Search Results: Titles starting with K from David Edward Hellawell

London: Panther, 1968. Paperback. Reprint. Good. No annotations or inscriptions. 320 pages. The book was inspired by Malaparte's experiences as a war correspondent at the Eastern Front of World War II. It presents itself as Malaparte's personal witness account of intense violence and cruelty,The book was an international success. Already at the publication, several European critics perceived the book's narrator as a fictionalised author persona, and the book as an attempt from Malaparte to position himself after Italy's defeat and his own past as a fascist sympathiser. When the English translation was published in 1946, Kirkus Reviews received it as a true account and called it "a subtly brilliant piece of writing" where Malaparte is "whipping the sensibilities to a sharp awareness of the degradation of Europe, of the utter collapse of morality, integrity, and so on". .

London: Methuen & Co, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 391pp.including index. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Foxing to numerous pages. Some bumping to top and bottom of spine. No DW. Otherwise a very acceptable reading copy. .No inscriptions or annotations. Frontispiece of Marx. An early comprehensive study of the life of this economist and political activist. .

London: John Murray, 2016 9781444796261. Hardcover. First edition. First printing. Number 1. Fine/Fine. DW is not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 310 pages including index, family tree, colour plates, notes, bibliography. 'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times. "Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen. Katherine now reached the Tower of London, her final destination. Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII and cousin to the executed Anne Boleyn. She first came to court as a young girl of fourteen, but even prior to that her fate had been sealed and she was doomed to die. She was beheaded in 1542 for crimes of adultery and treason, in one of the most sensational scandals of the Tudor age. The traditional story of Henry VIII's fifth queen dwells on her sexual exploits before she… Read More

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: Profile/Faber, 2016 9781781256497. Hardback . First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. 736 pages. 25 colour and 5 b/w photographs on plates. Alan Bennett's memories and diary entries from 2005 to 2015, covering the decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre and the films of 'The History Boys' and 'The Lady in the Van'. An ' As New' copy, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. This is a very heavy item which may require extra postage. .

London: Hutchinson 1996 0091791901. First edition. First printing . Hardback. 310 pp. Previous owner's bookplate. Otherwise VG in VG unclipped DW. No inscriptions. .

London: Corgi, 1988. First edition. Paperback. VG. 202 pages. The author whose literary qualities were only 'discovered' after his death. Now the source of classic films such as 'The Getaway'. .

London: Gollancz:, 1986 0575037547. First edition. Hardback. VG. No DW. 233 pages. The third V. I. Warshawski novel. No inscriptions or annotations. NOT ex-library. Where we learn what the I in V I. stands for and why. .

London: Chatto & Windus, 2009 9780701181659. First Edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Ex-library but rarely taken out and in excellent condition. Hence Fine/Fine. Not price-clipped. Mylar-protected DW. No annotations or inscriptions. 983 pages. This is a very heavy book which will require extra postage costs. Originally written in French, this novel won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in France and numerous other literary prizes. "A monument of contemporary literature." Le Figaro. .

London:Victor Gollancz, 2000 057506837X. Hardback. First edition. Ez-library with front end page removed. Otherwise VG/VG in milar protective covering. 274 pages. No inscriptions or annotations. Furst sets his characters in the pre-WWII espionage world. Fantastic detail and atmosphere of the rise of the Third Reich and its effect on Hungary. "Alan Furst's new novel brings alive one of the lesser known locales of the Second World War: Hungary, which managed against all odds to preserve its neutrality until 1944, after which it paid a terrible price for those uneasy years of peace. The novel's canvas ranges from Paris in the west to Russia in the east, and confirms Furst's standing as the leading contemporary novelist of espionage and war. "Furst's ability to recreate the terrors of espionage is matchless." .

London: The Literary Guild, 1969 029717858x. First book club edition thus. VG/VG apart from small 'puncture' on the top gilt line above the title on the spine and small repaired nick at the top edge of the back of the unclipped DW. Otherwise a bright, clean and tight copy. 604 pages including index. The history of the failed German revolutions at the end of the Great War. This is a heavy item so extra postage may be required. .

London: Collins, 1955. Second impression in year of publication of this hardback edition. VG/G. (DW is slightly scuffed at edges and price-clipped but otherwise intact.) 510 pages including index. An authoritative history of the years leading up to the English Civil War. Dust jacket, although price-clipped is much better than the one in the photo!. Some slight wear at the edges and one nick repaired. The first of the author's celebrated works on The Great Rebellion. This first volume covers the four eventful years preceding the Civil War in England. How did the men and women of that time think and feel and why did they act as they did leading to civil war and the death of a king. 510 pages with 10 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition and is NOT ex-library. .

London: Collins, 1959. Second hardback impression of this authoritative history of the English Civil War. VG/G. (DW scuffed at edges but unclipped and intact.) 703 pages including index. This is the second volume of the celebrated historian's works on The Great Rebellion. .

London: Hutchinson, 1992 0091752183. First edition. Hardback. 345 pp. Fine in Fine unclipped DW. No inscriptions. Almost 9.5" by 6". .

London: Grafton 1987 0246131586. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Unclipped. 216 pages including index, 14 b/w plates etc. 'Moss went to great pains to study all the documents relating to Fuchs and interviewed everyone who had contact with him. His spy thriller is better than fiction.' - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS German-born Klaus Fuchs escaped the Nazi regime in 1933 and sought refuge in Britain. Regarded as a genius, the introverted physics student hid his communist beliefs from his peers. The scientist's brilliance led to his recruitment, by the British, to develop the secret atom bomb project. At this point, Fuchs turned spy and began to pass on nuclear research secrets to the Soviet Regime. As time passed, the refugee's sense of loyalty to his friends and Britain led to him to doubt his actions and he reported less information to Russia. The British arrested Fuchs in 1950, after the FBI had decoded his Soviet messages. In August 1988, the Russians acknowledged for the first time the key… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. First edition. Hardback. VG/G. Slight fading of lettering on spine and widely repaired but intact and unclipped DW which figures a drawing by George Grosz on the front cover. No inscriptions. 285 pages including index plus B&W drawings and photos. Tucholsky was the leading satirist in Weimar Germany from the fall of the Kaiser to the accession to power of the Nazis. .