Search Results: Authors starting with M from David Edward Hellawell

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968 029776196x. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc. Otherwise Fine/Fine. Unclipped and mylar-protected DW. 886 pages including index. This scholarly tome is the definitive history of the Hapsburg Empire in the English language. This is a heavy item so extra postage may be required. .

London: Orion Paperbacks, (Crime Masterworks) 2002 0752847678. Softcover.. Acceptable Reading Copy. Some creasing and wear to spine. No inscriptions or annotations etc. 200 pages. The first in the series of Travis McGee crime thrillers. If you enjoy this as much as I did then you will be overjoyed that MacDonald wrote more than 20 novels in the Travis McGee series. Perhaps the first writer to capture the unique climate and culture of Florida. . .

London: Heron Books, 1968. Hardback. Heron Books Collectors' edition. No DW as published. Size = octavo: 8vo. Fine. 416 pages. No annotations or inscriptions. An excellent example of the handsome books which Heron printed in Switzerland in the 1960s. Maroon/gilt hardback leatherette cover with outstanding gilt decoration, decorative end pages, Pages clean and white. Place marker silk ribbon in place. Excellent sized print. Gilt titles on spine. Would make a fine gift. MacInnes wrote 21 espionage thrillers, four of which (including The Salzburg Connection) were later adapted as films. Her early books were set during the Second World War, often featuring lay people who become spies or otherwise caught up in acting on behalf of the Allied war effort. She is now seen as one of the first female authors featuring her understanding and inside knowledge of espionage .

London: Viking, 2022 9780241408520. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Number 001. Fine/VG. DW is not price-clipperd. No inscriotions or annotations etc.. 384 pp. including Appendix, Notes BIbliography etcetera and numerous photo plates. From the bestselling author of 'The Spy and the Traitor', a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons -- and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors. In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict,. .

London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014 9781408851739. Trade paperback. Fine. Like New. No creases to spine or cover. No annotations, inscriptions etc. 368 pages including notes, bibliography and index. 8vo. Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and… Read More

London: Penguin, 2019 9780241972137. Paperback..VG. Some creasing to spine. No inscriptions or annotations etc. 370 pages including Bibliography, References and detailed index. *The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRE. A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, The man was a spy - a senior KGB officer, for more than a decade, he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So… Read More

Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1998 1840180579. First edition. First printing of first UK hardback edition. Fine/Fine. 320 pages including index and 12 pages of B/W plates. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Over 6" by 9.5". The first major biography of Jones in over forty years. Dr Mackay is an award winning biographer. .

London: BCA, 1977. Hardback BCA publication in year of first publication. VG/VG. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. 208 pages including index, bibliography and list of the very many illustrations, 16 of which are colour plates. 6.5" by 9.5". A fascinating study of the Neolithlic prehistoric stone constructions in Western Europe; from the Orkneys to the Iberian peninsula. By the Assistant Keeper of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow. .

London: Elek Books, 1956. First edition. Hard to find first hardback edition. No DW. Covers have some marks and bumping. Otherwise a good tight copy. 184 pages. Dedicated to Anthony Powell who immortalised the author as X Trapnel in 'A Dance To The Music Of Time'. Literary musings and parodies of Wodehouse, Chandler etc.The book ends with a poignant personal memoir of the poet Alun Lewis whose death in Burma in 1944 was for the first time in a national journal unequivocally declared to be suicide by Andrew Motion only on 12 June 2004. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 2000 0224060791. First edition. First printing of first hardback edition. VG/VG. No inscriptions. Unclipped. 6" by 9.5". A novel based on the history of the foundations of Canada and the family history of the author up to the 1980s. The llnks between Scotland and e.g. Nova Scotia are well documented. "You will find scenes from this majestic novel burned into your mind for ever." Alice Munro. Winner of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award in 2001, which was then the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction. .

London: Macmillan, 1976. Reprint in first year after publication. Ex-university library but only taken out once. Usual stamps etc. Otherwise VG/ VG. Unclipped DW in crinkled mylar-protection. 240 pages with many illustrations. .

London: Profile Books, 2014 9781846682735. First edition softcover. Fine. Like new. No annotations or inscriptions. First printing. Complete numberline. 699 pages including index.. Width: 130Mm. Height: 199Mm. Depth: 48Mm. Weight: 606G. Winner of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013. The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war which could have been avoided up to the last moment - so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century, and ending with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, award-winning historian Margaret MacMillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes,… Read More

London: Robert Hale, 1951. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Fore-edges spotted and foxed. Corners bumped. Otherwise Good. 334 pages including index. Playbills as endpapers. A history of the West End of London and its theatres. Many photographs. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Hardback. Second Impression of this book first published in 1945. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc. Otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protected and unclipped DW. 735 pages.This is a heavy item so extra postage may be required. .

Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1981 0711011532. First edition. Hardback. VG/VG. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. Previous owner's neat name and address label on front end page. 128 pages. 7" by 9.5". Lavishly illustrated with B/W photos throughout. .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 5th revised hardback edition with 20,000 profiles. Fine in VG unclipped DW. No inscription. 1604 pages. This is a heavy item so extra postage may be required. .

Oxford University: Clarendon Press, 1997 0198764855. Second printing of first edition of revised paperback version. Two creases to back corners of covers. Otherwise VG. This is a bright, tight copy. No inscriptions. No annotations. 1267 pages. This is a heavy item so extra postage will be required. "We aimed at producing a criminology handbook which would provide students with authoritative overviews of the major issues that most criminolgy courses cover..." "...quite simply an outstanding achievement...the only text that is authoritative, comprehensive and serious enough to be the basis of an entire course in criminology." Professor Stan Cohen .

London: Chatto and Windus, 1979 070112427x. First edition. UK hardback. 362 pp. Ex-university library with usual stamps but otherwise Fine in Fine mylar-bound and unclipped DW. .

London: Eyre Methuen, 1973 0413452204. First edition. UK hardback. 204pp. Ex-university library apparently only taken out once. Usual stamps but otherwise a VG copy in VG unclipped and mylar-protected DW. .

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". .