Search Results: Authors starting with U from Books in Bulgaria

London: Souvenir Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ. ; Black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 264 pages; A twenty day programme of pleasures for a lifetime of heath. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Peacock Books. Good. 1963. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light shelf and edge wear, closed tear to rear cover and endpaper, ink name to inside front cover. ; Peacock PK12. Nice tight copy. Wrap around cover artwork and frontis by W Francis Phillipps. ; 208 pages; Novel based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, filmed as TheThird Man on the Mountain. .

London: Jarrolds Ltd. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and tear to slighlt soiled but unclipped DJ. Some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Red cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ artwork by Marjorie Moon. ; 192 pages; The daughter of an English general and married to a dull husband falls in love with India and with an Indian. .

Sevenoaks, Kent: Newnes Technical Books. Very Good-. 1979. First Edition; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor shelf wear, sunned spine. ; Second printing, 1980. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover photo by Peter Hirst Smith. ; Beginner's Guides; B&W Illustrations; 192 pages; An introductory guide to the craft of woodworking starting from first principles useful for the beginner or DIY enthusiast wishing to increase their theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Explains methods used by professional carpenters, joiners and cabinet makers with sections on tools, basic constructions and finishing processes. .

London: Pan Books. Very Good; Some reading and cover creases, old dealer sticker to front . cover, light foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading . block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited.. 1987. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 464 pages; Out in the Arizona desert eight former Luftwaffe pilots of the 76 Staffel celebrate a reunion. In the last days of the war these eagles of the Reich had launched themselves against the endless waves of American B-17s and Mustangs over the skies of Germany. Two of their number had been shot down by Colonel Roger Lowen, a defeat that has burned in their memory. Lowen now flies vintage fighters including Mustangs as part of the Confederate Air Force at Texas air shows, along with other former combat pilots of the RAF and American Air services. The Germans now have a number of restored and fully armed Messerschmidt 109Gs and think it's time for a rematch. ; 0330293311 .

London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good+. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Slight shelf wear, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First UK paperback edition with full number line. Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover design uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 640 pages; Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. Set in the mid eighteenth century as the Liverpool Merchant sets sail for the African coast to ply the Triangle Trade and take slaves to the Americas. Aboard are two cousins, Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, who seeks a forune to marry the young upper-class woman whom he loves, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon who has lost everything due to his beliefs. .

London: Granada. Very Good+; Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, . appear unread.. 1983. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 446 pages; May 1908 and the Ottoman Empire is beginning to crumble. Into the seething hotbed of intrigue that is Constantinople comes Robert Markham to join the British legation, but Markham hides a secret. Twelve years previously on the night of their engagement he watched helplessly the brutal rape and murder of his Armenian fiancee. Only his being British had saved him, now he seeks revenge. ; 0586052380 .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. Very Good+. 1992. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor edge wear, old dealer sticker to rear cover. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unopened. Cover artwork by Anne Magill. ; 640 pages; Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. Set in the mid eighteenth century as the Liverpool Merchant sets sail for the African coast to ply the Triangle Trade and take slaves to the Americas. Aboard are two cousins, Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, who seeks a forune to marry the young upper-class woman whom he loves, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon who has lost everything due to his beliefs. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1996. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear with a few indents to front cover, paper lightly edge toned. ; Second printing of Penguin paperback edition. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover shows hand tinted jousting knights from an original illumination from The Luttrell Psalter. ; 192 pages; Shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize. It is the late fourteenth century, a time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them. Yet the town where they perform reveals another drama: a young woman is to be hanged for the murder of a twelve-year-old boy. What better way to increase their takings than to make a new play, to enact the murder of Thomas Wells? But as the actors rehearse, they discover that the truth about the boy's death has yet to be revealed... .

London: Elek Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light shelf wear and tear to uncliped . DJ, fly shadows to endpapers, last two leaves badly separated leaving . small non text effecting open tears and hanging chads. ; Pink cloth boards . with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Very heavy . book and priced accordingly.. 1960. Hardcover. Second Printing; 675 pages; Anthology of humour from classical Greece to World War II and beyond. .

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good with no dust jacket; Missing DJ, some toning to endpapers. ; . Charcoal linen cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, . no names inside.. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing; 208 pages; Author's second novel set in a large dilapidated Victorian house overlooking Hampstead Heath. The relationship that Hugo Moon, an ex-colonial administrator, has with Joanna Dagleish the wife of the artist who lives upstairs, eventually involves all three families that share the house. .

London: Orion. Very Good. 1998. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy. Cover design uncredited. ; 336 pages; The sudden arrival of Orlando Manners' bride totally disrupts the lives of those closest to him. Lindy views her marriage as a means to an end and is unlike the other women who have a hold on him - his godmother Victoria, who brought him up, his childhood friend Rose, the daughter of his cook who has always worshiped him. But more than anyone, Lindy must contend with the ghost of Orlando's mother Daisy, a wayward and destructive beauty whose hold over them all is hidden in the pages of the Visitor's Book. .

Borzoi. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. DJ has large chip missing at base. ; The fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player, Harry Rabbit Angstrom. A portion of this story was first published in Playboy, (which seems appropriate....) .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Near Fine; Paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks . inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Andrew Holmes. Heavy book and . priced accordingly.. 1981. Reprint. Paperback. Ninth Printing; 512 pages; All well-to-do, all thirty-five-ish, ten couples living in Tarbox, New England, form an excusive, competitive group. They are sociable, articulate and unhappy; they enjoy sailing, basketball and skiing; they play word games in the evenings - and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, their rituals are observed by the baleful eye of their self-appointed ringmaster, Freddy Thorne. ; 0140029443 .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Good. 1970. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, some shelf and edge wear, slightly cocked spine. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Second printing, 1969. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail from Adam and Eve Sleeping by William Blake. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 512 pages; All well-to-do, all thirty-five-ish, ten couples living in Tarbox, New England, form an excusive, competitive group. They are sociable, articulate and unhappy; they enjoy sailing, basketball and skiing; they play word games in the evenings - and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, their rituals are observed by the baleful eye of their self-appointed ringmaster, Freddy Thorne. .

London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. ; 468 pages; Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is now enjoying a prosperous middle age as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. But with a down turn in the economy, his son deciding to drop out of college, and an old face from the past, are things about to spoil his happiness. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good-. 1970. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cver creases, some shelf and edge wear with small spit to base of spine. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail from Adam and Eve Sleeping by William Blake. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 512 pages; All well-to-do, all thirty-five-ish, ten couples living in Tarbox, New England, form an excusive, competitive group. They are sociable, articulate and unhappy; they enjoy sailing, basketball and skiing; they play word games in the evenings - and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, their rituals are observed by the baleful eye of their self-appointed ringmaster, Freddy Thorne. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1985. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Corner crease to front cover, some shelf and edge wear with some cover scuffing. ; Second printing of Penguin mass market edition, 1985. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Martin Baker. ; 320 pages; The air of Eastwick breeds witches, women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture the domestic peace of those who irritate them. Jane, Alexandra, and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into their lives comes a new arrival, Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus who entrances the trio and invites them to his mansion where he becomes the focus of their sensuous celebrations. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Good. 1987. Reprint; Third Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light cover creases, some shelf and edge wear with splits at spine extremities, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Third printing of Penguin movie tie-in edition, 1987. Good reading copy, no names inside. ; 320 pages; The air of Eastwick breeds witches, women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture the domestic peace of those who irritate them. Jane, Alexandra, and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into their lives comes a new arrival, Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus who entrances the trio and invites them to his mansion where he becomes the focus of their sensuous celebrations. .

London: Andre Deutsch Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, slight bump to top of spine, minor foxing to edges of reading block. ; First UK edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. DJ design uncredited. ; 256 pages; Sarah Worth - "S." - walks out on her family to follow the spiritual path of a guru who has moved his community from India to Arizona. There his followers work to make the desert fruitful, while he passes amongst them bestowing bliss. Told in a series of communications from S to her husband, daughter, best friend, and various others including her bank manager. .