Search Results: Authors starting with K from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK "4th IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 3rd, with number line.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing a dragon breathing fire and Harry Potter on a broomstick. Red, dark blue and light blue titles to spine & face. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. No visible marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, very slight age darkening to page margins and edges, no other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. VG+.* Illustrations: NONE.* Pages: 636 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description:- Fourth in the Harry Potter series, the Quidditch World Cup is disrupted by Voldemort's rampaging supporters and the resurrection of the terrifying Dark Mark. It is obvious to Harry that, far from weakening, Voldemort is getting stronger.* This is… Read More

SOFTBACK * Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 12th.* Date of Publication: 1998 (1997)* Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers showing a black and white photo of a steam train "The Cavalier," heading towards the camera, no visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No tanning. No inscriptions or annotations. Minimal age darkening to top edges. VG++ * Illustrations: None. * Pages: 222 pp. text. .ii pp. blank at rear. "FUNNY, IMAGINATIVE, MAGICAL" ~ The Times, on the front cover. Copyright 'Joanne Rowling' to colophon. Description: Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand and jellybeans that come in every flavour, including strawberry, curry, grass and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard… Read More

Bloomsbury Publishing., 2006-01-01. 1st Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. VG++/F/ND. Box X41 SOFTBACK ""VOLUME 6 IN THE SERIES,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. (stated).* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006.* Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers showing Harry with a Wand and Dumbledore in a ring of fire, green & white titles to spine & face. Spine un-creased. No visible faults, showing shelf price of £7.99. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight, top & fore-edges minimally aged but with no reading wear, no marks to text. VG++.* Illustrations: None, inside of covers illustrated.* Pages: 607 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Description: Chaos reigns in both the Wizard and Muggle communities and in the midst of the battle between good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort's power… Read More

REGIMENTAL MAGAZINE VOL 58 NO 13, ?THE KENSINGTON,? ~ MARCH 2004, SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: The Kensington Association.* Binding and cover condition: Staple bound, (slightly rusty), red text-illustrated stiff paper covers on light grey ground. No creases, some minor damage to front cover, no marks to covers. Minimal shelf wear. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, very slight age, seems very little used. VG++* Illustrations: A few b/w photos within text.* Pages: 28 pp. text.* Product Description:- The Journal of The Princess Louise?s Kensington Regimental Association for members, past and present. Contains:- Editorial, correspondence, obituaries, items on the Phantom Squadron, 100 years of flight, Regimental notes, Operation Tellic III, and the Terriers? Tale.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear, some cover damage & very slight ageing reducing it to VG*

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: Harper Collins.* 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 £17.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal paper colouration to part of the text block, no other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 564 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Praise for Jeanne Kalogridis: The Borgia Bride: 'Love, lust, incest and murder: this historical romance has it all.' The Mail on Sunday 'from sexual passion to mortal danger, the dramatic shift of real historical events will keep the reader turning the pages.' Philippa Gregory 'corset-busting… Read More

HARDBACK ?HARD TO FIND? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. AS NEW* Jacket condition: Colour illustrative cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £30.00. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dark blue end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: Two 8pp blocks of b/w photos.* Pages: 446 pp. text. lxii pp. Glossary, bibliography, notes & index at rear.* Description: Few would doubt that Spain has for several centuries made a thrilling and important contribution to Europe's culture. We all carry in our heads a complex and seductive sense of what Spain stands for and what it looks like: its music, painting, buildings, history. But what we do not understand is how almost all of this… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners, slight creases to spine & hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions. Very lightly used. FINE* Illustrations: One block of 16 pp. b/w photos.* Pages: 323 pp. text. xxx pp. Appendices, acknowledgements, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- The definitive portrait of one of the most influential actors of our time, Marlon Brando. Seamlessly intertwining the man and the work, Kanfer takes us through Brando's troubled childhood, to his arrival in New York in the 1940s, where he studied with the legendary Stella Adler, and at the age of twenty-three became the toast of Broadway in "A Streetcar Named Desire". Kanfer expertly examines each of… Read More

SOFTBACK PAMPHLET ?SPECIAL EDITION OF 250, AUTHOR SIGNED & DEDICATED COPY? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: JGH.* Binding and cover condition: Black illustration to yellow-orange soft card jacket over un-printed covers. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, AUTHOR?S SIGNED DEDICATION TO TITLE PAGE. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Stapled binding, no rust. No tanning, seems un-read. VG++* * Illustrations: B/w photos to frontis & several black & white vignettes within text throughout.* Pages: 32 pp. text. (unpaginated).* Product Description :- Fifty eight poems, a collection privately printed for the author?s 75th birthday* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear & annotations reducing it to VG++* (See also ?Squeaking Sand? by the same poet.)

SOFTBACK PAMPHLET ?SPECIAL EDITION OF 250, AUTHOR SIGNED & DEDICATED COPY? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: JGH.* Binding and cover condition: Black illustration to yellow-orange soft card jacket over un-printed covers. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, AUTHOR?S SIGNED DEDICATION TO TITLE PAGE. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Stapled binding, no rust. No tanning, seems un-read. VG++* * Illustrations: B/w photos to frontis & several black & white vignettes within text throughout.* Pages: 32 pp. text. (unpaginated).* Product Description :- Fifty eight poems, a collection privately printed for the author?s 75th birthday* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear & annotations reducing it to VG++* (See also ?Squeaking Sand? by the same poet.)

SOFTBACK ?SPECIAL EDITION OF 250, AUTHOR SIGNED COPY? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: JGH.* Binding and cover condition: Black illustration to orange soft card jacket over un-printed covers. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, AUTHOR?S SIGNED DEDICATION TO TITLE PAGE. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Small corrections to several locations within text. Stapled binding, no rust. No tanning, seems un-read. VG++* Illustrations: Several black & white vignettes to frontis and within text throughout.* Pages: 26 pp. text. (unpaginated).* Product Description :- Twenty two poems, a collection privately printed for the author?s 70th birthday* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear & annotations reducing it to VG++*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. number ?1?.* Date of Publication: 2016* Publisher: William Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing sunset over green hills. 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: 4pp. b/w line drawn maps & 3pp b/w photos.* Pages: 226 pp. text. lxx pp. epilogue, acknowledgements, notes, appendices, bibliography and index at rear.* Product Description:- An exquisitely written memoir of the wartime lives of the author?s grandfather and two great-uncles, both a poignant memorial to his lost family and a gripping account of how India contributed to the Allied victory and sowed the seeds of its independence.* This is a FINE copy of the… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Arms & Armour Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £18.99. Minimal shelf wear to top edge, head of spine and back of cover. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, ?Cassell plc? stamp to title page, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 35. b/w photos and two or three facsimile documents within text. * Pages: 217 pp. text. v pp. Appendices & index at rear.* Description: American Civil War historian Philip Katcher brings the reality of the Civil War vividly to life in this dramatic account of Lincoln's Unsung Heroes. Here is the war seen and reported through the lives of the ordinary soldiers and sailors of the Union forces. This is the war as it… Read More

HARDBACK "SOUGHT AFTER," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: BCA for Nicholas Brealey Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED No shelf wear, few very small marks to edge FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, seems un-used. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 337 pp. text.* Description: A team at McKinsey's set out to discover why some companies were able to change and go on to higher performance levels while most others got bogged down. Their extensive research came to a surprising conclusion: the make or break factor is not top management but a new breed in the middle.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978 (1948)* Publisher: Penguin* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight 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. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some colouration to paper throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 189 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Like? The Green Fool?, for his autobiography, Patrick?s Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier in time. The farming life for which his family intended him, was superceded in fact by a life of poetry and literature but he never forgot his heritage and this work harks back to his roots.* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st. edition thus, 1st. impression with minimal shelf wear and some… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1972* Publisher: Blandford Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Light green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo dust wrapper. Price clipped. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Spine slightly faded. Inside edges a little grubby. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. B/w illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge a little dusty, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: One block of 80 pp. colour & b/w photos, prints and illustrations.* Pages: 141 pp. text. vii pp. Bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book, the third in the series following the history of the Bus and the Trolley bus starts on the muddy roads of Elizabethan England with the carrrier?s wagon and goes up to the years of the First… Read More

E. P. Dutton, 1975-01-01. 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.. Hardcover. VG/VG/VG. Box 05 HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 1975.* Pub: E.P.Dutton & Co. Inc.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter Bound black paper covered boards with a blind impressed weather vane to face, metallic title to orange cloth spine strip. Some fading to top edges. Some adhesive tape to top and bottom edges. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing the angel Gabriel weather vane with a horn. Orange-yellow titles to spine and face. Not Price clipped showing a shelf price of $12.95. Small tear to top front edge, now re-inforced. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG* Contents condition: Ex-Library copy with usual stamps and labels. Coloured end papers (orange brown) showing a small amount of tape damage. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear,… Read More

Mainstream Publishing, 2007-10-04. 1st Thus, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. VG+/VG+/ND. Box 21 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007 * Publisher: Mainstream Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing a hand with a crucifix with red highlights. White titles to face and black titles to white spine strip. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or wear to head or tail of spine. Light marks only. 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. Absolutely minimal reading wear. VG+* Illustrations: Full page b/w photo of Padre Pio to frontis.* Pages: 203 pp. text. v pp. blank at rear.* Description:- Padre Pio was a stigmatic, mystic and wonder-worker, and he is arguably Ireland's favourite saint. Compiled by award-winning journalist Colm Keane, this remarkable… Read More

HARDBACK "POYSER EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: T & A.D. Poyser.* Binding and cover condition: Orange brown cloth, gilt title and vignette to spine. No bumps or rubs. Very slight spine lean. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustration of a pair of pink footed geese to dust wrapper. price clipped, showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges, spine somewhat faded. 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: B/w photos, prints, maps and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 271 pp. text. xvii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: This compelling account by the former Assistant Director of the Wildlife & Wetlands Trust covers the involvement of humans with ducks, geese and swans. Dr Kear ranges widely from a summary of the taxonomy and natural history of wildfowl, to wildfowling, decoys,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2015 * Publisher: Mitchell Bealey.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing a turreted castle. 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. Coloured and patterned end papers shades of blue. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. No marks to page edges. No visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Colour "screen shot" illustrations within text. throughout.* Pages: 245 pp. text. xii pp. Contribs directory, picture credits, index, gallery, author's notes & acknowledgements at rear.* Product Description:- Minecraft, a humble computer game about placing blocks, is today a global phenomenon that has captured imaginations around the world. In early 2014, Minecraft surpassed 100 million registered users.… Read More

Guild Publishing, 1989-07-27. First Edition. Hardcover. VG++/F/VG++. : ill., coats of arms,facsims.,m. Box 26 HARDBACK * Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.*Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Jonathan Cape* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs. FINE* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £25.00, some minor shelf wear to top edge with one small (1/4?) tear to back top edge. Now in clear protective jacket. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp and tight. No Inscriptions or annotations, slight paper colouration throughout, VG++* Illustrations: B/W photos.* Pages: 380 pp. text. xliii pp. Notes, Bibliography & Index.* Review :- The title of this engaging history of lexicography is taken from Samuel Johnson's preface to The Dictionary of English Language of 1755 - in which the great man moans at the endless task lexicography turned out to be, given that when he started he was dreamily… Read More