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Published by Viking - Penguin, London, England, 1991
ISBN 10: 0670826987ISBN 13: 9780670826988
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
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8v0. Black boards stamped in white on spine. 373 pages. alphabetical entries. Ex-library with several very small stamps. Acetate jacket cover attached to pastedowns.
Published by Penguin Viking, London.england, 2002
ISBN 10: 0670912743ISBN 13: 9780670912742
Seller: susan emson, Cirencester, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ,first Edition ,second Printing. The First Lord Nanther clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography.Having built a name for himself as Queen Victoria's favoured physician-expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. The Blood Doctor weaves effortlessly between the past and the present,public life and private life.The result is a superbly satisfying novel about ambition ,obesession and bad blood.
Published by London, England New York, N.Y. : Viking ; Viking Penguin, 1988
ISBN 10: 0140107312ISBN 13: 9780140107319
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Paperback Edition. Near fine paperback copy. Cover detached. Particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 207 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Swift, Graham, 1949-. English literature 1945- Individual works. Authors, English 20th century. Fathers and daughters ; Fiction. Photographers ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by London, England: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2012
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
3rd Printing. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 244 pages; 25 cm. Summary: 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town, assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny morning and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. Subjects: Older men; Fiction. Actors; Fiction.Reminiscing in old age; Fiction. Loss (Psychology); Fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by Viking Penguin Group, London, England, 2001
ISBN 10: 0670880000ISBN 13: 9780670880003
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, Canada
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. 329pp. with b/w illustrations. Small corner creasing and light soil to outer edges. Small bump wear to the board corners. DJ has edge/rub wear and light creasing along the edges. Actual book for sale pictured. The five famous people are Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, Dora Carrington and L. P. Hartley. 16.4 x 24 x 3.3 cm, wt900g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Viking Penguin, London, England, 1998
ISBN 10: 0670879134ISBN 13: 9780670879137
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. "An intriguing situation, seamless pacing, a rising sense of menace and a surprise ending bring Dunmore's new novel (after the well-received Talking to the Dead) into the winner's circle. British district judge Simone struggles as the family breadwinner, while her unemployed husband faces bankruptcy and takes care of their two boys. Keeping the family together in their remote seaside village is hard enough, but Simone's fragile worldAalso undermined by a childhood traumaAis threatened by the intrusion of her long-buried past. Michael, an American Vietnam veteran whom she met during a summer in the States, sends her an intense letter and copies of several photographs of them nude together. Then he arrives in her village, having decided to reconnect with the one person whose image he has nurtured over two decades, some of which was spent in a mental hospital. Dunmore intricately weaves past and present, bringing the experimental atmosphere of the 1970s to life as Simone reads Michael's letters and views the incriminating photographs taken by his war buddy, Calvin, whom she remembers as a constant unsettling presence. The indelible impression of a first true love contrasts with Simone's fierce desire to protect her family from what seems to be a blackmail plot. The novel's marsh-country setting, where bogs can swallow people whole, is a fearsome metaphor for a life abundant with insecurity and tension. This is a provocative tale, candid about the way past deeds and encounters can endanger present lives, casting shadows that can't be erased." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.
Published by VIKING/PENGUIN, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2001
ISBN 10: 0670887919ISBN 13: 9780670887910
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
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PAPERBACK. Condition: VG+. 3RD. SIGNED BY AUTHOR: "FOR DEBBIE HOPE YOU ENJOY! ALL THE BEST.". INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Published by Viking (Penguin Group), London, England, UK, 1988
ISBN 10: 0670819840ISBN 13: 9780670819843
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. 1st Edition. Viking (Penguin Group), London, England, UK. 1988. True First Edition, first printing (states "First Published 1988" with no other printings listed). Near Fine in Near Fine+ Dust Jacket. Text Block is tanned, as is unfortunately usual for the English publication of this book, otherwise it is clean, tight, straight, square and unmarked in any manner (pencil erasure on ffep). Binding is full red cloth of uniform color throughout, with bright silver title, etc., to spine, tan endpapers, top corners bumped, bottom corners sharp and square. The pictorial Dust Jacket (showing art of Piero della Francesca) is bright and intact, with sunning at spine and wrinkles to head and tail of spine and 8 mm tear (closed from behind with archival [pH neutral] materials to bottom of rear panel at spine. The original price (£11.95) is intact on lower front flap. See photos. 288 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". A delightful holiday social comedy and mystery with social commentary while following the Piero della Francesca art trail in Tuscany, Italy, the novel was the basis for the 1989 four episode television limited series of the same name starring John Gielgud and Susan Fleetwood. ISBN 10: 0670819840 / ISBN 13: 9780670819843.
Published by London, England: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2012
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
3rd Printing. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 244 pages; 25 cm. Summary: 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town, assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny morning and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. Subjects: Older men; Fiction. Actors; Fiction.Reminiscing in old age; Fiction. Loss (Psychology); Fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by Viking Penguin Group, London, England, 1991
ISBN 10: 0670820563ISBN 13: 9780670820566
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, Canada
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Foreman, Michael (illustrator). First Edition. 524pp. with illustrations, first printing. Light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. A wide-ranging anthology of some of the best children's fiction of the 20th century including work by: Rudyard Kipling, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, Margaret Mahy, Judy Blume, etc. 16 x 24.1 x 3.9cm, wt1.4KG Please note the book is oversized and it will require extra postage for most destinations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Viking Penguin Group, London England, 1965
ISBN 10: 0140441654ISBN 13: 9780140441659
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. (Paperbacl Light crease on coverIntroduced by Richard Marius. Brilliantly written and suffused with subtle irony, More's Utopia proves that intelligent prose does not exclude humanity and a mischievous sense of humour. 142 pp.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Published by Penguin Viking, London England, 2010
ISBN 10: 0140285865ISBN 13: 9780140285864
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback 9780140285864 D-Day illustrated with B&W photos 592pp Contents, List of Illustrations and Maps Glossary, 1 The Decision, 2 Bearing the Cross of Lorraine, 3 Watch on the Channel, 4 Sealing of the Invasion Area, 5 The Airborne Assault, 6 The Armada Crosses, 7 Omaha, 8 Utah and the Airborne, 9 Gold and Juno, 10 Sword, 11 Securing the Beachheads, 12 Failure at Caen, 13 Villers-Bocage, 14 The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula, 15 Operation Epsom, 16 The Battle of the Bocage, 17 Caen and the Hill of Calvary, 18 The Final Battle for Saint-Lo, 19 Operation Goodwood, 20 The Plot Against Hitler, 21 Operation Cobra-Breakthrough, 22 Operation Cobra-Breakout, 23 Brittany and Operation Bluecoat, 24 The Mortain Counter-Attack, 25 Operation Totalize, 26 The Hammer and Anvil, 27 The Killing Ground of the Falasies Pocket, 28 The Paris Uprising and the Race for the Seine, 30 Aftermath, Acknowledgements, Notes, Select Bibliography, (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
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Published by Viking Penguin Group, London, England, 1995
ISBN 10: 0670843032ISBN 13: 9780670843039
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, Canada
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. 343pp. with b/w illustrations. Toning to page edges and soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, creasing and soiling. Actual book for sale pictured. 16.5 x 24.1 x 3.6cm, wt1Kg Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Viking: Published by the Penguin Group, London, England, 1998
ISBN 10: 0670880051ISBN 13: 9780670880058
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Later Printing. First edition. Printing number line 5 7 9 10 8 6 4. The fourth printing of the first edition.
Published by Penguin Viking, London England, 2012
ISBN 10: 0670919829ISBN 13: 9780670919826
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Impession. Hardback with Black& white and colour illustrations 359 pp plus illustration AcknowledgementsRodney Foster s The Read Dad s Army is the true-life account of Britain s Home Guard. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad s Army , the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad s Army . He records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity. It s magical . ( Dan Snow, The One Show ). If you lament the demise of the stiff upper lip, this is the book for you . (Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard ). Shaun Sewell is an avid antique dealer and social historian. Shaun lives and works in Northumberland. Rodney Foster was born in India in 1882 and spent his career in the Indian Army. In his retirement he went with his wife and daughter to live in Saltwood, near Hythe on the Kent coastline. Here in 1940 he enrolled in the Home Guard. He died in 1962. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
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Published by Penguin Viking, London England, 2005
ISBN 10: 0670915548ISBN 13: 9780670915545
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Impession. Hardback Shortlisted by Richard & Judy's bookclub. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. 252 pp plus a poem The death of Leopold Gursky .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
Published by Viking Penguin Group, London England, 1995
ISBN 10: 185828113XISBN 13: 9781858281131
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback Classical Music on CD : An A-Z of Composers and Key Recordings (Rough Guide Ser.) 465pp .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2002
ISBN 10: 0670910945ISBN 13: 9780670910946
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). 6th Impression. Hardcover.The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-45.A riveting account of the plight of Allied prisoners of war in Germany during 1944 - 45. As well as being signed by both authors this book has been signed by four prisoners of war on the half title page from diferent squadrons. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
Published by Viking - Penguin Group, London, England, 1992
ISBN 10: 0670844594ISBN 13: 9780670844593
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Price clipped dust jacket has very light shelf wear, text is without flaw. 6 X 9.5" 243 pages. Defender of the Faith, Horace Rumpole is simply one of the great fictional characters of modern English literature. With wry observation and wit, John Mortimer captures and challenges the inner workings of a very British system of justice in a series of tales and here he delights us with seven new cases.
Published by Viking Compass / Penguin Group, New York, New York / London, England, 2000
ISBN 10: 0670894516ISBN 13: 9780670894512
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First American edition. 324 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 43897 Very good condition; touches of wear on bottom edges of covers.
Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2003
ISBN 10: 067089690XISBN 13: 9780670896905
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition Hardcover Our Street: East End Life in the Second World War Illustrated with B&W photos 300ppThe Auther describes the terrible life of the East End People during the Blitz in The Second World War (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
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Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0670916048ISBN 13: 9780670916047
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardcover Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan Tells the story of those brave men - and, increasingly in this day and age, women - who go to war armed with bandages not bombs, scalpels not swords, and put saving life above taking life. Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger - to run into battle to rescue the wounded and to risk their own lives to try and save the dying.
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Published by Penguin Viking, London England, 2004
ISBN 10: 0670915289ISBN 13: 9780670915286
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Impession. Hardbackl;ater t Edition 2004 Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. This vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody melee that followed, by an author with unique access to regimental archives, is told largely in the words of the survivors themselves. Terry Brighton takes the reader closer than ever before to the experience of charging down the Valley of Death. illustrated.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
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Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2002
ISBN 10: 0670911097ISBN 13: 9780670911097
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback First Edition Alamein : War Without Hate Illustrated with B&W photos and Maps 478pp.successful histories of the Western Desert and North African fighting yet to have appeared - John Keegan, Daily Telegraph . For the British, the battle fought at ElAlamein in October 1942 became the turning point of the Second World War. In this study of the desert war, John Bierman and Colin Smith show why it is remembered by its survivors as a war without hate .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
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Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2015
ISBN 10: 0670921319ISBN 13: 9780670921317
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition 2nd Impession. Hardcover 9780670921317 Signed By Author No dedication In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompasses rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. Step back in time to where our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled. This is their story. Praise for Millions Like Us '[A] rich, entwined narrative, moves in and out of the lives of an absorbing cast of characters . . . Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling' Bel Mooney, Daily Mail 'Nicholson's vivid narrative is set firmly in the context of the time, which can seem so alien today as to be from another planet . . . Poignant, hilarious and inspiring' Edwina Currie, The Times '[A] brilliantly readable, often haunting history of the war . . . Sharply written and intensely moving' Sinclair Mckay, Daily Telegraph Praise for Singled Out 'It is high time to dig [this generation] up again, salute their memory and listen to their sad and uncomplaining voices unmuffled at last in Nicholson's brave, humane and honest book' Hilary Spurling, Observer 'Pioneering, powerful, inspiring' John Carey, Sunday Times Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her books include the acclaimed social histories Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, and Millions Like Us: Women's Lives During the Second World War, all published by Penguin. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2005
ISBN 10: 0670915602ISBN 13: 9780670915606
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Shortlisted For the Ornage Prize. Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize For Comic Fiction. Slight crease to corner back cover. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. 325 pp.Paperback. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Published by Viking/Penguin, London England, 2007
ISBN 10: 0670915505ISBN 13: 9780670915507
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. A Voyage Round John Mortimer. Very slight foxing to top edge. Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has led an extra ordinary rich life, Privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. His own writings, from the play A Voyage Round My Father to the memoirs Clinging to the Wreckage and Murderers and Other Friends, have given his many fans great entertainment. Now for the first time a biographer has had full access to Mortimer, his circle of friends and colleagues, and their diaries and letters. The result is a riveting account of the life of one of the great national figures of our time. This book is revealing of many aspects of Mortimer's legal and literary career, from his first novels and his devotion to his blind barrister father through to his triumph in the Oz trial, his stance on freedom of speech, and his creation, in Horace Rumpole, of the most popular barrister ever to emerge from the Old Bailey. Illustrated. 542 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
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Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 2007
ISBN 10: 0241964245ISBN 13: 9780241964248
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition Hardback Inferno the Devestation of Hamburg 1943 .In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead. Inferno is a searing account of terrifying destruction: of how and why the Allies dropped a hail of high-explosive and incendiary bombs; of blizzards of sparks, hurricane-force winds and 800-degree temperatures; of survivors cowering in basements or struggling along melting streets; of a city and its people near annihilated from above. Inferno is an epic story of human devastation and survival against impossible odds.illustrated with B&W photos 489pp.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Published by Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, London England, 1998
ISBN 10: 0670870293ISBN 13: 9780670870295
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition Hardback Lawrence the Uncrowned King of Arabia illustrated with colour photos 419pp Lawrence of Arabia began World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the great figures of the war. He altered the face of the Middle East, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity. Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him-beginning with his own account of the Arab Revolt, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1926- thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity. He saw himself as an intellectual rather than a soldier, and a wanderer after sensations rather than a man of action. He wore an endless series of masks. But who was the real man behind these disguises? Desert explorer and Arab scholar Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle of appearances. Retracing many of Lawrence s desert journeys, he gained startling new insights into his character. The result is a biography that captures the elusive man behind the myth. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Published by Viking Penguin Group, London, England, 1995
ISBN 10: 0670852511ISBN 13: 9780670852512
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Quentin Blake (illustrator). Reprint. Illustrated Viking edition. 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.