Search Results: Authors starting with H from Cocksparrow Books

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1931* Publisher: Oxford University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue linen covered boards, faded gilt title to spine & title with decoration to face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of slightly faded spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. Small owners stamp to ffep, no marks to text, some ageing to top, bottom & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: A b/w photo of a portrait to frontis, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 183 pp. text. xiv pp., notes & advertisements at rear.* Description: William Cowper's rocky spiritual journey rose to great heights, yet, even to the end of his life, he intermittently descended to abysmal depths of psychological torment and despair. In the throes of his own despondency, Cowper was… Read More

HARDBACK "SIXTY-PLUS YEARS OLD" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1949 (1947)* Publisher: Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Glossy black linen cloth, gilt title & border to red spine label. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Bright orange paper dust wrapper some slight age darkening. Black and white design & title to spine and face, with no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Spine seriously faded. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge coloured (red) but faded, small amount of foxing to end-papers & fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 367 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The last of Emily Young's novels, written post-WW2, it was set in the period of appeasement, building up to the climax of Chamberlain's famous compromise & this features strongly in… Read More

HARDBACK "THE EVERSLEY SERIES," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1901* Publisher: Macmillan.* Binding and cover condition: Dark crimson cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, slight rubs to edges and corners, spine slightly faded. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, probably as issued.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, no annotations. Owners inscription to fep. End papers severely foxed. Many edges rough cut and a number still uncut. VG.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w illustratiosns, prints and line drawings within text.* Pages: 328 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Description: Contents:- 1) On The Natural History of the Man-like Apes. 2) On The Relations of Man to the Lower Animals. 3) OnSome Fossil Remains of Man. 4) On The Methods and Results of Ethnology [1865]. 5) On Some Fixed Points in British Ethnology. 6) On the Aryan Question [1890]. Most of these were essays which appeared… Read More

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reset.* Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1935 (1901)* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, black title to spine & face. Some wear to corners, minimal shelf wear to slightly faded spine. Some marks to rear. 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, very slight marks end-papers & to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 172 pp. text. cxx pp., note, appendices & index, advertisements & index at rear.* Description: The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. Palgrave excluded all poems by poets then still alive.* A NEAR FINE text copy with some minor faults but no dust jacket… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 2nd. Revised and updated* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1945* Publisher: William H. Miller.* Binding and cover condition: Textured grey soft card covers with red titles to face. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Some slight wear to tail of spine. Seems lightly-used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No inscriptions, a few light pencil check-marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations:. None.* Pages: 53 pp. text. xi pp. List of musicians, advertisement & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The situation at the end of the war was that there was a recording ban in 1942-43 and many Jazz titles were withdrawn from the listings of the major recording companies. Very valuable work was done by the little concerns in re-issuing examples of the best hot jazz which had vanished from the general catalogues. This volume gives a run-down of the recordings… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1923* Publisher: Whitefriars Press.* Binding and cover condition: Dark grey cloth, gilt title to spine and coat of arms to face. Light bumps & rubs to edges and corners, spine and rear hinges tender, head and tail of spine frayed. Cloth somewhat faded and aged. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Light green end papers. Neat inscription by previous owner to ffep dated 31 Jan 1924. Clean text block, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, prelims tanned with slight marks and some offsetting, otherwise no visible faults. GD++* Illustrations: Large section of sepiatone portrait photos at rear.* Pages: 562 pp. text. lxx pp. Honours list, appendices. etc. at rear.* Description: A record of the services of Tonbridgians in the Great War of 1914 to 1919 including where possible service up to October 1923 or in the case of those who did not hold regular… Read More

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* New Imp.* Date of Publication: 1918 (1911)* Publisher: Longman Green & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, black title to spine & gilt impressed picture of a bird to face. Some bumps & rubs to corners, some shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat dedication dated 1920 to half title. Clean, crisp and tight with only light reading wear, some light marks to end-papers. Some marks caused by newspaper cuttings left within text, slight age to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. GD+.* Illustrations: Several coloured plates. Numerous b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 352 pp. text. xiv pp., index at rear.* Description: One in the Outdoor World Library Series by W.H.Hudson containing a chapter upon the Anatomy of The Bird. The birds are classified by "Orders" and indexed by their common and Latin names. There… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Profile Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing ?The Divine Comedy? from a 1465 fresco in Venice. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. 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: B/w photos, maps, facsimiles & with a line drawing to frontis.* Pages: 264 pp. text. viii pp. index and blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Inferno Decoded is a book that ranges as widely as Dan Brown's novel, from the terrors of the Black Death to the scientific debates around population growth and prolonging of life-spans, and from the economic, political, and religious tumult in Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance to real-life locations in Florence,… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Robert Hale.* Binding and cover condition: Light grey-brown cloth library binding, no title to spine or face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper in clear library jacket. Blackand white title to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Spine faded. XXX * Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Front end paper removed. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very slight reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: 3x8 pp. blocks of b/w photos within text.* Pages: 216 pp. text. x pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Bath is renowned for its architectural splendours and this book examines the most famous Roman and Georgian remains, the late Gothic Abbey Church and the nineteenth and twentieth-century… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 20th.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £10.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head & tail of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Deep maroon coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A few b/w illustrations and line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 268 pp. text. xii pp. appendices & blank pages at rear.* Description: 'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2019* Publisher: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. Slight spine lean. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, black and spring-green titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (dark green). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight age to top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 280 pp. text. ii pp., acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton, 1949-01-01. First Thus Reprint,. Hardcover. VG+/VG+/ND. Box 75 HARDBACK ""RARELY AVAILABLE,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1949* Publisher: MacDonald.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, faded gilt title to spine. Minimal bumps to corners, no rubs, spine faded. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, light tanning to end papers, slight marks to edges. VG+* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 303 pp. text. i pp. Authorities at rear.* Description: This adventure story tells of three men and their guide Umslopogaas who trek into the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost white race. Through unknown territories their perilous journey takes them to Zu-vendis, a kingdom ruled by the beautiful twin sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais. But Zu-Vendis is no haven of safety for the… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 6th.* Date of Publication: 1922* Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Pale green cloth, black title to spine and logo and frame to face. No bumps or rubs, a few slight marks. Spine minimally faded. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with no reading wear, no annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, poor quality paper showing considerable tanning throughout. GD.* Illustrations: B/w advertisements for commercial products and services to front and rear.* Pages: 316 pp. text.* Description: An Unwin?s shilling novel. The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines. A race descended from ancient Abyssinian Jews and others who are surrounded in their mountain fastness of… Read More

HARDBACK "LONGMAN?S SILVER LIBRARY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: New impression.* Date of Publication: 1905 (1897) * Publisher: Longmans Green & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Claret cloth, gilt title & logo to spine with gilt frame to front board. No bumps, minor rubs, slight marks to boards. GD+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and illustrated end papers. Prize bookplate from Wesleyan Methodist Home & Foreign Missionary Society to front paste down and owners name to front end paper. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: B/w full page line drawings to frontis (tissue guarded) and throughout text.* Pages: 343 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race… Read More

HARDBACK "LONGMAN?S SILVER LIBRARY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: New impression.* Date of Publication: 1902 (1890)* Publisher: Longmans Green & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Burgundy cloth, gilt title & logo to spine with gilt frame to front board. No bumps, minor rubs, slight marks to boards. Spine faded. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and illustrated end papers. Prize bookplate from Wesleyan Church adult Bible Class, to front paste down and owners name stamp to verso. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: B/w full page line drawings to frontis (tissue guarded) and throughout text.* Pages: 336 pp. text.* Description: Cleopatra is a classic ?historical? romance written by H. Rider Haggard. His portrait of Cleopatra is quite stunning, revealing her wit, her treachery, and her overwhelming… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: William Morrow & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth, dark blue title to spine and design to face. Slight bumps to corners, no rubs, minor spotting to spine and edges. A few light water marks to rear board. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Sizeable but neat gift dedication to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only very slight reading wear, no marks to text, very slight age to top and fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Two colour prints by T.Brayshaw and a number of black and white line drawings & maps within text throughout.* Pages: 333 pp. text. xxiv pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: Here are superb descriptions of the different species and variations of trout and salmon and other game fish of British Columbia, their breeding, feeding and migratory habits,… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: William Morrow & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth, dark blue title to spine and design to face. Slight bumps to corners, no rubs, minor spotting to spine and edges. A few light water marks to rear board. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Sizeable but neat gift dedication to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only very slight reading wear, no marks to text, very slight age to top and fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Two colour prints by T.Brayshaw and a number of black and white line drawings & maps within text throughout.* Pages: 333 pp. text. xxiv pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: Here are superb descriptions of the different species and variations of trout and salmon and other game fish of British Columbia, their breeding, feeding and migratory habits,… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Greenhouse, (Penguin Books Australia).* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: colour illustrative dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to back bottom edge (small tear and slight loss) and to tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 156 pp. text. vi pp. Bibliography, Advertisements. lists, acknowledgements, charts & Index at rear.* Description: Easy to learn new technique for cross stitchers of all abilities - turns chain store sweaters and sweatshirts into designer knitwear for a fraction of the cost. Over 80 stunning… Read More

SOFTBACK (Shire No. 264) SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint* Date of Publication: 1983 (1981)* Publisher: Shire Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. Minimal shelf wear to covers. Un-read. 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: B/w line drawn maps throughout.* Pages: 63 pp. text. i pp. index at rear.* Product Description:- This books contains eighteen circular walks of varying lengths, many of which have shorter alternatives to suit the capabilities of the walker or the time available. Surrey is fortunate to possess many different types of scenery and these walks take the rambler to some of the peaceful Surrey villages along the North Downs way, by the meandering Mole and Wey, through woods carpeted with bluebells in Spring and across fields and hedgerows… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Allen Lane, (Penguin).* Binding and cover condition: White cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Mono photo-illustrated wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w photos and facsimiles within text.* Pages: 282 pp. text. xxviii pp. notes, bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Description: When Sheila Hale's husband John suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak normally, she embarked on a battle to restore him to normal life. This book shows how she followed every medical trail... and at the same time maintained an extraordinary loving intimacy with him. This narrative is a rigorous investigation… Read More