Search Results: Authors starting with U from David Edward Hellawell

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1944. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Bindings and front endpaper damaged. Otherwise a Good clean copy internally. No inscription. The story of the famous German-Jewish publishing house and its expropriation as the Nazis take over power. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990 0140119922. First edition. Trade paperback. VG. 247 pages. A novelist trying to write about Liverpool's slave trade hits a writer's block. .

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. .

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995 024113501x. First printing. First edition. Complete numberline. Hardback. Fine copy in near fine unclipped DW. No inscription. 315 pages excluding endnotes. .

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998 0241138620. First printing. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Compete numberline. Unclipped. No inscription. 334 pages. .

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973 0233964320. First edition. Hardback. Ex-university library with usual stamps etc. Front endpaper missing. Otherwise VG/VG. Unclipped. 280 pages. .

London: Everyman's Library CLASSICS, 2001 1857151682. Hardback. 9781857151682. Fine/Fine. DW is not price-clipped. Silk ribbon page marker is still in place. Dimension: 208 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. 320 pages. No inscriptions or annotations. This copy was once in a school library as indicated by a small neat stamp (easily covered) on first end page, but it seems to me it was never taken out because it is otherwise pristine. This was a publication issued to UK schools as part of the 'Millennium Project. First assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, the eleven stories in The Mabinogion reach far back into the oral traditions of Welsh poetry. Closely linked to the Arthurian legends - King Arthur himself appears in one of the stories - they summon up a world of mystery and magic which is still evoked by the landscape so vividly described in them. .

London: Faber and Faber, 2001 0571205380. First edition. Complete numberline. Soft cover. VG. No inscriptions or annotations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1812, two mighty armies manoeuvred across the Spanish plains. They were finely balanced, under skilful leaders. Each struggled to gain an advantage. Wellington knew that if he defeated the French, he could turn the tide of the war. Good intelligence was paramount, but the French were using a code of unrivalled complexity - the 'Great Paris Cipher'. It was an unprecedented challenge, and Wellington looked to one man to break the code: Major George Scovell. Using a network of Spanish guerrillas, Scovell amassed a stack of coded French messages, and set to work decrypting them.As a man of low birth, Scovell - even with his genius for languages, and bravery on a dozen battlefields - struggled for advancement amongst Wellington's inner circle of wealthier, better connected officers. Mark Urban draws on a wealth… Read More