Search Results: Titles starting with W from David Edward Hellawell

London: Cornell University Press, 1972 080140407x. Fourth printing of this hardback edition first published in 1966. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc and front end-paper removed. Otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protected and unclipped DW. No annotations or inscriptions. 330 pages including index, maps, b/w photos etc. "The first objective study of the Waffen-SS in any language." The Waffen-SS were garrisoned military forces in contrast to the General SS. The Waffen-SS fought alongside the Wehrmacht in 1939 and later. .

London: Jonathon Cape, 2002 0224060090. First edition. Fine/Fine. Hardback. First printing (complete numberline). No inscriptions or annotations. 509 pages including bibliography, notes and index. Very many illustrations and maps. .

London: Bloomsbury, 2012 9781408817742. Hardback. First printing of first edition. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. Black boards with bright gilt titling to spine. 353 pages.."Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate and particularly destructive. Moving from Vienna to London's West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force." Reviews: William Boyd is… Read More

London: AA, 1999 0749521031. Hardback reprint of book first published in 1992. Fine/VG. Pictorial covers. The only 'flaw' is that the bright and glossy DW is price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated with colour photos and maps throughout. B/W drawings by Andrew Hutchinson. 8.5" by 12" = just over A4 in size. A beautiful guide to 30 of Britain's long-distance footpaths including The Cotswold Way, South West Coast Path etc. Detailed instructions for sections that can becovered in an average day's walk. "The ideal companion for someone who enjoys a good walk." This is a heavy book which will require extra postage. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin 1937. Third printing of Penguin paperback edition. VG/G. No inscriptions. This is one of the very early Penguins = number 39. The book is a bright, tight copy which has been very well protected by the (rare) DW which is fraying on the front edge but is still intact. 256 pages. One of the detective writers of the 'golden age'. .

London: Andre Deutsch, 1994 0233988637. First edition. Hardback. Revised edition of book first published in the USA in 1993. VG/VG. No inscriptions or annotations. DW is intact but fraying edges have been repaired. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 305 pages including index and notes. This study reveals Walt Disney's association with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, first as an informant and then Special Agent, rooting out alleged Communists and 'subversives' in Hollywood. It also describes how his character and his films were developed from his childhood deprivations. .

London: Constable and Co, 1934. Seventh revised and enlarged hardback edition of book first published in 1927. Good. No DW. Previous owner's name and date inscribed on front endpage. Slight foxing on endpapers. Otherwise this is a bright, tight copy. Gilt lettering on spine still in excellent condition. 302 pages including table of biographical dates, extensive bibliography and index. 13 cms by nearly 20 cms. The classic text on the subject. .

London: Bantam Press, 2012 9780593065730. Hardback. First edition. First printing. VG/ VG. Slight creasing to spine and DW which is NOT price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 429 pages."Nebraska - and Jack Reacher, huge, hulking and with a freshly busted nose, is still trying to hitch a ride east to Virginia. He's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. Immediately he knows they're all lying about something - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. But they get through. Because the three are innocent? Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher a decoy?" .

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. First edition. UK hardback. 309 pp. Over 5" by 8". Ex-university library with usual stamps. Apparently never removed from library. Otherwise VG/VG in unclipped and mylar-protected DW. .

London: Hutchinson, 1983 0091532108. First edition. Harcback. Ex-library with usual stamps etc but otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protected DW. Two distinguished and very readable sociologists summarise the research on the family up to that time. .

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

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 0374286825. Hardback. First American edition as stated. First printing. Fine/Fine. 9780374286828. DW is not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 280 pages including index and very extensive and detailed bibliography. Usual superior American binding. A wonderfully witty, erudite, and insightful book about the way "things fall apart" -- about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies. In "The Way of All Flesh", Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they decay, provided they are given the chance, and that society's aversion to decay and mortality makes our lives shallow. 140 B&W illustrations. .

London: Secker and Warburg, 1969 0436187906. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc. Otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protectedand unclipped DW. 205 pages with b/w photos, index, bibliography etc. .

London: BCA/Bloomsbury Publishing,1991 9780747510352. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback. First BCA edition. VG/VG. First printing. Complete number line. 190 pages. Illustrated with 32 illustrations in B&W Photos. DW is NOT price-clipped but has one small mended nick. No annotations or inscriptions etc. Drawing on personal recollections of servicemen and their families returning home after the end of the war, the demob procedures, returning to the family home, finding employment including being trained. Contemporary accounts of a very emotive time. .

London: John Lehman,1946. Hardback. Good. Some fading to book covers and spine. First blank end page somewhat foxed. No DW. No inscriptions or annotations. 351 pages.Over 5" by 7.5". Later edition of book first published in English translation in1933 by the Hogarth Press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Bunin's only long novel which was also known as 'The Life of Arseniev'. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933, making Bunin the first Russian writer to be so honoured. Newspaper clipping from TLS of book review of a study of Bunin's fiction by James B. Woodward is enclosed. Two extracts from the latter are as follows: "No one has caught more brilliantly the act of falling in love, the fever chart of infatuation, or the blow to the heart of separation. He is the poet of the coup de foudre." This translation is described as "a masterly English version... of his lyrical autobiographical account of childhood and youth on a manorial estate in… Read More

London: MacMillan, 1971 0333126076. First edition. Hardback in 'Landscapes of Britain' series. Ex-university library copy with usual stamps but apparently only once taken out. Nevertheless, some pencil notations on one chapter. Otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protected and unclipped DW. 204 pages including index. .

Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1956. This hardback edition of Heine's collected works was published on the 100th anniversary of his death on 17 February 1856. The publishers are Heine's original publishers: a firm established in 1781. Over 7" by 4". 787 pages. VG in DW which has had a few nicks repaired and is a little soiled with age but still intact. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. This could be seen as a companion edition to the English translation of Heine's poetry and songs which is ref.1159. .

London: Macmillan, 1976. First edition. Paperback with hard boards for library use? Ex-university copy with usual stamps etc. Heavily marked on front edge to signify withdrawal from library. Otherwise a VG copy of what is now a historical document. .

London: MacMillan, 1971 0333058100. First edition. Hardback in this 'Landscapes of Britain' series. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc. but apparently never taken out. Otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protected and unclipped DW. 204 pages including index. .

London: Book Club Associates, 1974. Good reprint of book originally published in Norway in 1965. VG/G. Unclipped DW with one repair. 250 pages including index. Profusely illustrated with maps and b/w plates. .