Search Results: Authors starting with T from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1959* Publisher: The Oakwood Press.* Binding and cover condition: Soft orange card covers with black title to spine and face and black roundel badge to face. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Label damage at pricing point to front cover. No creases to spine or hinge. VG++* 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 of 8 pp. b/w photos & prints, line drawn map at front.* Pages: 44 pp. text. vi pp. authorities, appendices & acknowledgements at rear.* Product Description:- Opened in 1883 and well-used especially as a Midlands to South coast of England route for troop movements during the World Wars, the M&SWJR was the largest subsidiary railway company absorbed by the Great Western in 1923. Like so many rural routes, it was unfortunately… 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.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: The Toby Press.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome 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. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Owners name and date to ffep. No annotations or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 229 pp. text. vii pp. author?s notes, & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- "Absence" sees the British medical world through the eyes of Nick Page, a young doctor in free fall into despair due to his failure to seduce the object of his desire. Beneath the comic surface of the novel is a serious investigation into human nature and love, its desires, its prejudices, its unhappiness, and the various absences that haunt and intoxicate it.* This is a NEAR FINE text… Read More

HARDBACK "FIRST US EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 2017.* Pub: Little Brown & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound with yellow paper-covered boards. Black title to mid-blue spine strip and blind impressed logo (L.B.) to face. No bumps, rubs or other visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated textual dust wrapper with black titles to spine and face on a white ground. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of $27.00 US. No visible faults. FINE.* 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. No toning to page edges. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 258 pp. text. vii pp. blank acknowledgements & notes at rear.* Description: A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2014 * Publisher: Hodder Children?s Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. 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. Illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: colour illustrated cartoon within text throughout.* Pages: Un-paginated (34 pp.) text.* Product Description:- The Lost Things is a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature whilst out collecting bottle-tops at the beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice it's presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents all unwilling… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2014(1963)* Publisher: Constable.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Some shelf wear to edges & corners. Minor reading creases to spine, hinge & front cover. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Seems lightly-used. no tanning. Fore edge very slightly grubby. VG++* Illustrations: Small b/w vignettes to front & within text.* Pages: 241 pp. text. ix pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a closer look at some of the animals who shared the Tangye's home and surroundings, especially Boris, the Muscovy duck.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Sphere Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Very slight creases to spine, none to hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, very lightly read. Light overall paper colouration throughout. VG* Illustrations: B/w line drawn vignettes at chapter ends.* Pages: 190 pp. text.* Product Description:- More accounts of life on the flower farm, Minack, in Cornwall where he and his wife Jeannie live, and how the creatures who share their lives manage to help Derek break all his New Year resolutions.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal reading/shelf wear and light tanning reducing it to VG.*

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Pomegranate Art Books.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal dents to lower edge. VG++* Jacket condition: Black & white photographic dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Small chip at top rear of jacket spine strip. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, absolutely minimal ageing to page margins. VG* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos throughout.* Pages: 86 pp. text. * Description: Oblong Quarto. Biography of jazz trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie, accompanied by numerous, high quality b&w photographs. Introduction by Jeff Kaliss. Essay by Gene Lees.* A NEAR FINE copy OF THE 1st/ 1st with only minor faults reducing it to VG.*

HARDBACK, ?DEFINATIVE BIOGRAPHY,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards, red metallic titles to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to head of spine. FINE* Jacket condition: Mono photo-illustrated dust wrapper, black and metallic red titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £16.99. some slight shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. 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: Two x 8pp blocks of b/w photos within text.* Pages: 378 pp. text. xxxvii pp. source notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Whereas other books about Madonna have been based on previously published material, this biography is the result of ten years of exclusive interviews with… Read More

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

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Macdonald & Janes.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £4.95. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear. B/w maps to end papers. no marks to text, slight colouration to page margins. VG+* Illustrations: B/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Nine hundred years ago William the Conqueror saw fit to recognise and safequard that unique area in the South West pf England we call the New Forest. This book is a celebration of the Forest?s past and what it is now. Peter Tate has travelled deep into history and into the Forest itself to reveal a fascinating,… Read More

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

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970* Publisher: Shire Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, no creases to spine or hinge. Some label damage and a few small marks to front cover. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions. Some small marks to lower page edges. VG++* Illustrations: One block of 8 pp. b/w photos and b/w line drawn regimental badges throughout.* Pages: 61 pp. text. iv pp. list of battle honours and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- A warm regard for the British soldier, the values he served and the regimental traditions that nourished his humanity underlines the information collected in this book. It gives a brief history of each of the former county regiments, lists the battle honours on their Colours, their marches, customs, Victoria Crosses, nicknames,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1973* Publisher: Shire Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. Spine & edges aged. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. paper somewhat tanned throughout. Gd+* Illustrations: B/w photos, line drawings and vignettes throughout.* Pages: 61 pp. text. xi pp. appendices & index at rear.* Product Description:- The Cavalry regiments of the British Army are often over-looked by historians and others singing the praises of the ?thin red line? of infantry. This book sets the record straight: the British cavalry-man as often as not accompanied his un-mounted colleagues to far-flung parts of the globe. They acted as scouts, they protected the flanks of the infantry in attack, and its rear in retreat. On many occasions it was the charge of the cavalry,… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Constable & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Cream/white cloth, blue title to spine. No rubs, slight bumps to head & tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-cover in clear attached library cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.95. Slight shelf wear to head & tail of spine. VG++ * Contents condition: Ex Library with usual neat stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, printed end papers with maps. VG.* Illustrations: Several pages b/w photos.* Pages: 191 pp. text. ix pp. Appendices & index at rear.* Description: Arthur Taylor provides an account of his 130-mile journey by fisherman's punt from the source of the River Somme, at Fonsommes, to the point where it meets the sea, at St Valery. His narrative both reveals how key sites of battle have changed since World War One, and introduces the reader to a new river… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Hermes House.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a cicada. No bumps or rubs. 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: Colour photo-illustrations throughout.* Pages: 247 pp. text. ix pp. glossary & index at rear.* Product Description:- Exciting and accessible information provides an insight into every aspect of insect life and behaviour. More than 800 fabulous wildlife photographs and illustrations show a bug?s-eye view of survival in the wild. Stunning photo-features zoom in on habitats, life cycles and survival tactics. Did you know? spotlights reveal amazing but true facts about the insect world. An… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Appleton Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Sepiatone-illustrated soft card covers showing Overbye and Church Stile House in 1892. Slight bump to tail of spine, minor rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Spine and edges of covers faded. 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: Numerous b/w photographs and line drawn maps.* Pages: 184 pp. text. xx pp. illustration acknowledgements, maps, index and blank pages at rear.* Product Description: David Taylor has lived all his life in Cobham. His interest in local history started when he was a pupil at St. Andrew?s School. He is Honorary Local Secretary of the Surrey Archaeological Society and a founder member of Esher District Local History… Read More

HARDBACK "BIOGRAPHY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 1999.* Pub: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Dark maroon cloth covered boards with silver title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing a detail from the crayon portrait by Samuel Lawrence 1852. Not Price clipped showing a shelf price of £25.00. Now in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (maroon). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Top edge very slightly dusty. FINE* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, prints and line drawings.* Pages: 456 pp. text. xl pp. appendices, notes & reading list, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: VANITY FAIR, published 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous - all but the top of the tree, he told his mother, and having a great… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012 * Publisher: Ex Libris Press. Bradford-on-Avon. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers with four colour photos showing monuments and waterway. 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 or colouration to page edges. FINE. * Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, maps and line drawings within text throughout. * Pages: 136 pp. text. cxii pp. appendices, notes, bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In 1474 the recently widowed Maud Heath gifted a substantial number of properties, in trust, so that the income from them could be used to erect and maintain a path to enable people to walk from Bremhill ?dry shod to Chippenham?. The… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Grafton for Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a female dispatch rider. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners. Single reading crease to spine, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations or inscriptions, considerable marks to all edges, light age to text especially page margins and edges . No other visible faults. GD* Illustrations: One 16 page block of b/w photos. * Pages: 329 pp. text. xxxix pp. appendices, references, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- By 1945 nearly half a million British women, drawn from all classes, were in the Forces. Many were exposed to considerable dangers "nurses in combat zones, members of mixed anti-aircraft batteries, searchlight and barrage balloon units, plotters in Fighter Command operations" and hundreds lost their… Read More