Titles beginning with D from David Edward Hellawell (76 items)

London: Hutchinson University Library, 1971 0091081319. Softcover. First edition thus. Good. Previous owner's name inscribed neatly on title page. Otherwise no inscriptions or annotations. 223 pages including chronology, bibliography and index. .A literary criticism concentrating on the novels but constant comparisons with the stories, poetry and plays. .

London: Simon & Schuster, 2013 9781471130472. UK hardback reprint of American edition., Fine/VG. DW is not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. UK reprint, large 8vo, 655 pages including index and many B/W photo illustrations. Stephen Ambrose is also the author of 'Band of Brothers' which tracks the events after D-Day and was made into a very well-received TV documentary series. .

London: Osprey Publishing, 2004 9781841767796. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. Bright photo illustrated pages. HEAVY OVER SIZE ITEM 3.0 Pounds. Size: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 1 inches. With a foreword by Major Richard Winters, Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, and published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, this book brings together the perspectives and opinions of some of the most respected military historians working today. More than a dozen leading historians from either side of the Atlantic have collaborated to produce a unique and incisive examination of the momentous events that surrounded June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord saw some of the Allies' greatest military strategists, Eisenhower and Montgomery, pit their wits against Hitler in a bold bid to liberate continental Europe. Each chapter of this new book focuses on a different aspect the D-Day landings, from the build-up to the attack… Read more

London: Penguin Viking: 2009 9780670887033. Hardback. First edition. First impression. Number 1. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions etc. DW is NOT price-clipped. As new. 592 numbered pages including very detailed index. Illustrations and photos on unnumbered pages. Useful maps on endpapers and elsehwere. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the post-war world, profoundly influencing relations between America… Read more

London: Penguin, 2010. 9780141048130. Soft cover. Near Fine. First printing of first soft cover edition. Number 1. No annotations or inscriptions. 624 Pages. A bright shiny copy, Slight creasing to bottom right hand corner of front cover. Otherwise covers and spine are uncreased..The internationally best selling history of D-Day is now the ultimate narrative of the battle for Normandy. "Glorious, horrifying... D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."— Time Fans of Ben Macintyre's Double Cross will love this history by Antony Beevor —the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" ( The Guardian) —presents the major account of the Normandy invasion and the liberation of Paris. "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Paperback) From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of… Read more

London: Frederick Muller, 1988 0091736390. First edition. Hardback. VG/VG in mylar-protected and unclipped DW. 448 pages. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959. First edition. Paperback. VG. 188 pages. .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. Hardback. First edition. VG. No DW. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. No annotations or inscriptions. 146 pages including index.. Current Problems series. Blue hard cover. Previous owner's name neatly printed in small type inside front cover. A vivid picture of how a London daily paper was produced during wartime, with a discussion of the role of the press and its readers in a democracy. Wilson Harris was editor of The Spectator. and worked on several newspapers.. .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. Hardback. Used. No DW (as published?) Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Previous owner's name neatly printed in three places. 148 pages including index. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Author was Editor of 'The Spectator' at the time. .

London: Bantam Press, 2012 9780593066768. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition. First printing. Numberline is complete. Collectable. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 438 pages including detailed index. The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission: to fly low and at night in formationover many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. More than that, the entire operation had to be put together in less… Read more

London: Picador, 1978 0330245430. Soft cover. Bright, shiny copy. VG apart from small nick to top of front cover and small sticker (almost unnoticeable) over wear on back cover. 573 pages. Now relatively scarce omnibus edition of three of Runyon's best collections of short stories:- 'More Than Somewhat'; 'Furthermore' and 'Take It Easy'. Two introductions by E. C. Bentley. .

London: Mandarin, 1997 9780749323998. Soft cover. Three volumes in one. Fine/Very Good In the original stiff-card wrappers. Small nick on dustwrapper is repaired. Sharp-cornered. edges remain particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, and clean. No creasing to spine or covers. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 728 pages. "I think it is now becoming clear that A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME is going to become the greatest modern novel since ULYSSES" Clive James. Anthony Powell's famous sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Mandarin specially re-issued the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the Channel Four TV production. Collectible. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". .

London, Mandarin, 1997 9780749324049. Soft cover. Omnibus collection. First edition. First impression. Numberline is complete. Fine./Fine. In the original stiff-card wrappers. Sharp-cornered. edges remain particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, and clean. No creasing to spine or covers. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 728 pages. "I think it is now becoming clear that A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME is going to become the greatest modern novel since ULYSSES" Clive James. Anthony Powell's famous sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Mandarin are specially re-issuing the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the Channel Four TV production. An excellent copy in pristine condition. Collectible. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". .

London: Mandarin, 1997 9780749324094. Soft Cover. Omnibus collection. First edition. First impression. Numberline is complete. Fine/Very Good In the original stiff-card wrappers. Small nick on dustwrapper is repaired. Sharp-cornered. edges remain particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, and clean. No creasing to spine or covers. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 728 pages. "I think it is now becoming clear that A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME is going to become the greatest modern novel since ULYSSES" Clive James. Anthony Powell's famous sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Mandarin specially re-issued the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the Channel Four TV production. Collectible. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". .

London: Atlantic Books, 1993 9780857891785. Fine. Soft cover. Film tie-in covers. First edition thus. Complete numberline. No annotations or inscriptions. 608 pages. "A stunning film, thoroughly grown up, and if you were fascinated by it then the book will add to your knowledge a huge amount." The struggle between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung over the 'soul' of psychoanalysis. .

London: faber and faber, 2003 0571205828. Fourth impression of first UK hardback edition. Ex-library with the usual stamps, but otherwise VG in mylar-protected VG dustwrapper. 266 pages including index. A brilliant analysis of a country 'based on aesthetics rather than ethics.' A four year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? Why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones sets out to answer these and many other questions during his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. What emerges is not a book about the tourist concerns of climate, cuisine and art, but one about the much livelier and stranger side of the "Bel Paese": the language, football, Catholicism, cinema, television and terrorism - and the grip exercised by Berlusconi through his vast media empire and Presidency of the Ministerial Council. The Italy Tobias Jones discovers is a country which is proudly "visual" rather than… Read more

London: Canongate Books, 2022 9781838854140. Softcover. Very Good.. Second printing of First Edition thus. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 315 pages. Includes also the transcript of Rankin and McIlvanney in conversation at the 2013 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. William McIlvanney's Laidlaw books changed the face of crime fiction. When he died in 2015, he left half a handwritten manuscript of Laidlaw's first case. Now, Ian Rankin is back to finish what McIlvanney started and together, these two forces of crime fiction bring to life the criminal world of 1970s Glasgow, and Laidlaw's relentless quest for truth. This book was the British Book Awards crime and thriller book of the year 2022. .

London: Canongate, 2021 9781838854102. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Like new. 288 pages. No inscriptions or annotations etc. DW is NOT price-clipped. Includes the transcript of Rankin and McIlvanney in conversation at the 2013 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. William McIlvanney's Laidlaw books changed the face of crime fiction. When he died in 2015, he left half a handwritten manuscript of Laidlaw's first case. Now, Ian Rankin is back to finish what McIlvanney started and together, these two forces of crime fiction bring to life the criminal world of 1970s Glasgow, and Laidlaw's relentless quest for truth. This book was the British Book Awards crime and thriller book of the year 2022.

London: Phoenix, 2004 0753818868. First edition. First printing of first UK paperback edition. Fine. 306 pages. No inscriptions. The clandestine voyages of the Dutch tramp ship Noordendam during the Second World War range from North Africa to Finland. Operating for the British Secret Service, the captain takes his crew and their ship through a series of meticuously described adventures. Furst at his considerable best. I don't remember what got me started reading a Furst book but all I know is that I was hooked in no time. In a few months I had read all his books and damn I wish he had more. So this is actually a review for all his historical espionage series. There were all superb. With one exception each one was about a different character. You might say an ordinary person in an extraordinary time doing his or her best. My favorite genre is historical ficion and Furst's books are among the very best. I am a big World War II buff and also enjoy espionage stories, fiction and non-fiction. So for me,… Read more

Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986 0670809764. First edition. Hardback. Small sticker at top of front end page to cover biro price mark. No inscriptions. Unclipped DW slightly worn along top and bottom edges. Otherwise VG/VG. 5.5" by 8.75". 299 pages. Ruth Rendell writing for the very first time in her darker vein as Barbara Vine. Filmed with Celia Imrie and Helena Bonham Carter. .