weidenfield and nicolson london england (6 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slight wear and a couple of small tears to edge of D/J. Price clipped on D/J. The articles, which make up this collection are taken from the well-known weekly antique collecting column in The Times, and contain many suggestions of new lines for the collector. These range from such humble objects as nutmeg graters, butters and lemon squeezers, through to the bizarre and the exotic, such as love-tokens, marraige fans, Georgian toddy rummers and gout stools. Each of the articles selected deals with objects which are within the means of the modest collector and which ar enot too difficult to obtain. Illustrated by 24 pages of half-tones. 125 pp.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slight shelf wear to edges and corners of D/J. Through the eyes of one of Britain's leading finger-print experts, we are allowed behind the scenes to see how a wide variety of murder investigations are conducted from the discovery of the body to the murderer's appearance in court. The author not only vividly recalls in detail numerous intriguing murder cases such as those of three-year-old June Devaney, the Yorkshire Ripper and the Black Panther but also investiagations into the modern Rochdale and Bolton mummies, kidnapping, rape, burglary and even the existence of a ghost called Nicholas. These fascinating, sometimes humerous and occasionally gruesome recollections provide a unique insight into the worlds of the criminal and the detective alike. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs.241 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 6th Impression. 9781841883731During the Second World War two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While the last remaining Jews are being hunted in The Netherlands, the lives of dozens of hideaways kept going for better or for worse, right under the noses of their National Socialist neighbours. Eventually, the nest is exposed and the Brilleslijper family put on one of the last transports to Auschwitz, along with the (Anne) Frank family.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, almanacs, newspapers, advice books, government papers, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents a picture of daily life in London in the decade between 1660 and 1670: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework, laundry and shopping; clothes and jewelly, cosmetics and hairdressing; medicine, sex, education, hobbies and etiquette; law and crime, religion and popular beliefs. The London of 300 years ago is brought wonderfully (and sometimes horrifyingly) to life. We see a great and prosperous capital city - in the known world only Paris and Constantinople were bigger - checked in mid-decade by the horrors of Plague and Fire. We watch its elegant rebuilding. We enjoy the changing fashions of clothes and decor, the pleasure of gardening, the revival of theatre, the craft of cabinet-making and the art of embroidery, the practice of music and dancing. We are shown the importance of astrology in medical care, the labour of housework and laundry, the hazards of sex, and the extremes of poverty and wealth. We experience traffic jams on land and floating corpses on the River Thames. We learn how the law affected women as well as men - this is very much Elizabeth Pepys's London as well as her husband Samuel's. We hear the words Londoners used, and examine the education they recieved. In her exact and vivid descriptions of London before and after the Great Fire, the busy everyday activicties and the intellectual horizons and language of ordinary people, Liza Picard brings back to us the living echoes of our seventeenth-century ancestors. Illustrated.

Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover wear aan tear to D/J edges Wellington is the archetype of the stern silent Englishman dedictated to his duty. His posthumous nickname 'The Iron Duke' was hard earned on the battlefields of the Peninsular War. Yet, though he was remarkably free from the contradictions so often discovered in the very great, he had all the subtlety and variety of genius. The life of the Great Duke falls naturally into two parts, and in the first volume of her two-volume life, The Years of the Sword, the author covers his martial life that ended abruptly, when he was a handsome resilient forty-six, in the holocaust of Waterloo. After Waterloo, Wellington was never asked to fire another shot. This first volume shows the sensitive withdrawn child of Irish aristocrats pushed into the army as 'food for powder', stumbling his way through Flanders fields, an abortive love affair and the roistering banqueting halls of Dublin Castle to reach India at twenty-seven. There he made his name and, as Sir Arthur Wellesley, returned to England and marraige to Kitty Pakenham. Previous biographies have either concentrated on Wellington's victories or ignored his battles, sieges, tactics, strategy - all that brought him fame - to concentrate on his personal life. Lady Longford, who is the great-great-niece by marriage of Kitty Pakenham, has aimed at a Hardcove wear and tear to edges of d/jr comprehensive biography that will encompass all the aspects of Wellington's life to give the man in the round. She has visited the battlefields of the Peninsular War and of Waterloo, studied papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor and The Hague, and read Wellington's private papers at Apsley House, as well as other papers and journals, including his wife Kitty's hitherto unpublished diary and his own uninhibited correspondence with his brother William, both of which shed a vivid new light on Wellington's family life. With 24 pages of illustration, 10 maps and printed endpapers. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & no jacket as issued, Signed , First Edition UK Second Print, in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).