Search Results: Titles starting with Q from David Edward Hellawell

London: Heinemann, 2003 0434010006. First Edition. First printing. Complete numberline. VG/VG. DW is price-clipped. 8vo - over 7 3/4 "-9 3/4 " tall. 635 pages followed by numerous pages of B/W maps, medieval engravings etc. Black hardback cloth cover. This is a very heavy book which will require extra postage costs. "An extraordinarily evocative picture of a turbulent, apocalyptic 16th century Europe." "Part thriller, part brilliantly clever novel of ideas", this has been a best seller all across Europe after its first publication in Italy by four young writers sheltering under a pseudonym. .

London: faber and faber, 2008 9780571233724. Hardback. First edition. Fine/Fine. DW is not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. 428 pages including index. Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from ambition to worry, (or from artichokes to woodpeckers), a book which offered you a useful take on almost every situation life throws at you (from the death of your child's hamster to the unified theory of everything), a sourcebook of wise one-liners, of knock-out jokes, of drole asides and heartfelt statements of truth and beauty, a practical handbook of interestingness , well, that would be worth having. And, guess what? Those thoughtful gentlemen at QI have come up with one. Five years of learning how to avoid the dull stuff have left the QI team… Read More

London: Longmans, 1959. First edition. Hardback. VG in no DW. Neat inscription. 4to. An 11 1/4" by 9" light corn buckram covered hardback. 307 pages including index and bibliography. 392 illustrations including some of Queen Victoria's own drawings, etchings and paintings. The life of the UK's longest serving monarch. This is a heavy item and may require extra postage. .

New York: Columbia University Press, 1996 9780231104807. Hardback. First Edition. First Printing. Fine/Fine. Like new. 0231104804. DW is not price-clipped. pp. xxi,+ 254. 9 x 6 x 0. With numerous illustrations in black & white from contemporary paintings and engravings. A fine hardback copy in fine unclipped and intact wrapper. Usual superior American binding. No annotations or inscriptions. Like new. Exploring the influence of Victoria on England's cultural history, this book adopts many different approaches to explore the various incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. Topics covered centre on those of importance to Victorian women and include fashion, marriage and menopause. "An unconventional fugure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The… Read More

New York: Mayflower Books, 1979. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine with no inscriptions in unclipped DW. 288 pages including index. Folio size. Profusely and beautifully illustrated in B/W and colour. This is a heavy item and extra postage may be required. .

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971 0715351532. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library but never apparently read so in Near Fine condition except for the usual labels etc. In Near Fine mylar-protected and unclipped DW. 368 pages including notes, bibliography, index etc. .

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1980 0048270229. Second impression hardback. VG in decorated boards. 127 pages including illustrations and index. An amusing anthology of humorous quotations. .