Search Results: Titles starting with D from William Robertson

London: BBC, 1991. Hardcover. Good/good. Good/Good. Published in conjunction with the major BBC television documentary series of the same name. The author was given unprecedented access to the lives and work of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) special agents, America's 'frontline troops' in the war against the Latin-American drug cartels. With insightful and often harrowing detail, we follow the dangerous, frustrating and obsessive nature of their work, and find out why law enforcement alone can never win the war against drugs. Size, 24 x 16cm, 228 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos and 4 maps. Scarlet cloth boards in good dust jacket showing slight wear at corners. Internally good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

Basingstoke: Automobile Association, 1993. Leatherette. Fine. Fine/-. A complete guide to all of Britain's 59 racecourses, plus several in Ireland. Includes map of each course with essential information on how to get there, admission details (correct at publication date), dress codes, facilities, calendar of events and local accomodation and eating places. Masses of facts and figures for the racing pundit. Contains 248 pages, 21.5 x 15cm, and illustrated throughout with line drawings, maps and charts. Olive-green leatherette boards with gold-effect metal reinforcements on front corners, gilt decor and lettering on front boards, showing small silver initials (A.H. - previous owner?) on bottom/right corner, else in Fine condition. Internally, Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.

London: Pavilion , 1993. Paperback. Fine. Fine/-. Based on the Talkback/Yorkshire TV series written by Dean Lemmon and Andrew Montgomery. The story is set in 1946 and follows two recently demobbed soldiers and their attempts to break into show business. The series starred some of the best known names in British comedy TV, including Griff Rhys Jones and Martin Clunes in the lead roles, with Amanda Redman, James Faulkner, Samantha Janus, Les Dawson, Liz Fraser and George Melly. A very funny item of TV nostalgia. Size, 21.5 x 14cm, 192 pages. Pictorial card covers in fine condition. Internally, fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.

London: Headline, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A detailed look into the heart of USAMRIID (the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) and its struggle to respond to the post-911 terrorist threat from biological weapons. In particular it describes the controversial work of scientist, Peter Jahrling, to find a smallpox vaccine before terror groups can genetically engineer a super-resistant strain. The author worried us with his earlier book, 'The Hot Zone' - this time he positively scares us rigid! Essential reading for students of global terror trends and capabilities. Contains 310 pages, 24 x 15.5cm, including index. Blue cloth boards in Fine illustrated dust jacket. Internally, Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.

Konigstein-in-Taunus: Langewiesche , 1975. Reprint. Cardboard Covers. Very Good +. A beautiful photographic collection of wood carvings and sculptures on the Mediaeval altar in the Herrgottskirche, Creglingen, Germany. Accompanying text in German. Size, 20.5 x 15.5cm, 48 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photos. Grey card covers enclosed in very good+ pictorial card jacket. Internally, very good+: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.

London: Robert Hale , 1990. Hardcover. Good/good. The memoirs of a British nurse in the Western Desert during World War II. Size, 22 x 14.5cm, 171 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpapers removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, good: clean, bright and unmarked in sound bindings.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Hardcover. Fair/good. The full story of Operation Torch, which on 8 November 1942 landed more than 100,000 troops on the shores of North Africa in the Allies first major offensive operation of WWII. This was the largest amphibious invasion ever attempted at that stage of the war, involving more than 500 American and British warships, supply vessels and troop transports. The ultimate aim of Torch was to initiate the process that would eventually lead to the destruction of Hitler's Third Reich - as such, its success was crucial to everything that came after, including the D-Day landings in Normandy two years later. Size, 24 x 16cm, 366 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos and documents, 2 maps. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Red cloth boards in good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, fair: ocassional stains, otherwise a fair reading copy. -Free UK Shipping

Frankfurt : Buchergilde Gutenberg , 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Very Good/fair jacket. A photographic celebration of Germany, with special emphasis on its Mediaeval past, accompanied by informative German language text. The atmospheric images (c.1956) of towns, castles, manor houses and villages provide a glimpse of past architectural splendour for the historian or tourist. Size, 25 x 19.5cm, 46 pages of text, with 240 full-page b&w photos. Orange cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket showing small cuts to edges, otherwise in fair condition, very good internally: small neat inscription in German on front endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

London: Barrie & Jenkins , 1978. Hardcover. Good +/very good. London: Barrie & Jenkins , 1978. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Hardback. 1st edition. Good+/Very Good. Outstanding international reference work to furniture, metalwork, glass and ceramics from the Regency to Art Deco periods. Lavishly illustrated with over 1,500 entries arranged alphabetically. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally good+: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

Carnforth: Parthenon, 1992. Paperback. Fine. Fine/-. A practical and systematic reference resource for a wide variety of syndromes that are currently recognised and commonly used throughout the field of medicine. From acute nephritis syndrome to Zollinger-Ellison syndrome it offers concise and detailed definintions that will be invaluable to a wide range of physicians, medical students and other health professionals. Size, 24 x 16cm, 202 pages. Card covers in Fine condition. Internally Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.

Berlin: Berlag von St.Anaur , 1929. Hardcover. Fair. Berlin: Berlag von St.Anaur , 1929. Hardcover. Fair. Hardback. 1st edition. Fair. Contains 517 pages, 19 x 12cm. German text in Gothic lettering. Green cloth boards showing moderate age staining and fading. No dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated, sun-faded spine with gilt titles, showing some very light wear to head & toe; small bell tower with gilt bell, cross and sunrays on front cover, otherwise boards in Fair condition. Internally, shows moderate foxing on endpapers and small owner's signature on free front endpaper, otherwise in Good condition: clean, bright and unmarked in sound bindings.

London/New York: W.W.Norton, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An unusual look at the Titanic disaster. Here, the author shows the cultural impact the loss of the ship had on America. Down through the years just about every social group - feminists, radicals, reformers, capitalists, communists, racists, xenophobes, critics of technology and modern life, editorial writers, folk singers, preachers and poets, etc, etc - has found something in the Titanic tragedy to champion their cause. The 'Titanic story' continues to crop up in the modern day, sometimes in very peculiar - even bizarre - ways. Fascinating stuff for social historians or anyone with an interest in this undying legend. Contains 300 pages, 21.5 x 14.5cm, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, very good: generally clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Exceptional condition for ex-library example.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A highly detailed account of 'Operation Grapple' - Britain's series of test drops of her new H-Bomb, code-named Blue Danube, on two bomb ranges in the Pacific. The author dropped the first of these weapons, from a Valiant jet-bomber, on 15 May 1957. More tests were to follow, and this is the full story of how these top-secret experiments were carried out. Though primarily concerned with RAF operations, the author gives a good overall impression of what it was like to live and work in difficult conditions, under extreme security measures. Packed with technical details and illustrations of the aircraft used for the drops, and the many modifications that had to be carried out to prepare them. A fascinating volume of early Cold War history. Contains 196 pages, 24 x 17.5cm, and illustrated throughout with b&w photos plus maps and technical drawings. Black cloth boards in Very Good+ illustrated dust jacket. Internally, Fine: clean, bright… Read More

London: Weidenfeld&Nicolson, 1985. Hardcover. Good/very good. Used. Good/Very Good Jacket. Hardcover. Fond biography of this Hollywood legend. Size, 23 x 14.5cm, 372 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Brown cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, shows slight age yellowing of page edges, otherwise in good condition: clean and unmarked in sound bindings.