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Published by Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd an imprint of Hutchinson Publishing Group, London, UK, 1983
ISBN 10: 0091546605ISBN 13: 9780091546601
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Mark on the top corner of the front end paper from a rubbed out price, jacket is price clipped with a faded spine.
Published by Popular Dogs Publishing Co. Ltd., an imprint of the Hutchinson Publishing Group, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg, 1980
ISBN 10: 0091431204ISBN 13: 9780091431204
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and numerous figures. (illustrator). 4th Edition. Fourth edition of a book first published in 1971. Firmly bound and clean black cloth boards. Jacket not price clipped with small mark from a removed price sticker.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers ) Ltd. / Hutchinson Publishing Group London, 1982
ISBN 10: 0091478707ISBN 13: 9780091478704
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 10 short stories published from 1972-1979, collected in book form for the first time. The contents are listed in seller images.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers ) Ltd. / Hutchinson Publishing Group London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0091458102ISBN 13: 9780091458102
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with one minor closed tear on the front cover. The 14th novel published and the 16th chronologically in the Richard & Adam Bolitho military adventure series, officers in the Royal Navy, operating from the 1760s to the early 1800s, on the seven seas.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers ) Ltd. / Hutchinson Publishing Group London, 1983
ISBN 10: 0091537800ISBN 13: 9780091537807
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover with one small bump on the top front corner in a fine dustjacket. The 15th novel published and the 17th novel chronologically in the Richard & Adam Bolitho military adventure series, officers in the Royal Navy operating from the 1760s to the early 1800s on the seven seas.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers ) Ltd. / Hutchinson Publishing Group London, 1983
ISBN 10: 0091514207ISBN 13: 9780091514204
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. The 4th novel in the Paul Christopher spy/adventure series, an O.S.S/C.I.A agent operating all over all world from the 1920s-2000s.
Published by Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd An imprint of the Hutchinson Publishing Group, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0091424208ISBN 13: 9780091424206
Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Personal Library Name Stamp to Front Free Endpaper); Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Rise & Fall of the du Ponts of Delaware. CONTENTS: Genealogical Tables; Prologue; Part One The Family; Part Two The Cousins; Part Three The New Regime; Part Four Coup d'Etat; Part Five All in the Family; Part Six The End of an Epoch. SYNOPSIS: When Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald went to live in Wilmington in 1927, Scott wrote to his editor that "there is a kind of feudalism. The du Ponts, an immense family, mostly female, dominate the town." In fact, by the 1920s the du Ponts had more money than any other single family, including the Rockefellers, the Mellons or the Guggenheims, but unlike these others, they kept quiet about it. Ever since the original Pierre Samuel du Pont arrived on American shores in January 1800, the family as a whole had been making strenuous and largely successful efforts to avoid the kind of publicity that surrounded the rise of other great American clans. The saga of the du Ponts is, however, full of every kind of human and social drama, and, now, it is finally being told in all its fullness and rich detail by the masterful biographer of Dulles, Lindbergh and Hirohito. There is practically nothing in human experience--with the possible exception of actual poverty--that hasn't happened to the du Ponts. Their story encompasses insanity, cruelty, malevolence and murder--but also great genius. In business they have often behaved like the worst exploiters, even encouraged wars to their own monetary advantage; but they are also responsible for remarkable discoveries which have benefited the peaceful occupations of mankind. Almost from the moment they landed, the du Ponts began to produce a breed of quintessential Americans, fired by the challenges of a new nation and prepared to fight for their share of its power and success. Their mills on the banks of the Brandywine River produced $1,000,000 in profit from gunpowder sold to the North in the Civil War; without Du Pont powder the United States would not have been able to fight, much less win, the Spanish American War; and in World War I the British bought explosives from Du Pont. By the 1920s, however, the company had already branched out into a wide range of chemical products, precursors of what was, in 1939, to be the most explosive Du Pont invention of all time--nylon. In 1922, the family gained control of General Motors and thereby created what the Sherman antitrust suit brought by the government in 1950 was to call "the largest singe concentration of power in the United States." For a long time the du Ponts virtually controlled the state of Delaware: they collected the tolls on the turnpike, they operated what schools existed, they manipulated state and local government, they had a member of the family in the United States Senate. And their personal power was to last until the 9160s when, for the first time, there was no du Pont at the helm of what had been one of the largest family-owned-and-operated businesses in the world. There are still as many du Ponts in Delaware, and they are still as rich, but their separation from the family enterprise seems somehow to have diminished their influence, power and importance. For well over 150 years, however, the gripping stories of this extraordinary family and its monolithic business were dramatically and inextricably intertwined. Leonard Mosley has been given access to all of the du Pont letters and papers never before available to any biographer. He has brought to Blood Relations all the persuasive powers of a veteran reporter and researcher combined with a prodigious writing talent, to produce a book that is revealing, incisive, and, above all, engrossing. Born in Manchester, Leonard Mosley has been a foreign correspondent most of his working life. As chief war corresponden.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers ) Ltd. / Hutchinson Publishing Group London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0091452600ISBN 13: 9780091452605
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover with a faint previous owner's name on the front pastedown and the letter G stamped on the top textblock, in a fine dustjacket. The 5th novel in the Charlie Muffin spy/adventure series, a spy for the British government, operating all over the world. This series is the basis for the 1979 TV film "Charlie Muffin" starring David Hemmings, also released as "A Deadly Game".