ainsworth, to upper wrap and publisher blurb/advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and miniscule scoring/indentations to rear wrap.Top+fore- edges bright and
clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine. UK,slim 8vo wraps,1st edn thus,1-144pp [paginated] includes introduction,15 chapters,profuse b/w maps+contemporary photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an epilogue,acknowledgements,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.
Walkers,railway enthusiasts,lovers of Dartmoor,and anyone with an interest in industrial archaeology,will be delighted by this excellent guide… 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 b/w and yellow lettering to front; 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 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,1-338pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters,acknowledgements and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table and to rear a blank after the index,16pp contemporary b/w scenic+autobiographical photographs in 1 block,a double-page b/w drawn illustrated map of the… Read more

UK,12mo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,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-.A good reading copy.No owner inscrptn.Pictorial colour illustrated wraps with slight wear and rubbing to edges.Creased upper wrap - top edge and bottom corner;rear wrap heavily creased with closed tear to edge.Fore- edges aged as usual/normal; contents tight and clean. He sank deeper,deeper.The black sullen water closed over his head. Bubbles of vile-smelling marsh gas rose from the slime and mud of the pool.Still deeper he sank,eyes staring,wide open.Now strange figures - human figures - swam before him with weed- entangled hair and outstretched beckoning arms.An unearthly siren song of… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.MINT/MINT.Colour photographic dw/dj. Red paper-covered boards with silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, blue plain endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,271pp includes b/w line illus chapter headpieces,b/w maps,24pp colour photographs, appendices(4) and an index. In early March 1998,David Hempleman-Adams set off on a 600 mile journey which would take him into the record books as one of the most successful all-round adventurers the world has ever seen.Facing wind-chill down to minus 90 centigrade,he man- hauled his sledge to the North Pole across the constantly shifting ice of the frozen Arctic Ocean.He knew that if he succeeded he would be the first person to complete the explorers' Grand Slam,a challenge which has seen him conquer the North and South Magnetic Poles,become the first Briton to walk solo and unsupported to… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,female portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel
of dw/dj,with white+orange lettering, rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - a couple of small,1/2" high closed tears to foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj,one each to each of spine/backstrip's gutter's edges and with light reciprocal creasing.Top rear corner of dw/dj minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss too.Light,
superficial scoring to both panels of dw/dj,but without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges though very lightly toned, are generally bright and clean; 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 speckled orange cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver… Read more

UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.NMINT.Pictorial colour decorated laminated boards with gilt letters to upper and white and yellow letters to spine/backstrip.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,44pp with colour comic strip format. Wallace has lost his slipper,and it's replacement - the Longlife Indoor Carpet Clog with Reinforced Everything - just isn't comfy.But when he and Gromit turn the clock back to return to the slipper's last recorded sighting - calamity - a malfunction in the time-space continuum lands man and dog thousands of years from home and their mid-morning elevenses.So begins the Oscar-winning characters' first ever cartoon strip adventure.The stars of 'A Grand Day Out', 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'A Close Shave'… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with subject's name in multi-coloured (red,yellow,blue and green) capital letters to front panel of dw/dj and subject's b/w portrait photographic illustrated rear panel of dw/dj,with other black lettering;
with some shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - along with some chipping,nicks and closed tears.A small proportion of foot of spine/ backstrip of the dw/dj is missing (approx 1/2" deep and 4/5" wide) - thereby partially affecting publisher's printed name - with FELD & COLSON missing.This is the only significant loss,the other tears and nicks are without any loss.Three corners lightly chipped/rubbed,two tears to front panel's spine/backstrip's
gutter's edge - top+bottom - the bottom tear showing signs of ghost residue of an earlier sellotape repair.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no intentional dog-ear… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn, minus dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Michael Foreman illustrated card boards; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal bumping to edges and corners,and clean,plain orange endpapers.Top+fore-edges slightly aged - as usual/normal - but clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.UK,slim Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated - includes colour,pictorial illustrated title page],15 double-page and 1 single-page,colour illustrations by Michael Foreman,and text. Michael Foreman is one of the fore-most children's illustrators in Britain.Born in Pakefield,Suffolk 1938.Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art (1963-65),the London College of Printing (1967- 68),the Royal College of Art (1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[Complete number line 3 5 7
9 8 6 4.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with grey,white,red and blue lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no
nicks or tears present.Some slight,silverfish(?) evidence towards front top corner of the dw/dj's vertical edge and similar but very miniscule evidence at foot of spine/backstrip too.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 boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip
and immaculate plain blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-297pp [paginated] includes prologue,14 chapters,16pp contemporary auto+ biographical colour… Read more

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published in Germany in 1992 under the title 'Der Kreig zur see 1939-1945'. First published in UK by Chatham Publishing,1996.This edn UK, 2001 by Caxton Editions.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£28.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with red+white lettering to both panels; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.All corners of dw/dj with minimal rubbing and reciprocal,subsequent loss to same,head of spine/backstrip also minimally bumped and creased.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 glazed bds with repeated dw/dj monochrome photography with red+black lettering and publisher's device to a white spine/backstrip,a black+white… Read more

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 001.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn but an unused brown+white illustrated bookplate,by John Sutcliffe - exclusively for the National Trust - pasted to top,right-hand corner of ffe,and author's black ink felt tip signature - without dedication - to the title page just below his own printed name and price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with red and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge towards head of spine/backstrip has a few tiny,tiny spots,else bright and clean,fore-edges bright and clean without any spots; contents bright,tight,clean - 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 red cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+white striped headband and immaculate… Read more

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creases to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges and head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and pristine; 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 boards with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-255pp [paginated] includes foreword by Professor Ian Kershaw [Professor of Modern History,University of Sheffield],author introduction,4 chapters, double-page Hitler's Europe colour map,profuse b/w (majority), sepia+colour contemporary photographs throughout the text and the book,references,a bibliography,notes on eyewitnesses,… Read more

US,small 12mo p/back,1st edn.VG. No owner inscrptn and no price removal (50c) from cover.Bright clean,colour pictorial artwork by Ed Emsh,illustrated front cover with red+yellow letters,black and black outlined yellow letters to spine which has some reading creases and slight rubbing with miniscule loss of part of ACE logo,at head of spine.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners,no nicks,tears or splits present. Sharp front two corners,rear two corners lightly creased.Top+ fore-edges coloured but aged/toned,bottom edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean and solid,one pp23/4 with top corner crease - no other pages affected.US,small 12mo p/back, 1st edn,5-160pp [paginated] includes XXII (22) chapters; plus [unpaginated] story blurb,and title page. A problem adventure story,in which three Terrans - a space pilot,a planetary queen,and a hulk of a tycoon - crash on the sea-world Diomedes,in the midst of a bitter war between two winged races,one of seamen,the other of… Read more

UK,slim 8vo wraps,softback,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj, as issued - no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated wraps; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners,publisher's "perfect binding" - signatures glued to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents near pristine.UK,slim 8vo wraps,softback,1st edn,5-128pp [paginated] includes introduction,3 sections: The People,The Air Raids,The Stations (RAF),profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book. The air-raids on Plymouth and the South West,the Airfields and bombing raids,the German planes brought down,with photographs and eyewitness accounts from both sides. 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!