Search Results: Authors starting with F from David Edward Hellawell

London: Little, Brown, 1999 0316644420. First edition. Hardback. VG/VG. Unclipped. No inscription. 413 pages including acknowledgements. .

London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2009 9780141189383. First paperback edition. Later printing. VG. No inscriptions or annotations. With new paperback material such as afterword about the author and original wartime documents. "One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever." Alan Furst "An unrivalled and vivid portrait of life in wartime Berlin." Philip Kerr. Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that… Read More

New York: Melville House, 2010 9781933633923. Soft cover. First Restored American Edition. Stated first printing. Fine. Like New. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 816 pages. 1.5000 in x 8.1900 in x 5.4300 in. This sweeping saga of love in dangerous times – the 1923 collapse of the German economy, when food and money shortages led to rioting in the streets and unemployed soldiers marauding through the countryside —is deemed by many to be Hans Fallada's greatest work. Yet its 1938 publication made his publisher so fearful of Nazi retribution that he told Fallada, "If this book destroys us, then at least we'll be destroyed for something that's worth it." It appears here in its first unabridged translation into English, based on a contemporaneous translation by Philip Owens that has been revised and restored by Thorsten Carstensen and Nicholas Jacobs. Carstensen also provides an afterword discussing why the original version of the book was so heavily edited ... and why Fallada's publisher thought a… Read More

London: Panther, 1974. First paperback edition. VG. This is a bright, tight copy. 367 pages including index. 6 pages of photographs. "Superbly documented." Times Educational Supplement .

London: Collins, 1950. Reprint hardback edition. No DW. Covers worn and some damage to front end-papers. Bottom edge unevenly cut by publishers. Otherwise a sound tight copy internally, but the abovementioned faults make this a reading copy only. 384 pages including maps. An interesting true story of disillusion at the end of the Second World War which echoes the fictional account by Evelyn Waugh in the 'Sword of Honour' trilogy. .

London: A. & C. Black, 1904. Reprint Hardback. Good. No DW. Blue cloth. Rear cover internally sellotaped to book. Otherwise a very solid copy with no foxing. Owner's name ornately inscribed by grandfather inside front endpage in 1904. Pictorial cloth hardcover. Sound Reading Copy of a Late Victorian Children's Book which is more highly regarded by some critics than his more celebrated 'Eric or Little by Little'. 536 pages followed by 24 pages of a fascinating illustrated list of 'Boys' Books'. This includes early books by 'Percy G. Wodehouse'. .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Elegant bookplate of Mill Hill School on inside of front cover. 392 pages. 5" by almost 8". A couple of small ink marks on spine, and a couple of small indents on back cover. Otherwise a good tight copy. .

London: Chatto and Windus, 1958. First edition. UK hardback. 319 pp. 5" by 8". Ex-university library with usual stamps. Otherwise VG/VG in unclipped and mylar-protected DW. .

London: Hutchinson, 1998 0091784425. Hardback. Like new. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. DW is not price clipped. Signed on the title page by the author. Otherwise no inscriptions or annotations. Highly collectible. With Charlotte Gray, Sebastion Faulks concludes his French trilogy of novels which began with The Girl at the Lion d'Or and Birdsong. 393pp. Size: 240 x 160mm. .In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special oeprations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusistic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father, a Jewish painter whose inspiration has… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 2005 9780091794552. First edition. First printing of first UK hardback edition. Complete Numberline. Fine/Fine. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. As new. 6" by 9.5". 615 pages. A fascinating novel about the lives of two men dedicated to discovering the reasons for madness and its possible cures. The historical sweep covers the later 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a heavy item so extra postage will be required. .

London: Atlantic Books, 2001 1903809134. First edition. Original paperback. Fine. 193 pages including index. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979 0224013599. First edition. Hardback. VG/VG. DW bright, intact and not price clipped. 431 pages including index and end pages of maps. Lavishly illustrated in B/W and colour. Over 6" by 9". .

London: Collins, 1960. First edition. Hardback. Very Good copy but with previous owner's inscription. No DW but cartoon-illustrated boards. .

London: Bloomsbury, 2016 9781408845134. Soft cover. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. 443 pages incuding index, detailed notes and select bibliography. Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2017. As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered, and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the Allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation, but from the start they were anxious to provide for the minds as well as the physical needs of the German people. Reconstruction was to be cultural as well as practical: denazification and re-education would be key to future peace and the arts crucial in modelling alternative, less militaristic, ways of life. Germany was to be reborn;… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. Second paperback edition rebound professionally in hard covers. Ex-university library.. Front blank end-page removed. No inscriptions or annotations. 702 pages including detailed index. "This volume wii rightly remain for some years the most staisfactory one-volume history we have of Allied diplomacy on World War ii." Journal of Modern History. .

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998 0316646652. Hardback. Blue cloth, gold titles. First Edition. 449pp & xii, & map. Detailed index. 8vo. VG/Fine. This would be Fine/Fine except that some sections have been marked in the margin in ink. No other inscriptions or annnotations. The Trouble with France: an incisive survey of modern France and the problems it faces. Taking in all the major themes of French identity and exploring how they have been undermined, Fenby argues that France has lost direction. "Mr. Fenby says that France is special and this fascinationg book tells why." Chris Patten. "In bright, shrewd prose Jonathan Fenby paints a lively portrait of France on the edge, Well worth reading." Douglas Hurd. This is a heavy book which may need extra postage. .

London: Allen Lane, 1998 0713992468. First edition. Hardback. First printing of first edition. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. Black cloth with gilt title. No inscriptions or annotations. As new. Over 6" by 9.5". 624 pages including index, B/W plates and illustrations. This is a heavy book which will require extra postage. .

London: Tyndall, 1975 0859490653. First edition. Hardback. Neat inscription on front end-page but otherwise VG/VG. Unclipped. 48 pages packed with b/w illustrations of the history of the steam locomotive. .

London: Europa Editions,2015 9781609451349. Softcover. Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. 471 pages. Some ruffling to base of spine but no creasing to spine or cover. No annotations or inscriptions etc. Not many facts are known about Elena Ferrante's biography due to the author's anonymity. She has claimed in interviews that she was born in Naples, the daughter of a seamstress, and that she has three sisters. Her knowledge of classical literature has also led critics to claim that she must have studied literature. The Neapolitan Novels is a set of four novels published between 2011 and 2015. They tell the life story of two perceptive and intelligent girls, Lila and Lenu, born in Naples in 1944, who try to create lives for themselves within a violent and stultifying culture. The series consists of My Brilliant Friend (2012), The Story of a New Name (2013), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2014), and The Story of the Lost Child (2015), which was nominated for the Strega Prize, the most prestigious… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1993 071813141x. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. DW not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 337 pages including index. 6" by 9.5". "This vivid and wide-ranging narrative of the British way of sex since 1900 is the history of us all..." .