Search Results: Titles starting with H from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: B/w photos, illustrations & diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 244 pp. text. xx pp. appendices & advertisements, at rear.* Product Description:- The HAARP project in Alaska is one of the most controversial projects ever undertaken by the U.S. Government. Jerry Smith gives us the history of the HAARP project and explains how it can be used as an awesome weapon of destruction. Smith exposes a covert military project and the web of conspiracies behind it and discloses a possible plan to rule the world. * This is a… Read More

Fontana - Collins, 1985-01-01. 1st Thus 14th. Imp.. Mass Market Paperback. VG++/VG++/ND. Box X36 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 14th.* Date of Publication: 1985 (1969) * Publisher: Fontana Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a skull surrounded with a spiral of apple peel. Light green and white titles to face and black and blue titles to spine strip. Light spine lean. No shelf wear to edges, or to head & tail of spine. Very slight impression marks to covers. Small crease to lower rear corner. VG++.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Some age darkening and marks to edges especially to top. VG++ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 189 pp. text. iii pp. ads at rear.* Product Description:- ""Hallowe'en Party"" was first published in the UK as a book in 1969 by Collins Crime Club, The novel features Belgian detective Hercule… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1922 * Publisher: Cambridge University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Pocket edition with rounded corners. Mid blue cloth, black title to spine and face with publisher?s logo to lower face. Very slight bump to top rear corner, minor rubs, a few light marks to covers. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with virtually no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight ageing to top and fore-edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Coloured maps to end papers, physical geography to front and geology to rear. B/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 208 pp. text. iv pp. diagrams at rear.* Description: Octavo Book in the Cambridge County Geography series. Obviously the geography, geology and physical features of the county are still unchanged and this part of the work is relevant even… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Chronicle Books.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers with French Flaps. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear. No creases to spine or hinge. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, un-used, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: 150 Colour photos throughout by Lucinda Symons.* Pages: 102 pp. text. x pp. Templates at rear.* Product Description:- From simple shaker boxes, hooked rugs, quilts to buttoned throw pillows. Shaker decor is often described as subtle sophistication with country appeal. This book illustrates a number of easy-to-make decorative projects in the Shaker style. Although most of the crafts are easy, there are a few more challenging projects ie; quilts or throws. Each project comes with step-by-step instructions, a complete list of materials, and instructive colour… Read More

HARDBACK "ILLUSTRATED BOARDS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus?* Impression: 1st?* Date of Publication: Undated.* Publisher: Blackie.* Binding and cover condition: Black & lime green illustrations to grey-blue cloth showing girl with a rake in farmyard, (spine and face), black title to spine and face. No bumps, slight rubs to corners and spine ends, small tear at head of spine. GOOD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper probably as issued. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with only light reading wear, no marks to text, prelims heavily tanned and with obliterated inscription to front paste down, top and fore edges a little grubby. GD++* Illustrations: Several b/w plates at frontis and within text.* Pages: 288 pp. text.* Description: Diana, an American schoolgirl joins a small English boarding School just at the same time as a new headmistress arrives. Diana is high spirited and mischievous and comes into conflict with authority. The new headmistress is… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: Harvard Business Review.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers gold text on red ground. No bumps or rubs. Some shelf wear to covers, edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, some shelf wear to edges, no tanning or other visible faults. GD+* Illustrations: A number of b/w diagrams at rear.* Pages: 181 pp. text. vii pp. catalogues at rear.* Product Description:- A collection of extracts from the Harvard Business Review including items on Motivating employees, Good Salesmen, Business Effectiveness and How to choose a Leadership pattern.* This is a GOOD copy of the 1st thus. with some minor shelf wear.*

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Imp: 5th.* Date of Publication: Oct. 1923* Publisher: William Heinemann.* Binding and cover condition: Dull Green cloth, gilt title to spine & face. Light bumps & rubs, considerable shelf wear & crease to top front corner. Some marks and damp staining. * Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Tight and bright with some wear, pencil signature to front paste down and pencilled address to rear. Fox marks to text & edges throughout. ACC.* Illustrations: NONE.* Pages: 183 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A Play in five acts, Hassan: The Story of Hasan of Bagdad and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand. Set in Baghdad, Hassan's untutored heart and soul are unwittingly drawn into a harsh reality of conspiracy, passion and torture where his gentle heart is broken again and again by the callousness of friends and the cruelty of the world. A poetic, evocative, even funny but also… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Paperback.* Date of Publication: 1991 (1957)* Publisher: Pennington Mellor.* Binding and cover condition: Black line drawn illustration to orange brown soft card covers. Black & white titles to face and to somewhat faded spine. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear 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 tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawn map at front. A number of b/w photos within text.* Pages: 129 pp. text. vii pp. index at rear.* Product Description:- Hellens, the manor house at Much Markle in Hertfordshire, was begun by the French monks in the eleventh century. From that time down to today the old house, and the families that lived in it, have played an unexpectedly prominent and dramatic part in English history: in the… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979 (1952).* Publisher: Panther, Granada Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers with pale blue and gold titles to face ona black ground. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, no reading creases to spine, minimal 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. Very slight age to page margins and edges. VG++ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 246 pp. text. x pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Bernards Sands, once the enfant terrible of English letters, is no it's Grand Old Man in an age of Angry Young Men. Yet more thanone person wants to punish him for his continued unorthodoxy, even his own son. He has one foot in the grave as it is. Many would like to help him with the other. It's not so much his success that people hate, it's just that he's… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: (1904)* Publisher: Religious Tract Society.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine & face. Some considerable shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Damp marks overall. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Fep removed, heavy scribbles to first chapter, some age marks to text particularly prelims and end-papers, considerable marks and age to all edges. ACC.* Illustrations: A number of b/w prints, facsimiles and line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 250 pp. text. xx pp., advertisements at rear.* Description: These are accounts of a few of the splendid rescues effected on those out-lying and dangerous sands by the boatmen in their lifeboat work in the three lifeboats right opposite the Goowin Sands at Deal, Walmer and Kingsdown. Each case is authenticated by names and dates; the position of the wrecked vessel is given… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1993(1991)* Publisher: Rider.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing Mother Meera, with black and red titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Very slight reading creases to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning but very slight age marks to page margins and edges. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawn vignettes to paragraph divisions.* Pages: 253 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements, author?s notes & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Destined to become a classic of spiritual autobiography, Hidden Journey is a candid and beautifully written account of a rational atheist's spiritual transformation in the face of an unexpected encounter with Mother Meera, an 18-year old Indian woman, seen as the embodiment of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1993(1991)* Publisher: Rider.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing Mother Meera, with black and red titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Very slight reading creases to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning but very slight age marks to page margins and edges. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawn vignettes to paragraph divisions.* Pages: 253 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements, author?s notes & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Destined to become a classic of spiritual autobiography, Hidden Journey is a candid and beautifully written account of a rational atheist's spiritual transformation in the face of an unexpected encounter with Mother Meera, an 18-year old Indian woman, seen as the embodiment of… Read More

HARDBACK, "VINTAGE FICTION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight bump to lower front corner. No rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper (red & blue), showing boys at a school auction of second hand articles. Not price clipped, showing a shelf price of £5.95. Spine slightly faded. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edges and head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Several facsimile front pages in "two-colour" from the Gem Library. Numerous b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 200 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: In this volume, there… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1961* Publisher: Penguin/Pelican.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers with normal Pelican blue ground showing a black and white photo of a statuette of Siva in a green rectangle. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge, very slight dish. Seems un-used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Minor tanning throughout. Slight colouration to page margins & edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 153 pp. text. vii pp. index & advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- This book is a guide to the nature and function of Hinduism. Hinduism is unique among the great world religions in that it has no founder but grew gradually over a period of five thousand years, absorbing and assimilating all the religions and cultural… Read More

HARDBACK * Edition: 1st. * Date of Publication: Approx 1985* Publisher: Clare Son & Co,* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine and front board. FINE* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED Some minor shelf wear, top edge and spine slightly faded and scuffed VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, tight and bright. No Inscriptions, Three fold landscape school photo (1985) tipped on to rear endpaper.* Illustrations: B/W photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 163 pp. text. The three Volumes bound together in this book are: 1, The First Thousand Years circa 904-1964 by L.S.Colchester, 2, The Cedars and The Tudways by David Tudway Quilter and 3, The last Twenty Years by Alan Quilter. A near FINE copy reduced to very good by slight shelf wear and fading to the dustjacket (no loss).

HARDBACK ?TWO VOLUME SET,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.Thus. Facsimiles.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970* Publisher: Lloyd O?Neil Pty Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spines. Very lightly bumped and rubbed, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG+* Jacket conditions: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing coach hold-up in progress by G.Lacey. Now in clear protective, un-attached jackets. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear & age to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. A few light scratches & one spine faded. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slightly dusty top edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: A number of b/w prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 385 & 400 pp. text. iii & iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: In the years between 1860 and 1880, dozens of bush-rangers, some bold and famous, some… Read More

HARDBACK * Edition: 2nd. Rep. * Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: Collins* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, Dull gilt title to spine. Very slight bumps to head and tail of spine and corners. VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED heavily damaged with some loss, PR* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY Map and Diagram to EPs. Some foxing to prelims and edges. Otherwise clean, crisp and tight. GD * Pages: 320 pp.text. Unclipped d/w badly worn and torn along bottom edge with several large tears and with 1 triangular section missing at front near fold. Spine chipped. Nibbled at top edge also. This is the October 1955 second reprint of the October 1955 first edition. MACLEAN'S FIRST NOVEL.

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989 (1964)* Publisher: Hereford Plays (Heineman)* Binding and cover condition: Soft pink glazed linen covers with black title and design. Illustrated with a line drawn scene showing the interior of a boot sellers shop. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Covers slightly grubby. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Small school library stamp to half title. No annotations, inscriptions, a few light marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 82 pp. text. xii pp. notes & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- When forceful Maggie Hobson proposes to Willie Mossop, a boot-maker in her father's business, he's not at all keen! But their unlikely marriage matures into a strong partnership. Set in Lancashire at the end of the nineteenth century, this rich and affectionate comedy… Read More

HARDBACK "One of the HOME-FRONT series," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1940* Publisher: B.T.Batsford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Bright red cloth, black title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal wear to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustration to stiff paper dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 3s. 6d. Slight chips & shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Some ageing particularly to spine. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight foxing to top and fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 88 pp. text. ii pp. index at rear.* Description: Edmund Vale describes and elucidates the old buildings of the countryside, village and town ? the castles, abbeys, cathedrals, parish churches, country houses, farmhouses, town houses,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: St Andrew?s Press.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Photo-illustrated. soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. AS NEW* Illustrations: 1 X 8pp block of b/w photos at centre.* Pages: 317 pp. text.* Product Description:- After a formative period under Dr. George Macleod in Govan, Hugh served in the parishes of Leith, and St. Mary?s Dundee. He was Chaplain to HM The Queen in Scotland and Dean of the Chapel Royal. As Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland his notable ministry is shown here through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults.*