Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK, PENGUIN NUMBER 1147, SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1956 (1933)* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Penguin green and white classic livery, soft card covers. Considerable shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine but split at head and tail. Grubby and somewhat worn. ACC.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, heavy tanning to page margins and edges. ACC.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 249 pp. text. viii pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Murder in front of an audience of 20,000 at a Wild West spectacular is the setting for this strange ?whodunnit.? Why, though everybody was searched, was not the murder weapon found? Who out of the large audience and cast was the murderer?* This is an ACCEPTABLE copy of the 1st./1st. with considerable age and wear.*

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound, grey paper covered boards, silver title to spine on blue cloth spine strip & ?JQ? logo to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults, as new. FINE* Jacket condition: White and cream text-illustrated dust wrapper with dark blue ground showing books within the text. Now in protective cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $24.95. No visible faults, as new. 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. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 244 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: In ?One for the Books?, Queenan examines the entire culture of reading and what books really mean in people?s lives today. What does it suggest if a person has no books displayed in his living room? Can an… Read More

HARDBACK, "POPULAR BOOK CLUB EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: P.B.C. by arrangement with Victor Gollancz Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, black title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, no marks. VG+* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper, white titles to spine and face on a dark blue ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 2/11d. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Slight offsetting to end papers. Clean, crisp and tight with some tanning to paper throughout particularly to page edges and margins. Some slight age to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 215 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: In an out-of-the-ordinary detective story that famous crime author, John Creasey, has proclaimed "quite exceptional". Ronald Sheldon, American Millionaire… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012 * Publisher: Etopia Press.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Mono photo-illustrated with red and white titles to face (white & red to spine). Soft card covers with 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. Author signed & dedicated, "To Andrea, best wishes, Jasen." Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. VG++* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 228 pp. text. vi pp. author's notes & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Cage Reynolds wanted to die. Having survived two world wars, the death of his wife, and innumerable suicide attempts, Cage is lonely and depressed. He has a secret, one that defies modern science, and his life is not as it seems. He's 169 years old, and he cannot die. On the day that he is… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2014* Publisher: Picador.* Binding and cover condition: B/w photo-illustrated soft card covers with yellow spine. Black white and yellow titles. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to 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; None.* Pages: 289 pp. text. ix pp. acknowledgements, blank pages and advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- Pat Peoples has a theory that his life is actually a movie produced by God, and that his God-given mission in life is to become emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending -- which, for Pat, means the return of his estranged wife Nikki, from whom he's currently having some 'apart time.' It might not come as any surprise… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1897* Publisher: George Allen.* Binding and cover condition: Polished grey green polished linen cloth, gilt title & decorations to spine and face. No bumps, slight rubs to corners and to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. GOOD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. (Probably as issued.)* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with absolutely minimal marks to text, some foxing & slight marks to prelims and tail end papers. Top edge gilt, other edges rough cut & aged, otherwise no visible faults. GOOD* Illustrations: One b/w tissue guarded print at frontis, showing de Quincey (slightly loose).* Pages: 163 pp. text. vi pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: This selection has been made from De Quincy?s authorised and collected works, without recourse to the ?sweepings of his study,? so piously edited of late years. By the generous courtesy of… Read More

HARDBACK, ?BIOGRAPHY,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Mid grey cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. A few very slight marks. VG++* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated dust wrapper, blue, yellow and white titles to face with blue & black titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price of £16.95. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Jacket slightly scratches and somewhat grubby. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Prize book-plate from ?Ashdown House? to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some slight marks to top & fore-edge. VG+.* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos within text.* Pages: 497 pp. text. ii pp., illustration acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.*… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 2011-02-03. 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.. Hardcover. F/F/F. Box X39 HARDBACK ""AS NEW,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 2011.* Pub: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine & none to face. No bumps or rubs. No marks to edges or spine, absolutely minimal spine lean, no other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing a young lady brandishing a tract to the front & a young man brandishing a cricket bat to rear. Silvered white title to spine and face. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £12.99. No visible shelf wear or marks, now in a clear un-attached protective wrapper FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Colour illustrated end papers (maroon), no tanning or other visible faults. No toning to edges. FINE*Illustrations: None.* Pages: 349 pp. text. ix pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.*… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: David & Charles. * Binding and cover condition: Dark brown cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a collage of six different crafts. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of £20.00. No shelf wear or marks. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE * 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: Copious colour photo illustrations throughout. * Pages: 249 pp. text. vii pp. List of resources, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Subtitled "Rediscover British Craftsmanship". Following the craft skills explored in the BBC TV series – stone masonry, thatching, weaving, metalwork, woodcraft and stained glass making ~ Matercraft tells the… Read More