Search Results: Titles starting with J from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Unwin Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge but spine is slightly darkened. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight paper colouration to page margins and edges. VG+* Illustrations: One 8pp block of b/w photos.* Pages: 260 pp. text. xviii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Product Description:- In this full-length, authorised biography, Humphrey Carpenter draws upon all of Tolkien?s private papers, diaries and manuscripts, together with interviews with family and friends. He builds up a fascinating portrait of Tolkien?s childhood, adolescence and war service and recounts how Tolkien achieved high repute as a scholar and university teacher. Then suddenly Tolkien found himself… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Reprint: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Phaidon* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a detail from the Lady of Shalot. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE* 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: colour & b/w high quality reproductions within text. throughout.* Pages: 126 pp. text. ii pp. index at rear.* Product Description:- J.W. Waterhouse was one of the most successful painters of the Victorian age, with many of his paintings becoming archetypal images. In this book the author, a practising painter and teacher, gives an artist's appreciation of Waterhouse as a master of Romantic Classicism. Phaidon makes its usual beautiful presentation of the languid and essentially erotic… Read More

SOFTBACK ?COLLECTABLE,? PAMPHLET SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1941?* Binding and cover condition: Stiff textured grey paper covers with black outline drawing and title to front. Some ageing and browning to edges & corners, no creases but some slight marks. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp & tight. No annotations or inscriptions, no tanning, seems lightly used. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawn pictures and cartoons within text throughout.* Pages: 32 pp. text. No appendix at rear.* Product Description :- A collection of humorous and entertaining short pieces written and published by members of the company, presumably serving aboard HMS Bramble ?J11? a Halcyon Class mine-sweeper. An uncommon and collectable copy of a piece of wartime ephemera printed by Robinson and Co. in Durban, Natal, South Africa.*

HARDBACK (LARGE FORMAT) SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Jane?s Publishing Company Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue boards with silver title to spine and face. No bumps, slight rubs to edges, lower corners & head/tail of spine. Hinges tight despite weight of book. GD+* Contents condition: Has ?Ministry of Defence St Gile Court? and ?Reference.? stamps and label to title page and to fep. Clean, crisp & bright. No other annotations or inscriptions. Un-marked. Edges a little grubby. GD+* Jacket: No dust jacket.* Illustrations: B/w photos & line drawings throughout to virtually every page.* Pages: 831 pp. text. xxxiv pp large appendices & indices at rear.* Product Description:- The 1982 edition of the authoritative reference work on world aircraft, helicopters, sailplanes, gliders, air launched missiles, balloons and airships etc. Special section on satellites launched in 1981 and a definitive portion on aero-Engines.*This is a… Read More

HARDBACK, "GREYFRIARS BOOK CLUB VOL. 37, IN SLIP CASE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Limited Edition 335 of 400 signed by publisher.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Howard Baker Press.* Binding and cover condition: Deep green leatherette, impressed gilt titles & decoration to face & title to spine. No bumps or rubs, No shelf wear. FINE.* Jacket condition: Without "glassine" protective wrapper, within a textured pale grey slip case as issued. No bumps, minor & rubs to top rear cover of slip case. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured & patterned end papers (pink & grey marbled). Top edge gilt. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: A number of colour facsimile front pages & b/w line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 228 pp. text.* Description: Taken from 1922-23 Magnet issues Nos 763-76& 787 the following stories are included. "The New Boy's Secret," The Schoolboy Hermit," "Just Like… Read More

SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Sir James Spicer.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author signed and with gift dedication. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. No colouration to page margins or edges. FINE* Illustrations: B/w photo-illustrations within text.* Pages: 204pp. text.* Product Description:- Jim?s journey spans 79 years (so far) and embraces a wide variety of interests and occupations. From Air Raid messenger at 14 to MP for West Dorset at the age of 49 and on to become the chief whip in the European parliament, Sir James Spicer has had a fascinating and worthwhile career amusingly detailed here in his autobiography.*… Read More

SOFTBACK ?ISBN:- 978-0-9538995-9-3? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. * Limited Edition of 700* Date of Publication: 2009* Publisher: The John Clare Society.* Binding and cover condition: B/w photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Seems un-read. AS NEW * Illustrations: A few b/w photos with b/w line drawn vignettes within text.* Pages: 106 pp. text. ii pp. contributors & abbreviations lists at rear.* Product Description:- Includes:- John Clare, the Man of Taste. John Clare?s Sonnets and the Northborough Fens. Clare?s Gypsies and Literary influence. An unpublished letter and poems by Jhn Clare and a number of scholarly reviews.* This is a FINE, AS NEW copy with minimal shelf wear.*

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Reprint thus.?* Date of Publication: Undated butgift inscription dated 1920. Booklist of Angela Brazil?s Novels contains 17 titles.* Publisher: Blackie & Son.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated cloth boards, Beige & pale blue with three girls plus tennis rackets on front; pigtailed girl at keyhole on spine, black title to spine and face. Some bumps & rubs to edges and corners, spine heavily rubbed and faded. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear to text block. Two pages cornered. No marks to text, slight offsetting and inscription to fep, VG* Illustrations: Balliol Salmon (illustrator). Six b/w plates to frontis and within text.* Pages: 288 pp. text.* Description: One of Angel Brazil?s series of stories about youngsters at school. The two girls, Katrine and Gwethyn are sent to a very small country school as senior students… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. ?* Impression: 1st? Date of Publication: Pre 1950? Book list to prelims shows ?A Perfect Dilemma? as Marsh?s most recent novel. Interestingly this should read a Prefect?s Dilemma which was published around 1937.* Publisher: Samson Low.* Binding and cover condition: Orange cloth, black title to spine and face. Somewhat rubbed and spine badly faded, minimally marked. GD* 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, very slight paper colouration to page edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: A considerable number of b/w plates and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 255pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A fairly adult aviation tale for the juvenile market. One of Eileen Marsh?s prodigious output under various alias?s. A sort of Boy?s Own tale for girls!* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st. edn. ? with NO MAJOR… Read More

British Society of Master Glass Painters, 2004-01-01. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. F/F/ND. Box X28 SOFTBACK ?SPECIAL ISSUE,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004 * Publisher: The British Society of Master Glass Painters. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing detail of ?Saint Margaret & The Dragon,? by German? (1500-1530). No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. A few slight marks to top edge. FINE. * Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 287 pp. text. xiii pp, notes, references & adverts at rear.* Product Description:- Special Issue and Extra Number commemorating:- ?The Stained Glass Collection of Sir John Soane?s Museum.? Contents include:… Read More

British Society of Master Glass Painters, 2005-01-01. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. F/F/ND. Box X28 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2005 * Publisher: The British Society of Master Glass Painters. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing detail of ?Lamina? by Brian Clarke (2005). No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. A few very slight marks to top edge. FINE. * Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 241 pp. text. xv pp, notes & adverts at rear.* Product Description:- Contents include: Lay Figures in Sacred Spaces: The 15th. Century ?Donor Figures? at Great Malvern Priory. Unicorns in Stained Glass Windows in King?s College Chapel, Cambridge,… Read More

HARDBACK "TEACHING PHONICS SERIES LONG "OO", SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression:1st. * Date of Publication: 2013 * Publisher: Make Believe Ideas Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Glossy laminated illustrated boards showing Jack up his Beanstalk. Black title to spine and re/black/white titles to face with glitter decoration. No bumps, rubs or wear, FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust jacket probably as issued. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscription to "Belongs To" panel. No inscriptions or annotations, seems unread. No visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour illustrations throughout.* Pages: 32 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product description:- A fun retelling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Share the story and the learning activities with your child to encourage their reading and reinforce their learning of phonics. The story is told in a lively, rhyming text with a key sound targeted. Letters are… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Photo montage illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £18.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to jacket. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dark green coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 8pp b/w photos at centre.* Pages: 272 pp. text. xlvi pp. Notes, acknowledgements, bibliography & index at rear.* Description: From his birth in Venezuela to his capture in the Sudan, the life of Carlos 'The Jackal' has been an extraordinary one. Carlos' career as a terrorist ranged across the whole gamut of the terrorist activities in the decades of the '70's and '80's and made him… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Monochrome print to dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £6.95 on Routledge publishers label. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear library jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, neat owners name and address to ffep, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 308 pp. text. xxvi pp. notes, reading list & index at rear.* Description: The years 1600-1660 witnessed the transition from an essentially medieval world to a modern one, which accounts for the continual interest in the period. In compiling this anthology, the editor has… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: Chapman?s Publishers Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers (British tanks in the desert). No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light scratches to front cover. 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. Slight age to page margins and marks and edges. VG* Illustrations: B/w line drawn cartoons to all pages throughout.* Pages: Unpaginated.* Product Description:- Raymond Allen Jackson born March 1927, became a cartoonist at The Evening Standard in 1952 and his cartoon style changed the direction of humour in that paper from politics to current affairs. This selection is taken from the Evening Standard and The Mail on Sunday from Aug 1st. 1990 to Aug 23rd. 1991.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 6th. Printing.* Date of Publication: 1965 (1964)* Publisher: PAN Books A* Binding and cover condition: Soft photo-illustrated card covers, with film tie-in photos, different to that illustrated. No bumps, rubs to edges and spine. Very slight shelf wear to corners. Some label damage to front cover. Creases to spine & hinge with slight dish and lean. ACCEPTABLE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp & tight. No annotations or inscriptions, colouration to pages and edges throughout. ACCEPTABLE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 238 pp. text. ii pp. Advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The licence to kill for the Secret Services? the ?Double-O prefix?, was a great honour. It had been earned ?hardly?. It bought James Bond the only assignments he enjoyed ? the dangerous ones. This film tie-in copy of Ian Flemings early Bond story has details of the Cast and Direction on the back cover.* This is an ACCEPTABLE copy with some… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby.* Binding and cover condition: Pale grey-green cloth, no title to spine or face. Slight bumps & rubs. Edges sunned. GD+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no annotations or marks to text, slight offsetting to prelims, otherwise VG+.* Illustrations: Some b/w photos within text.* Pages: 144 pp. text. 18 pp. chronology, appendices, notes, bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Tom and Cordelia stamp have produced an unique biography of James Cook covering his formative influences and written as far as possible in his own words. They show Cook to be one of the leading seamen, navigatorss, explorers and cartographers of his era.* A NEAR VG+ copy… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1980* Publisher: Moonraker Press.* Binding and cover condition: Orange/brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. FINE* Jacket condition: Monochrome (brown) photo-illustrated dust wrapper on ochre ground, spine faded, white titles to face and spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £5.95. Slight, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top and fore edge and to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of full-page b/w photos.* Pages: 99 pp. text. vii pp., chronology, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This is the story of two people who were almost indivisiby one. A.J.Coles, the creator, and Jan Stewer the creation. The whole of the West Country knew Jan Stewer… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Pelham Books.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth, green title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minimal age to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo- illustrated dust wrapper, silver, red and white titles to face and silver titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £12.95. Minimal, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Obliterated name and address to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings and colour photos within text throughout.* Pages: 110 pp. text. iii pp., index, & blank pages at rear.* Description: Jane Asher's Party Cakes" (1982) sold over 70,000 copies. This new volume of new designs and cakes builds on… Read More

Fourth Estate, 1997-09-18. 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.. Hardcover. F/F/F. Box X30 HARDBACK ""LARGE & HEAVY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 1997.* Pub: Fourth Estate.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine strip and none to face. No bumps, rubs or other visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated jacket with a detail from a portrait of J.Austen by her sister Cassandra. Now in a clear un-attached protective jacket. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £20.00.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Printed end papers showing the Austen family tree. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight spotting to top edge. FINE* Illustrations: One x 8pp block of b/w photos at centre.* Pages: 527 pp. text. li pp. blank pages, notes & index at rear.* Description: In this brilliant reassessment of an often misunderstood subject,… Read More