Search Results: Titles starting with L from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK FIRST PART ONLY ~ ?La PENDULE FRANCAISE de l?HORLOGE GOTHIQUE a la PENDULE LOUIS XV.? French Language. SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1961* Publisher: Tardy.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Black and white engraving to white soft card covers. Slight creases to lower corners & minor rubs to front & to top rear corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Covers somewhat aged. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. Very slight ageing to end papers. VG+* Illustrations: B/w photographs, plates and line drawn diagrams within text. throughout.* Pages: 104 pp. text. no index at rear.* Product Description:- A detailed treatise (in the French language) on the development of the pendulum clock from the Gothic or Ougival period to the end of the period known as Louis XVth. There are numerous reproductions of various plates and photographs of clocks from… Read More

SOFTBACK ?PAN No: 203,?SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1952* Publisher: Pan Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Some chips at head & tail of spine. Light creases, ageing & slight lean to spine, hinges good. ACC+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Considerable overall tanning. Otherwise, GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 192 pp.* Product Description:- This thriller is one of those seminally adapted by Arthur Hitchcock for the Cinema. The original title, The Wheel Spins, was changed to its present one by Hitchcock for the film and it was known from then on by this title. A single woman, Iris Carr, on a continental train journey is befriended by an English governess, Miss Froy who disappears whilst Iris is asleep. From then on despite her extensive efforts to find the governess, everyone else on… Read More

SOFTBACK PAMPHLET SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: (1976)* Publisher: Pacific Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers, minimal shelf wear to edges. No creases to spine or hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp & tight. Stapled binding, no rust. No annotations or inscriptions, minimal paper tanning to margins, seems lightly used. VG* Illustrations: B/w photos, illustrations and line drawn plan.* Pages: 34 pp. text. i pp. plan at rear.* Product Description :- This excellent guidebook, in print for more than thirty years, was revised in 1967 to include a section on the heraldic curtains and this edition has a foreword by the vicar, Wilfred Braithwaite, written in August 1976.*

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 2nd.* Imp: 5th.* Date of Publication: * Publisher: University Tutorial Press Ltd. W.R.Clive.* Binding and cover condition: Library re-bind. Blue cloth, gilt title & Dewey code to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: In clear protective film wrapper. ND* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with some stamps. Re-inforced hinges and slightly marked end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, blue speckles to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 83 pp. text. cvi pp., notes, glossary & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book is intended primarily for university students. It does not, however, pre-suppose any deep knowledge of Middle English on the part of the reader. While it seeks to provide the means for a detailed literary and linguistic study of Piers Plowman, it also aims at supplying the grammatical groundwork, the full annotation and the… Read More

HarperCollins, 2017-09-07. 1st Edn. 6th. Imp.. Paperback. F/VG+ No DJ. Box X39 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 6th.* Date of Publication: 2017 * Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a heart shaped wreath in flames. Orange & white titles to face and to spine strip. No shelf wear to edges, or to head & tail of spine. No marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Edges clean. FINE. * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 136 pp. text. iv pp. blank at rear.* Description:- Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home – and after that shocking night, Charlie's world was never the same. Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Thus.* Date of Publication: Undated.* Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc. NY.* Binding and cover condition: White cloth, bright blue title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing reproduction of ?At the café Miss Chlorotique?, black titles to spine & face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight sellotape marks to end-papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous art quality colour & monochrome reproductions & line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 92 pp. text. vi pp., bibliography, list of illustrations, & blank pages at rear.* Description: Among the artists who lent distinction to ?La Belle Epoque,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Robson Books.* 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 lightly-used if at all. 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: None.* Pages: 319 pp. text. v pp. bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The Law's Strangest Cases covers the Mediaeval days of trial by ordeal or battle, to death by ducking stool, burning at the stake, or similar, right up to today's worst excesses of litigation. As well as the more well-known gruesome murder cases, Peter Seddon delves into all legal disciplines such as crime, libel, negligence and unfair dismissal, to find bizarre goings on through five litigious centuries.* This is a… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: Librarie de Mezieres.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated boards, black title to spine & face. No bumps, minor rubs to head and tail of spine, minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Gift inscription to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slightly dusty to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: A few colour & numerous b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 171 pp. text. vi pp. bibliography, list of illustrations & blank pages at rear.* Description: For sure this book is presented in the form of a dictionary but it is in fact a treatise on harness carriage driving. It proves that this discipline is not a skill or tradition just embedded in the past but on the contrary a modern living discipline practised all over the world.* A NEAR VG++ copy… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: Country Life Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, White title to spine and face. Lightly bumped & rubbed, no other visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight. No reading wear, no marks to text, light foxing to end papers and prelims but not to text block. VG* Illustrations: Beautiful black & white line drawings by C.F.TUNNICLIFFE throughout.* Pages: 111 pp. text.* Description: Country sketches, superbly illustrated by Tunnicliffe. The text was written during the war, which intrudes now and then including searchlights playing on the night sky in one of the illustrations. This is a story of the restoration of a Devonshire farm to its ?natural" state and excursions into the surrounding countryside detailing the wild life to be found there. Some of the full page illustrations, The Plough, The… Read More

HARDBACK "EARLY EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: First Series.* Impression: 43rd Thousand.* Date of Publication: Undated.* Publisher: Marshall Brothers Ltd. incorporating Passmore and Alabaster.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, slight rubs to corners and to head & tail of spine, minimal faults. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with minor reading wear, no marks to text, heavy tanning to first and last three pages otherwise clean and bright. VG* Illustrations: One b/w line drawn vignette to introduction.* Pages: 200 pp. text.* Description: A selection from addresses delivered to the students of The Pastors College Metropolitan Tabernacle by C.H.Spurgeon, president. As the author says in his introduction the lectures that are collected here are colloquial, familiar, full of anecdote and often humorous, qualities which he apologises for and decries. The modern reader however… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.?* Date of Publication: 1997? * Publisher: Corel Corporation.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no visible faults. Very lightly used if at all. VG++* Illustrations: Every page filled with colour & monchrome vignettes.* Pages: Approx 600 pp. of illustrations.* Product Description:- An invaluable reference book for use in association with Corel programmes of the late 1990?s. It includes masses of clip art, fonts, symbols, frames, colours, and patterns. These are the various illustrations from the discs available with Corel software.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++*

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 3rd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: Mar. 1965* Publisher: Yale University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, gilt title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, spine faded. Some damp marks to boards. GD+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 137 pp. text. xxix pp. notes & appendices at rear.* Description: The Yale Shakespeare was published under the direction of The Department of English at Yale University on the fund given to The Yale University Press in 1917 by the members of the Kingsley trust Association (Scroll & Key Society of Yale College) to commemorate the Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the founders of the society.* A NEAR VG copy with a faded spine & slightly marked boards but no dust jacket. We have a… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: Davis Poynter.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to red spine label and author & logo to spine direct. No bumps, minimal wear, no marks or other visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Black, red & white text-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £5.00. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head & tail of spine. Some foxing to inside of jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, top edge coloured faded red and somewhat dusty. No marks to text, slight fox marks to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: B/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 579 pp. text. xxi pp. bibliography, index, acks & blank pages at rear.* Description: Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus ?* Impression: 1st ?* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Maxi Poche Classique Francaise.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers showing two men staring into the sky. No bumps, minor rubs, light shelf wear, two reading creases to spine, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Slight paper colouration to page margins and edges. No other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 688 pp. text. xvi pp. index, ads & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- A novel in the 20,000 leagues under the sea genera. Involving escape from the American Civil war a journey in a hot air balloon, a domesticated Orang utan, an ex-slave, a dugong, a dog called Top and a mysterious presence who saves the members of the team from disaster. The group land on an unknown island in the Sothern Pacific Ocean and there are… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1924 (1920)* Publisher: William Heinemann.* Binding and cover condition: Claret coloured cloth, gilt title to spine. Minor bumps & rubs, spine faded, covers somewhat aged. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with only minor reading wear. Fep removed. No marks to text, some heavy marks to fore edge, top edge dusty. GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 141 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Grace Hammer lives a sweet enough life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping the pockets of wealthy strangers who were foolish enough to venture there. Unbeknown to Grace, her most audacious crime will soon return to haunt her and old enemies come knocking. The brilliant new Inspector Ikmen crime mystery - Ikmen ventures on to the mean streets of lowlife London to solve a… Read More

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1948* Publisher: The Woman's Book Club.* Binding and cover condition: Orange cloth, white title to spine. Corners lightly bumped, no rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight age to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 127 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A young American is stationed in England during the war. He is engaged to a girl back home, and is sure that he loves her. He forms a friendship with a young English girl, and what is intended to be a casual fling with her in Scotland turns into something more serious...* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus? with some minor faults but no dust jacket.*

Fontana, 1979-01-01. 1st Thus, late Imp.. Mass Market Paperback. F/VG++/ND. Box X39 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 27th.* Date of Publication: 1979 (1954) * Publisher: Fontana Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing playing cards, a lorniette, an Icon and a blood stained paper knife. Red & black titles to spine & face. No shelf wear to edges, corners or to head & tail of spine. Absolutely minimal creases to front cover & single crease to spine. VG++.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. No age darkening or marks to edges. FINE * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 219 pp. text. iv pp. adverts at rear.* Description:- Description: ""Lord Edgware Dies,"" was first published as a novel in the UK in 1933 by Collins Crime Club. The novel features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. An American actress married to… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976 * Publisher: Octopus Books.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated cloth, monochrome photo on light orange ground, white title to spine. No bumps, minimal rubs, very slightly faded. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. Price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Spine lightly faded. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp and tight with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slightly aged & top edge dusty, otherwise no major faults. VG* Illustrations: Colour photos and plates throughout.* Pages: 94pp. text. ii pp. index at rear.* Description: A detailed description of African and Asian elephants, plus a chapter on the ivory trade. Illustrated with superb colour photographs & prints taking the reader from prehistoric origins to the gentle giant we know today. This is a heavy item weighing just over 1 Kilo, a small… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 3rd. reprint/Revised. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004 (1993)* Publisher: Grange books in assn. with Hawk Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo illustrated laminated boards, yellow & white titles to spine and face with an olive green background. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £19.99. Minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine. VG++ * Content condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w & a few colour photos, prints and line drawn maps throughout. * Pages: 222 pp. text. iii pp. acknowledgements, index & blank page at rear.* Description: This fascinating album compares classic photographs of the London & South Western Railway throughout the West Country in the days of steam, including the… Read More

SOFTBACK ?SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1957* Publisher: Coleccion Austral. No:- 298* Binding and cover condition: Soft printed light cream card covers in paper jacket. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf-wear to tail of spine. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Dust-jacket: Glazed paper jacket, black print and blue design to cream background. Not price clipped and with shelf price of 18 ptas. on adhesive label to back cover. Head & tail of spine slightly chipped & rubbed. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight with absolutely minimal overall page colouration throughout. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no other visible faults. Small booksellers label to fep. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 166 pp. text. xviii pp. advertisement book list at rear.* Product Description:- ?La Alegria del Capitain Ribot? is a refreshing denouement of many novels in contemporary European literature of which… Read More