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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,matt colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.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. Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xixpp+2-394pp,includes a preface,author's introduction,29 chapters+epilogue, contemporary b/w photographs as chapter tail or head pieces - either to verso of last page of each chapter or a separator page before begining of each chapter - interspersed throughout the book,a select bibliography,note on the author,… Read More

UK,small 8vo p/back Original+dw/dj,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 paperbac/softback Originals are published prior to any other format.] NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,wrap-around pale green background with an embossed,interrupted black faux velvet/flock belly band across middle of dw/dj with matt white net patch/sample and a thumbnail Parisienne scenic b/w photograph and embossed glossy black tendril illustrations with embossed, glossy black-lettered title and author name to front cover; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title and author name and publisher's white+pale green lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear cover with white panel with black lettered synopsis within and other embossed glossy tendrils illustration. Negligible shelf-wear… Read More

UK,slim 12mo wraps,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from front cover.Publisher's lightly and sporadically grubbed,sharp-cornered,red paper covers with a white retangular panel containing black lettered title within,bordered by a single black line,to front cover with other white lettering,the rear cover a plain red with no text/lettering with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Rusted staples have caused the paper covers to become detached - would stand sympathetic repair - signatures of book solidly stapled though.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned and with some minimal blemish; contents bright,tight, generally clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread other than my own collation.UK,slim 12mo wraps,1st edn,iii-vpp+9- 167pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,an introduction by Morgan Phillips,19 sections/chapters,b/w bar charts illustrations and other statistical tables… Read More

UK,12mo wraps,p/back,1st edn(?) (n.d. - circa late 1940s?). [Originally and first published UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,COLLINS,1947. This edn,a COLLINS MYSTERY novel,No. 288c WHITE CIRCLE POCKET NOVEL series.] VG. No owner inscrptn and no printed price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,generally clean,glossy,card covers: green background with b/w author portrait illustrated front cover; black lettering to white circle and the b/w Crime Club logo+price (2/-) to front cover which also has a diagonal,lower corner crease,rear cover lightly grubbed,with a b/w illustrated Cadbury's chocolate advert to it's verso and a jewellery company's b/w+ green advert to recto.With negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present,convex spine/backstrip,so book with slight lean.Top+fore-edges aged/toned with little or no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no other intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my… Read More

UK.8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/dj - no publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,sharp corners though.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,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,3-257pp [paginated] includes 7 short chapters forming a collaborative novel by 7 assorted female Irish authors; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,verso of which has list of writers and potted biogs,title page,and contents list/table. Authors include Maeve Binch (see rja361810), Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni… 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,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by Peter Chapman,illustrated dw/dj,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Inevitable,but superficial light scoring/indents - without affecting the boards beneath though.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,
tight,clean - 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 red cloth boards with a plain black
cloth blind spine and bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/
dj,1st edn,1-132pp [paginated] includes 8 full-page b/w line illustrations by Peter Chapman throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with author's note to it's… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt, montage'd colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gilt border edges and gilt lettering,rear panel with montage'd monochrome familial photographs and illustration; with negligible shelf-wear and 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.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+ 1-310pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a prologue, 21 chapters and an epilogue, 32pp historical, contemporary monochrome photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp54/5,pp118/19,pp182/3 and pp246/7… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED 1st edn,9th imp. [Complete number line 9.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's expansive blue ink,felt-tip pen siganature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean, matt,montage'd colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gilt border edges and gilt lettering,rear panel with montage'd monochrome familial photographs and illustration; 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 blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,9th imp,vii-xpp+1-310pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a prologue,21 chapters and an… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial wrap- around artwork by Michael Foreman illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Two small spots where laminate has rubbed off,to upper wrap,towards it's front edge.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip and to top rear corner.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,plain red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w map illustrated endpapers.Small black mark to foot of spine/backstrip.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-304pp [paginated] includes b/w line illus vignetted half-title page,title page,b/w line illustrated frntis,58 chapters,profuse b/w line illus - part+full-page - throughout the text and book,all by Michael Foreman. It's the start… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Michael Foreman illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges,a tiny,tiny nick to foot of spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,plain red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w map illustrated endpapers.Small black mark to foot of spine/backstrip.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 304pp [paginated] includes b/w line illus vignetted half-title page, title pagea b/w line illustrated frntis,58 chapters,profuse b/w line illus - part+full-page - throughout the text and book,all by Michael Foreman. It's the start of a new series of headlong adventures for Tom and Ann - as they find themselves caught up in the… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No previous owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with gilt and black lettering; 3 contemporary sepia, familial portrait photographs to rear panel of dw.dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.The majority of any creasing is to top edges of dw/dj,head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Rear,top corner of dw/djs' inner flap minimally creased also.Rear panel of dw/dj has slight, superficial scoring and indents but without affecting the boards below. Internally to dw/dj,there is also a couple of water-stain marks at top edge of front inner flap and head of spine/backstrip too, but boards beneath unaffected.Top+fore-edges bright and near pristine; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound and pristine - unread? Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain pale cream cloth boards with… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.MINT/NMINT.No previous owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue and purchase. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with gilt and black lettering; 3 contemporary sepia,familial portrait photographs to rear panel of dw.dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and pristine; contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread example.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain pale cream cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xiipp+1-350pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,prologue and 20 chapters (each with a b/w photograph/illus headpiece) and an epilogue,32pp of contemporary,biographical familial and portrait sepia photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp52/3, pp116/7, pp228/9 and pp292/3… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/VG. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear,creasing to edges and no nicks or tears,minimal water-staining to both rear top and bottom internal edges,affecting only the bottom edge board.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled,fore-edge fairly clean; with contents bright,tight and clean also.Green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-164pp. In Spike Milligan's intense,steaming,palpitating,lustful, unexpurgated retelling of Lady Chatterley's romps with a member of the lower orders (with footnotes), many hitherto unknown aspects are revealed (as well as - all too frequently - the gamekeeper's delicate white loins).Perhaps the reader may not have been aware of Sir Clifford Chatterley's penchant for stretched haddock,or of the fact that he a master of Musk Ox maintenance? Or… 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,matt,colour portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with glossy,embossed white lettering to title+author name and other pale blue lettering,plus bright,crisp, embossed silver gilt and glossy pale grey illustrated flora+foliage border design to front panel; glossy, embossed white lettered author,title to spine/backstrip,publisher's white lettered+illustrated colophon to its foot and embossed silver gilt and glossy pale grey foliage detail to spine,rear panel of dw/dj with repeated embossed,silver gilt and glossy, pale grey illustrated flora+foliage border design from front panel and white lettering for critics' reviews. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges brigth,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear… Read More

UK.LOUGHBOROUGH.WILLS & HEPWORTH,1957.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj by Edward Osmond,with minimal shelf-wear to edges.Rear panel of dw/dj lightly grubbed.Beige paper-covered boards with brown ink printed repeated dw/dj design to upper board and brown ink letters to spine/backstrip with brown ink flying ladybird logo pictorial eps.Contents bright,tight and clean.A very nice copy for its age and a title from the very popular and highly collectable 536 series.50pp unpaginated,includes b/w line illus title page and 24 full-page,full-colour illustrations by Edward Osmond and a list of previous titles verso of rear ep.Verso of half-title has the original flying Ladybird logo,which was changed to a closed wing ladybird in an oval,in the early 1960's. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight of… Read More

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Crisp,bright,clean,glossy laminated wrap-around, colour scenic (Scafells from Harter Fell) photographic dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine.Unblemished,bright,plain green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and plain white endpapers with minimal spotting/ bleeding(?) of glue to both pastedowns - production fault? UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-199pp [paginated] - pp200-204 [unpaginated] +4pp blanks to rear,includes half-title,double-page colour scenic photographic frntis (Ullswater from Sharrow Bay),photographs list,author's son's preface,100+ scenic colour photographs - many full-page,double-page and partial double-page - with brief captions. 'Lakeland Panorama' is… Read More

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, laminated protected dw/dj with red background and colour pictorial illustration,with b/w+ yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.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? Bright,clean, generally sharp-cornered (upper board's bottom corner minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,other corners unaffected), publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. The rear pastedown still has it's security tag in situ.UK,8vo HB+ protected dw/dj,1st edn,2-248pp [paginated] includes an introduction, 10 chapters,profuse b/w line illustrations and b/w railway livery badges throughout the text and the book,list of railway… Read More

UK thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete nuber line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.]FINE-/VG. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with capitalised,glossy, embossed gilt-lettered title,capitalised,glossy white-lettered author name and capitalised NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER,and a single critic's white-lettered review; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+ title as front and publisher's capitalised, white-lettered+ illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with bright, crisp,gilt-lettered previous book titles from the Shardlake series with critics' white-lettered reviews. Some minimal shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners.All corner tips of dw/dj with miniscule rubbing and reciprocal paper loss,both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creases and both with a couple of tiny snicks – but no other tears or splits present.Concomitant,miniscule rubbing on board's corner tips and… Read More

UK,slim 12mo p/back 1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from front card cover.Publisher's slightly grubbed,but sharp-cornered,glossy,pink andwhite horizontally banded front cover with black+orange lettering and orange+white Penguin colophon and orange price to top 2/3rd's white band and a vertical,black border-edged individual b/w cartoon illustration of the lovers - extending over both the upper white and lower pink backgrounds, in the lower 1/3rd's pink background band,orange slightly concave spine/backstrip with b/w letters+publisher's colophon and some darkening to approx. the top half of same and front-facing edge of gutter's fold/crease with minimal rubbing and reciprocal colour paper loss,rear cover with orange background to 3 verses and a halftone [a printing process using patterns of dots to create an image with the appearance of colours and shades but the individual halftone dots are a continuous tone,meaning each dot was one unvaried colour] author/illustrator's portrait… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Crisp,clean,glossy laminated subject b/w portrait photographic illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - and no bumped corners, though some light indents,impressions to upper wrap.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners - appears an unread copy.Clean,navy blue cloth boards,small indentation to upper board,bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+2-198pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list,an introduction,16 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp86/7,filmography,selected bibliography and an index. The ultimate blonde bombshell,Lana Turner's… Read More