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Imprint: NEW ZEALAND.AUCKLAND,HODDER & STOUGHTON,1986. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - no publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Robert Jahnke,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip minimally sunnedd - as usual/normal.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,reen paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,white ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate cream/pale yellow endpapers.NZ,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-63pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters,b/w vignette chapter head- pieces,full+part page colour+b/w illus throughout the book and the text; plus [unpaginated] b/w line illustrated title page+ contents list/table and unpaginated colour pictorial illustrated last page. When Lars,a grumpy and not-very-clever troll, arrives in New Zealand as a stowaway on a sailing ship,he sets out to find himself a bridge and,of course billy goats.But nothing pleases him - the trees are the wrong shape, there are no fiords,and,worst of all,no billy goats ever cross his bridge.And when Tamahae,a not-very-clever and not-very-friendly taniwha, arrives to claim the river where Lars has settled,Lars is more bad-tempered than ever. Tamahae isn't too happy either at finding a troll under one of his bridges,and he offers to help Lars find a fiord. So the two monsters set off to find a new home for Lars.On the way,with the help of three billy goats and a school of dolphins,they discover how to do all the things trolls and taniwhas aren't supposed to do: make friends,have fun,and help anyone who needs looking after.A delightfully humorous fantasy tale for 7-10 year olds. Robert Jahnke, a graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts,Auckland,and the Californian Institute of the Arts,is an art teacher at Mangere College,Auckland.He has illustrated a number of children's books,amongst which are 'The House of the People','Maori Legends:The Creation Stories',and 'The Fish of Our Fathers'. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja411312. ISBN: 0340379200.
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Imprint: LONDON.Egmont UK,2013. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn thus. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork,by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, illustrated dw/dj panels with white+yellow lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain dark blue cloth boards decorated with a single,small yellow star towards top corner of front board,a yellow cloth blind spine with black printed ink lettering; a sewn-in,navy blue silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,illustrated 1st edn thus,1-83pp [paginated] includes XXVII (27) chapters,profuse full+part-page b/w+colour illustrations - all by de Saint-Exupery,interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title page,a double-page colour illustrated title page,a dedication (to Leon Werth),a title separator page with Richard Howard's translator's note to its reverse,a 1pp epilogue with author's potted biography to its reverse. Author's only children's book,written and illustrated by himself and published in French as 'Le Petit Prince (1943).First published in America,in both French and English - as both a Ltd Edn (500 copies) and a trade edn - translated by Katherine Woods.The first [UK] English translation appeared two years later, again translated by Katherine Woods and published in 1945 by Heinemann.This English translation by Richard Howard originally in 2000. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see,standing before him,the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please", asks the stranger,'"draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand,there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries.He pulls out pencil and paper . . . Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that,in teaching the secret of what is really important in life,has changed the world forever for its readers.Often seen as a symbol of childhood innocence, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's best-selling book 'The Little Prince.' is as cherished by children and adults alike,across the globe. Ideal for children aged 7 and up.This beautiful edition contains the definitive translation and all the original coloured and restored illustrations.'The Little Prince.' joins the ranks of 'A Little Princess.','The Secret Garden.' & 'Peter Pan.' as a genuine children's classic of the 20thC. Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in 1900 in Lyon.In 1921,he began his training as a pilot By 1926,he had became one of the pioneers of international postal flight.In 1935 he embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon.Nineteen hours into the flight,his plane crashed in the Sahara desert.He survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration,limited food and hallucinations.On the fourth day,the was rescued.In part,this experience was the inspiration for 'The Little Prince.' He continued to fly until World War II,during which he took self-imposed exile. On 31 July 1944,a year after the book's publication in 1943,whilst he was serving with Free French Forces in Morocco,he disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja846119. ISBN: 9781405216340.
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Imprint: LONDON.Egmont UK,2005. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn thus. FINE-/FINE-. Neat,handwritten,ink gift presentation inscrptn+date to front pastedown and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour pictorial artwork,by Antoine de Saint-Exupery,illustrated dw/dj panels with white+yellow lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - one small (approx. 15mm) closed tear to head of rear-facing gutter's fold/crease - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain dark blue cloth boards decorated with a single,small yellow star towards top corner of front board,a yellow cloth blind spine with black printed ink lettering; a sewn-in,navy blue silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn thus, 1-83pp [paginated] includes XXVII (27) chapters, profuse full+part-page b/w+colour illustrations - all by de Saint-Exupery - interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title page,a double-page colour illustrated title page,a dedication (to Leon Werth),a title separator page with Richard Howard's translator's note to its reverse,a 1pp epilogue with author's potted biography to its reverse. Author's only children's book,written and illustrated by himself and published in French as 'Le Petit Prince (1943).First published in America,in both French and English - as both a Ltd Edn (500 copies) and a trade edn - translated by Katherine Woods.The first [UK] English translation appeared two years later, again translated by Katherine Woods and published in 1945 by Heinemann.This English translation by Richard Howard originally in 2000. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see,standing before him,the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please", asks the stranger,'"draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand,there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries.He pulls out pencil and paper . . . Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that,in teaching the secret of what is really important in life,has changed the world forever for its readers.Often seen as a symbol of childhood innocence, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's best-selling book 'The Little Prince.' is as cherished by children and adults alike,across the globe. Ideal for children aged 7 and up.This beautiful edition contains the definitive translation and all the original coloured and restored illustrations.'The Little Prince.' joins the ranks of 'A Little Princess.','The Secret Garden.' & 'Peter Pan.' as a genuine children's classic of the 20thC. Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in 1900 in Lyon.In 1921,he began his training as a pilot By 1926,he had became one of the pioneers of international postal flight.In 1935 he embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen hours into the flight,his plane crashed in the Sahara desert.He survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration,limited food and hallucinations.On the fourth day,the was rescued.In part, this experience was the inspiration for 'The Little Prince.' He continued to fly until World War II, during which he took self-imposed exile. On 31 July 1944,a year after the book's publication in 1943,whilst he was serving with Free French Forces in Morocco,he disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1087223. ISBN: 9781405216340.
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Imprint: LONDON.EGMONT UK,2013. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp. [Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4,so 1st edn,3rd imp. Originally and first published in America,in both French and English,'Le Petit Prince' by Reynel & Hitchcock,(US.,),1943 and translated by Katherine Woods,in two editions; a trade edn and the more expensive Limited (500 copies) edn.The first UK edn,again translated by Katherine Woods,published by Heinemann,1945.The copyright was renewed by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery in 1971.This translation,by Richard Howard, copyrighted in 1971.The first UK appearance of that translated edn,by this publisher (Egmont) in 2000.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - price printed to rear panel of dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork,by Antoine de Saint-Exupery illustrated dw/dj panels with white+yellow lettering to front and spine; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - the smallest of nicks to front,lower corner.Top+fore -edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards decorated with a single,small yellow star towards top corner of front board,a yellow cloth blind spine with black printed ink lettering; a sewn-in,navy blue silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp,1-83pp [paginated] includes,XXVII(27) chapters,profuse full+part-page b/w+colour illustrations - all by de Saint-Exupery,interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title page, double-page colour illustrated title page,a dedication (to Leon Werth),a title separator page with Richard Howard's translator's note to its reverse,and as last page,author's potted biography to its reverse. Author's only children's book,written and illustrated by himself and published in French as 'Le Petit Prince (1943).First published in America,in both French and English - as both a Ltd Edn (500 copies) and a trade edn - translated by Katherine Woods.The first [UK] English translation appeared two years later, again translated by Katherine Woods and published in 1945 by Heinemann.This English translation by Richard Howard originally in 2000. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see,standing before him,the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please",asks the stranger,'"draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand,there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries.He pulls out pencil and paper . . . Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that,in teaching the secret of what is really important in life,has changed the world forever for its readers.Often seen as a symbol of childhood innocence,Antoine de Saint-Exupery's best-selling book 'The Little Prince.' is as cherished by children and adults alike,across the globe. Ideal for children aged 7 and up.This beautiful edition contains the definitive translation and all the original coloured and restored illustrations.'The Little Prince.' joins the ranks of 'A Little Princess.','The Secret Garden.' & 'Peter Pan.' as a genuine children's classic of the 20thC. Antoine De Saint-Exupery was born in 1900 in Lyon.In 1921,he began his training as a pilot By 1926, he had became one of the pioneers of international postal flight.In 1935 he embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon.Nineteen hours into the flight,his plane crashed in the Sahara desert.He survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration,limited food and hallucinations.On the fourth day,he was rescued.In part,this experience was the inspiration for 'The Little Prince.' He continued to fly until World War II,during which he took self-imposed exile. On 31 July 1944,a year after the book's publication in 1943,whlst he was serving with Free French Forces in Morocco,he disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page. ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja864020. ISBN: 1405216344.
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Imprint: LONDON.EGMONT UK,LTD.,2002. UK,slim 16mo HB,minus(?) slipcase,pop-up Carousel,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn. Generally sharp-cornered - merest hint of bruising to the top two corners - bright and clean - with very light and minimal grubbing - white background with author's colour artwork illustration, paper-covered card front+rear boards and a printed pale blue faux blind spine,with blue+ black lettering to front cover,b/w lettered spine,rear cover with no text and a small, coloured illustration; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine.Contents consist of 5 double-paged,layered,die-cut folding coloured pop-ups with text to lower edge of same, that form an upright,six-panelled,circular carousel-shape when the boards are placed back-to-back and tied in place with the pale blue silk ribbon ties. Simply known as de Saint-Exupery,[b. 29/6/1900 – d. 31/7/1944],he was a French writer,poet,aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator.He is best-known for his novella 'Le Petit Prince' (The Little Prince) and also for his lyrical aviation writings,which included 'Wind,Sand and Stars' and 'Night Flight'. 'The Little Prince' became the author's most successful work,selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide,which in turn,makes it one of both the best- selling and most translated books ever.It has been adapted to numerous art forms and media,including audio recordings, radio plays,live stage,film,television, ballet,and opera. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see,standing before him,the most extraordinary little fellow. Thus you can imagine my amazement,at sunrise,when I was awakened by an odd little voice.It said: "If you please - draw me a sheep!" [This book's/edition's opening line.] And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries.He pulls out pencil and paper. . . Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that,in teaching the secret of what is really important in life,has changed the world forever for its readers.Often seen as a symbol of childhood innocence, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's best-selling book 'The Little Prince.' is as cherished by children and adults alike,across the globe.Ideal for children aged 7 and up. "It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox."If,for example,you came at four o'clock in the afternoon,then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. . ." [Book's closing line.] Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if p/back is offered P+p free. * This item offered P+p FREE - offer available UK only. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja932421.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON, 1994. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.Shelf-wear bottom edge dw/dj.B/w illus,332 pp,list of OLYMPIA PRESS titles,biblio,index. The story of Maurice Girodias + Olympia Press is one of the most bizarre and flamboyant in publishing history.When 'dirty books' and great ones were banned in UK+US,Girodias launched out as an English language publisher in 1950's Paris. In post-war Paris he gathered starving but talented UK+US writers pumping out porn that funded the literary list.He combined distinguished novels: Lolita, The Ginger Man, Naked Lunch, Candy, The Story of 'O' and works by Samuel Beckett, with outright pornography. During this time he defied the censors to publish 5 of the landmark novels of the 20th C.But as censorship crumbled,his empire collapsed. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja219. ISBN: 0091778743.
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2010. UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj (as issued),1st illustrated edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to rear bd.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,black background with white glossy lettering and border design with superimposed colour photographic white rabbit vignette illustrated front board+spine, sharp-cornered boards; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Spine/backstrip,a black headband,pale blue silk bookmark ribbon sewn-in and immaculate different objects colour photographic illustrated front+rear endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-418pp [paginated] includes a preface,Pts 1-4 and Coda comprising 37 chapters in total,100 various coloured illustrations/photographs etc interspersed throughout the text and the book,an illustrations list,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title with preamble,title page,a dedication,a prose extract (Marcel Proust,'Cities of the Plain'),contents list/ table,double-page family tree,colour photographic object d'art vignette illustrated preface separator page,and similar blank at rear. The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller.Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings,none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment.When he later inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris,from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo,de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de Waal's family archive,the illustrated edition of 'The Hare with Amber Eyes' transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art. Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists,and his porcelain is held in many major international collections.This bestselling memoir won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.It was also shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize,the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize,the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. It was longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.Edmund was named New Writer of the Year at the 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja814618. ISBN: 9780701187163.
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Imprint: UK.BARNSLEY,S.YORKS.SEAFORTH PUBLISHING/PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD.,2010. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.MINT/NMINT. Wrapped and protected from day of issue/ purchase - as new.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£30.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,green+white background with green+ white lettering and colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges brigth and clean; contents bright,tight, clean and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread, apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain pale green cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped black letters to spine/ backstrip,a blue+white striped headband, and immaculate colour montage'd shipping lines flags and funnel markings illustrated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-192pp [paginated] includes intro,13 chapters,profuse contemporary sepia+b/w photographs and illus,similarly profuse,contemporary colour postcards/ posters/paintings illus throughout the text and the book,biblio,an index,picture credits+acknowledgements.Plus [unpaginated],colour contemporary poster vignetted half-title page,double-page contemporary scenic harbour-side,sepia photographic title page and contents list/table. This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship,a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences,mirrored here in words and pictures.The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by,glimpses of steamship travel through the years. In memoirs and letters home,diaries and journals the writers recorded every aspect of their seagoing experiences: they wrote of their ship,it's crew and their fellow passengers,of the food and entertainment on board,of romance,accidents and disasters,and of being dreadfully sick. They noted incidents on board that amused them or angered them,described the ports at which their ship called,and the fear and excitement of storms at sea. The writers were emigrants or administrators,soldiers,men of letters, young men seeking their fortune,wives on their way to new homes in distant lands; some were rich,many were poor and escaping the hardship of downtrodden lives; all had in common the experience of voyaging at sea. The authors have woven their words into a narrative that describes so evocatively a world that has now disappeared but that, with a huge collection of rare and beautiful illustrations,brings back to life the glorious heyday of the steamship. Christopher Deakes worked for many years as a shipping agent in the Far East and in different parts of Africa.He has a large collection of shipping postcards and his first book,'The Postcard History of the Passenger Liner',was published to great acclaim. Thomas Stanley was an architect and a collector of shipping postcards before becoming a full-time postcard and ephemera dealer specialising in shipping.Many of the images used in this book are from his collection. Since April 2013,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured Shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja479814. ISBN: 9781848320819.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1996. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but a small neat author signatyre.Previous owner name+ address adhesive label to top of title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Sepia portrait photographic dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,corners and spine/backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edge light tanning/aged - as usual/normal,contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's original bright,clean, maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,5-232pp includes half-title page,author's black,nk signature above own name to title page,Pts 1-3 - 6 chapters. A haunted childhood,lived out in two dimensions.One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan,home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared,over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces.The other is actual: the city of Derry in the northern Ireland of the 40's and 50's; a place that is also haunted by political enmities,family secrets,lethal intrigue.The boy narrator of 'Reading in the Dark' grows up enclosed in these two worlds,sensing that they're intertwined in some mysterious ways that he both wants and does not want to discover.Through the silence that surrounds him,he feels the truth spreading like a stain until it engulfs him and his family.A book about how childhood fear turns into fantasy,and fantasy turns into fact,the novel unfolds its secrets like a collection of folk-tales; the dead sister walking again, the lost uncle,Eddie,present on every page,the family house 'as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth,closely designed,with someone sobbing at the heart of it'. Claustrophobic but lyrically charged, breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable,'Reading in the Dark' is one of the finest books about growing up - in Ireland or anywhere - that has ever been written.Irish poet's first novel that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja22166. ISBN: 0224044052.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,May 25th,2011. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both top corners and to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original red cloth boards with fluorescent red circle with 007 within,to centre of upper board and similar lettering to spine/ backstrip,and dw/dj design repeated to endpapers,but in silver and white.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-436pp [paginated] includes 72 chapters,a glossary, acknowledgements,1pp notes on Ian Fleming, 2pp notes on author (these last four pages unpaginated); plus unpaginated half-title+ title pages,dedication,author's note, quotation page,separator pages (6) throughout the chapters. Deaver is the 2nd American writer to write a BOND novel,following on from Raymond Benson. Fresh from Afghanistan,James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. Conceived in the post-9/11 world,it operates independent of Five,Six and the MoD,its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm,by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands,British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission. In 2004,Jeffrey Deaver won the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his book 'Garden of Beasts'.Little did he know that his acceptance speech,where he spoke about his life-long admiration of Fleming's writing, would lead to his being approached to write this James Bond novel. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja408712. ISBN: 9781444716474.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2011. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£19.99) to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though there is a light water-stain to both top+bottom internal edges and inside flaps of front panel of dw/dj.The water-stain to lower edge is visible on dw/dj externally and lightly affects the bd's edges beneath; top edge's stain not visible externally and the bds beneath appear internally+externally unaffected.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,book is lightly cocked; though contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original red cloth boards with fluorescent red circle with 007 within,to centre of upper board and similar lettering to spine/ backstrip,and dw/dj design repeated to endpapers,but in silver and white.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,4-436pp [paginated] includes 72 chapters,glossary,acknowledgements,1pp notes on Ian Fleming,2pp notes on author (these last four pages unpaginated); plus unpaginated half-title+title pages,a dedication,author's note,quotation page, separator pages(6) throughout the chapters. Deaver is the 2nd American writer to write a BOND novel,following on from Raymond Benson. Fresh from Afghanistan,James Bond has been recruited to a new agency.Conceived in the post-9/11 world,it operates independent of Five,Six and the MoD,its very existence deniable.Its aim: to protect the Realm,by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman.GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission. In 2004,Jeffrey Deaver won the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his book 'Garden of Beasts'.Little did he know that his acceptance speech,where he spoke about his life-long admiration of Fleming's writing, would lead to his being approached to write this James Bond novel. Please contact the seller for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja495514. ISBN: 9781444716474.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,25th May 2011. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both top corners and to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright,clean, publisher's original plain red cloth boards with fluorescent red circle with 007 within,to centre of upper board and similar lettering to spine/backstrip,and dw/dj design repeated to endpapers,but in silver and white.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-436pp [paginated] includes 72 chapters,glossary, acknowledgements,1pp notes on Ian Fleming, 2pp notes on author (these last four pages unpaginated); plus unpaginated half-title+ title pages,a dedication,author's note, quotation page,separator pages (6) throughout the chapters. Deaver is the 2nd American writer to write a BOND novel,following on from Raymond Benson. Fresh from Afghanistan,James Bond has been recruited to a new agency.Conceived in the post-9/11 world,it operates independent of Five,Six and the MoD,its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm,by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman.GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission. In 2004,Jeffrey Deaver won the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his book 'Garden of Beasts'.Little did he know that his acceptance speech,where he spoke about his life-long admiration of Fleming's writing, would lead to his being approached to write this James Bond novel. Please contact the seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja543715. ISBN: 9781444716474.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2011. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of dw/dj's spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean, publisher's original red cloth boards with fluorescent red circle with 007 within,to centre of upper board and similar lettering to spine/ backstrip,and dw/dj design repeated to endpapers,but in silver and white.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,4-436pp [paginated] includes 72 chapters,glossary,acknowledgements,1pp notes on Ian Fleming,2pp notes on author (these last four pages unpaginated); plus unpaginated half-title+ title pages,dedication,author's note,quotation page,separator pages(6) throughout the chapters. Deaver is the 2nd American writer to write a BOND novel,following on from Raymond Benson. Fresh from Afghanistan,James Bond has been recruited to a new agency.Conceived in the post-9/11 world,it operates independent of Five Six and the MoD,its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm,by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands,British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission. In 2004,Jeffrey Deaver won the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his book 'Garden of Beasts'.Little did he know that his acceptance speech,where he spoke about his life-long admiration of Fleming's writing, would lead to his being approached to write this James Bond novel. Please contact the seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured,shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja564115. ISBN: 9781444716474.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2018. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten inscrptn thus: 'To Alex All my best wishes! + signature.' to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, montaged blue,b/w colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white lettered author name,capitalised red lettered title and white lettered strap line; similarly coloured lettered author+title and capitalised red lettered publisher name+colophon,with thumbnail photographic detail from front's photograph to spine/backstrip,rear panel of dw/dj with matt black background with montaged, glossy capitalised black lettered author's other titles and critics' white+red lettered reviews. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked black ink lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3438pp [paginated] includes Pts I - IV comprising 10,21,19 and 22 chapters respectively,acknowledgements and 2pp About the author to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED+dedicated title page,a dedication,an epigram (Michelangelo),Pts separator pages with dateline and to the rear 2pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness and also as an uncommon author SIGNED title,particularly. William and Anna went to collect her engagement ring. 1.5 carat, almost flawless. But someone had other ideas for their future . . . Their murder - and that of the diamond cutter they were visiting - is only the first of a series of macabre attacks.Someone is targeting couples just as they start their lives together. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelis Sachs,newly married themselves,are on the hunt. But the killer is hunting down any witnesses who can help them.He has promised one thing: to destroy. Rhyme and Sachs will have to use all their own skills and determination to break his vow. Please contact seller, because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja1050623. ISBN: 978147361873
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2005. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£14.99) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,illustrated dw/dj,with blue+gilt glossy lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-397pp [paginated] includes Pts I-IV comprising 45 chapters,author's note; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram,title separator page, individual Pts separator pages,about the author,and 6pp blanks at the rear. Schoolgirl Geneva Settle's research project into her slave ancestor Charles Singleton unearths more than just an interesting story.Suddenly Geneva seems to be the target of a professional assassin. A man who will ruthlessly kill anyone in his way unless top criminalist Lincoln Rhyme can piece together the deadly puzzle. Trapped inside a paralysed body,Rhyme's brilliant mind is channelled through his partner,policewoman Amelia Sachs,as they work frantically to anticipate where the hitman will strike next,and how to stop him. And Rhyme and Sachs soon realise the only way to stop the killer is to discover the secret Charles Singleton took to his grave over 140 years ago - a secret that threatens to destroy the future of human rights itself. The eagerly awaited new Lincoln Rhyme novel proves once again that with his mastery of the stunning plot twist and breakneck narrative drive,Jeffery Deaver is the outstanding thriller writer of today. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. ** N.B. US/CANADA customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja695317. ISBN: 0340734566.
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Imprint: LONDON.Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Ltd.,2006. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright, crisp,clean,matt, subject's monochrome portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with b/w lettering to front and spine/backstrip,rear panel with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 240pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a preface by Teja Fiedler,a foreword by Piper Verlag (publisher),an introduction,6 chapters, notes,appendices (A+B),a biblography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. Reinhard Heydrich was one of Hitler's most evil henchmen.Praised by the Fuhrer as being 'the man with an iron heart',Heydrich became one of the key architects of the Third Reich's horrific genocide.After his assassination,the murder of more than 2 million people at Belzec,Sobibor and Treblinka was codenamed 'Aktion Reinhard'. Heydrich joined the Nazi Party in 1931,and rose quickly through the ranks of the SS.By the age of twenty-nine he had become an SS brigadier general,and his ruthless ambition led many senior Nazis to believe that he was the natural successor to Hitler.It was Heydrichs initiative to create the Einsatzgruppen,paramilitary units which were established before Operation Barbarossa to murder Jews and political operatives of the Communist Party. In 1941 Heydrich was made ReichsProtektor of Bohemia and Moravia.Supremely confident of his authority,he often drove alone through the province in his open-top,dark green Mercedes. British-trained Czech partisans took advantage of this gesture,and in 1942 carried out a daring assassination attempt.Heydrich was mortally wounded in the ambush and died a week later in hospital.The reprisals that followed were brutal: more than 15,000 Czechs were murdered and the town of Lidice was razed to the ground. In this critically acclaimed biography,which includes interviews with Heydrich's surviving family,the author creates a complete portrait of pure evil. An extraordinary portrait of Hitler's most brutal henchman.Tracks his full career,from the Navy to his appointment as Reichs-Protektor of Bohemia and Morvia.The complete story of his assassination and its horrific aftermath. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page. ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja863720. ISBN: 9781853676864.
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Imprint: LONDON.CARLTONBOOKS LTD.,2015. UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn. FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear board.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,wrap-around black background with a colour pictorial,smoking meerschaum pipe illustration surrounded by an ornate white border,a small circular glossy gilt circle with black silhouetted Sherlock Holmes holding a magnifying glass within,to front padded board,with capitalised gilt-lettered part-title and capitalised white-lettered sub-title,other white lettering,and gold colour lettered Dr Watson name,similarly coloured+ lettered title+ author name repeated gilt+black silhouette at head and publisher's capitalised, white lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel with gold lettered blurb and strap lines. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtuallypristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread,other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original paper-covered boards and immaculate pale light grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB,1st edn,4- 224pp [paginated] includes Contents list/table, an Introduction by Dr John Watson,140 puzzles grouped into Elementary, Straightforward, Cunning and Fiendish categories accompanied by either contemporary/period b/w or colour thumbnail illustration reproductions,and the solutions to puzzles from pp170 onwards; plus [unpaginated] half-title,colour illustration repeated from front board illustrated title page,a colour pictorial illustrated frntis,this illustration repeated for individual categories' separator pages. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Holmes and Watson are back. Fresh from solving the baffling puzzles in The Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Collection,Dr John Watson returns with a new selection of his esteemed colleague's lost cases - an even more daring, difficult and downright perplexing bunch of conundrums. All written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great stories,this book deeply involves the reader in the solving of puzzles - and crimes! Use your own powers of deduction to solve more than 140 ingenious enigmas relating to the 'Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes.This remarkable collection features all kinds of puzzles to suit all tastes and levels of logical skill - from 'elemntary' to 'fiendish'. Tim Dedopulos is an author,puzzle setter and editor. He worked for Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf,and has written role-playing games and fiction. He wrote The Sherlock Holmes Puzzles Collection and The Greatest Puzzles Ever Solved,amongst many others. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1069123. ISBN: 9781780977096.
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Imprint: LONDON.DOUBLEDAY,2009. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Wrapped and protected from day of issue/ purchase.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,author/subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white and yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-321pp [paginated] includes 40 chapters and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, acknowledgements,a dedication,and an author's/subject's preface. For the first time,comedian Jack Dee reveals the highs and lows of his early life and disastrous day jobs. You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter; it's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of disillusionment and bile. What turned this once optimistic young man into a grumpy middle-aged git? Was it working in an artificial-leg factory? Or delivering the incontinence pads for the NHS? Or was it the time when he was shunned by his peers for daring to thrash a one-armed man at tennis? In this hilariously frank account of his life,Jack finally answers the question, 'So how did you get started in comedy then? Along the way,he shares his blatantly unreasonable views on everything from personal trainers to boutique hotels, via the overrated moon landing and 'people who hold their cutlery the wrong way'. Once you've read this book,you'll never think of Jack Dee as a smiling,happy-go-lucky,friendly face again. Jack Dee is a British stand-up comdeian who has been performing one-man shows and making television programmes for over twenty years. Recently he co-wrote and starred in the hit sit-com 'Lead Ballon' for BBC2. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja588615. ISBN: 9780385615488.
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Imprint: LONDON.DOUBLEDAY,2009. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Wrapped and protected from day of issue/ purchase.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,author/subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white and yellowl ettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-321pp [paginated] includes 40 chapters and an index; plus[unpaginated] half-title+title pages,acknowledgements, dedication,and an author's/subject's preface. For the first time,comedian Jack Dee reveals the highs and lows of his early life and disastrous day jobs. You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter; it's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of disillusionment and bile. What turned this once optimistic young man into a grumpy middle-aged git? Was it working in an artificial-leg factory? Or delivering the incontinence pads for the NHS? Or was it the time when he was shunned by his peers for daring to thrash a one-armed man at tennis? In this hilariously frank account of his life,Jack finally answers the question,'So how did you get started in comedy then? Along the way,he shares his blatantly unreasonable views on everything from personal trainers to boutique hotels,via the overrated moon landing and 'people who hold their cutlery the wrong way'. Once you've read this book,you'll never think of Jack Dee as a smiling,happy-go- lucky,friendly face again. Jack Dee is a British stand-up comdeian who has been performing one-man shows and making television programmes for over twenty years.Recently he co-wrote and starred in the hit sit-com 'Lead Ballon' for BBC2. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015, the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja679917. ISBN: 9780385615488.
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Imprint: LONDON.THE FOLIO SOCIETY,1954. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published London,W.Chetwood in 1722.] VG+/GOOD.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Slightly grubbed white dw/dj printed in red and black.Red pattern of dw/dj (repeated to cloth boards),and b/w line illus by Nigel Lambourne,to upper wrap,with some nicks and negligible shelf-wear to edges.Corners rubbed,chipped with some miniscule loss,miniscule loss to foot of spine/backstrip,approx 1/2" tear+loss to head of same - letters unaffected - the whole slightly darkened.Top edge coloured black; fore-edge aged/toned and sporadically foxed/spotted - noticeably affecting page-edges when opened.Contents bright,tight and generally clean,negligible foxing/spotting internally apart from aforementioned page-edges.Bound by James Burn in full cream linen with dw/dj repeat pattern in red,black leather spine-label with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters,red+ white headband and immaculate grey endpapers.Set in 12-pt CALSON type,and printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd.,of Ipswich.UK, medium 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus(variant), v-ixpp+1-330pp [paginated] includes foreword,author's preface,18 smaller illus by Nigel Lambourne throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] b/w line illustrated,full-page frntis,a title page (both foxed) and 1pp blank to rear. When making a mock-up of the title-page, Charles Ede drafted the subtitle from memory and,through an oversight,this was sent to the publisher and printed in all copies.The mistake was only recognised after the book had been bound.The first gathering was reprinted,with the mistaken title page,and inserted into most copies, but a few survive with the original imaginary title,which is: 'The fortunes & misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, who was born in Newgate and,during a life of contin'ud variety,was ten years a whore, three times married (one of which once to her own brother),seven years a thief,three year a transported felon in Virginia,where she reformed her ways and died a penitent. . . .' This is the 65th title since the publisher's inception. A master of plain prose,powerful narrative,and realistic detail,Defoe is regarded by many as the first true novelist.Appearing three years after his most famous work,'Robinson Crusoe','Moll Flanders' stands as one of the important precursors to the modern novel.Narrated in the first person,the novel relates the autobiography of Moll Flanders.Moll leads an eventful life which includes travel with gypsies,five marriages,incest,prostitution, and twelve years as one of London's most notorious and successful thieves.When she is finally caught,she escapes the death sentence with the help of a minister who encourages her to repent her evil ways. Transported to Virginia with one of her husbands,she buys her freedom,sets up as a planter,and increases her amassed wealth with the income from a plantation.In her old age,she returns to England where she resolves to spend the rest of her years in penitence for the life he has led. [SJD.] View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it. The Folio Society’s formula for success is publishing books with exceptional typography,illustrations,paper and bindings.The Society sources new introductions from literary experts to accompany classic texts and uses skilled designers and master printers to produce memorable fine books.Fiction and non-fiction titles are published.The Folio Society also prides itself on producing series of an author's works which regular publishers might not think economic - in several cases it is only possible to acquire forgotten books by major writers in Folio Society editions. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja33629. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.WARD & LOCK,nd. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn? VG+/VG. Presentation (gift) inscrptn to fep,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated,by A[lbert].E(dward)JACKSON; paper covered card bds - design repeated to dw/dj and plain cream eps.Red cloth blind spine with black ink printed letters.Some light creasing,chipping and subsequent loss to bottom edges dw/dj - mainly to corners and foot of spine/ backstrip.The top edges dw/dj have a closed tear to each top front+rear corner; some light creasing,with some loss to head of dw/dj with the loss of word Robinson from title (approx half inch rectangle). 16 full-colour full-page plates;includes frntis and another 8 monochrome full-page illustrations.Qrto,176pp all illus called for and present.Contents clean,unmarked and not foxed.One of 14 titles in this "The Sunshine Series".Though undated,the gift inscrptn dated Christmas 1952,would indicate a 1st edn as A E Jackson,the illustrator died in that year aged 79. Painter in oil and watercolour and children's book illustrator.His draughtsmanship was uneven,and,lacking a definite style of his own,he tended to absorb the styles and mannerisms of others - for example,some of his black and white work is reminiscent of H.R.Millar and his full colour work at times resembles that of Arthur Rackham,Anne Anderson or Charles Robinson.Nevertheless his earlier designs have a degree of modest charm. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1516. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.THE NONESUCH PRESS,[CYGNET],1968. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn thus. FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,pictorial b/w oval vignette to a blue background illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black lettering, rear panel with publisher's b/w list of other works/titles; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Laminate shrinkage and light lifting to a couple of spots - nothing excessive or obtrusive though.A small (1/2" approx) closed tear to head of spine's front gutter's edge/fold,and some miniscule rubbing+chipping to both head+foot of same - with barely perceptible loss - and inevitable but light sunning/fading with slight discolouring to a paler blue - a ubiquitous fault.Top edges coloured blue/ green,fore-edges overall bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt cygnet vignette+lettering (repeated from dw/dj design) to front bd and bright,crisp, stamped border-edged,gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate blue+white Ardizzone illustrated recto+verso free endpapers (front+rear) respectively.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st illustrated edn thus,11-281pp [paginated] includes foreword by Kathleen Lines,25 chapters,an epilogue and a glossary,plus [unpaginated] 6pp blanks, double-paged title page - each with b/w cygnet vignette illustration and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell.Set in 11 point Ehrhardt leaded 2 points.Printed and made in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons,Limited,London and Beccles,for The Nonesuch Press Limited,9 Bow Street, London WC2.[SBN 370011066] A private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell,along with his second wife Vera Mendel,and their mutual friend David Garnett,who was a co-owner of Birrell & Garnett's bookshop in Soho's Gerrard Street,and in the basement of which building,the press began. The Press's first book,was a volume of John Donne's 'Love Poems' issued in May, 1923.In total,the Press produced more than 140 books.The press was at its peak in the 1920s and 1930s,but continued operating through to the mid-1960s.During the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s,Meynell ceded control of the Press to George Macy, founder and owner of the Limited Editions Club.In the early 1950s,Meynell managed to unite with the owner of The Bodley Head, Max Reinhardt and then resumed control of Nonesuch.During the final years of the Press's existence,its remit was extended to include editions of classic children's books,such as E. Nesbit's 'The Treasure Seekers' and 'The Bastables' and Andrew Lang's fairy tales,these and other childrens' classics formed part of the press's Cygnet impression. The Nonesuch Press was unusual among private presses,in that it used a small hand press to design books (an Albion press) but then had them printed by commercial printers: for example,the Birmingham-based Kynoch Press.The purpose of this method was to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience and at lower prices.Meynell also wanted to demonstrate that "mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends." He believed that the production of exquisitely designed and produced books was not the preserve of the private press predicated upon the example established by William Morris's Kelmscott Press,which emphasized the primacy of the handpressed book. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante.A number of illustrated editions were also produced.Nonesuch's editions are prized by collectors; particularly rare and well-designed editions. Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,1900- 1979,worked as Edward Ardizzone.Born in Haiphong,China,the son of an employee of the Eastern Telegrah Company,the eldest of five children.He lived in the Far East until he was five and then moved with his family to England.Ardizzone lived in Ipswich until he was 14,'and it was here', he wrote,'that I learnt to know and love the little coastal steamers that I have drawn so often in the TIM books.' He attended evening classes in life drawing given by Bernard Meninsky at Westminster School of Art,while employed as a statistical clerk in London (1916-26).He worked freelance as an illustrator from 1926,achieving widespread recognition with his first children's book 'Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936) the first of the famous TIM books.Served in the Royal Artillery (1939-40);Official War Artist (1940-45), noted for his war diaries. Taught illustration at Camberwell School of Art (1948-52).Worked for UNESCO in India (1952-53).Part-time tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Etching (1953-61). Ardizzone worked in watercolour,pen and ink,pencil and lithograph as a painter, printmaker,greetings card designer and illustrator of over 170 books,many of them his own.He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal (1956) for 'Tim All Alone' and the Carnegie Medal (1955) and Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1956) with 'The Little Bookroom'.He particularly enjoyed illustrating poetry.He worked mainly from memory,early developing a freely drawn and unmistakable style that changed very little during the course of his long career.He acknowledged the influence of Bernard Meninsky on his work,and also the 19thC draughtsmen Daumier,Dore and Caldecott.His brother-in-law Gabriel White considered 'perhaps no artist since Randolph Caldecott has captured so easily the qualities essential in successful illustration for a child.Ardizzone's are bold and clear and tell the tale in the simplest lines and colours.Ardizzone was awarded the CBE (UK honour) in 1971.In 1973,a retrospective of his work was held at the V & A Museum in London. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja736917. ISBN: 0370011066.
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Imprint: LONDON.GRANADA,1982. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[This is the trade export 1st edn as there is no printed publisher's price to front inner flap of dw/dj.]NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Subject colour portrait photgraphic wraps with minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges,some very light creasing/bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with no nicks or tears.Top +fore-edges lightly aged as usual/normal, but contents bright,tight and pristine. Brown paper-covered bds with bright,crisp stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain beige eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,vii+10-207pp [paginated] includes title+half-title pages,contents list,16pp b/w photographs and an index. Billie Jean King's life has been as colourful and as determined as her performance on the tennis courts.Now she tells her own story in a forthright autobiography that is at once a moving personal history and a behind-the-scenes look at the world of women's sports. Billie Jean King spent much of her life as a trailblazer:as a young girl from a modest family playing the rich kid's game of tennis:as a female superstar in a sports world dominated by men; as a leader and spokeswoman for women's equality;and recently (then 1982),as a celebrity called upon to make public the details of her private life.She emerges as a thoughtful, sensitive person,an image far different from the one the press has usually imposed upon her.She writes of her life as a touring athlete,of the men and women who share that world,and the friendships and intense rivalries that develop.She tells about the agonies and pressure of becoming number one,about the difficulties of living without any privacy,and - most of all - how she has been affected,both as a competitor and as a woman.With rare and touching honesty,she evaluates her sometimes troubled marriage and calmly relates the story of her over-publicized affair with Marilyn Barnett.Billie Jean King played her first tennis match at the age of eleven and in 1979 achieved a record of 20 Wimbledon titles (6 singles, 10 doubles,4 mixed doubles).She has won all other major titles. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja446. ISBN: 0246117923.
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Imprint: LONDON.COOKERY BOOK CLUB,1967. UK,oblong 12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus (1967, Cookery Book Club edn,by arrangement with CAPE. True 1st edn was CAPE,1965,and issued with a clear cellophane dw/dj).VG+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj.All corners slightly bumped with light grubbing to boards partly in fact to absence of dw/dj and being in proximity of other books. Spine/backstrip very lightly faded with minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing to same.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and darkened - as usual/ normal,fore-edge similar but to a much lesser degree.Contents clean and sound.Novel format made up from 80 of Deighton's Daily Express Cookstrips'.Of the CAPE,HB 1st edn,only 7,500 copies were printed,and now very scarce,and expensive. Although a cookery club edition,not as scarce, but still an uncommon title/edn. Want more Len DEIGHTON books/titles? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,NAVAL/MILITARY and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar available titles. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja697. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE LTD.,1978. JONATHAN CAPE (LONDON),1978.UK,landscape,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - publisher's adhesive price lable still in situ.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with capitalised, black-lettered authors' names+title; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - and unusually,no sunning/fading to a bright,sharp-coloured spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards; front board with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt capitalised letters (title+ author's names) within circular border which also has a silver gilt silhouette of dirigible/zeppelin in it's centre; bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip also,and immaculate repeated b/w detailed side elevation plan of the Hindenburg illustrated endpapers.UK, landscape,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,3-72pp [paginated] includes an introduction, accounts of airship disasters covering 1890s to 1930s, profuse contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book, acknowledgements at rear - as last paginated page; plus [unpaginated] b/w photographic illustrated title page with world map of principal wreck/disaster sites to its reverse and a b/w illustrated visual glossary of technical terms as last unpaginated page. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 45-year-old-age. It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its completeness,cleanliness and brightness and virtually fault-free. The short-lived age of the between-the-wars - scarcely more than a quarter of a century - commercial airships.An engaging narrative questions why this happened as it examines the fate of individual airships in turn. Although comparatively few fare-paying passengers lost their lives in airship wrecks, fatalities among the machines out-number the airships that survived to pass into honourable retirement.Yet Len Deighton calls the airship one of the greatest triumphs of structural engineering the world has seen. Through this remarkable collection of photographs, many of them previously unpublished,he bears witness to the magic of those gentle,awesome giants of the sky - 'cathedral arches twisted into a tracery of aluminium' - whilst also portraying the disastrous consequences when things went wrong. No more than forty years ago,(then 1978),just two years before WW2 and the demise of the airship,the only regular passenger flights between Europe and North America or Brazil were by luxuriously appointed and noiseless airships, sauntering gracefully at low enough altitude for navigation by road maps.Even as early as 1912,passengers could relax in their wicker armchairs on the carpeted flight deck after an excellent cold lunch aboard the postal delivery Zeppelin and watch the German countryside unroll beneath them at a steady 45 mph.That,in turn,was but fifteen years after a Berlin clergyman had made the first-ever manned and motor propelled balloon flight. So,where did the dream go wrong? One answer was provided by C. G. Grey,who wrote in 1926 that 'airships breed like elephants and aeroplanes like rabbits'.If that is less than a complete explanation,the allusion is not without its apt tone of comic absurdity.Consider the tale of the captain of the L6,blown off course in a gale as darkness fell,holding conversation with his supposed rescuer on the ground below,and discovering that he was talking to his own petty officer who had tumbled unnoticed out of the airship's flight gondola.Or the family who found their isolated house dwarfed by the skeletal remains of a giant beast which had quietly died in the night. There were,of course,those who perished painfully in their enthusiasm for airships.Yet no morbid or mournful note is struck in the astonishing story of simple pioneering faith which Len Deighton unfolds. Nothing is so apparent in his pictures as the air of gaiety and festival that often attended scenes of rescue and salvage.Superficially it might seem that airships were a folly,a passing fad,a brief interval between centuries of slow,muscle-bound,earthly travel and the age of rockets in space. That would be to overlook the mystique of the airship,enshrined in this book as a sort of divine catalyst,a spark burning bright and extinguished in an instant,having enabled men to cross a threshold and move out to the far reaches of the universe. Want more Len DEIGHTON books/titles? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL,and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues for other and similar available titles. Please contact seller @ ,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1069423.
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Imprint: UK.BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES,1978. UK,landscape,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus. [Originally and first/simultaneously published by JONATHAN CAPE (LONDON,1978.This edn by arrangement with CAPE by BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES, 1978.) FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - no price,a Book Club issue which were unpriced.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and miniscule rubbing/chipping too.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards; front board with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters (title+ author's names) within circular border which also has a silver gilt silhouette of dirigible/ zeppelin in it's centre,bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip also,and immaculate b/w detailed side elevation plan of the Hindenburg,illustrated endpapers.UK, landscape,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,3-72pp [paginated] includes an introduction,accounts of airship disasters covering 1890s to 1930s, profuse contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book, acknowledgements at rear - as last paginated page; plus [unpaginated] b/w photographic illustrated title page with world map of principal wreck/disaster sites to reverse and a b/w illustrated visual glossary of technical terms as last unpaginated page. The short-lived age of the between-the-wars - scarcely more than a quarter of a century - commercial airships.An engaging narrative questions why this happened as it examines the fate of individual airships in turn. Although comparatively few fare-paying passengers lost their lives in airship wrecks, fatalities among the machines out-number the airships that survived to pass into honourable retirement.Yet Len Deighton calls the airship one of the greatest triumphs of structural engineering the world has seen.Through this remarkable collection of photographs, many of them previously unpublished,he bears witness to the magic of those gentle,awesome giants of the sky - 'cathedral arches twisted into a tracery of aluminium' - whilst also portraying the disastrous consequences when things went wrong. No more than forty years ago,(then 1978),just two years before WW2 and the demise of the airship,the only regular passenger flights between Europe and North America or Brazil were by luxuriously appointed and noiseless airships, sauntering gracefully at low enough altitude for navigation by road maps.Even as early as 1912, passengers could relax in their wicker armchairs on the carpeted flight deck after an excellent cold lunch aboard the postal delivery Zeppelin and watch the German countryside unroll beneath them at a steady 45 mph.That,in turn,was but fifteen years after a Berlin clergyman had made the first-ever manned and motor propelled balloon flight. So,where did the dream go wrong? One answer was provided by C. G. Grey,who wrote in 1926 that 'airships breed like elephants and aeroplanes like rabbits'.If that is less than a complete explanation, the allusion is not without its apt tone of comic absurdity.Consider the tale of the captain of the L6,blown off course in a gale as darkness fell,holding conversation with his supposed rescuer on the ground below,and discovering that he was talking to his own petty officer who had tumbled unnoticed out of the airship's flight gondola.Or the family who found their isolated house dwarfed by the skeletal remains of a giant beast which had quietly died in the night. There were,of course,those who perished painfully in their enthusiasm for airships.Yet no morbid or mournful note is struck in the astonishing story of simple pioneering faith which Len Deighton unfolds.Nothing is so apparent in his pictures as the air of gaiety and festival that often attended scenes of rescue and salvage.Superficially it might seem that airships were a folly,a passing fad,a brief interval between centuries of slow,muscle-bound, earthly travel and the age of rockets in space. That would be to overlook the mystique of the airship,enshrined in this book as a sort of divine catalyst,a spark burning bright and extinguished in an instant,having enabled men to cross a threshold and move out to the far reaches of the universe. Want more Len DEIGHTON books/titles? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,NAVAL/ MILITARY and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar available titles. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja826618. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: UK.BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES,1978. UK,landscape,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus. [Originally and first/simultaneously published by JONATHAN CAPE (LONDON,1978.This edn by arrangement with CAPE by BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES, 1978.) FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - no price,a Book Club issue which were unpriced.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and miniscule rubbing/ chipping too.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards; front board with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters (title+author's names) within circular border which also has a silver gilt silhouette of dirigible/zeppelin in it's centre; bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip also,and immaculate b/w detailed side elevation plan of the Hindenburg illustrated endpapers.UK,landscape, slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,3-72pp [paginated] includes an introduction,accounts of airship disasters covering 1890s to 1930s, profuse contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements at rear - as last paginated page; plus [unpaginated] b/w photographic illustrated title page with world map of principal wreck/disaster sites to recto and a b/w illustrated visual glossary of technical terms as last unpaginated page. The short-lived age of the between-the- wars - scarcely more than a quarter of a century - commercial airships.An engaging narrative questions why this happened as it examines the fate of individual airships in turn. Although comparatively few farepaying passengers lost their lives in airship wrecks, fatalities among the machines out-number the airships that survived to pass into honourable retirement.Yet Len Deighton calls the airship one of the greatest triumphs of structural engineering the world has seen. Through this remarkable collection of photographs,many of them previously unpublished, he bears witness to the magic of those gentle, awesome giants of the sky - 'cathedral arches twisted into a tracery of aluminium' - whilst also portraying the disastrous consequences when things went wrong. No more than forty years ago,(then 1978),just two years before WW2 and the demise of the airship,the only regular passenger flights between Europe and North America or Brazil were by luxuriously appointed and noiseless airships, sauntering gracefully at low enough altitude for navigation by road maps.Even as early as 1912, passengers could relax in their wicker armchairs on the carpeted flight deck after an excellent cold lunch aboard the postal delivery Zeppelin and watch the German countryside unroll beneath them at a steady 45 mph.That,in turn,was but fifteen years after a Berlin clergyman had made the first-ever manned and motor propelled balloon flight. So,where did the dream go wrong? One answer was provided by C. G. Grey,who wrote in 1926 that 'airships breed like elephants and aeroplanes like rabbits'.If that is less than a complete explanation,the allusion is not without its apt tone of comic absurdity.Consider the tale of the captain of the L6,blown off course in a gale as darkness fell,holding conversation with his supposed rescuer on the ground below,and discovering that he was talking to his own petty officer who had tumbled unnoticed out of the airship's flight gondola.Or the family who found their isolated house dwarfed by the skeletal remains of a giant beast which had quietly died in the night. There were,of course,those who perished painfully in their enthusiasm for airships.Yet no morbid or mournful note is struck in the astonishing story of simple pioneering faith which Len Deighton unfolds.Nothing is so apparent in his pictures as the air of gaiety and festival that often attended scenes of rescue and salvage.Superficially it might seem that airships were a folly,a passing fad,a brief interval between centuries of slow,muscle-bound, earthly travel and the age of rockets in space. That would be to overlook the mystique of the airship, enshrined in this book as a sort of divine catalyst,a spark burning bright and extinguished in an instant,having enabled men to cross a threshold and move out to the far reaches of the universe. Want more Len DEIGHTON books/titles? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL, and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues for other and similar available titles. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja835819. ISBN: 022401384X.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1967. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour photographic collage by Raymond Hawkey; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners. Dw/dj spine/backstrip slightly sunned/faded as normal,with very miniscule and light chipping/ rubbing to both head+foot of same,and with minimal loss.Rear top corner lightly rubbed and a miniscule nick to top rear edge of dw/dj.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and aged with fore-edges less so and much brighter and cleaner; contents very bright,tight and clean.Includes original facsimile TOP SECRET wallet with all 10 original facsimile documents,laid loosely in; dealing with the events which take place just before the beginning of the story. Described hard but fairly.UK 1st published a few days after it's US equivalent (PUTNAM).It was also the first of DEIGHTON's novels to be issued in a coloured dw/dj.The complete text of the 1st was also serialised prior to publication in four issues of PLAYBOY magazine,from Dec 1966 to March 1967. Deighton's 5th novel featuring Harry Palmer,set in Paris,the title supposedly, coming from a remark credited to Oscar Wilde. The birds flew around for nothing but the hell of it. [First lines . . .] Operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt, the sex clinic on Paris's Avenue Foch attracts the attention of the agents of four world powers.Pornographic blackmail dossiers on influential politicians from both East and West are compiled at the clinic.Are these agents after Datt's taped and filmed dossiers,or is their purpose altogether more deadly than a trip to the blue movies. . . .? The hedgehog would fly higher and stronger than any of the birds,if only he knew how. [. . . last words.] Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja389. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1967. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Protected dw/dj with minimal rubbing to head+foot dw/dj spine/backstrip,and slightly sunned as usual/normal.Top edge slightly aged, spotted.Complete with facsimile wallet of 'top secret' documents (10) in FINE condition,which relate to dealing with events which take place just before the beginning of the story.This book is the first of Deighton's novels issued in a coloured dw/dj - designed by Raymond Hawkey.UK 1st published a few days after it's US equivalent (PUTNAM).The complete text of the 1st was also serialised prior to publication in four issues of PLAYBOY magazine,from Dec 1966 to March 1967. Deighton's 5th novel featuring Harry Palmer,set in Paris,the title supposedly, coming from a remark credited to Oscar Wilde. The birds flew around for nothing but the hell of it. [First lines . . .] Operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt, the sex clinic on Paris's Avenue Foch attracts the attention of the agents of four world powers.Pornographic blackmail dossiers on influential politicians from both East and West are compiled at the clinic.Are these agents after Datt's taped and filmed dossiers,or is their purpose altogether more deadly than a trip to the blue movies. . . .? The hedgehog would fly higher and stronger than any of the birds,if only he knew how. [. . . last words.] Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja545. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES/by arrangement with JONATHAN CAPE LTD.,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Originally and first published (UK),CAPE,1980.This edn published by arrangement with Cape,1980.] No owner inscrptn and no clip to dw/dj - no published price - as a Book Club issue it was sold on subscription to its members.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,224pp,an index and profusely illustrated b/w+colour illus.Detailed account of the Battle of Britain. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1085223. ISBN: 0224018264.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,224pp,an index and profusely illustrated b/w+colour illus.Detailed account of the Battle of Britain. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja903. ISBN: 0224018264.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1983. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip - believed to be an export copy - as there is no publisher price to dw/dj,and export copies precede the trade edn in the country of origin.Pictorial colour illustrated artwork by Raymond Hawkey, with black+red letters to upper panel,rear panel with a small b/w author portrait photograph and red+black letters - all to a white background. Protected dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges though head+foot of spine/backstrip seem lightly bumped and creased - no nicks or tears present though.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged,as usual/normal,and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpaperss.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 303pp [paginated] includes title+half-title pages.First novel in this new trilogy,the others being 'Mexico Set' and 'London Match'. Bernard Samson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous.Berlin was the city he grew up in,the place he still loved like a mistress, and some of the members of the Berlin Network were men he'd known since they were streetwise Berlin schoolboys. But Samson knew there were few people he could trust,either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked.Somewhere - somewhere nearer to the heart of things than he'd like to believe - there was the stink of betrayal. As the shadows of treachery lengthen around him,and a false trail of suspicion leads to murder,Samson makes his dangerous rendezvous with Brahms Four.He will bring him out to safety in the West if Brahms Four will lead him to the last,crucial piece in the deadly jigsaw.The name of the "Berlin Game" is knowing whom you can trust.In the closing moves Samson knows he must find the answer to that question,or face the loss of everything he loves. In 'Berlin Game' a master of the spy story returns in dazzling from to the world of double-dealing and suspense,bringing a new depth and subtlety to the relationships between the frail human players of the secrets game. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja186. ISBN: 0091541905
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1983. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.First book in the Game, Set, Match trilogy. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Bernard Samson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous.Berlin was the city he grew up in,the place he still loved like a mistress, and some of the members of the Berlin Network were men he'd known since they were streetwise Berlin schoolboys. But Samson knew there were few people he could trust,either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked.Somewhere - somewhere nearer to the heart of things than he'd like to believe - there was the stink of betrayal. As the shadows of treachery lengthen around him,and a false trail of suspicion leads to murder,Samson makes his dangerous rendezvous with Brahms Four.He will bring him out to safety in the West if Brahms Four will lead him to the last,crucial piece in the deadly jigsaw.The name of the "Berlin Game" is knowing whom you can trust.In the closing moves Samson knows he must find the answer to that question,or face the loss of everything he loves. In 'Berlin Game' a master of the spy story returns in dazzling from to the world of double-dealing and suspense,bringing a new depth and subtlety to the relationships between the frail human players of the secrets game. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja924. ISBN: 0091541905.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1983. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.(Unpriced copies believed to be export copies - as there is no publisher price to dw/dj,and export copies precede the trade edn,in the country of origin.) Pictorial,colour illustrated artwork by Raymond Hawkey,with black+red letters to upper panel, rear panel with a small b/w author,portrait photograph and red+black letters; all to a white background.Bright,crisp,clean colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present though.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged,as usual/normal,and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Unblemished, plain,black paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,5-303pp [paginated] includes 28 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages. First novel in this new trilogy 'Game, Set, Match',the others being 'Mexico Set' and 'London Match'. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Bernard Samson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous.Berlin was the city he grew up in,the place he still loved like a mistress, and some of the members of the Berlin Network were men he'd known since they were streetwise Berlin schoolboys. But Samson knew there were few people he could trust,either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked.Somewhere - somewhere nearer to the heart of things than he'd like to believe - there was the stink of betrayal. As the shadows of treachery lengthen around him,and a false trail of suspicion leads to murder,Samson makes his dangerous rendezvous with Brahms Four.He will bring him out to safety in the West if Brahms Four will lead him to the last,crucial piece in the deadly jigsaw.The name of the "Berlin Game" is knowing whom you can trust.In the closing moves Samson knows he must find the answer to that question,or face the loss of everything he loves. In 'Berlin Game' a master of the spy story returns in dazzling from to the world of double-dealing and suspense,bringing a new depth and subtlety to the relationships between the frail human players of the secrets game. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja395111. ISBN: 0091541905.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1979 rpt. UK,Demy 8vo HB+dw/dj,rpt.FINE/FINE.Demy 8vo, 319pp,b/w endpaper illus+maps.Dw/dj designed by RAYMOND HAWKEY.Endpapers illustrated with a black+yellow chart showing the organisation of a panzer division in 1940.Print run for 1st only 70,000.Precedes the US edn by a year. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja251. ISBN: 0224016482.
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Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1993. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red,black and purple lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original, plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate b/w illustrated endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xvi- xviipp+4-653pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,Pts 1-6 comprising 31 chapters,a conclusion,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece, between pp206/7,pp238/9,pp398/9 and pp430/1 respectively,41 b/w illustrations/drawings,22 b/w maps - these by Denis Bishop,8 tables,a facsimile document,all throughout the text and the book.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate contents+ illustrations/maps/tables lists/ tables,acknowledgements and publisher's advert to reverse of last page of index. In two highly acclaimed bestsellers, 'Fighter' and 'Blitzkreig' - see rja251,Len Deighton exploded the myths of the Battle of Britain and revealed the power that took Hitler's armies in a lightning dash to the Channel coast in 1940. Now,in 'Blood,Tears and Folly',he sets the drama of war on a world stage,reflecting the pyschology of global conflict in moving individual accounts by participants at every level. By 1942 the civilised world had been brought to the brink of ruin.It had taken the Axis powers less than three years to command the high seas in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific,to lay waste most of Europe and enslave millions in Asia,to drive deep into Stalin's Soviet empire and come within an ace of controlling the oilfields of the Middle East.At the height of their power the European dictators and the Japanese military autocracy ruled ruthlessly almost half the world. Standing alone,the British were bankrupt and the Unites States only driven from isolation by the humiliation at Pearl Harbour.Before the tide fully turned in 1943,millions had been put to death,the machinery of the holocaust was in place and nuclear devastation well on the way to becoming a reality. Yet,Deighton warns,fifty years on the lessons of the Second World War continue to reverberate unheeded. Racial hatred once more rears its head in ethnic cleansing,turmoil continues to hang over Middle Eastern oil,neglect still dogs engineering and design in a backward-looking under-educated Britain,recession threatens new trade wars and the widening gap between the world's rich and poor promise economic migration on a frightening scale.The dangers of today are seen all too clearly in this brilliant broad-brush account of a recent time when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/CANADA customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja554015. ISBN: 022403135X.
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Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG.Owner anniverserial,presentation inscrptn to ffe,and price-clip to dw/dj.Wrap-around,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj,by Raymond Hawkey,reproducing a detail from Turner's painting,'Fishermen at Sea off the Needles'; with negligible shelf-wear to edges.Chipping+rubbing to foot of spine/ backstrip with some minimal loss,similar to front inner flap's outer edge.Closed tears/nicks to head of spine/backstrip,with some minimal loss too and chipping/rubbing and creasing to top edges of dw/dj.Top edge coloured red,fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight,solid and sound and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Lightly spotted/marked but generally clean,publisher's sharp-cornered,original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-493pp [paginated] includes 34 chapters+epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages and author note. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja432912. ISBN: 0224619101
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Imprint: LONDON.RANDOM CENTURY GROUP,1992. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with colour vignette illustrated artwork,by David O'connor,illustrated panels of dw/dj,with black ink and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain orange(?)/yellow cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked black ink letters to spine/ backstrip,black+yellow striped headband and immaculate orange/yellow+black map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-323pp [paginated],includes 22 chapters and a postscript; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a prologue,an epigram and 4pp blanks at rear. Mahmoud said: "It is a time of calling in the debts.All over the city,it is a time when debts must be paid." January 1942.Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt,perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself.In the heady confusion of war,rumours and counter-rumours flow thick and fast. But one thing is certain - Rommel has a spy in the city; a source so well-informed that the German commander knows,in advance,every movement of the forces that oppose him.Somewhere,in the teeming streets and bazaars,the British must find him.But Cairo is a city of fool's gold, where nothing can be taken at face value. Beneath every layer of intrigue lies another,as the city heaves with Egyptian discontent at British rule and Jewish gun-runners seize the chance to arm their homeland. Meanwhile,desert raiders,black marketeers and deserters are all enmeshed in a web of lies and treachery in a place where appearances often prove to be an unreliable as the shifting sands. Amidst the fear,greed and turbulence of the dusty,burnished city,the British Military Police,led by Major Albert Cutler,run a race against time to trap Rommel's agent before the war in North Africa is lost.But even Major Cutler is not what he seems.A desperate man, risking his own survival because of a passion for a girl he hardly knows,he is engaged in his own dangerous game of make-believe. Amid the chaos and disintegration of war, bargains are made between would-be enemies.But as the German advance brings tension in the city to breaking point,the fragile alliances start to crumble and debts must be called in . . . before confrontation in the desert reveals the hidden truth. Superbly evocative of time and place,'CITY OF GOLD' is a richly atmospheric portrait of the tensions and desperation of war.Moving expertly across a new arena of conflict,Len Deighton guides his characters,their obsessions and betrayals,with the sureness of touch that is the hallmark of a master storyteller.His wartime Cairo will prove to be as memorable as his Berlin of the sixties. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja582615. ISBN: 0712638571.
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Imprint: NY.ATHENEUM,1972. US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Simultaneous publication as UK,1st edn.] Owner name to ffe, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap,text biography of author to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners. Light chipping to all edges,due in part,to laminate breaking down.Both head+foot of spine/ backstrip also bumped with reciprocal creasing and minimal chipping.Water-stain internally to top corners.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with light ageing/toning with a splash mark,fore- edges brighter and cleaner with some light,faint sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, solid and sound and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips. Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked blue gilt lettering to upper board, similar silver gilt to spine/backstrip.Front+ rear,top edges,along with front,lower edge lightly darkened(?),with plain red endpapers.US, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-381pp [paginated] includes 41 chapters; plus [unpaginated] publisher advert for author's other books/ titles to date,half-title+title pages,and a title separator page.Fictional biography of Hollywood filmstar. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja432812. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS,1994/5/6. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edns.[Complete number line for all three titles: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptns and only 3rd title without a price-clip to dw/dj,others both price-clipped.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour illustrated white background illustrated dw/dj with capitalised glossy gilt author name and red lettered title to front panel,lettering repeated to spine/backstrip,story precis to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges unblemished other than lightly aged/toned,fore-edges similarly aged/toned but to a lesser degree,therefore brighter and also without foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - they appear unread, other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain dark brown,navy blue and red cloth boards individually and respectively; with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate repeated,identical organisational+personnel flow chart-type illustration of the eight books - WINTER, GAME,SET, MATCH and HOOK, LiNE, SINKER and FAITH. Visually the exteriors' appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and particularly internally,the books' are also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.They really are exceptional copies for brightness and cleanliness. A new trilogy in the continuing saga of Bernard Samson,the intrepid,insolent,and enigmatic agent of Deighton's blockbuster series (Hook, Line, and Sinker,and Game, Set and Match trilogies.). This trilogy takes up where the Hook,Line, Sinker trilogy ended. The first novel in the celebrated Faith,Hope and Charity trilogy,finds Bernard Samson returning to Berlin,and in rural Germany,trying to deliver a Russian defector to London Central. Bernard has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife Fiona was a double agent.Werner Volkmann has been cast out by London Central as untrustworthy.Yet Werner still seems able to pick up information that Bernard should have been told.His arrogant father-in-law has grabbed Bernard's children.His boss Dicky is determined upon promotion and Bernard's job is on the line. Ask no questions,Bernard,whisper the top brass of London Central as one of Bernard's old Stasi enemies offers the Department electronic keys to his secret world.Middle management are expected to shoot first and not ask questions later,or be content with hints,half-truths and downright lies.The cold war turns to ice and nothing is quite the way it seems as Bernard Samson,caught between women,finds there is no one he can confide in and nothing to depend on except his own faith. Can hope and charity be far behind? HOPE. When Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep,he knows it will only bring trouble.It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich, rural Poland and the heart of a mystery that has tormented both him and his wife Fiona since they left East Berlin.Thrown into conflict with his superiors,and forced to question his job and his marriage,Bernard will learn,in the second part of the 'Faith,Hope and Charity' trilogy,whether treachery can ever be forgiven. CHARITY. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy,FAITH,HOPE and CHARITY.Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife Fiona was brought out of the East.Fighting to uncover the truth,he must also confront the key relationships in his own life - Fiona is still far from stable now that she has returned to work,and their children remain in the clutches of his wealthy and manipulative father-in-law.Meanwhile,Werner Volkmann,Bernard's friend since childhood,is reluctant to get involved in Bernard's crusade. A wonderful depiction both of covert operations and office politics,'Charity' is packed with action,incident and intrigue,bringing to a triumphant conclusion a series of ten novels that represents one of the great achievements of modern English fiction. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1069323. ISBN: 9780002244695.
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Imprint: LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS,1994/5/6. 3 UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edns.[Complete number line for all three title 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptns and only 3rd title without a price-clip to dw/dj,others both price-clipped.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour illustrated white background illustrated dw/dj with capitalised glossy gilt author name and red lettered title to front panel,lettering repeated to spine/backstrip and story precis to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges unblemished other than lightly aged/toned,fore-edges similarly aged/toned but to a lesser degree,therefore brighter and also without foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - they appear unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain dark brown,navy blue and red cloth boards individually and respectively; with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate repeated,identical organisational+ personnel flow chart-type illustration of the eight books - WINTER, GAME,SET,MATCH and HOOK,LiNE,SINKER and FAITH. Visually the exteriors' appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the books' are also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.They really are exceptional copies for brightness and cleanliness. A new trilogy in the continuing saga of Bernard Samson,the intrepid, insolent,and enigmatic agent of Deighton's blockbuster series (Hook, Line,Sinker,and Game,Set,Match trilogies.). This trilogy takes up where the Hook,Line,Sinker trilogy ended.The first novel in the celebrated Faith,Hope,Charity trilogy,finds Bernard Samson returning to Berlin,and in rural Germany,trying to deliver a Russian defector to London Central. Bernard has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife Fiona was a double agent.Werner Volkmann has been cast out by London Central as untrustworthy.Yet Werner still seems able to pick up information that Bernard should have been told.His arrogant father-in-law has grabbed Bernard's children.His boss Dicky is determined upon promotion and Bernard's job is on the line.Ask no questions,Bernard,whisper the top brass of london Central as one of bernard's old Stasi enemies offers the Department electronic keys to his secret world.'Middle management are expected to shoot first and not ask questions later,or be content with hints, half-truths and downright lies.The cold war turns to ice and nothing is quite the way it seems as Bernard Samson,caught between women, finds there is no one he can confide in and nothing to depend on except his own faith. Can hope and charity be far behind? HOPE. When Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep,he knows it will only bring trouble.It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich,rural Poland and the heart of a mystery that has tormented both him and his wife Fiona since they left East Berlin.Thrown into conflict with his superiors, and forced to question his job and his marriage,Bernard will learn,in the second part of the 'Faith,Hope and Charity' trilogy,whether treachery can ever be forgiven. CHARITY. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH,HOPE,CHARITY. Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife Fiona was brought out of the East.Fighting to uncover the truth,he must also confront the key relationships in his own life - Fiona is still far from stable now that she has returned to work,and their children remain in the clutches of his wealthy and manipulative father-in-law. Meanwhile,Werner Volkmann,Bernard's friend since childhood,is reluctant to get involved in Bernard's crusade. A wonderful depiction both of covert operations and office politics,'Charity' is packed with action,incident and intrigue,bringing to a triumphant conclusion a series of ten novels that represents one of the great achievements of modern English fiction. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja1022822. ISBN: 9780002244695
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Imprint: LONDON.PENGUIN,1966. UK,slim,12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally and first published as UK HB+ dw/dj,1st edn by Jonathan Cape,Sept.,1964,which precedes the US publication; G.P. Putnam's Sons,NY,January,1965. For copyright reasons this particular UK edition,is not for sale in the USA.] VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price removal to cover.Bright, clean,glossy,b/w pixilated Michael Caine portrait photograph and orange+white diagonal bands below with b/w letters to front cover; b/w letters to faded orange and slightly grubbed white background for the spine/backstrip,and rear cover with part b/w film still to top 1/3rd red+ orange bands with b/w critics' reviews to middle 1/3rd,red+black text to lower 1/3rd; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing - one tiny snick at foot of spine no other nicks,tears or splits present.Original cover design by Raymond Hawkey.Minor scoring/indents,production laminate wrinkles to either cover - not excessive nor obtrusive.Top edges slightly more aged/toned than the other edges, without foxing/spotting or other blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners though the spine has reading creases.UK,slim,12mo p/back, 1st edn,9-256pp [paginated] includes 51 chapters and 5 appendices; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's (spoof) potted biography,b/w line illustrated double-paged title page, epigraphs,and a title separator page. The hero of Deighton's 3rd novel is the same anonymous,anti-public-school employee of WOOC(P) - a secretive department within the British Intelligence Service - both appeared in 'The IPCRESS File' and 'Horse Under Water.'Sent to Berlin to arrange the covert transfer of a Soviet scientist whom Colonel Stok of the KGB is willing to sell to the West,he's drawn into a Byzantine plot whose key is a fortune stolen from Jews by the Nazis,that lies hidden in a Swiss bank. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja916521. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.Exclusively for W H SMITH by CRESSET PRESS/an imprint of RANDOM HOUSE UK Limited,1992. UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,3 Volume Omnibus, 1st edn thus. [Heavy tome - near 1.5Kg unpackaged.] FINE+. No owner inscrptn and an absence of publisher's price - as a WH Smith's Exclusive edition - available only in their outlets.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated boards - front board with full photograph but no text, rear board with repeated,half portion of front's photograph,and a vertical black background to other portion with individual novel's titles' white-lettered straplines and single critic's reviews to same; plus single review for the omnibus as a whole.Spine/backstrip divided into a lower 3/4s black background with white-bordered,b/w thumbnail portrait of author and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name to b/w illustrated colophon at foot of spine; head's top 1/4 a yellow panel with author's capitalised,black-lettered name and books' titles within.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - and almost virtually scoring/indent-free.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean and virtually foxing/spotting and blemish free; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually MINT and pristine - with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,thick 8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,3 Volume Omnibus,1st edn thus, 9-857pp [paginated] over the 3 novels: 'Berlin Game' (28 chapters),'Mexico Set' (26 chapters) and 'London Match' (30 chapters); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,author's Preface with his facsimile signature,individual book's b/w thumbnail illustrated title separator pages,and to the rear 6pp blanks. Visually,the external appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 30+ year-old age and nature, i.e. an Exclusive edition and possibly of limited availability and therefore a degree of scarcity.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for it’s brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of usage or age-acquired detracting faults usually encountered in a book of this age. This omnibus combines three fast-moving espionage novels featuring British spy Bernard Samson - 'Berlin Game', 'Mexico Set', and 'London Match' in an epic tale of international treachery and intrigue. Plots of the three books: the discovery of the mole; Fiona's flight from London to Moscow; the turning of Erich Stinnes and then the dramatic end-game in Berlin,when Bernard inadvertently plays the pawn in a Kremlin power game. A collection of the first three novels in the 'Bernard Samson' series.Initially a cleverly titled trilogy Berlin Game,Mexico Set,and London Match.This was later expanded into a second trilogy: Spy Hook,Spy Line,and Spy Sinker and then a third trilogy Faith,Hope and Charity.With the novel 'Winter: A Berlin Family,1899- 1945' written as a prequel,the characters developing quite an extensive history. This collection was published exclusively for WH Smith - a stationers and bookshop in the UK,for sale only in their own stores. Please contact the seller,because of the weight - as overseas buyers will be quoted the actual cost and not use the shipping default - particularly ALL overseas buyers,for correct [insured,or uninsured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order, especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds/increase AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1170724. ISBN: 0091772346.
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Imprint: LONDON.COOKERY BOOK CLUB,1967. UK,oblong HB,minus cellophane dw/dj,1st edn thus,1967.(1st was CAPE,1965).VG+.No owner inscrptn.Slightly marked/grubbed colour decorated card covers.UK,oblong 24mo HB,138pp,an index,80 of Deighton's Daily Express 'Cookstrips' b/w strip format recipes,and b/w decorated endpapers.Of the HB,CAPE 1st edn,only 7,500 printed,and now very scarce,and expensive. Although a cookery club edition,not as scarce, but still an uncommon title/edn. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja923. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.Harper Perennial/an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2009. UK,landscape 12mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued, illustrated,1st edn thus,3rd imp. [True 1st edn was (London),CAPE,1965 HB and issued with a clear cellophane dw/dj,in a print run of only 7,500 copies,and now is very scarce.Followed by a HB Cookery Book Club edn,by arrangement with CAPE in 1967.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,matt,colour photographic illustrated paper-covered boards front and rear respectively; with capitalised white+red lettered title and a Michael Caine white+red lettered quote about the author; black spine/backstrip with brown+red lettered title and publisher's capitalised white lettered+ illustrated name+colophon to foot of same,rear board with colour photograph and same red+white lettered Michael Caine quote as the front's. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present,black front pastedown with white lettered synopsis and plain black front free endpaper,rear free endpaper similar,whilst rear pastedown illustrated with a behind-the-scenes b/w photograph of author and Michael Caine on set of the 1965 film The Ipcress Files,of Caine cracking an egg.Top+fore- edges bright,crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,solid and sound - pristine without any dog-ear reading creases to any pages,corner tips - unread apart from my own collation.UK,landscape 12mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated with b/w diagram strips,1st edn thus,3rd imp,7-320pp [paginated] includes an introduction and near 80 cookstrips. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 15 year-old age and nature, i.e. a recipe book.It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. 'I am going to cook you the best meal you have ever tasted in your life…' Harry Palmer to Sue Lloyd in ‘The Ipcress Files’. 'Len was a great cook,a smashing cook.I learned a lot about food from playing Harry Palmer'. Michael Caine. If you look carefully at Harry Palmer's kitchen in the classic film ‘The Ipcress Files’ you will notice a newspaper pinned on the wall.This is one of Len Deighton's classic cookstrips,the series that ran for two years when he was the Observer food writer.Because before he became famous as the thriller writer of his generation, Len Deighton had trained as a pastry chef.He was also a brilliant graphic artist (his credits include the first ever UK cover for Kerouac's ‘On The Road’). ‘The Action Cookbook’ is the perfect mix of these two passions,created for the hero of his third passion. The 'Action Cook Book’ was once an instructional book for the bachelor male – a guide to sophisticated cooking for the would-be Harry Palmer. It now has a great following as a fabulous piece of nostalgia as well as retaining real credibility as a genuinely useful cook book. The strips were anthologised in two bestselling books,'Action Cook Book' (1965), and 'Où Est Le Garlic?' (1966).Deighton designed the cookstrips – but for his own use.The strips became a newspaper phenomenon and is down to two friends of Deighton,art director and designer Raymond Hawkey and journalist Clive Irving.'My wife and I went to Len’s flat a lot to eat because the food was so good',recalls Irving.' One evening Ray and I were in Len’s kitchen.We noticed his stick-up drawings of cooking preparations.Ray looked at me, and I looked at Ray,and I said: ‘That could work well in a newspaper.’ After a brief run in the Daily Express – it decided the strips were “too fancy” for its readers – Irving brought them to the Observer,where he had become design editor.Hawkey was appointed the newspaper’s chief designer. Aimed at "an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the kitchen",the book has been described as a cult classic from the period and helped pave the transition from cooking being only for women,into being a sophisticated expectation of a modern man. This reissue is with original content and artwork,the 2nd edition of the cover artwork,and an additional updated introduction. Want more Len DEIGHTON books/titles? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,NAVAL/MILITARY and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar available titles. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1123724. ISBN: 9780007305872.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1967. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,ex-public library,1st edn.VG/VG.Protected colour photographic Raymond Hawkey dw/dj - ex-public library copy with b/w photographic fep removed,a small neat library stamp to title page with other similar stamps to foot of pp75,pp155,pp328,and pp352 the last page,respectively.The upper panel of dw/dj, top+bottom,has been sellotaped to upper board resulting in sellotape marks bleeding through to both the half-title and title-page.Top edge coloured black,fore-edge aged with some spotting /foxing and some spotting to bottom edge also. Contents bright,tight and clean.Superb dw/dj with no nicks,tears or creases and no sunning or fading of spine/backstrip.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,352pp includes an index. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Editor of collection of 14 informative, well-written essays by Londoners (including Deighton himself) about the city.Today,it gives an absorbing insight to Sixties London.This hardback edition had a relatively low print run of 5,600 copies,subsequently becoming difficult to find. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1592. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.CENTURY,1991. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,but publisher's price,inked over (biro). Second of DEIGHTON's novels for his new publisher. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja932. ISBN: 0060179368.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1984. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Second novel in GAME, SET, MATCH trilogy. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja928. ISBN: 0394535251.
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Imprint: LONDON.PENGUIN BOOKS LTD.,1967. UK,slim Landscape 16mo p/back,reprint.[Originally and first published in 1965 by same publisher and in same format.This issue a reprint,the first such reprint,of 1967.Card cover's colour photographs and book's design both by Jacques Dehornois,Paris.Clive Irving and Raymond Hawkey responsible for strip-format design with lettering on the strips by Bill Harmer.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal (10/6) from card covers,black background with white letters to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases.Bright,crisp,clean.glossy colour photographic card covers with b/w letters; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present - though to front cover's fore-edge,a small horizontal abrasion indent - and rear,lower corner with a small diagonal dog-ear crease,no other creases present.Top+fore-edges remarkably clean with no foxing/spotting and fairly bright - considering book's 55+ year-old age; contents also bright,tight,exceptionally clean; solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases - unread, apart from my own collation.UK,slim Landscape 16mo p/back reprint,8-224pp [paginated] includes a 2pp introduction,10 chapters/sections each with relevant b/w line illustrations,flow charts etc.,covering L'art Culinaire (Cooking),Les Viandes (English & French butchery and cooking of cuts of meat),Les Fromages (cheeses),Les Corps Gras (fats and their uses),La Carte de Vins (simple guides to wine lists,other drinks - spirits,Champagne),La Cuisine Francais et le Froid (cook and store),Le lexique et le menu (French & English words, planning and reading a menu),La Batterie de cuisine (Pots,pans and serving dishes),La carte de des sauce (sauces in chart form),Les legumes secs,riz et pates (beans,lentils,rice,dried vegetables,pasta) all described and visualized in 50 b/w illustrated cookstrips with illustrations+vignettes,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title with blurb about author and book's content,title page, acknowledgements,double-paged contents list/table,b/w line illustrated individual chapter/section separator pages and blank at rear as last pages. This new selection of recipes has been designed as a complete course in French cooking.Some of the strips have been specially prepared for this edition; so has Deighton's entire text. Author's 5th published work,and the 2nd of his 5 cookery books,following on from his first debut cookery book - 'Len Deighton's Action Cook Book' - see my book IDs' rja697,rja923 for either a 1967, Cookery Book Club issue of this title and/or rja1123724 for the 2009 reissue of same title. The son of a professional cook,he spent his vacations from the Royal College of Art working in restaurants,and that experience led him to designing his cookstrips.Originally intended for personal use,Deighton's innovative b/w diagrammatic cookstrips originally appeared as a weekly feature in The Observer (a UK newspaper), the series running from 18 March,1962 until 7th August,1966.He produced a total of 189 Cookstrips for the paper,proving so popular that readers demanded that the strips be printed on tea towels,laid in plastic tabletops,and turned into kitchen wallpaper.They were eventually reprinted into the above mentioned books,in 1965. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard us AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja943121. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1988. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Pristine contents and fore-edges.First in HOOK,LINE,SINKER trilogy. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja929. ISBN: 0394551788.
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