Search Results: Titles starting with C from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1985* Publisher: Paternoster Press.* Binding and cover condition: Soft photo-card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no visible faults. Seems un-read. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 133 pp. text. x pp. Notes & Index at rear.* Product Description:- C.S.Lewis was arguably the most influential Christian author of the twentieth century. The range and quality of his work were unique. In this book, John Peters outlines Lewis?s life story. Then he considers Lewis?s work as a visionary, an allegorist, as an apologist for Christianity, a writer of science fiction, a scholar and an unwearying correspondent. Allowing Lewis to speak for himself wherever possible, the author has produced an impressive portrait of a highly gifted man of letters who was also a ?good man?.*… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1980* Publisher: Gill & MacMillan.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, light rubs. Very slight shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little used. VG* Contents condition: Ex-Library. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Single neat library stamp to title. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no other visible faults. No tanning. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 145 pp. text. vii pp. references, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- C.S.Parnell (1846-91) a protestant landlord from Co. Wicklow, entered Irish politics as a nationalist and became leader of the Home Rule party in the 1880?s . With the support of the Land League, he turned the party into an effective political force under his personal control. Gill?s Irish lives of which this is one volume, is a welcome series of popular biographies of leading figures in Irish history,… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1905* Publisher: C Arthur Pearson Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Grey linen, black title to spine and face with colour illustrated front board and Fry?s Cocoa advertisement to back. Bumps to lower corners, slight rubs to edges, corners and to head and tail of spine. Front and spine faded, back board grubby. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. All pages are tanned, particularly to margins, no marks to text, neat signature to verso. Advertisements to first & last four pages. ACC* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawn illustrations and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 137 pp. text. vi pp. advertisements at rear.* Description: A treatise on the housing, handling and rearing of home cage birds with extensive sections on their care and showing. A number of species are covered and this volume gives an interesting insight into the keeping… Read More

SOFTBACK ?2003 READING FESTIVAL PROGRAMME,? PAMPHLET SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Mean Fiddler Music Group.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers (AS ILLUSTRATED), 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 tanning, seems lightly used. VG++* Illustrations: Numerous colour and black & white photographs throughout.* Pages: 66 pp. text.* Product Description :- Mean Fiddler presents Carling Weekend; Reading Festival 22nd. 23rd . 24th. August 2003. Linkin Park, Blink ? 182, Placebo, The Darkness, Staind, Less than jake, Finch, Bowling for Soup, Inme, Zane Lowe. Blur, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beck, Doves, The Streets, The Libertines, Junior Senior, Cave In, The Sleepy jackson, Metallica, System of a Down, Sum 41, Primal Scream, Good Charlotte, The Used, Biffy Clyro, Sugarcult.* Fitzpatrick, Rob

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

Batsford Ltd, 2022-11-22. 1st Edn. 1st Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/VG++/VG+. Box X37 HARDBACK ""EMBROIDERY SPECIAL,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 2002.* Pub: B.T.Batsford UK.* Binding and cover condition: Dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. No bumps, minor rubs, no major wear. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated jacket with gilt titles to face and black titles to mauve spine strip. Showing a tapestry with celtic inspiration. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £17.99. Covered in clear adhesive protective film. No major faults, VG+* Contents condition: Ex school library copy with usual stamps and labels. Coloured end papers (gilt marbled). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. No marks to edges. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous colour photos and some b/w diagrams throughout.* Pages: 123 pp. text. vi pp. list of resources, suppliers, index and blank pages at rear.*… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Revised reprint.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995 (1993)* Publisher: Ted Smart.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated laminated boards, white title to spine and gilt title to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £30.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dark green glossy end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 355 pp. text. xlv pp. list of race results & index at rear.* Description: Motor racing was born in France. On 22 July 1894, twenty-one ?horseless? carriages chased each other from Paris to Rouen along the public road. Officially it was a reliability trial, but that did not… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* 10th. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: BCA (Orion).* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to edges and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight paper colouration throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 148 pp. text.* Description: Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. Games that left one of her three sons nearly dead.; She considered Dave a slave; no longer a boy, but an it. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: Not known.* Date of Publication: 1946* Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon buckram/textured cloth, gilt title to spine, impressed logo to spine and face. Top corners slightly bumped, minimal rubs to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neatly written number in pen to verso, otherwise no annotations or inscriptions. Brightly coloured and illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp and tight, no marks to text, off-white paper throughout but no foxing or tanning, top and fore edge very slightly grubby, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Colour illustration at frontis ?David at the Pantomime,? and numerous b/w line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 319 pp. text. i pp. acknowledgements at rear.* Description: This anthology of specially commissioned children's items includes pieces by J.M.Barrie, Enid Blyton,… Read More

SOFTBACK ?HARD TO FIND OUTSIDE THE U.S.? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1962* Publisher: Dover Pubs.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Spine slightly dished. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. Very slight colouration to page edges & inside of covers. VG+* Illustrations: One large block of b/w photo-illustrations.* Pages: 124 pp. text. vii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- This book summarises practically everything that is known about authentic Chinese furniture before it became vitiated by Western influences and almost driven out of existence by debased imitations of Western items. Drawing on scanty Chinese historical sources and surviving pieces of furniture in private… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Phoenix.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing girl with a lamb and nativity scene. No bumps minor rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges, corners & tail of spine. Light creases to spine & hinge. Minor creases to corners. 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: A number of b/w vignettes to chapter headings.* Pages: 247 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- A young boy finds a faded, home-made Advent calendar in a bookshop. A piece of paper falls out of the first window on which is written the first part of an extraordinary story about a small girl who travels back in time to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ. Meanwhile the intertwining story of the present unfolds, and the boy finds out about the strange man… Read More

Walker, 1986-01-01. 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG/GD++/ND. Box 94 HARDBACK "" SAINSBURY CLASSIC COOK BOOK,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. thus.* Date: 1986.* Pub: Walker Books for Sainsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured illustrated glossy paper covered boards with black titles to spine & face. No bumps, minor rubs to corners & to head and tail of spine, now covered in clear self-adhesive protective film. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: Ex school-library copy of the 1st./1st.with usual stamps and labels to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minor reading wear, no marks to text. Some slight toning to all edges, no tanning or other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Numerous coloured illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 92 pp. text. iii pp. index at rear.* Description: The author learnt her French cooking in a Yorkshire kitchen. Fifteen years later, when she went to France she found that the French paid… Read More

HARDBACK SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB EDDITION, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1973* Publisher: Readers Union.* Binding and cover condition: Spring green cloth, Gilt title to spine. No rubs, very slight bumps to bottom corners otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing original shelf price of £1.90. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems little read. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 190 pp. text. iv pp. Blank pages at rear.* Description:"Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harassed earth?* A VG+ copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Robson Books for Anova Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a beach scene with small boats, different to that illustrated by Amazon. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to front fore-edge. Single crease to spine, none to 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. No colouration to page margins or edges. FINE* Illustrations: 2 x 8pp. blocks of colour photos.* Pages: 277 pp. text. xiii pp. addendum, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- A 3,000 mile journey round the edge of England. The coast road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today. Award winning writer Paul Gogarty travels round the coastline in a… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1966* Publisher: B.T.Batsford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: Colour text-illustrated dust wrapper showing a simulated franking with the title in the obliteration. PRICE CLIPPED showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Spine faded, small tears to edges. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with only light reading wear. Some marks to end papers at both ends, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. GD++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and illustrations throughout.* Pages: 64 pp. text. viii pp. Bibliography, indx & blank pages at rear.* Description: Young collectors are often satisfied, in the beginning, with the sheer accumulation of stamps, but when the accumulation has lost its first excitement it is sensible to develop a… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Past Times.* Binding and cover condition: Glossy laminated colour illustrated boards. Red & white titles to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to boards. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper matching the boards. 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. Coloured end papers (marbled). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A few decorated section dividers.* Pages: 183 pp. text. ix pp., index, & acknowledgements at rear.* Description: A Handsome and Elegant anthology of famous and moving Historical Letters, covering all areas of human life, emotional, creative and intellectual. This… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1959* Publisher: Stanley Paul. (Garden Book Club).* Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth, black title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. Very slight shelf wear. GOOD* Jacket condition: Colour illustration to dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 16/-. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Slightly grubby. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean and tight with no reading wear, slight fox marks to text and to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. GOOD.* Illustrations: Several b/w photos within text.* Pages: 184 pp. text. viii pp. index at rear.* Description: A book written to plant lovers who wish to build up a collection for interest or profit. Only completely hardy plants are discussed, those which may be grown with the minimum of trouble in the Western hemisphere: pansies and violas, fairy and sun roses, hardy heathers, fairy… Read More

MONTHLY MAGAZINE, "COLLECTOR'S DIGEST, SEPT. 1950. VOL 4, NO. 45." SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1950* Publisher: York Duplicating Services.* Binding and cover condition: Black reproduction illustration to bright orange covers. Issue number corrected in pen. No creases to spine or hinge.No visible shelf wear or age to covers. Staple bound with absolutely minimal rusting. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no marks to text. Very slight wear to fore-edge. VG++* Illustrations: A single b/w line drawn headings to first page & facsimile newspaper cuttings at centre.* Pages: 28 pp. incl. covers.* Product Description:- This number includes "From The Editor's Chair," "Popular Papers of The Past," "The Nelson Lee Column," "Old Boys' Book Club," "Hamiltonia," "Paul Pontifax Prout," & "Blakiana, Blake Through The Years," Etc. * This is a near FINE text copy with minimal cover faults reducing it to VG++.*

MONTHLY MAGAZINE, "COLLECTOR'S DIGEST, SEPT. 1951. VOL 5, NO. 57." SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1951* Publisher: York Duplicating Services.* Binding and cover condition: Black reproduction illustration to pale green paper covers. No creases to spine or hinge.Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Staple bound with absolutely minimal rusting. Covers have been folded in the post. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no marks to text. VG++* Illustrations: A single b/w line drawn headings to front page.* Pages: 28 pp. incl. covers.* Product Description:- This number includes "From The Editor's Chair," "The Men Who Wrote for Boys," "Old Boys' Book Club," "The Nelson Lee Column," "Blakiana," & "Sexton Blake In The Edwardian Era," Etc. * This is a near FINE text copy with minor cover faults reducing it to VG.*

MONTHLY MAGAZINE, ?COLLECTOR?S DIGEST, NOV. 1951. VOL 5, NO. 59.? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1952* Publisher: York Duplicating Services.* Binding and cover condition: Black reproduction illustration to pale pink paper covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Has been folded. Staple bound with minimal rusting. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no marks to text. Some marks to front edges. VG++* Illustrations: A couple of b/w line drawn headings to sections.* Pages: 32 pp. incl. covers.* Product Description:- This number includes ?From The Editor?s Chair,? ?In The Home Of Frank Richards,? ?Rediscovery of A Pioneer,? ?The Men Who Wrote for Boys,? ?Old Boys? Book Club,? ?The Nelson Lee Column,? ?Who Why & When,? & ?Murder on The Portsmouth Road,? Etc. * This is a near FINE text copy with minor cover faults reducing it to VG+.