Resultados de búsqueda: Libros de David Edward Hellawell

London: Penguin, 2013 9780141345659. Softcover. First edition. 4th impression. Fine. No annotations or inscriptioons etc. Like New.: 317 pages *'rxtras'A book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once." Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love." Praise for The Fault in Our Stars: Sunday Times (Culture) 'A touching, often fiercely funny novel' The Sun on Sunday (Fabulous Magazine) 'So good I think it should be compulsory reading for everyone!' Daily Express. 'John Green brilliantly captures the voices of a… Leer más

London: Fourth Estate,1999 9781857028355. Paperback. Fine. No inscriptions or annotations etcetera. 352 Pages. The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. The genome is our 100,000 or so genes. The genome is the collective recipe for the building and running of the human body. These 100,000 genes are sited across 23 pairs of chromosomes. Genome, a book of about 100,000 words, is divided into 23 chapters, a chapter for each chromosome. The first chromosome, for example, contains our oldest genes, genes which we have in common with plants. By looking at our genes we can see the story of our evolution, what makes us individual, how our sexuality is determined, how we acquire language, why we are vunerable to certain diseases, how mind has arisen. Genome also argues for the genetic foundations of free will. While many believe that genetics proves biological determinism,… Leer más

Bradford-on Avon, Wiltshire: Moonraker Press, 1978 9780239002433. Soft cover. VG. Second Impression. Large: 9.5 x 7.5. 253 pages including notes, list of 142 illustrations, bibliographgy and detailed index. No annotations or inscriptions etc. No creasing to covers or spine. This edition produced specially for the SS Great Britain project. Enclosed is an illustrated 'Mendip Card' titled 'Brunel in Bristol' which outlines Brunels's engineering achievements in Bristol including the building of SS Great Britain. Brunel's SS Great Britain is one of the most important historic ships in the world. When she was launched in 1843, she was called 'the greatest experiment since the creation'. No one had ever designed so vast a ship, nor had the vision to build it of iron. Brunel fitted her with a 1000 hp steam engine, the most powerful yet used at sea. Perhaps most daring of all, Brunel rejected using conventional paddle wheels to drive his ship. Instead, he gave the SS Great Britain a screw propeller. This was… Leer más

Softcover. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Small nick at base of spine. Otherwise, VG. No annotations or inscriptions. 360 pages. Collectible. In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg of the German Secret Service drew up a list of 2,694 people believed to be living in Britain, who were known enemies of the Reich. In that month, the Wehrmacht was poised across the Channel ready to hit Britain with blitzkrieg, the terrible and hugely successful tactic that had already overwhelmed Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France. The names on Schellenberg's list represent the heart and soul of a nation that made the British what they were but the List also includes a diaspora from Europe - the intellectuals, politicians, and writers who had been driven out of their own homelands by the speed of the German conquests. All human life is there - lives that were, to the Nazis, unworthy of life. Historians have found the List a curiosity. Surely, it cannot be real? It was. The… Leer más

Hardback.. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. 4th impression of First Edition. No annotations or inscriptions. Like New. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The dust wrapper is in excellent condition with neatly placed sticker marking Betjeman Centenary in 2006. 375 pages including index.. A new life of John Betjeman by an award-winning biographer, published to mark the centenary of the poet's birth. John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies. As poet laureate of England, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet best known for writing hymns of praise to athletic middle-class girls on the tennis courts led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his fifty-year marriage to Penelope Chetwode, the daughter of a field marshal, Betjeman had a… Leer más

London: Heinemann, 1996 9780434003563. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 327 pages. The first novel by the creator of Dame Edna Everage. An imaginative and often hilarious exploration of the highs and lows of the media world. Mrs Petty is a famous housewife with a successful TV show. She is also Derek Pettyfer - fiftyish, cultured, set in his ways. His arrival at any party, however sophisticated, always provokes a discreet little frisson amongst the guests. But Derek is also lonely. .

London: Headline, 2008 9780755336210. Softcover. First edition. Trade paperback. Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. 280 pages. It's 29 December 1940, the night that Hitler has chosen to destroy London under a barrage of flaming incendiary bombs. Their main target - St Paul's cathedral - is where Francis Hancock is sheltering from the onslaught. But the First World War veteran doesn't just have bombs to contend with on this night. A young girl, who was also sheltering in the cathedral, mysteriously goes missing. Then some of those charged with protecting the building are brutally murdered. Francis must face both his own demons and fears in his struggle to catch those responsible and bring them to justice. £5.00.

London: Hutchinson, 2001 9780091794347. Hardback. First edition. First Printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. DW is NOT price-clipped. 384 pages.. 241 x 162 x 57 mm, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe. Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved? This old nursery rhyme is a favourite of Jerry Leach (if that is the name he is using at the time), a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing victims. One he even married once and abandoned, while promising to marry another. But, with the cruel irony he would be the first to recognize in that nursery rhyme, Jerry, almost accidentally, becomes the victim of one of his female prey.'It is not only her rate of productivity which is startling. It is also her ability . to tap into registers of feeling which range from the commonplace to the psychopathic. She is to be treasured.'Anita Brookner, Spectator. 'Rendell is not only irresistible because of the… Leer más

London: Penguin, 2019 9780241972137. Paperback..VG. Some creasing to spine. No inscriptions or annotations etc. 370 pages including Bibliography, References and detailed index. *The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRE. A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, The man was a spy - a senior KGB officer, for more than a decade, he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So… Leer más

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960. First edition. Paperback. Some minor creasing but otherwise Very Good. 313 pages. Her fourth published novel when she was stil readable. .

London: Viking, 1995 0670854891. Sixth printing of first hardback edition. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. No inscription. 278 pp. .

London: HarperCollins, 1998 0006384277. First printing of first UK paperback edition. Fine. This is a bright, tight copy. No inscriptions. 364 pages including index plus 16 pages of B/W plates and numerous maps. "Required reading for anyone wishing to think more clearly about what Islam, and its fundamentalists, mean for the contemporary world." A. C. Grayling .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955. First edition. Paperback. Covers protected but repaired and with torn front end paper with piece missing. Figure 158 in biro inside front cover and on front endpaper. Otherwise Good. 252 pages. .

London: Oxford University Press, 1982 0192813706. First edition. Paperback Inscribed neatly on first end-paper but otherwise VG. 250 pages including index, references, notes and 5 plates. A biography "worthy of its enchanting subject".. .

Paris: Plon, 1977 2259002943. First editionFirst printing of first French paperback edition. Some slight creases to covers but otherwise VG. This is a bright, tight copy. No inscriptions. 436 pages. A masterly historical setting of the scene for the defeat of the French in WWII. From the Paris cabarets to the Maginot Line, the author paints an unforgettable picture of French life just before the catastrophe of the invasion. .

London: Phoenix Giants, 1995 1857993659. First soft cover edition thus. VG. 421 pages including index.. Some slight creasing of covers.. No inscriptions or annotations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleages, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries all are subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power." Illustrated in B/W and colour. . .

London: Longmans Young Books, 1969 0582163250. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc. Many pencilled markings. .

New York: Henry Holt, 2009 0805088946. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Complete Numberline. Stated first edition. Fine/Fine. Hardback. DW not price clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. Tan boards, red spine with gold-color lettering. 318 [1] pages. Unclipped jacket. Excellent condition. 9½" x 6¼". Dust cover art by Vaughn Andrews. "An intelligently written, pulse-pounding thriller. Brent Ghelfi is the new le Carre." .

London: Bodley Head, 1982 0370304764. First edition. Hardback. Fine in very slightly creased dust wrapper with one very small nick repaired but otherwise VG. No inscriptions. 4to -over 9 3/4" -12" tall. 239 pages including index. A bright, clean copy. Beautifully and profusely illustrated with colour and B/W stills from the television productions. A magisterial overview of some of the best productions from a golden decade of British TV with perceptive comments on the authors of the original books from which they were adapted. This is a heavy item and will require extra postage. .

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Somewhat bumped and creased at edges but a good copy internally. .