Search Results: Titles starting with Y from David Edward Hellawell

London: Little Brown and Company, 1999 0316643750. Hardback reprint in year of publication. A good, bright, tight copy. Fine/Fine. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. 230 pages including index. Over 5.5" by 8.5". The starting point for this book is the The Julius Work Calendar published in the writing studio of Canterbury Cathedral some time around AD 1020 which is now in the British Library. The writers are both investigative journalists who have interviewed the top historians and archaeologists in the field and their account of their investigations is both scholarly and eminently readable. Twelve monthly chapters decorated with line illustrations from the Wonder of Survival. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2012 9780340980439. First trade paperback edition. First printing. Number 1. 401 pages. 9" by 6" by 1". Largish print. No annotations or inscriptions. DECEMBER 1919. Tom Allen, uncomfortable in London after five years in uniform, receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Hannesford Court. It's almost as if nothing has changed. Cards in the library after dinner. The Boxing Day shoot. The New Year ball. Margot. But Tom hasn't forgotten the professor. A strange meeting in Germany has raised a question in his mind: in all his visits to Hannesford before the War, all those years observing the glittering life of its owners, how much did he ever really see? .

London: MacDonald & Co, 1968 0356023044. Hardback. First edition. VG. No DW. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth, 287 pp. No inscriptions or annotations but fine bookplate on front title page. This and front end page have been reinforced with white label. The story of Claud Cockburn's legendary political news-sheet which blew the gaff on the 1930s. An account of 'The Week', which began publication in 1933 under the control of its Marxist editor.. It was in many ways a precursor to 'Private Eye' in that many of the stories and disclosures of political and financial 'scandals' were provided by anonymous tip-offs. .

New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library but apparently only taken out twice. Usual stamps etc. but otherwise VG/VG in unclipped and mylar-bound DW. 500 pages including index. This is a heavy item so extra postage may be required. .

London: BBC, 1986 and 1987 0563204699. First hardback editions. VG in intact but somewhat worn DWs. Volume 1 = 256 pages and DW is price-clipped. Volume 2 = 240 pages, DW unclipped. ISBN for volume 2 = 0563205849 .

London: W. Nicholson and Sons, 1876. First edition. Hardback. Good. No DW. First few endpapers coming loose from binding and some wear to embossed covers but otherwise a good copy. No inscription. .

London: Kogan Page, 2001 0749431229. First hardback edition. Fine/Fine. Mint condition. No inscriptions or annotations. 133 pages including index. An analysis of the issues of apprenticeship, work-based learning, training and key skills. .

Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Stain on front edge but otherwise VG. 189 pages. A famous early novel by the celebrated Austrian author of 'The Man Without Qualities'. .

London: Faber and Faber, 1970 0571092330. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library copy with usual stamps etc. and some neat highlighting. Otherwise VG/VG in mylar-protected and unclipped DW. 272 pages. Essays which are still some of the best analyses of the development of youth culture and its consequences. .