Search Results: Authors starting with G from David Edward Hellawell

London: Secker and Warburg, 1972 0436171007. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/VG. Unclipped. 208 pages including index. An analysis of society by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 1971 and author of 'Inventing the Future'. .

London: Sphere, 2022 9780751584202. Hardback. First Edition. First Printing. Complete numberline. Fine/VG. DW is NOT price-clipped but has top edge invisibly reinforced.. 1024 pages. 16.2 x 5.8 x 24.2 cm Number one bestseller in the UK and Australia, Sunday Times, Irish Times, Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. After Harry Potter, the author chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader. She wanted to write a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story.J.K. Rowling's original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right. Now Robert Galbraith's true identity is widely known, J.K. Rowling continues to write the crime series under the Galbraith pseudonym to keep the distinction from her other writing and so people will know what to expect… Read More

London: Sphere, 2018 9780316422734. Black hardback with gilt lettering to the spine. Fine/Fine. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. 650pp. DW is NOT price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 4th thrilling instalment in the highly acclaimed, international bestselling series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling. Galbraith's "irresistible hero and heroine" (USA Today). When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency -… Read More

London: Little, Brown Book Group, 2020 9780751579932. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete number line. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annnotations or inscriptions etc. 944 pages. Item Weight 1340g. Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'Finely honed, superbly constructed' Daily Mail 'Terrific' Daily Express Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. Plus the pair are still battling their feelings for one another, while… Read More

London: Atlantic Books, 2003 1843542021. Paperback reprint. Unusual in having a dust jacket. Fine/Fine. A bright, tight copy. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. "A truly remarkable novel, steeped in contemporary history, yet at the same time transcending it. I was enthralled by its intensity and the immediacy of every small twist and turn of the story." Andre Brink. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. First edition. First printing of first UK paperback edition. A little wavy but otherwise this is a bright, tight copy. 221 pages. Subsequently translated into a Covent Garden ballet. Picture of author on back cover. One of the Bloomsbury group. This is an early study of race relations when a black woman comes to a rural Dorset village. .

London: Gower, 1991 0566029405. First edition. Hardback. Some neat highlighting but otherwise VG/VG. Unclipped. 168 pages. An eminently practical guide to setting up and developing as a consultant. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979 0140049495. First edition. First Penguin paperback edition. Not an easy book to locate. Ex-university library with the usual stamps plus some transparent reinforcement of cover which has helped to protect book. This is in otherwise Good condition. A photocopied review of the author's colourful autobiography has been pasted inside the front cover and front end page and this covers over the withdrawal stamps etc.The same has been done with blank labels to cover stamps and reinforce on title pages. 511 pages including index plus 12 pages of B/W photos. No inscriptions. .

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: Collins, 1972 0002112930. First edition. First English hardback edition of the memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen 1942-1971. VG/VG. DW is price clipped. One inscription inside front cover. 381 pages including index. 22 b/w plates. This is a fuller version than the original German one published the previous year where Gehlen felt obliged to leave out a great deal of important material. The first spymaster of the former West Germany analyses the German and other intelligence agencies from Hitler's War to the accession to power of Willy Brandt. .

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: 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: Polity Press, 1996 0784561762X. First edition. VG. First Paperback Printing. Complete numberline. Well bound with no spine creasing, clean and free of marking, pages bright. Slight creasing to back cover and very slight marking to front block edge. Previous owner's name neatly inscribed on front end page. Some neat highlighting of a few key arguments but no other inscriptions or annotations. 288 pages includoing index. In this book the author challenges the marginality of sociology arguing that:":...sociology continues to hold a central position within the social sciences. Looking both to the past of sociology and at the diversity of intellectual trends found in the present-day, Gidddens explores many aspects of the sociological heritage." .

London: Constable, 2002 1841195537. First edition. Hardback. Slightly bumped on spine with corresponding effect on top edge of bright, unclipped DW but otherwise VG/VG. No inscriptions. 258 pages including index. 21 cms by 14.5 cms."This controversial book deals with the nature of human greed and the eternal quest for power that, in every era and culture, has determined why world events happened as they did." .

London: Heinemann, 1983 0434291870. First Reprint in year of publication. VG/VG. Some wear at edges of price-clipped D/W but no tears.8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx + 1308 pages including index, numerous maps and 24 pages of plates from B/W photos. No inscriptions or annotations. Previous owner's attractive ex-libris bookplate inside front cover. The key volume in Martin Gilbert's magisterial biography of Churchill (Volume VI). Brown boards with gilt lettering to the spine. This is a very heavy book and will require additional shipping charges. . .

London: Pan, 2003 0330488651. Soft cover. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine except for crease to rear cover. No inscriptions or annotations. 524 pages including index. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2002. For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation. The people of France were either bold members of the Resistance or craven collaborators. In this riveting and provocative study, Robert Gildea reveals a rather different story, a story which shows that the truth lies - as so often - somewhere in between.`Excellent... a peculiarly rich book, enlightening about conscription, forced labour, the role of the Catholic Church, sex between German soldiers and French women (`horizontal collaboration`) and much else.` Frank McLynn, New Statesman. `Gildea`s… Read More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005 0297843184. Hardback first edition. Fine/Good. First printing. Complete numberline. DW is creased and repaired but intact and un-priceclipped. 237 pages including index."The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the… Read More

London: HarperCollins 2006 9780007230082. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition. First impression. Number1. Large format blue hardback (silver lettering to the spine). No annotations or inscriptions etc. Like new. DW is NOT price-clipped. 240pp (printed on superior glossy paper) including index. Profusely illustarted throughout mainly in colour. Heavy book (approx 1.1 Kg) which may well incur extra postage cost abroad.. To accompany the third series of the award-winning BBC television series, which moves to BBC 1 having gained viewing figures of over 6 million on BBC 2, This book gives the amateur genealogist all the tools to trace their ancestors back over six centuries, taking them on a fascinating historical journey into the past. For the first time in a popular genealogy book, author Anton Gill and Who Do You Think You Are? family history expert Nick Barratt have created a wonderfully readable book which takes the reader back through time past the usual family tree landmark of 1837, when birth,… Read More

London: Grafton Books, 1990 0246134852. First edition. First printing of first hardback edition. VG/VG. Price clipped DW. No inscriptions. 328 pages including index plus 16 pages of B/W photos. This is a fascinating snapshot of Central and Eastern Europe at a very significant moment in time. Although the book was published in 1990, the travels on which it is based were made in 1988/89. In other words, this is a detailed account of the Communist satellite states just before the collapse of Communism. By the time the prologue was written the collapse had already begun. This is a very perceptive study of the reasons why this bloc was on the point of collapse based on the author's personal observations and conversations with the citizens of these countries. A monument to a lost cause written in a very lively style. .

London: Review, 2002 0747235759. First edition. First printing:- complete numberline. Fine/Fine. Mint condition:- no inscriptions or annotations. 338 pages. Illustrated with colour photos. The story of the 12 turbulent years during which Michelangelo created his famous sculpture of David. .