Search Results: Titles starting with M from David Edward Hellawell

London:Hutchinson, 1997 0091801613. First Edition. First printing. Hardback. VG/VG. Complete numberline. DW not price clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. Slight bumping to spine and slight creasing to DW. Over 6" by 9.5". 343 pages. 8 pages of photos. Fry's autobiography has been hailed as "in turns funny, shocking, sad, bruisingly frank and always compulsively readable, could well become a classic gay coming-of-age memoir." .

London: Everyman's Library CLASSICS, 2001 1857151682. Hardback. 9781857151682. Fine/Fine. DW is not price-clipped. Silk ribbon page marker is still in place. Dimension: 208 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. 320 pages. No inscriptions or annotations. This copy was once in a school library as indicated by a small neat stamp (easily covered) on first end page, but it seems to me it was never taken out because it is otherwise pristine. This was a publication issued to UK schools as part of the 'Millennium Project. First assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, the eleven stories in The Mabinogion reach far back into the oral traditions of Welsh poetry. Closely linked to the Arthurian legends - King Arthur himself appears in one of the stories - they summon up a world of mystery and magic which is still evoked by the landscape so vividly described in them. .

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988 0297793365. First edition. Hardback. VG/G. Some minor creasing and one small repair to DW. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. 182 pages including index. Nearly 9" by 5.5". A re-appraisal of Thomas Babington Macaulay in the series 'Historians on Historians.' .

London: Macmillan, 2000 0333724208. First edition. First printing of first hardback edition. Complete Numberline. Fine/Fine. 436 pages. Over 6" by 9.5". Travellers' Tales from the doyen of BBC Foreign Affairs TV and Radio coverage. The second volume of the 3 autobiographical writings by the BBC's World Affairs Editor. (The sequel to 'Strange Places, Questionable People' and the precursor to 'News From No Man's Land'.) Many B/W photos. This is a heavy item and will require extra postage. .

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015 9781474600231. Hardback. First edition. Fine/Fine. Like new. No inscriptions or annotations. The DW is not price clipped. Illustrated in colour and in monochrome. 353 pages. WINNER OF BEST MEMOIR AT THE WOMAN & HOME READERS' CHOICE AWARDS 2016 AND A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Michael Coveney is one of the country's most respected writers on theatre. Formerly staff critic for the Financial Times, the Observer and the Daily Mail, he has since 2006 been associated with the leading West End website WhatsOnStage.com. He has unprecedented access to Dame Maggie Smith's personal archives and curated the recent BFI season of her film and television work. No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. From her days as a star of West End… Read More

London: Penguin, 2022 9780241970584. Softback. Fine. Excellent condition. No creasing to spine. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 438 pages. Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize. From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. 'The Magician' tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear..vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never settle again in the country that inspired his creativity. Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth… Read More

London: Century, 2003 0712681515. First edition. First printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. 560 pages. 6" by 9.5". An excellent account of the espionage activities leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union:- the factual background to the film 'Charlie Wilson's War'. .

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library copy with usual stamps, pencilled notations and burn mark on later pages. A reading copy only. .

New York: Random House, 1996 0679459553. Fine in Good unclipped dust jacket. whose only flaw is some creasing to top. First American edition as stated. Usual superior American binding. No inscriptions or annotations. The 380 pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. "Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, 'The Liar' and 'The Hippopotamus'. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humour is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden. In 'Making History', Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first… Read More

London: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1993 1856191656. First edition. Hardback. First printing. VG/VG. Signed by the author on title page. Otherwise no annotations or inscriptions. DW has some repair on reverse side but is intact and not price-clipped. The autobiography of a railway worker's son who, with dazzling speed, rose to be one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. This book chronicles how, against the odds, the author achieved his ambition. In his early 20s, he was running London's Arts Theatre, putting on provocative plays, including "Waiting for Godot". Three years later he staged his first opera, and directed Olivier and Ashcroft at Stratford-upon-Avon. Before he was 30 he had created the Royal Shakespeare Company. Few men take such risks or live so fully, and his new book illuminates his complex, intriguing personality. He describes the ups and downs of his controversial professional and private life and shines light on the many artists involved in his… Read More

London: Collins, 1976 0002115425. First edition. Hardback. VG/G with owner's name on front end-page. Unclipped DW has one neat strengthening repair on reverse side and repaired and creased bottom right hand corner. 369 pages. .

London: Macmillan, 2009 9780230709423. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. Not price clipped. 452 pages. 8vo - over 6" - 9.5" tall This is a heavy book which wil require extra postage. Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of… Read More

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

Barnstaple: Chilton Designs Publishers, 2003 0950352799. Hardback reprint. Fine in VG DW. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. 237 pages. Nearly 9" by 5.5". Dark green clothboards with gilt blocking to spine. "This scenario is tailor made for Vernon Coleman's light and amusing anecdotes about country life and pursuits. His fans will lap it up." Sunday Independent .

London: Isis, 1992 1850893721. Large print hardback. In the series 'Keating's Choice'. No DW. Pictorial boards. Over 6" by 9.5". 276 pages. Ex-library with the usual stamps but no inscriptions and this is a bright, clean, tight copy. Introduction by H. R. F. Keating. .

London: Orion, 2018 9781409179726. Hardcover. First edition. First printing. Fine/VG. DW has slight nick (repaired) but DW is not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotaions etc. 263 pages. Size = 8vo. From writer and producer on HBO's THE WIRE and THE DEUCE comes one of the most critically-acclaimed crime novels of the year: 'He is, quite simply, among America's finest crime writers. This latest story does not disappoint ... lyrical, beautifully observed and constantly surprising, it is a delight' Daily Mail 'In his first novel for five years, Pelecanos demonstrates why he deserves to be regarded as one of the best American crime novelists "Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington,… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 2001 0571205380. First edition. Complete numberline. Soft cover. VG. No inscriptions or annotations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1812, two mighty armies manoeuvred across the Spanish plains. They were finely balanced, under skilful leaders. Each struggled to gain an advantage. Wellington knew that if he defeated the French, he could turn the tide of the war. Good intelligence was paramount, but the French were using a code of unrivalled complexity - the 'Great Paris Cipher'. It was an unprecedented challenge, and Wellington looked to one man to break the code: Major George Scovell. Using a network of Spanish guerrillas, Scovell amassed a stack of coded French messages, and set to work decrypting them.As a man of low birth, Scovell - even with his genius for languages, and bravery on a dozen battlefields - struggled for advancement amongst Wellington's inner circle of wealthier, better connected officers. Mark Urban draws on a wealth… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994 0297814109. Hardback reprint in year of publication. VG/VG. 9.5" x 6". Very slight rubbing at base of spine and corresponding slight mark inside DW. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. "The amazing inside story of the 5000-year-old body found trapped in a glacier in the Alps." The first authentic account by the leader of the scientific investigation who has since died, thus becoming in tabloid language another in the long line of 'victims of the curse of the ice-man.' 305 pages including index. IIlustrated with drawings and colour photos. .

Harleston, Norfolk: Edgeways, 2002 0907839681. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. DW not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. Over 8.5" by 5.5". 212 pages including index. A well reasoned polemic against managerialism in a wide range of modern British bureaucratic organisations. .

Birmingham: Questions Publishing, 1999 1841900117. First edition. Paperback. As new. No DW as published. 126 pages. No inscriptions. A humorous look at insane managerial practices in the educational workplace. Sideswipes at interviews, consultancy, business, theses, inspections, governors, parental choice etc. .