Search Results: Authors starting with J from David Edward Hellawell

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975 0521204852. Hardback reprint of second edition which contains new material from N. J. M. Richardson. VG/G. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. DW somewhat rubbed with one very minor nick repaired. Black cloth with gilt title to spine. 246 pages (including index) with 35 maps and diagrams. Over 8.5" by 5.5". A collection of essays by historians who are acknowledged experts in this field. .

USA: Andesite Press, 2015 9781297549861. Hardback. Fine. Like new. I asume this is a facsimile of the original first edition and first printing. Gray cloth binding with gold stamping. 514 pages. Original Copyright 1891, Introduction by Henry M. Field; Appendix by Margaret J. Pre Jackson. 8vo blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver. . Among the end pages is a photocopy of the date stamp page from the original in the University Library of the Universiy of California at Santa Cruz. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other… Read More

Michigan State University Press, 1967 (No place of publication stated.). First edition. Hardback. Some bumping of spine and edges, and dust wrapper is repaired but intact. Long inscription on front end-page. Otherwise VG/VG. 150 pp. incl. bibliography. 8vo - over 7and 3/4" by 9 3/4" tall. An attempt to deconstruct what is perhaps Kafka's most celebrated novel. .

London: Picador, 1988 0330303740. First edition. First printing of first trade paperback . Top of front cover is badly creased with nick at top of spine repaired. Otherwise Good. 223 pages. .

London: Jonathan Cape, !975 0224011855. Second impression in year of publication. Softcover. Front top right hand edge creased. Otherwise VG. No inscriptions or annotations. Illustrations by Marc. 97 pages. .

London: BBC Books,1993 056336274x. First edition. Hardback. Neatly inscribed as gift on first title page. Otherwise Fine/Fine. Unclipped.DW. No other annotations or inscriptions. 256 pages including index. Imperial octavo. Lavishly illustrated in b/w and colour. Accompanying Clive James's BBC Television series, this book traces how the invention and development of mass communications - press, radio, film and television - has transformed the nature of fame, and how the famous have dealt with that fame. The key international figures of the 20th century, in politics, cinema, art, literature, theatre, music, science, crime and sport, are brought together and examined. The many personalities featured include Edison, Einstein, Ford, Picasso, Chaplin, Lenin, Valentino, Disney, Lindbergh, Garbo, Astair, Hemingway, Hitler, Roosevelt, Callas, Sinatra, Monroe, Stalin, Presley, Muhammed Ali, Howard Hughes, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, The Princess of Wales, Reagan and Madonna.This is a large item so extra postage… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983 0224020668. First edition. Hardback. VG/VG. 8.75" by 5.5". 280 pages. The third and last of James' collections of TV commentary. The most perceptive critic of his time, James' columns were the first thing many people turned to in the Observer newspaper of that decade. His perceptions still have the capacity to startle with their wit and wisdom. .

London: Picador, 2009 9780330457361. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Compete numberline. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover, 325 pages. "Clive James on TV" is now in book form. For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written work took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. Nevertheless, for those who remember clips of Japanese endurance gameshows and Egyptian soap operas, Clive reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, Clive's 'Postcards' from Kenya, Shanghai and Dallas, or Clive James Racing Driver, Clive's rightful place does seem to be right there - on the box, in our homes, and almost one of the family. However you think of him, though, and whatever you remember him for, "The Blaze of Obscurity" is perhaps Clive's most brilliant… Read More

London: Picador, 1993 0330331213. First printing of first trade paperback. First edition. Some passages neatly highlighted, but otherwise VG. 208 pages including index. .

London: Picador, 1983 0330269941. First edition. Trade paperback. Some slight creasing on covers but otherwise VG. 287 pages. .

London: Bodleian Library, 2009. 9781851243099. First edition first printing hardback in dust jacket. Fine book in Fine dust jacket. Like new. Book has no inscriptions or annotations, no marks, no damage, is clean and bright, no rolling or spine lean, no weakness to hinges, in tight binding, unfaded, corners are sharp, pages are clean and complete, in fine jacket that is not faded, no tears, no marks, no creases, no bumps, not price-clipped, not a remainder, not an ex-library copy. P. D. James explores the metamorphosis of a genre which has gripped and entertained the popular imagination like no other type of novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From one of the most widely admired--and widely read--writers of detective fiction at work today comes an illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem and those writers who have satisfied it. Essential for every lover of detective fiction. A dissertation by one of modern crime writing's most acclaimed authors on the subject of… Read More

London: Bodleian Library, 2009. 9781851243099. Hardback First Edition. First Printing. Fine/Fine. DW is not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions.160 pages including bibliography. To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P.D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her for more than fifty years as a novelist. From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Village Priest from Cubhole in Essex, from the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars to the achievements of the present and a glimpse at the future, P.D. James explores the metamorphosis of a genre which has gripped and entertained the popular imagination like no other type of novel. Written by… Read More

London:faber and faber, 1990 0571144926. First edition. First hardback edition thus. VG/VG. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Over 6" by 9.5". 751 pages. This is a heavy item so extra postage will be required. "The three novels selected for this, my first Faber Omnibus, are among my personal favourites..." from the introduction by the author. .

London: Heinemann, 1960. Only the second hardback edition of a book first published in 1905. G/G. DW is RU one with fine photo of Henry James on the back cover. Some markings on front end pages along with a stuck-in label of Three Barrels Brandy! Slight nick at top of spine. Otherwise Good. Lots of B/W line drawing illustrations by Anthony Gross. 250 pages including index. 5.5" by 8.5". Edited with an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Alma Louise whose post-graduate and doctoral dissertations provided much of the source material. .

London: Folio Society, 2001. Fine. Hardcover. Excellent volume featuring the photography of Francis Frith married to contemporary accounts of the regions of Britain he recorded. Contains a host of b/w (sepia) images of London, Yorkshire et al. with text by Charles Kingsley, Thomas Carlyle, Henry James and more. Complete with slipcase. Fine/as new. No dustjacket as issued. Green boards with photographic pictures to the front cover and bright gilt titling to the spine. Housed in the Original, Fine Green slipcase. No annotations or inscriptions. With texts by various writers, selected by Roger Hudson. Illustrated with sepia photographs. 298 pp. Biographical Notes on the Writers; Sources. Overall, This is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'As New' copy. "This is a historical travel account of Britain; using a variety of photographs and written narratives." ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . . Would make an excellent gift copy. This is a heavy book which will requite extra postage. .

London: Derek Verschoyle, 1953. First Edition. Hardback. VG/Poor. The book itself is in excellent condition apart from pencilled margin lines to indicate significant passages and a previous owner's name inscribed neatly on front end page. The dustwrapper has heavy wear and a number of tears which have been repaired with sellotape. These conversations with Kaka took place in Prague between 1920 and 1924. They were compiled from notebooks and diaries when the author was in close contact with Kafka. Their veracity has been confirmed by Kafka's lifelong friend and literary executor, Max Brod, and Kafka's last girlfriend, Dora Dymant. As Brod indicates, these reports of conversations give an intimate picture of Kafka and contain some of the quotations most often cited by other biographers etc. .

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 0198631588. First hardback edition. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. 515 pages. This is a heavy item so extra postage will be required. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972 0224006789. First edition.Hardback. V. Good/Good. Black cloth. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Some ageing of DW but it is intact and unrepaired. The book itself has no fading to the gilt lettering and embossing on spine. 269 pages including index. Over 8.5" by 5.5". "A brilliant mixture of evolutionary theory and expert inside knowledge about business." The author later became famous for his 'Yes, Minister' and 'Yes, Prime Minister' TV scripts. .

London:Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000 0297643673. First Edition. First printing. Hardback. Near Fine/Fine. The only marks on the book are very small white stickers on the front and back of the corner edge of the page opposite the title page. 383 pages including index. Many coloured photos. Over 6" by 9.5". .

Bridgend: Wales: Seren Books, 1992 1854110500. Soft cover. Fine. First edition thus. First printing. Looks unread. ISBN 13: 9781854110503. No annotations, highlighting or inscriptions. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far with limited signs of wear, largely clean pages and spine remains undamaged. Glossy cover. 148 pages. Contains B/W Illustrations. The poetry of A.E. Housman is being rediscovered. His volume A Shropshire Lad led him to be considered the finest poet in England. Housman's work, popular, accessible, pessimistic, fell from favour in the post-war period but as his times are reassessed there is a growing interest in his authentic voice.