Search Results: Authors starting with O from David Edward Hellawell

London: Penguin/Michael Joseph, 2009 9780718154370. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Number 1. Fine/Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. 240 mm. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt titling to spine. Illustrated. Maps. 310 pages. Publisher's blurb: "Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence; these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in "Tickling the English". O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show on tour around the country - from deserted seaside towns and remote off-shore islands, to sprawling industrial cities and sleepy suburbs - it's clear to him that his adopted home is still a bit of an enigma." .

London: Victor Gollancz, 1979 05752562x. Hardback. First edition. No DW. No annnotations or inscriptions. Some slight wear to edges of covers. Some creasing to front end pages. Otherwise VG. 8vo, 327 pages including notes on sources, appendices, index and discography. Many B/W photos. This is the biography of the singer Maggie Teyte. Dame Maggie Teyte, DBE (17 April 1888 – 26 May 1976) was an English operatic soprano and interpreter of French art song. She was born in Wolverhampton and lived there until 1898 when her family moved to London where Teyte attended St. Joseph's Convent School, Snow Hill, and later studied at the Royal School of Music. She was most celebrated in France. During World War II, Teyte sang in a series of concerts sponsored by the French Committee of National Liberation for which she received the Gold Cross of Lorraine for services to France. In 1958, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. .

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974 0297767356. First edition. Hardback. VG in VG unclipped DW except for revised price in biro. No inscription. 191 pages. .

London: WH Allen/Penguin, 2019 9780753553121. Paperback. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. No inscriptions or annotations. 232 pages. "Every day, James OBrien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James's daily LBC show such essential listening , and has made James a standout social media star, is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning. In the bestselling How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards. If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide. .

London: Hutchinson, 1994 009178638x. First edition. First Printing. Hardback. 282pp. VG in good unclipped DW. No inscriptions. .

London: Quality Paperbacks Direct, 2000. Trade paperback reprint. One page corner previously turned down. Otherwise VG. A tight copy. No inscriptions. 372 pages. Over 5" by 8.5". An astonishingly accomplished first novel. .

London: Doubleday, 2007 9780552773966. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. VG/VG. No annotations or inscriptions. 498pp including Author's note, bibliography, index. .Price un-clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Heavy book. Black hardback (gilt lettering to the spine). "Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler. But here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now.. .In this "Horrible History for Grown Ups", you can read how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; 'Look I think we have to try and respect the religious customs of our new Viking friends - oi, he's nicked my bloody ox!' Discover how… Read More

London: Heron Books, 1968?. Hardback edition in the 'Women Who Made History' series. First thus. Olive green covers with gilt titles on embellished spine. No DW as published. No inscriptions. On a very few pages significant sentences have been neatly underlined in biro but otherwise this is VG. 354 pages with 23 illustrations some of which are in colour. 2 maps. This is a very handsome edition of a book first published in French in 1965. .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982 0297781065. First edition. Hardback. Almost 9.5" by 6". 305 pages including index, plus many B/W photos. Small neat inscriptions on blank end page opposite title page, but otherwise VG in very worn DW which has had some repairs but is intact apart from being price clipped. (I will throw in as a bonus offer a VG uninscribed paperback copy of Melvyn Bragg's excellent 126 page biography of Olivier as revised in 1989 after the latter's death in that year.) Laurence Olivier was a true legend. No classical actor had ever been such a dazzling star. No star had been such a magnificent actor. In this marvellous autobiography Laurence Olivier tells his own story: his brilliant career as actor, director, film-maker and producer; his role as husband to three women including Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright; and his many friendships - with Sir Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward and Sir Winston Churchill, to name just a few. CONFESSIONS OF AN ACTOR is more than… Read More

London: William Heineman, 2003 0434008680. First edition. Fine/Fine. Hardback. Complete numberline. No inscriptions or annotations. Illustrated boards for covers. 495 pages. Members of the Polish Air Force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Royal Air Force's most successful ace pilots. During the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the all-Polish Kosciuszko Squadron - 303 Squadron to the RAF - shot down more German planes than any other squadron. According to Britain's wartime air force minister, without the Polish pilots 'our shortage of trained pilots would have made it impossible to defeat the German air force and so win the Battle'. This gripping book tells the story of the Polish pilots, who flew and fought for the British RAF in World War Two. It follows five of these pilots from defeat in Poland and France to… Read More

London: Cassell, 2018 9781788400626. Hardback. Fine. First edition. First printing. Number 01. 256 pages..8.25x5.25x1.00 inches. No inscriptions or annotations. Katherine Ormerod, journalist and social media mogul, is here to burst the Instagram bubble and discuss the real effects of social media 'perfection'. The internet has set destructive standards of flawlessness and comparison. We're working so hard to live up to these new benchmarks that we're burning ourselves out, and we're working so hard to maintain them that we're self-perpetuating an unobtainable reality. Until girls and women alike see the social media fantasies for what they are - constructed realities - and stop comparing their lifestyles, bodies, partners, even families to those seen on their feeds and screens, they will never be able to realize their potential in the workplace, in the political system or in their quest for happiness. In How Social Media is Ruining Your Life, Katherine explodes our… Read More

London: Grove Presss, 2017 9781611836217. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition. Second printing. Unclipped dust wrapper. No annotations or inscriptions. An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture. This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P.J. put it, America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692. So why not put Hillary on the dunking stool? In How the Hell Did This Happen?, P.J. brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some seriously risky business. .

London: Picador, 1995 0330335820. First printing.First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. No inscription. 341 pages. .

London: Grove Press UK, 2011 9781611855852. Softcover. First edition. First impression. Complete number line. Fine. Seems unread. No creasing, annotations or inscriptions. 265 pages. P. J. O'Rourke is one of his generations' most celebrated political humorists, hailed as the funniest writer in America by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. Twenty-three years ago, he published the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he trotted the globe as a trouble tourist, a chaos rubberneck, sight-seeing at wars, rebellions, riots, political crises, and other monuments of human folly. After the Iraq War too old to keep being scared stiff and too stiff to keep sleeping on the ground he retired from what foreign correspondents call being a s**thole specialist. But he couldnt give up traveling to ridiculous places, often with his wife and three young children in tow. Usually, he was left wishing he were under artillery fire again. O'Rourke's journeys take him to locales both near (and nearly bizarre) and… Read More

London: Anthony Blond, 1971 0218511361. First edition. UK hardback. 159 pp. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc.. Otherwise VG/VG in unclipped and mylar-bound DW. Raspberry coloured boards with bright silver gilt titling to the spine, with a blind stamped illustration on the front board. In the original publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Illustrated with line-drawings in b/w. The controversial dramatist's posthumously published novel. "Ortons' Posthumously published novel. Here in a single volume is presented Orton's solitary attempt at a novel ('Head to Toe', originally titled 'The Vision of Gombold Proval') alongside the doomed Beatles screenplay ('Up Against It') that should have seen him become a household name." .

London: Macmillan/BBC, 1989 0333441826. Hardcover. First edition. First printing. VG/VG. The DW is not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions but with indentation on front cover.. 364 pp Select bibliography, references & appendix, B & W photographic, map & other illus., tall 8vo. This is the story of how each state reacts to the crisis of 1930s, the story of their road to war.It recaptures the concerns, anxietes and prejudices of the statesmen in that time and the people they led. This is a controversial book. Nineteen forty-five remains a great divide, and the horrifying experience of the war years colours and distorts our understanding of the 1930s from which the war sprang. This book sets out to ask, without resort to hindsight, why the world's great powers found themselves involved in this war of greatest destruction between 1939-45. .

London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2001 0713993502. Hardback. Fine/Fine but DW is price clipped. First edition. First printing. Number 1. 650 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 58 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography. Publisher's description: "While the trial of Hitler's fallen elite at Nuremberg has been thoroughly documented, the interval between the Nazis' capture in May and June 1945 and the start of the actual trial in late November has until now remained shrouded in shadow. With 'Interrogations', acclaimed historian Richard Overy opens a new window into the Third Reich, providing an intimate glimpse of the savage dictatorship in its death throes. More than thirty transcripts of the interrogations are reproduced here for the first time, allowing us to hear the voices of the newly captured "Hitler gang" including Goering, Speer, and Hess as they squirmed under the Allies' glare. 'Interrogations' is the stark and disturbing history… Read More

London: Quintet Publishing, 2002 1856058344. First edition thus. Hardback. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. Not price clipped. 240 pages. 18.5 cms by 26 cms. Profusely illustrated with colour photos. Covers many of the most notorious and significant crimes; mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. .

Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970 0901571164. First hardback edition thus of book first published in 1901. VG/G. DW is mylar-protected but shows some signs of wear on edges. Intact. Book is in excellent condition and has gilt lettering on brown cloth covers. 357 pages including prologue. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. The historical development of the pottery industry from Waterloo to the Boer War. .