Search Results: Authors starting with D from David Edward Hellawell

London: Peerage Books, 1991 1850521891. First hardback edition thus. 8vo. Nearly 9" by 6". 816 pages. VG in pictorial laminated covers. No DW as issued. No inscriptions. Contents: Kiss Kiss; Over to You; Switch Bitch; Someone Like You; Four Tales of the Unexpected; Uncle Oswald. A major edition of 5 of Dahl's collections of short stories together with his novel My Uncle Oswald. All complete and unabridged. This is a heavy item and will require extra postage. .

London: Thames and Hudson, 1973 0500130450. Fisrt edition. Hardback. pp.128. Ex-university library apparently never taken out. Usual stamps but otherwise VG/VG in unclipped and mylar-bound DW. Profuse B/W illustrations. .

Lindon: HarperCollins, 2002 9780002256766. Hardback. First edition. First Printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. DW is NOT price-clipped. 640 pages.White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa - 'Most Excellent among Women' - the great niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her and overcame many obstacles to marry her, converting to Islam and according to Indian sources becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company. It is a remarkable story, involving secret assignations, court intrigue, harem politics, religious and family disputes. But such things were not unknown; from the early sixteenth century, when the Inquisition banned the Portuguese in Goa from wearing the dhoti, to the eve of the… Read More

London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2003 9780006550969. Softcover. VG/VG. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. 580 pages including index. Spine creases but otherwise excellent condition. No inscriptions or annotations. This book uncovers a world unexplored by history, and places at its centre a tale of betrayal. From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa - 'Most Excellent among Women' - the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her and overcame many obstacles to marry her, converting to Islam and, according to Indian sources, becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company. It is a remarkable story, but such things were not unknown: from the… Read More

London: Oneworld publications, 2015 9781780748399. Paperback. Like new. 143 pages. No inscriptions or annotations. Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt. Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman. Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents. Winner of the Prix Francois Mauriac. "THE NOVEL THAT HAS TAKEN THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY WORLD BY STORM He was the brother of 'the Arab' killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name - Musa - and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice. .

London: Virgin, 1989 0233971378. First edition. First trade paperback. Some wear on front cover but otherwise VG. 340 pages including index and very many b/w photos. The definitive biography of 'old stoneface' whose silent movies are now thought by many critics to be better and funnier than Chaplin's. .

London: Leo Cooper, 1989 0850521653. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. No inscription.156 pages including index. An excellent copy of an unusual history of the Second World War which draws heavily on the resources of the Imperial War Museum where the author worked. Cartoonists from many nations are represented. .

Devon: Griffin Publishing, , 1993 1873491603. Softcover. VG. First edition. No DW.as published. No annotations or inscriptions. One crease to corner of back cover. Some wearing to edges. 4to Landscape. 352pp. Written by people with a love of cathedrals and their cities and edited by the prolific travel writer Joy David. illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. From Birmingham to the South Coast so the Southern half of England is here delineated as starting or finishing with Birmingham, something Brummies and others might well dispute.
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London: Viking/Penguin, 2002 0670911372. First edition. Number 1. Soft cover. Slight creasing to front cover and spine but otherwise Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. 504 pages including index. 6" by 9". .

Bromsgrove: Halfshire Books, 1990 0951352539. Original paperback first printing. VG except for crease to rear cover. No inscriptions or annotations. 258 pages. 7 3/4" Tall By 5" Wide. Local history from 1885 to 1914 of Warwickshire and Worcestershire countryside life. A vivid account of farming and rural life and growing up in a village. Story of a late Victorian & Edwardian farming family in Rowney Green, Worcestershire .

London: Simon and Schuster, 2016 9781471153402. Fine. A fine book in a fine DW,. DW is not price-clipped. This is a first edition/ first impression of the author's autobiography. Complete numberline. No inscriptions or annotations. 392 pages. Size: 5 1/2" x 9" illustrated with b/w photos. The author who is a well known and much respected biographer turns the spotlight onto his own life which includes a long and very happy marriage to the novelist Margaret Forster, Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1942. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Badly foxed on opening and closing pages, and book edges.Covers worn. Internally surprisingly good but a reading copy only. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2012 9780340980439. First trade paperback edition. First printing. Number 1. 401 pages. 9" by 6" by 1". Largish print. No annotations or inscriptions. DECEMBER 1919. Tom Allen, uncomfortable in London after five years in uniform, receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Hannesford Court. It's almost as if nothing has changed. Cards in the library after dinner. The Boxing Day shoot. The New Year ball. Margot. But Tom hasn't forgotten the professor. A strange meeting in Germany has raised a question in his mind: in all his visits to Hannesford before the War, all those years observing the glittering life of its owners, how much did he ever really see? .

London:Macmillan, 2003 0333905687. First edition. Third impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. DW not price clipped. Written by a historian with an unparalleled reputation in the Poland he analyses as an outsider. This is not just a magnificent account of the uprising itself. It covers the background to WWII in Poland and also the post-war years when Poland was run as a Soviet satellite, up to and beyond the collapse of the USSR. 752 pages including many significant appendices and index. 6" by 9.5". Numerous B/W photos and many maps. This is a heavy book which will require extra postage. .

London: Macmillan, 1999 033376370x. First edition. First printing of first UK hardback edition. Complete Numberline. VG/VG. DW not price clipped. No inscriptions. 1222 pages including index etc. 6" by 9.5". Lavishly illustrated in colour and B/W. This is a heavy item so extra postage will be required. This is a radical history of the 'British Isles' (including Ireland) from Celtic times to the end of the Twentieth Century. .

London: Pimlico, 2007 9780712609500. Paperback. First edition thus. Complete numberline. Some creasing to spine. Otherwise VG.. No DW. 8vo. pp. 336, with b/w photos, No annotationsd or inscriptions. "From the classical origins of the idea of Europe to the division between East and West during the Cold War; from the Jewish and Islamic strands in European history to the expansion of Europe to other continents; from the misunderstood Allied victory in 1945 to Britain's place in Europe; from reflections on the use and abuse of history to personal recollections on learning languages." This is a companion volume to the same author's bestselling 'Europe: East & West' ' written from a variety of unusual and entertaining angles in an equally stimulating and accessible way. A collection of essays that address many of the issues that continue to dominate the political and cultural climate of Europe today. .

London: BBC, 1995 0563370432. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 10" x 7.3/4" 239pp. 30 colour and 50 black & white illustrations plus Index. Nautilus tells the dramatic story of the conquest of inner space from the eccentric pioneers of the late nineteenth century to the supercraft of the modern world. It also tells of the dramatic race between the two superpowers to build the most powerful nuclear submarine fleet. Published to accompany the the television series. 'Nautilus' tells the story of the submarine, a vessel which revolutionized naval warfare in the course of 50 years, and the men who designed them and worked on them. In their short history submarines and submersible craft have played a decisive role in two world wars and today they roam the oceans, bearers of nuclear arsenals, ready to surface anywhere and strike any target. The book starts with the… Read More

London: Bantam Press, 2006 0593055489. First edition. Hardback. Third impression. VG/VG. DW is not price clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 406 pages. 9.5" by just over 6". "This is my favourite book of all time. I hope that those secure enough and intelligent enough to see the value of questioning their beliefs will be big and strong enough to read this book. it is a heroic and life-changing work." Derren Brown .

London: Bantam Press, 2009 9780593061732. First edition. First Printing. Fine/Fine. Pristine condition in the original black cloth-covered boards/silver spine title, and with the fine and unclipped, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper. Complete numberline. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard cover. No inscriptions or annotations,. 470 pp.including index with text figures and illustrations throughout, plus 32pp plates with a total of around 100 colour photographs. Evolution is accepted as fact by all reputable scientists and indeed by theologians, yet millions of people still question its veracity. Here the author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion takes on creationists, including followers of "intelligent design" and any who question the evidence of evolution through natural selection. Richard Dawkins sifts through layers of proven scientific facts - from the fossil record, the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects, the "time clocks" of trees and radioactive… Read More

London: Bantam Press, 2013 0593070895. Fine/Fine. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. No inscriptions or annotations.Unclipped DW mylar-protected. x + 310 pages. 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4 " tall. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Memoir from the author of THE SELFISH GENE and THE GOD DELUSION. .