Search Results: Titles starting with E from Cocksparrow Books

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: ?1st.* Date of Publication: Undated but refs in text indicate 1935 * Publisher: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Pale Blue textured cloth, Gilt title to spine and face. Corners lightly bumped not rubbed, VG* Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Owners inscription to fep, ?Douglas A Dowding, Royal Air Force?. Decorative end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations. Few pages have light diagonal paper creases probably as bound. VG+ * Illustrations: B/w line drawings and numerous photos throughout. One coloured plate (first balloon channel crossing 1785) rear slightly foxed. * Pages: 642 pp. text. Alphabetically arranged. Index at front.* A fascinating resume of the state of aviation in the 1930's. It begins with The Development of Heavier-Than-Air machines (vignette illustrations and 48pp of b/w photographs of aircraft); then 8pp (illustrated) of The Development… Read More

HARDBACK ?BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES, No 3.* Edition: 2nd* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication:1942* Publisher: William Collins* Binding and cover condition: Pictorial cover, white and medium grey paper covered boards. White title to spine & to face, together with design showing musical instruments. Some shelf wear to top and bottom edges & to spine hinges. VG* Jacket condition: Matching dust jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED some darkening & damage to spine, considerable rubs at head and tail of spine and to corners. Small chips to top and bottom edges. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, bright and sewn binding tight. No annotations or inscriptions. Some light age to paper throughout. No foxing. VG+* Illustrations: 12 Plates in colour 21 illustrations in b/w* Pages: 48 pp. text. No index at rear. One of the ?Britain in Pictures? series. J.W.Turner was one of England?s leading musical critics, and wrote biographies of Berlioz, Beethoven and Wagner. He shows clearly the close… Read More

HARDBACK ?The ?Britain in Pictures series,? No. 81.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1945* Publisher: William Collins* Binding and cover condition: Pictorial cover, White and grey-green paper covered boards. White title to spine. Slight rubs at head & tail and corners. Some age marks. GD+* Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp and sewn binding tight. No annotations or inscriptions. Slight foxing to first and last few pages. Top and fore edge darkened. GD* Illustrations: 8 Plates in colour 24 illustrations in b/w* Pages: 47 pp. text. Short bibliography at rear. One of the ?Britain in Pictures? series, Mr Vulliamy was best known for his novels and biographies of the era of Samuel Johnson, he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Royal Anthropological Society. His novels gently satirize British society and at times the conventions of detective fiction. Like many in his field he has a fine… Read More

HARDBACK * Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1961* Publisher: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. Impressed symbol to front board. No bumps but slight rubbing and fading to spine and top edge. VG* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of 20/-, spine faded and chipped, top and bottom edges show some wear. Top edge chipped and slightly browned with some losses, GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, tight and bright. No Inscriptions or annotations. Top edge coloured but dull. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 537 pp.text. No Index.* This volume in the Everyman?s Reference Library replaced the original and earlier Smith?s Smaller Classical Dictionary and is a comprehensive guide to the period from the late eighth century B.C. to the death of Constantine in A.D. 337, encompassing pagan Greece and Rome. Legend and religion with mythology and philosophy come together here to illuminate the… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Burman, Cooper & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Beige leatherette, black title and design showing canal to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to inside cover, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w photos to title and frontis.* Pages: 59 pp. text. v pp. appendix at rear.* Description: Further soundings from a canal travelling man. The second volume of poetry by this author with a foreword by Michael Streat which in addition to introducing the poetry, makes some comment on the political situation with the canals and the authorities. The appendix is a full transcript of an article from the Times 22nd. May 1982.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1933* Publisher: George Allen And Unwin Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Yellow cloth, green title to spine & face. Very slight bumps & minimal edge wear. Slight age to upper & lower edges and to spine. VG* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper, dark blue titles to spine and face with small vignette of an insect and a thistle. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some darkening particularly to spine and rear edges. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Long tears to front cover and nicks to head and tail of spine (re-inforced). Now in clear protective wrapper. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Inscription to front end paper "Percy Bourner Christmas 1933". Top edge & end papers aged, otherwise clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: B/w… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Author-house.* Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers. No bumps or rubs. No visible shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. AAS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Seems un-read. AS NEW* Illustrations: None* Pages: 241 pp. text.* Product Description:- A Spitfire and a Messerschmitt are engaged in mortal combat in the skies over Buckingham Palace ? but the year is 1990, and only one of them is armed ! From the Battle of Britain, through ruined Berlin and the ranches of Montana, The Eagle Will Fly is a story of vengeance, madness and a final, fiery, life-or-death finale.* This is an AS NEW copy of the 1st. Edition with no visible faults.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Oxford Unversity Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing two Roman soldiers. 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: One b/w line drawn map at front.* Pages: 210 pp. text. vi pp. author?s notes, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain-and they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It's a mystery that's never been solved, until now . . . Marcus has to find out what happened to his father, who led the legion. So he sets out into the unknown,… Read More

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017-03-17. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. F/VG+/ND. Box X14 HARDBACK ""MUSIC BIOGRAPHY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. * Date: 2017.* Pub: Rowman & Littlefield.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured photo-illustrated paper covered boards black & white titles to spine and face. Slight bump to top front corner, dents to top edges. No shelf wear to head or tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text or to edges. No reading wear, tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 13pp. b/w photos at centre and one photo of the authors to rear.* Pages: 192 pp. text. xxiii pp. Notes, bibliography, index, author notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine-gun precision during his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and… Read More

HARDBACK ?BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES, No 92.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. * Date of Publication: 1945* Publisher: William Collins* Binding and cover condition: Pictorial cover, mid green paper and white covered boards. White title to spine with illustration showing white horse to face. Minimal age to spine and slight wear at head & tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, bright and sewn binding tight. No annotations or inscriptions. Very slight age to end papers. VG++* Illustrations: 8 Plates in colour 26 illustrations in b/w* Pages: 47 pp. text. i pp appendix and bibliography at rear.* One of the ?Britain in Pictures? series. Jacquetta Hawkes was the younger daughter of Professor Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, O.M. She was educated at Cambridge. This is an excellent anthology on the social life of Megalithic, Celtic and Early Medieval Britain. Chapters include, The Hunters, The First Farmers, The Pastoralists,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1966* Publisher: Compass Books, History of Art.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. Considerable shelf wear to edges & corners. Small tear to top front edge. No creases to spine or hinge. Some age to cover edges. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Inside of covers slate coloured. Grey fold-out list of plates to rear. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight colouration to page margins and edges, no other visible faults. GD* Illustrations: Colour & b/w illustrations to every page in the body of the work.* Pages: 176 pp. text. x pp. fold-out list of plates at rear.* Product Description:- This volume in the Compass History of Art was published by The Viking Press, New York. It is the third in the series pre-ceded by ?Greek Painting? and ?Roman and Etruscan Painting.? The chapters include, An Introduction, The Importance of Early Christian… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 3rd. Revised.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1968* Publisher: The Trustees of The National Gallery.* Binding and cover condition: Blue-grey soft card covers. Black title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Spine faded, no creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations or inscriptions. Some marks to page margins, no general tanning. Very slight colouration to page edges. GD++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 180 pp. text. xxviii pp. indices at rear.* Product Description:- The catalogue contains the following information regarding each work of art :- The name of the artist, the attribution of the work, condition and construction of both the work and the frame, the dimensions or measurements of the work and mount and finally an indication of the left or right hand of the viewer.* This is a GOOD copy of the 3rd. revised edition… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2009* Publisher: Canongate.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Very light reading creases to spine, not to hinge. Seems very lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Slight colouration to paper throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 327 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the right questions, Gwenni decides to conduct her own investigation. She records everything she sees and hears: but are her deductions correct? What is the real truth? And what… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2009* Publisher: Canongate.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Very light reading creases to spine, not to hinge. Seems very lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Slight colouration to paper throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 327 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the right questions, Gwenni decides to conduct her own investigation. She records everything she sees and hears: but are her deductions correct? What is the real truth? And what… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Sphere Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Slight creases to spine & some to front 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. Edges slightly grubby. No other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 311 pp. text. i pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Bart Dybig, blessed with unusual powers of perception, first is captured by subversives in the wilds of North America, then falls into a pit in an attempt to escape. He emerges in a hierarchical world ruled by dwarfs plotting revenge on the world by unleashing a weapon of total destruction.* This is a VG++ copy of the 1st./1st. with absolutely minimal faults.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Grafton Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a comic panorama by Paul Sample. No bumps, rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, no wear creases to boards or to hinge. Seems lightly used. Very small patch of label damage to front. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning to text. Very slight age darkening to top and fore-edge. No other visible faults. VG++ * Illustrations: One single facsimile document at page 153. * Pages: 303 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- As the earth tilts on its axis, precipitating a new Ice Age, herds of lemmings race towards Europe. Meanwhile a time-travelling Hitler emerges in sleepy Devonshire and proceeds to clone himself in preparation for the march on London. Will a Fourth Reich rise to strangle the Mother… Read More

SOFTBACK ?UNCOMMON,?SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1960* Publisher: Digit, Brown Watson Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing space rocket against a clock dial. 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. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Considerable tanning worst at page margins & edges. GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 159 pp. text. i pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Up here,he was dealing with a different order of authority from that sprawling on the planetary surface. There were uniformed men with guns everywhere. They waved his car to a lay-by and closed in on it. Carradine took Napier?s little toy out, opened the door and tossed one of the grenades. Then he fell flat on the floor of the car, shut his eyes and stuffed arms and hands… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1967 * Publisher: Four Square.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing decaying corpse rising from the sea above steamer. 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. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some colouration to page margins and edges. Some tape marks to inside of covers and to half title. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 126 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Disease-ridden; over populated; robots and prison-gangs tending the bare, poison-drenched countryside; the people near starvation. This is the world Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller, and captain of the tramp-freighter Trieste Star knows and accepts- because there is nothing better to hope for. To the beautiful girl… Read More

HARDBACK "ILLUSTRATED BOARDS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Corrected reprint.* Date of Publication: Undated. 1900.s * Publisher: W.H.L.Collingridge.* Binding and cover condition: Dull blue-green cloth, black title to spine and face. Black & white ?Holyhock? illustration to spine and face. Very slightly bumped & rubbed, minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Rear hinge shaken. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and coloured end papers. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks with minimal foxing to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: B/w photos-illustrations throughout. * Pages: 476 pp. text.* Description: A Collingridge manual illustrated by 255 reproductions of photographs being a description, with notes on habits and uses and directions for culture and propagation of selected Perennial and some Biennial outdoor plants, bulbs and tubers comprising all of the best known… Read More

Phoenix, 1997-02-06. First Edition. Paperback. VG/VG/ND. Box X01 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full Number Line.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Indigo (Cassell plc)* Binding and cover condition: Coloured design to soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to corners. Some creases to spine & hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, seems lightly read. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG* Illustrations: None within text, small symbols to chapter headings.* Pages: 244 pp. text. i pp. Advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- This work describes the author's experiences as a child during World War II. Along with his mother, who is alternatively protective and selfishly neglectful, Paulsen travelled to the Philippines to live with his father, a distant and imperious army officer.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal reading & shelf wear.* 0