Search Results: Authors starting with A from Cocksparrow Books

HARDBACK "BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1943 (1938)* Publisher: Adam & Charles Black.* Binding and cover condition: Light blue-grey cloth, dark blue title to spine and face. No bumps, minor rubs to head and tail of spine which is slightly faded & has a slight lean. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or foxing. Has small tear (repaired) to page 115/116. VG+* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 137 pp. text. iii pp. index at rear.* Description: One of a series of Pocket-Books issued by Adam & Charles Black. With 40 plates illustrating over 300 species. In addition to Butterflies and Moths this volume covers May-Flies, Caddis-Flies, Dragon-Flies, Humble Bees and Social Wasps, nymphs, larvae & eggs. Index at rear. Bearing in mind that the first edition was printed in 1938, this is… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: Jan.1946. * Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. * Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth covered boards, black title to face & gilt title to spine. Corners bumped, edge wear to edges and corners, some rubs to head and tail of somewhat faded spine. VG.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear but no tanning to text. Slight spotting marks and considerable age to all edges. No other visible faults. GD++.* Illustrations: NONE. * Pages: 320 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: The fifth and final full length novel in the Inspector Hanaud series by Mason. Julius Ricardo is on holiday in France when he gets a telegram telling him to meet his friend Inspector Hanaud in London. He hitches a lift in a yacht belonging to a friend Philip Mordaunt. On the way they are caught in a storm and pick up an… Read More

HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint. * Impression: 1st. thus.* Date of Publication: 1969 (1968) * Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Mauve cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. V slight bumps no rubs, some minor wear to edges, slight distortion at tail of spine. VG+.* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper with grey and red titles. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 15s net. Heavily torn and chipped with some losses to top and bottom edges and to tail of spine. Now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective jacket. GD * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owner's name to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear, a few pencil marks to text, slight marks to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 116 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: This book is both an anthology of literary criticism and a course in the practical… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 2nd. Thus.* Impression: 1st.Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1964(1955).* Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing the Mildenhall plate on Blue and white Pelican livery. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. Spine lightly dished, slight wear crease to lower front corner. VG+.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Neat owners name inscribed to verso. No annotations or marks to text. Some tanning to inside of covers. VG+* Illustrations: One 8pp block of b/w photos & b/w illus. & maps within text.* Pages: 214 pp. text. xxvi pp. bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- Contents:- List of illustrations, Editorial Note, Author's Preface, Chapter 1:- Military History. Chapter 2 :- Town and urban centres. Chapter 3:- The Countryside. Chapter 4 :- Economics. Chapter 5:- Religious Cults. Bibliography and Index at rear.* This is a VG+ text copy of the… Read More

HARDBACK "EARLY EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1930 * Publisher: Sir Isaac Pitman, (Publications) Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Light brown cloth covered boards, black title to spine and face with black frame to face. Light bumps, considerable rubbing, spine aged and worn. Ink and useage wear overall. GD.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with light reading wear, no marks to text, some pencil inscriptions and drawings to f.f.e.p., no tanning, all edges age darkened and with owners name in ink to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: B/w line drawn illustrations, forms & tables within text throughout. Three large green fold out tables. * Pages: 221 pp. text. xxxii pp. index, advertisements and blank page at rear.* Description: Covering Stage I (elementary) and stage II (Intermediate) syllabuses of the Royal Society of arts and similar… Read More

McDougall's, 1930-01-01. 1st Thus ?. School & Library Binding. VG/VG+/ND. Box 38 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus ?* Date of Publication: 1930.* Publisher: McDougall's Educational Company Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green linen covers showing a scene in a prehistoric village. Black titles and illustration. Stitched binding. Minor rubs to edges and corners. Minimal shelf wear to covers particularly to front, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. Some slight age to prelims and edges. A few spots marks. VG* Illustrations: B/w illustrations and line drawings within text.* Pages: 96 pp. text. ii pp. Set of questions at rear.* Product Description:- The stories contained in the books of this series are taken from the lore of all countries and of all ages. Some of them are legendary rather than historical in the strictest sense but they form an interesting and… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1984* Publisher: Treasure Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue and white illustrated and textured cloth, blue title to spine. Slight dent to lower front edge otherwise no bumps or rubs. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo- illustrated dust wrapper showing Chatsworth House, silver titles to face and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £9.95. Some shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour photo-illustrateded end papers showing Buckingham Palace. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour photos throughout to virtually every page.* Pages: 180 pp. text. vi pp. acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: In this superbly illustrated book, the well-known historian A.L. Rowse takes the… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* 2nd Edition corrected.* Date of Publication: 1771* Publisher: Carnan and Newbery.* Binding and cover condition: Octavo, full leather binding with five raised bands and light gold tooling between, gold title to claret-red spine label, slight chips. Edges, corners, head and tail of spine rubbed, boards visible at corners. Not bumped, front hinge cracked and a little loose. Rear hinge cracked but firm. GOOD ++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper as issued.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Has sepia tone illustrated book plate which is inscribed in ink ?M.d.10?. Some offsetting to end papers at both front and rear. Otherwise remarkably clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, a few light marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise VG+* Illustrations: 24 plates and some line drawings within text, all present. * Pages: 254 pp. text. 51 pp. Dictionary of technical terms, (un-paginated). vi pp. Directions to the… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint. * Impression: 1st ?* Date of Publication: 1900.* Publisher: M.M.Taylor & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue leatherette covered boards, no titles to spine or face. Rounded corners. No bumps or rubs, some slight marks. Has had a strap incorporated into the back cover which has now disappeared. VG+.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright. All edges coloured (red) top somewhat faded. There is some light reading wear. Slight offsetting to end papers, no marks to text, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: NONE. * Pages: 90 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages & advertisements at rear.* Description: This volume contains the rituals of the ceremonies of Initiation, Passing, & Raising and also the charges after each degree and Explanations of the Tracing Boards, compiled by a "Member of the Craft." * A NEAR VG++ copy of this edition with some… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1930* Publisher: Ernest Benn.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and illustration to face. No bumps, minor rubs lower corners and tail of spine, spine a little aged. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Grey end papers with small vignette illustrations of dogs. Clean, crisp, and tight with very slight reading wear, no marks to text, minimal colouration to pages throughout. VG* Illustrations: B/w line drawn humorous illustrations throughout.* Pages: 127 pp. text.* Description: All these poems, songs & pieces appeared in Punch, with exception of a couple one of which was printed in the Daily Mail and one which is from ?La Vie Parisienne.? The humour may be considered by some to be dated but, should you give them a try, you will be enchanted by the rhymes, fascinated by the relevance and cheered by the very English humour.* A NEAR VG… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1994* Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to corners & edges. No creases to spine or hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp & Tight . No Annotations or Inscriptions, badly stained to top corners of pages throughout. ACC.* Illustrations: B/w photos, line drawings & maps throughout.* Pages: 172 pp. text. xxiii pp. Notes, Bibliography & Index at rear.* Product Description:- This book indicates that what happened in the second millenium BC at Stonehenge was of such intensity that it's imprint was left on folk memory and preserved in oral tradition for over two thousand years. The search for Arthur?s true persona is a fascinating piece of historical, archaeological and scientific detective work.* This is an ACCEPTABLE copy with internal margins stained. It would make a good study copy and has minimal shelf wear.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* A clean, crisp, bright & tight copy of the 1st/1st thus FNL, published by Gollancz in 2018* Colour illustrated cover showing an annotated map of the outskirts of London. Minimal reading & shelf wear. No reading creases but very slight lean to spine, no creases to hinges or corners. VG+* Private copy not ex-library showing a shelf price of £7.99. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning, very slight age darkening to all edges. No other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None apart from colour representations of the series covers to inside of boards.* Pages: 118 pp. text. xviii pp. interview with the author at rear.* Product Description:- There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call. It's PC Peter Grant's speciality . . . Only it's more than going 'bump'. Traumatised travellers have been reporting strange encounters on their morning commute, with strangely dressed people trying to deliver an… Read More

HARDBACK "COLLECTIBLE COPY WITH ATTRIBUTION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1972* Publisher: Annenberg School Press in assn. with Weidenfeld & Nicholson.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound blue cloth with red leatherette spine. Elephant Folio, Gilt title to spine and design to front board. Top edge very slightly sunned. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Majestic colour reproduction to front of dust wrapper & colour photo to rear. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £10.00. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. A few chips and one small tear (5mm.) to top back edge and one small scratch to back cover. There is a slight fade line 65mm from the top front edge where the volume has stood on the shelf next to a shorter item VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Has ?With Compliments? card from ?Walter H. Annenberg, United States Ambassador to Great Britain… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: A Bee Craft Book.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers on dull blue ground. No bumps or rubs. Slightly grubby overall but with minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Staple bound with some rust showing through. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight with spotting to page margins and edges. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight paper colouration throughout. VG* Illustrations: B/w photos within text.* Pages: 48 pp. text. iii pp blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Commercial producers of queens have been fairly adequately provided for by writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr. Abbott, the founder of Bee Craft Magazine, is obviously acquainted with their techniques, but realises that the smaller honey producer needs methods suited to his skill and circumstances. He… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE & AUTHOR SIGNED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st. UK. * Date of Publication: 2015 * Publisher: HarperCollins Voyager. * Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth covered boards, metallic blue title title to spine only. Very slight bump to lower front corner, no rubs. Very small mark at head of spine. No other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a fantastic wave and a Viking boat. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges. Now in clear, un-attached, protective jacket. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. AUTHOR SIGNED to title page. Printed end papers showing maps. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. No Visible Faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 486 pp. text. v pp. blank at rear.* Description: Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to average her dead… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: BBC Bookis.* Binding and cover condition: Colour laminated, colour photo-illustrated, paper covered boards, red & white title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG++* Jacket condition: No Dust Wrapper (as issued). ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight paper colouration to page edges and margins, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 254 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Description: Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 3rd. Revised.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Rough Guides.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Some shelf wear & light creases to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. VG++* Illustrations: colour photo illustrations within text. several b/w line drawn maps.* Pages: 919 pp. text. xxvii pp. bibliography, acknowledgements, glossary, notes & index at rear.* Product Description:- The Rough Guides are a great series for travellers who don?t want to be ?sold? a destination, just told the truth. Comprehensive, entertaining, informed and practical with full colour photos and more than fifty maps.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 3rd./1st. with slight shelf wear.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Picador (PAN).* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers in grey and maroon with black titles to white spine-strip. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases to lightly dished spine, none to hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, neat owners name to ffep, sl spotting to fore-edge, no tanning or other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 233 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- A work in which 22 years of harsh experience, intellectual growth, self-criticism, deepening understanding and mustered discipline of skill open wide a subject to which Achebe is now magnificently equal. ~ It is the troubled present in West Africa. Two years after the military coup that swept a brilliant young Sandhurst-trained army… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2018.* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a tennis player. French flaps. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear & minimal reading creases to spine, slight wear to boards none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning. Some age and marks to top and fore edge. VG+ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 266 pp. text. xiv pp. acknowledgements and blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- A sensory masterclass from a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, and a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court. Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life.* This is a VG+ text copy of the 1st./1st. fnl.… Read More

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Cream linen cloth, metallic turquoise title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, red and black titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £12.99. Some slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Small amount of stain to lower front corner. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, slight creases to one page, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 333 pp. text. x pp., acknowledgements, notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: ?Ambitious in scope, yet intimate in tone, rippling with vitality and driven by passion, full of dark comedy, magical history and startling revelations,… Read More