Search Results: Titles starting with R from David Edward Hellawell

London: Cassell, 1980 0304305758. Hardback. First issue thus. VG/VG. DW has NOT been price-clipped but one small nick has been invisibly repaired. Inscription by former owner on front end page neatly written Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 168 pp. plus index. Profusely illustrated with color photos. One of the Series: 'Imperial Visions, The Rise and Fall of Empires'-- 'Religion at the Crossroads' is in two parts: 'Byzantium' by Joyce Milton, and 'The Turks' by Rafael Steinberg and Sarah Lewis; from the Preface: "The two civilizations--Byzantine and Turkish--that played out their rivalry across the Aegean as the Middle Ages waned have always proved enigmatic to Western Europeans. Cosmopolitan, exotic Byzantium has exercised a perennial fascination on the imagination of the West and yet has stubbornly eluded understanding. The Turkish Empire has emerged as the West's foremost caricature of the cruel and alien state menacing and at the same time alluring in its violence and sensuousness."

Norwich: Jarrold, 1989 071170435X. Hardback. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. 1st edn. No annotations or inscriptions. 256pp, illustrated throughout, mainly in colour with some half tone and line. Grey cloth lettered in metallic blue at spine and upper board, decorative head and tail bands, maps at endpapers, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper. "...a fascinating mixture of streets and shops, waterways and parks, theatres and concert halls. Beautifiully illustrated with specially commissioned photographs and unique archive material. A highly unusual and entertaining celebration of the city and the countryside in the Victorian age. .

London: Simon & Schuster, 2020 9781471197710. Hardback. Like new. First Edition. First Printing. Complete numberline. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price-clipped). Pages xxii + 452, illustrated with photos. No annotations, inscriptions or highlighting etc. Woodward, the No 1 international best-selling author of 'Fear: Trump in the White House' has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1976 0333187628. First edition. Hardback. VG in slightly scuffed but unclipped DW. Previous owner's bookplate. 270 pp. .

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. .

London: Blandford Press, 1969 0713700807. First edition. Hardback in the series 'Railways of the World in Colour'.. DW price-clipped but otherwise Fine/Very Good. 186 pages with profuse colour illustrations. .

Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1972 0521083885. Hardback first edition. VG. No DW. 252 pages including extensive notes, bibliography and index. . 8vo.-over 7"-9" tall. Light brown cloth with green printed spine label, lettered in gold. No inscriptions but a few neat markings in margins. Publisher's hardback; firm and square with strong hinges, not showing any snags or splits; NOT ex-library so no stamps etc. The Gedichte an die Nacht is a collection of 22 poems composed between January 1913 and February 1914, which Rilke copied into a manuscript book for his friend Rudolf Kassner in about 1916. The importance of the poems as a collection lies in the fact that they were written during the period of composition of Rilke's most outstanding work, the Duinese Elegien, and they show the poet at work on ideas and motifs which are central to the elegies. The first part of the book analyses the poems thematically, whilst the second part gives the results of this analysis wider application. During the… Read More

London: Jarrolds, 1958. First edition. Hardback. VG. No Dustwrapper. Signed by author to Marilyn Rosenberg on title page. 223 pages. No annotations or inscriptions. Book is dedicated to Henry Williamson. Book has brown cloth boards with very little wear and very clean. This is a novel about the discovery of black-winged stilts (an extremely rare and migratory wanderer to Britain) nesting in Wiltshire and of the ensuing disturbance to the area by the media and twitchers. The author was a well-known journalist and environmentalist. .

London: Arena, 1984 0099340003. First edition. Paperback. Small marks at bottom of front edge but otherwise VG. 310 pages. .

London: Phoenix, 1999 0753810298. VG paperback edition. A bright, shiny copy. No inscriptions. 216 pages. "Deeply moving, sensitive enough to make me wince, a Holocaust novel, but light years away from the common run." Ruth Rendell .

New York: The Free Press, 1952. Hardback. Ex-university library with usual stamps and one mark on cover but otherwise VG. No DW but in illustrated boards so probably not issued with one. The 2003 Guardian obituary of Merton is neatly pasted on the inside cover and front end page. 464 pages including extensive bibliography. Some of the classic analyses of bureaucracy. .

London: Dorling KIndersley, 2000 B0012MD3SG. Fine. Hardback. No DW. 10.5" x 6". Original illustrated boards. 672 pages. Many colour photographs. This book is a highly visual encyclopedic guidebook that guarantees you make the most of your visit - before, during and after your stay. More than 750 full-colour photographs, taken specially for this guide, show you the rich and varied British countryside at its finest. 672 pages with roadmap. .

London: Reader's Digest, 1987. First edition. Hardback without dust wrapper. Date of January 30th 1987 carefully inscribed at top of front end page but otherwise Fine. 736 pages.Richly illustrated with colour photographs, drawings and maps throughout the text. A geographical dictionary of countries, cities and natural and man-made wonders. A very heavy book so extra postage will be necessary. .

London: Fourth Estate/Helicon, 1995. First trade paperback edition. No DW. Some pages have been sellotaped to spine. Oherwise Good. 825 pages. An indispensable guide to the great writers in English of the twentieth century. This is a heavy item and some extra postage may be required. .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991 0393029484. First edition (stated). Hardback. VG. No inscriptions or annotations. No DW. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 285 pages. Blue boards. The extradordinary inside story of their "special relationship". How personal friendship and political sympathy between the British Prime Minister and the American President helped shape great events during their years in power. A well-researched and authoritative study. The inside story of the friendship, and political partnership that changed world events from the Falklands War to Perestroika. International affairs such the Falklands War, American bombing of Libya, American invasion of Grenada, Irangate, and more. With Bibliography and Index. A very good plus copy. .

London: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2011 9780857384270. Softcover. Fine. Like new. No numberline but looks like first edition thus.No annotations or inscriptions. 224 pages including index and bibliography. Profusely illustrated in colour and B/W. 8vo (15 - 25cm tall) In New York City in the late 1950s and the 1960s - the era and location of TV's Mad Men - advertising went through a revolution. In a booming market, a punchy and proud new workforce of younger, multi-ethnic writers and art directors gorged themselves on a vibrant and artistic social scene. In many ways they were similar to Don Draper, Roger Sterling and Peggy Olsen: confident, driven and ambitious, they lived the three-martini life and worked the machine to their advantage. Also clever, creative and streetwise, they outclassed and outthought the old advertising establishment, implementing a new way of thinking and behaving which spread across the newspapers, magazines and TV screens of America and beyond. The story of modern… Read More

London: Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton, 2013 9781444776751. Hardback. Fine/Fine. LIke New. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. First edition. Second Printing. Number 2. 192 pages. 205 x 137mm."One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism." The account of life as a child with autism, now an award-winning documentary film. 'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew Solomon, The Times What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - with autism is thinking and feeling? This groundbreaking book, written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirteen, provides some answers. Severely autistic and non-verbal, Naoki learnt to communicate by using a 'cardboard keyboard' - and what he has to say gives a rare insight into an autistically-wired mind. He explains behaviour he's aware can be baffling such as why he likes to jump and why some people with autism dislike being touched; he describes how he perceives and navigates the world, sharing… Read More

London: Constable, 1970 0094523509. Fifth impression of the classic account of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Good/Good. DW is intact and unclipped but foxed on the edge of the inside flap of the back cover.Light foxing traces also on top and front edges of book. 293 pages including index but excluding coloured sketch map of battlefield folded at end of book. One colour plate and 5 b/w plates. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1995 0224037137. First Edition. First impression. Complete numberline. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 189 pages. Anthology of stories, poems, and essays. The doyenne of crime writers introduces her own selection of extracts from classic literature, to illustrate and cast light upon the minds of those who murder. .

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999 000225543X. First edition. First printing of first hardback edition. Complete numberline. VG/VG. Bumped at base of spine and small corresponding nick on DW repaired.4 small indentations on DW and front cover. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. 258 pages. 6" by almost 9.5". An excellent copy of this uncommon first edition. .