Search Results: Titles starting with U from David Edward Hellawell

Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1969. DDR hardback edition. VG. Some underlinings etc; mainly in pencil. Edited by Elisabeth Hauptmann and Rosemarie Hill. Neat clean copy without dustwrapper. Previous owner's name neatly inscribed at foot of front endpage. Some annotations. 196 pages including index. A collection of Brecht's writings about lyric poetry. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. First edition. Paperback. No inscriptions. 2 tea cup rings on back cover and slight nick at base of spine. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. 219 pages. .

London: Cassell, 1969 0304933929. First edition.Hardback. G/G. Ex-library with usual stamps pasted over inside front cover with photo-copied obituary of writer. Mylar-bound and unclipped. DW. Some stains to DW and edges of book and occasionally on pages, but a better ex-library copy than many. The story of Marx's great rival for the heart of German socialism. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Price crossed out on cover and new price inserted. Heavily inscribed on inside of front cover. First end-pages coming loose. Otherwise Good. 240 pages. .

London: Collins, 1970 0002214121. First edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine mylar protected but price clipped DW. No inscription. 253 pages. .

London: Quartet Books, 1982 0704323257. First edition. Hardback. VG/VG. Unclipped. 226 pages. An important study of those who were unemployed in the 1980s and the underlying causes plus possible solutions. .

London: Fontana, 1976 0006341160. Revised paperback edition. VG. 255 pages including footnotes, index and bibliography. No inscriptions. This is a bright, tight copy. As much a discussion of trends in philosophy in the twentieth century as autobiography. "...a splendid introduction to the man and his ideas. .

London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library. G/G. Unclipped. A good reading copy only. 319 pages. .

London: Penguin and Michael Joseph Ltd, 2002 9780718145088. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Number 1. 448 pages. DW is NOT price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations etcetera. Excellent copy. What might it take to open to a life that's drenched in love? In a world ruled by notions of scarcity, how might we discover that the more freely we give love, the more we have to give? Might peace of mind follow if we could think more about how to be loving than about our hungry dreams of how love might save us? We take seriously almost everything but love. We improve our skills in almost everything except how to give and receive more freely within our relationships. We ask each other constantly what we "do" for a living, not how well we live. We move our attention away from the people we love for years at a time. And we wonder why the relationships we intended to value and honour break down or disappear. An absence of love is somethng that countless people experience on a… Read More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996 0297817906. First hardback edition. Fine/Near Fine because DW is slightly rubbed but Not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. Gilt lettering on red boards. 481 pages. A very clever plot based on the realities of the secrecy surrounding the Normandy landings on D-Day. A page-turning spy thriller in the tradition of Ken Follett. In 1943 London, a mild-mannered academic and friend of Churchill is drafted into MI5 to help break the most crucial intelligence case of World War II: the existence of a Nazi spy ring in England dedicated to uncovering D-Day invasion plans. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 454 pages. Publisher Marketing: "Catherine Blake is the model war widow. Ever since she lost her RAF pilot husband in the Battle of Britain, this beautiful aristocrat has kept a stiff upper lip while caring for victims of the blitz in London's hospitals. The problem is that Catherine Blake is also a deep-cover Nazi spy, charged by Hitler with uncovering the details of… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997 0399142851. First Edition. First printing . Hardback. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. No inscriptions.338 pp. .

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994 0192116819. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. A typically handsome binding for this publisher. DW is not price clipped. 471 pages including index. 14 cms by 22 cms. "You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet." .

London: 2005, Faber & Faber and Profile Books 0571228305. Fine/ Fine. First Edition.7th printing. Hardback. Fine/ Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. DW not price-clipped. Green covers (gilt lettering to the spine). 658 pages illustrated with colour, b/w photos. Bennett's first collection of prose since 'Writing Home', containing family memoirs, his diaries for the years 1996-2004, essays, reviews, lectures et cetera. Included with the book are two picture postcards written by Bennett to one of his readers.This is a heavy book which wil require extra postage. .

London: Faber and Faber, 1994 0571171974. First edition. First printing of trade paperback edition. Creases on covers and two corners of pages. Small stains on bottom edge. Otherwise a very good clean copy. 422 pages. .

London: Eyre Methuen, 1974 0413326608. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library with the usual stamps, and some small marks on back cover, but only removed twice and otherwise Very Good. No DW but illustrated boards as issued, 96 pages. .

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