Search Results: Authors starting with C from Cocksparrow Books

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 3rd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: Allwood Bros.Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt and blue title to face. All corners bumped no rubs, no marks. VG+* Jacket condition: Heavy green paper dust wrapper. Colour photo tipped onto front cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Dents to back of cover and some age marking GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with absolutely minimal reading wear, some spotting to end papers. No marks to text. One page (p87) split and repaired with tape. O/w VG+* Illustrations: Colour photo frontis & b/w photos throughout with b/w line drawn garden plans at rear.* Pages: 376 pp. text. x pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Of late years there has been a vast increase in the number of Carnations available, as well as in the hybrids… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE, SIGNED & DEDICATED BY ILLUSTRATOR," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: The Book Guilld.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal wear to lower edgee. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper with black design and text on yellow, white and blue ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.50. Minor shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Small marks to rear. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Signed and dedicated by illustrator, Sorbon Chandaman. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no annotations or marks to text, top edge slightly dusty. VG++* Illustrations: Four b/w full page line drawings within text.* Pages: 121 pp. text. viii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A story for young teenagers, in which an eight-year-old boy's disappearance leads to a tangle of germ warfare, the secret services and… Read More

D.C.Thomson & Co Ltd, 2012-07-06. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. F/F/ND. Box 14 HARDBACK ""COMIC ANNUAL,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 2012.* Pub: D.C.Thomson.* Binding and cover condition: Glossy laminated paper covered boards with colour illustrations white title to spine & red & yellow titles to face. No bump, rubs, age or wear to edges. Head and tail of spine fine, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper (as issued.) FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no visible rea.ding wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Clean un-marked edges. FINE* Illustrations: Colour strip cartoons throughout.* Pages: Un-paginated text, colour illustrated end papers at front & rear.* Description: The Beano Annual 2013, containing stories as follows:- Dennis and Gnasher, Ball Boy, he's football crazy, Bash Street kids, Neebo & Zuky's History of Violence, The Great Escape, The Fantastically Funny Fatty, Minnie The Minx,… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st Thus.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated glossy colour illustrated covers showing Desperate Dan with Happy Christmas snow globe. Red, black and yellow title to face, red to spine. No bumps or rubs, seems completely un-used. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Not price clipped showing shelf price of £6.99. ?Belongs To? panel un-signed. Puzzles un-used. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Multi-coloured illustrations throughout.* Pages: Unpaginated.* Description: Numerous strips, stories, cartoons and puzzles in full colour. End papers show Desperate Dan in a space suit on the moon reading the 2005 Annual attracting weird aliens from all over space.* A FINE copy of the 1st. thus in AS NEW condition. No… Read More

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 10th.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1967* Publisher: Cassell & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, somewhat faded gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners and to head and tail of spine. A few slight marks to covers. 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, ffep very lightly creased. Slightly grubby to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 970 pp. text (alphabetical). i pp. blank at rear.* Description: Contains a Publisher?s letter regarding the correction of an error sent by John Buchanan-Brown, in 1970. One of the most famous reference works in the English language, the first edition was published in 1870, the book was a huge success, providing information often not included in more traditional dictionaries and encyclopaedias. A revised and… 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.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1922* Publisher: The Amalgamated Press, The Boy's Friend Library.* Binding and cover condition: Three-colour illustrated soft paper covers showing two men in a row-boat. Some shelf wear to edges and corners. Spine heavily worn with some considerable losses, now re-inforced. A few slight marks to front and rear. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Staple bound with some rust. Clean, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, a few marks to text especially to page margins and edges. No tanning or other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 64 pp. text. i pp. text at rear.* Product Description:- No. 641 of The Boy's Friend Library. Issued 30/11/1922. A thrilling, long, complete, adventure yarn of two lads who sought for Gold on a far-off island. A new volume in the Boy's Friend Library which was issued on the first Friday of every month. This is a NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st. thus with… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1911* Publisher: A & C Black.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated pale blue-green linen, black titles with coloured fishing scenes to spine and face, somewhat faded, rubbed and marked. Corners slightly bumped & rubbed, edges good and spine complete. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear. Hinges very good. Several pages of advertisements to front and rear including end papers and pastedowns. No marks to text, slight marks to prelims, rear end paper and paste down show light damp staining and a small mark at glued edge. VG* Illustrations: B/w illustrations and line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 298 pp. text. xvi pp. appendices, index & advertisements at rear.* Description: Early, illustrated guide to the equipment and techniques for rod and line sea fishing. Loads of illustrated advertisements at… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1949 * Publisher: Cassell & Company Ltd. *Binding and cover condition: Black-black cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, a few very slight marks to back board. Minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. No other visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. Red & white titles to spine and face. White illustration of elephant and castle design on black background. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 15/- net. Age darkening to interior. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with minimal losses. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight spotting and marks to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 692 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.*… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. Revised* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated soft card covers. 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 visible faults. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: One block 14 pp. b/w photos.* Pages: 241 pp. text. xvii pp. bibliography, biography & index at rear.* Product Description:- Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days is the definitive, ground-breaking biography by Jared Cade that reveals the solution once and for all to the most baffling incident in the renowned detective novelist's life. On 3 December 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared from her home Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, leaving her car abandoned off the road down a Surrey hill, to… Read More

Peter Owen, 2006-09-01. 1st. Edition Thus, revised and reprinted.. Paperback. F/F/ND. 12.7 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm. Box X17 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. Revised & Reprinted* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated soft card covers on a blue background. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners slight impression marks to top front. 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. FINE* Illustrations: One block 14 pp. b/w photos.* Pages: 241 pp. text. xvii pp. list of works by Agatha Christie, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days is the definitive, ground-breaking biography by Jared Cade that reveals the solution once and for all to the most baffling incident in the renowned… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: The Museum Press.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated soft card covers showing black illustrations to bright yellow card. Silver tape covered 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 facsimile reproductions thoughout.* Pages: 359 pp. text. i pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Half a century of the Collector?s Digest without any break in its monthly run is indeed something to be celebrated. With its enthusiastic, well-informed contributors and ever-supportive readership, the Collector's Digest is almost certainly unique amongst privately circulated, non-profit making publications. This volume now provides… Read More

1998 SOFTBACK ?HARD TO FIND,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Lion Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, minor rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine, slight crease to hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Very slight colouration to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: A few b/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 273 pp. text. xvii pp. acknowledgements & index at rear.* Product Description:- How a tribe of desert nomads changed the way everyone thinks and feels. Part history, part narrative, this is a fascinating exploration of the deepest roots of our cultural heritage, tracing them through the characters and stories of the Old Testament..* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. thus FNL, with light age & shelf wear.* (… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: Late.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: First Anchor Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing celtic crosses. 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: B/w plotos within text throughout. Two colour pages at front and rear.* Pages: 218 pp. text. xxxii pp. index and colour plates at rear.* Product Description:- A book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. Tail of spine bumped, no 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 or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 375 pp. text. vii pp. acknowledgements, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin was supposed to be enjoying a romantic honeymoon with her new husband, the Djinn David - not running from a malevolent hurricane bent on destroying her. Joined by an army of fellow Wardens and Djinn on board a hijacked luxury liner, Joanne has lured the storm into furious pursuit. Only one problem: even their combined magic might not be enough to… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Century.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Black and white illustration and title to dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some label damage to front of cover. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top and fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawn illustrations within text.* Pages: 372 pp. text.* Description: Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. The… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: B.T.Batsford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, no creases to spine, very light creasing to front cover. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawings to every page throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text.* Product Description:- An introductory guide to sketching in pen and ink, and pen and wash, covering a wide range of drawing subjects and styles. The author explores the full potential of working in pen and ink and discusses the many new pens and markers now available, which provide tremendous scope for experimentation. He believes that the instinct to draw is very strong in all of us and, beginning with simple lines and marks to demonstrate the range of effects that is… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Nick Hern Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers portrait of Simon Callow. 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. Bottom edge slightly grubby. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 417 pp. text. xix pp. acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In this entertaining alternative autobiography Simon Callow takes us on a fascinating journey through his life both on and off the stage and screen. ?My Life in Pieces? presents a lifetime of writing about theatre and film and compliments it with reflective pieces on the nature of fame and the many other subjects that have defined what is… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: Pyramid Books, part of Reed International.* Binding and cover condition: Mid-green cloth with ivory title to spine and face. No bumps. Minor rubs to lower edges and to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust jacket in clear film wrapper with black title to spine and white title to face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Sepia tone illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos, prints and illustrations throughout.* Pages: 203 pp. text. v pp. bibliography. index & acknowledgements at rear.* Description: A sumptuously illustrated study… Read More

Fontana, 1987-01-01. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. VG/VG+/ND. 20cm. Box X42 SOFTBACK ""FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ENNISKILEN APPEAL FUND,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st .* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Fontana.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing a cartoon of a man looking in a mirror. Green, black and red titles to white ground. Green & black titles to spine. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. Slight scar to top quarter of spine. No visible marks. VG+.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, slight tanning throughout especially to page margins and edges. Seems lightly used if at all. VG.* Illustrations: Black and white line drawn cartoons and photos within text throughout.* Pages: Unpaginated text. i pp. list of viewers at rear.* Description:- Four of the world's funniest cartoonists, illustrating hundreds of the world's best on-liners, prove yet again… Read More