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London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1988 This book club edition by arrangement with Phoebe Phillips Editions and George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Original dustjacket - not price clipped - Dj edges and corners slightly worn. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Illustrated throughout - b/w and colour; list of the kings & queens of the period; 13 pages of maps. This "tells the story of the last hundred years of the dynasty founded by Henry II in 1154 - it begins in 1377 with the accession to the throne of Richard II and ends in 1485 with the death on Bosworth Field of the enigmatic Richard III. More than 100 short essays, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, provide background information on the people and politics, manners, mores and customs of a formative epoch in English and European history.

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006 Minimal shelf and age wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. No internal markings, clean text pages. Colour and black & white photographs; black & white illustrations by Danny McBride. David writes on the flap "This book is my opportunity to print something from my heart, to tell the truth about what happened to me on the long and winding road from Baltimore to Baywatch to Broadway - and beyond. And the truth is not to be found in tabloid stories but in my actions: I am a good father and have tried to be a good husband. I love people and the emotional rollercoaster that goes with human relationships. I love all the bewildering, crazy, and wonderful things that life has to offer. This book is about my successes and my failures. And, above all, it is about the hope contained in the Knight Rider slogan: "One man can make a difference"." David Hasselhoff (The Hoff) has been descirbed as a 'living legend', this… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with age and shelf wear around the edges also has a very small indentation to the front near the spine. Book pages have yellowing around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not fared well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with slight shelf wear around the top edges of the jacket. Book pages have very slight tanning around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not faired well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.

London, United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1986 [First published 1986]. This edition is now out of print. 218pp. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - jacket has slight browning around top edge. Jacket design: Claudia Zeff; illustration by Michael Munday. The top edge has some brown spotting. Clean text pages no internal markings. In this novel the sense of alienation and uncertainty which lies beneath and beyond politics and the struggle for power is compellingly evoked. By exploring the themes of love, loyalty and betrayal, and of tradition versus modernity, Christopher Hope creates a world where illusion and game-playing are not merely a refuge, but the means for self-preservation.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased and paperback editions (actually copied by Faber from corrected page proofs). Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 18 September 1989.] 55pp. Green soft cover. Clean text pages. "Wolfwatching" was Hughes' 14th collection of poetry - he digs deeply into his own childhood and his family history, as well as writing about nature's violence and the meaning he finds in it. Included in the collection is the poem "The Black Rhino" written for the purpose of raising funds to save this endangered animal. The Library Journal considered reading Wolfwatching was "like visiting a zoo envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch: we're caught between fright and fascination". He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. Ted Hughes is considered one of England's finest modern poets - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year in two… Read More