Search Results: Authors starting with S from Cocksparrow Books

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976 * Publisher: BCA by arrangement with the BBC,* Binding and cover condition: Slate cloth, Gilt title to spine, some fading to top front & spine. Bumped to top & bottom of spine and slight rubs to edges, slightly loose in case. GOOD.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, colour photographic cover, some shelf wear, top & bottom edges worn and riffled. GOOD.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, coloured end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, some slight reading wear and ageing but no major faults. VG.* Illustrations: B/w and Colour Photos and illustrations throughout.* Pages: 234 pp. text. vi pp. Acknowledgements, Index at rear.* Product Description:- An account of the various periods of British architectural history written by some of the best known experts on the subject, including Roy Strong, John Summerson, Hugh Casson, John Julius Norwich & Patrick Nuttgens.… Read More

HARDBACK ?HARD TO FIND FIRST EDITION? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1944* Publisher: Oxford University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Two tone brown design to front board . Dark brown title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners of boards. VG++* Jacket condition: Black and white photo-illustrated dust wrapper with blue & white title to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 5/- net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and wear with small loss to head of spine. A little grubby and with one small tear (3/4?) to top front edge near spine. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. very slight spotting to top and fore edges. VG++* Illustrations: B/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 109 pp. text. iii pp. index at rear.* Description: From the ?Pageant of Progress? series. An up to date group of books dealing… Read More

The Reprint Society., 1946-01-01. 1st Reprint Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardback. VG++/VG++/GD. Box X43 HARDBACK ""FOURTH NOVEL IN THE HORNBLOWER SERIES,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1946 (1945) * Publisher: The Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Dark crimson cloth covered boards, gilt title to black spine label. No bumps, minimal rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper with Reprint Society zodiac design to face. Dark blue titles to face and grey titles to dark blue spine label. Not price clipped but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear & chips to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Somewhat age darkened especially to spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. GD. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured (dark brown.) Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Routledge.* Binding and cover condition: Textual soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners, no creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 293 pp. text. xix pp. notes index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Thanks to changing moral standards, aggressive marketing and above all the economic benefits of new technology, the pornography industry has not merely survived but prospered. In the process the industry has expanded its ranks to include some of the nation?s largest companies and thousands of new entrepeneurs. In ?Obscene Profits? Fred S. Lane III takes an unblinking look at how dirty pictures, phone sex, and X-Rated videos have become a $20 billion industry. This is a FINE,… Read More

SOFTBACK "TEXT BLOCK WITHOUT BOARDS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1965 * Publisher: Cambridge University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Soft paper covers with no printing to spine or face, light rubs, some spotting and a few marks. No titles to spine or face. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, none to spine or hinge. VG.* Contents condition: Private copy not ex-library, clean, crisp tight & bright. No other annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to text. Some foxing & slight age darkening to page edges. A few pages near page 250 poorly cut and torn but without loss. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 300pp. text. iv pp. bibliography at rear.* Product Description:- Subtitled "Being a History of The Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I. This is part two of a trilogy which covers the period from 1475 (Caxton) to 1640 covering the Book Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles I. They were written by… Read More

Penguin., 2007-07-05. 1st Edn. 7th. Imp.. Paperback.. F/F/ND. Box 51 SOFTBACK ""EROTIC MEMOIR"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 7th. (stated).* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing a girl in bra and pants, front and a bodice & legs to rear. Maroon, pink & white titles to 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, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE. * Illustrations: Colour bawdy illustration inside rear cover. None to text.* Pages: 275 pp. text. vii pp. notes & blank pages at rear.* Description:- The real-life story of a modern Working Girl. Miss S is smart, sassy, sexually frustrated and broke. With the rent money due, she spots an ad for a student job with a difference ? in the massage parlour at the bottom of her road.… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus?* Date of Publication: Un-dated (1906)* Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Olive green illustrated cloth covers, impressed gilt title to spine & face. Scene of a lifeboat at sea to front and man in a storm to spine. Light bumps & minor rubs to corners, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations, owners? name stamped to front paste-down and to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, off-setting to end-papers. Top-edge gilt and slight age to fore & lower-edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Full page colour illustration to frontis & five other within text.* Pages: 462 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Warren-Bell was the first-appointed editor of ?The Captain,? in 1898. This publication was based on juvenile… Read More

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus?* Date of Publication: Un-dated (1906)* Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Olive green illustrated cloth covers, impressed gilt title to spine & face. Scene of a lifeboat at sea to front and man in a storm to spine. Light bumps & minor rubs to corners, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations, owners' name stamped to front paste-down and to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, off-setting to end-papers. Top-edge gilt and slight age to fore & lower-edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Full page colour illustration to frontis & five other within text.* Pages: 462 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Warren-Bell was the first-appointed editor of "The Captain," in 1898. This publication was based on juvenile… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 34th.* Date of Publication: (1950)* Publisher: Penguin Classics* Binding and cover condition: Soft illustrated card covers (Don Quixote by Gustave Dore). No bumps, slight rubs. Slight shelf wear to covers, edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Spine slightly dished. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Very slight colouration to paper throughout. VG* Illustrations:- None.* Pages: 940 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Don Quixote - by far the most famous book in Spanish literature ? was originally intended by Cervantes as a skit on traditional popular ballads, but he also parodied the romances of chivalry. As a result he produced one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time and created, in Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, two of the greatest characters in fiction. By 1615, when he… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus Facsimile Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1980 (1885)* Publisher: Dover.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge, very slight dish. Lower front corner creased. 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. Page edges a little dusty. VG++* Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 399 pp. text. xxvi pp. index & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Covers every significant aspect -- from palming to clairvoyance, vanishing and producing an object, using essential apparatus, etc. Explains hundreds of astonishing tricks -- with coins, cups and balls, handkerchiefs, cards & more. A book with an excellent reputation among professional magicians for teaching… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour toned dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £20.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, patterned end papers, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 16 pp. colour, sepia-tone, and b/w photos.* Pages: 267 pp. text. xxxii pp. bibliography, acknowledgements, index, notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and images, the current… Read More

HARDBACK * Edition: 2nd.* Impression: 1st. * Date of Publication: 1942* Publisher: William Collins* Binding and cover condition: Pictorial cover, white and spring green paper covered boards with an gateway design. White title to spine. Slight shelf wear to edge and corners. Spine faded rubbed and aged. GD++* Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, bright and sewn binding tight. No annotation or inscriptions a few slight marks to prelims. No paper colouration or foxing. VG++* Illustrations: 12 Plates in colour 21 illustrations in b/w* Pages: 47 pp. text. 1 pp. index at rear. One of the ?Britain in Pictures? series. Vita Sackville-West was born in 1892. As columnist for the Observer Sackville-West wrote numerous works on gardening and the aristocratic estates of Great Britain amongst many other titles. She herself lived at Knole and Sissinghurst. Those who read this book will be brought near to the inmost spirit of ?Upper Class? Britain. A really… Read More

HARDBACK "NEARLY SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OLD" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1947 (1940)* Publisher: The Reprint Society.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, gilt title to maroon spine label. Absolutely minimal bumps, very slight shelf wear to edges, corners & the head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Black title to red illustrated paper dust wrapper showing a horoscope (normal design for World Books,) no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small losses at head of spine. Overall darkened & aged. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge coloured red & slightly aged, some spotting to end papers. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 385 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.*Description: This is the author's best known work which was adapted as a film in 1941 and as a television series… Read More

Blandford Press, 1951-01-01. 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp?. Hardcover. VG+/ACC/ND. Box 66 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.?* Date: 1951.* Pub: Blandford Press.* Binding and cover condition: Orange-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine & face. Severe fading and some marks overall especially to spine. No bumps or rubs. Some slight wear to edges and to head and tail of spine, no other major faults. ACC.* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Some very slight marks to end papers, no tanning or other visible faults. Some slight toning to all edges. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos, illustrations, & diagrams throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Description: Chapters include The Genesis of Paper Sculpture, Basic Shaping, Low and High relief sculpture and instructions to make a number of different sculptures. The development of Paper Sculpture has resulted… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2011 (2010)* Publisher: Saqi Press.* Binding and cover condition: Black 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 £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge. Now in clear protective jacket. 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: One 16pp block of colour & b/w photos.* Pages: 282 pp. text. viii pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Afif Safieh served as Palestinian General Delegate in London, Washington and Moscow from 1990 to 2008. During this time, he met and interacted with the leading figures of our times: from Yasser Arafat to Tony Blair; to Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, and Pope John Paul II. The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1995 * Publisher: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics.* Binding and cover condition: B/w photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to corners. Slight scratches to front cover. No creases to spine or hinge. Small horizontal crease at mid spine. 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. FINE* Illustrations: colour b/w illustrations within text. throughout. None. * Pages: 131 pp. text. ix pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The story of the author's reconnaissance mission from Orly over Nazi-occupied France to Arras in 1940. The journey is recounted in the general context of mortality and war. Saint-Exupéry's plane disappeared during a mission later in World War II.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition 2nd. impression, with… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 3rd.* 7th. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1951 (1920)* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear and slight marks to boards and wear to tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat owners signature & address to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minor reading wear, a few slight marks to text, some offsetting to end-papers & paste-downs, otherwise no visible faults. Top edge dusty and spotted. GD++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 227 pp. text. vi pp. post-scripts and blank pages at rear.* Description: When Macmillan first published this book in 1920 it soon became the centre of a new field of scholarship - oenophilly. This book contains a series of reminiscences based on Professor Saintsbury's purchases from 1884 to 1915 and on his dinner-party menus which accompanied them. Although the… Read More

HARDBACK "MEMOIR ," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Gotham Books for Penguin. New York.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound, with maroon paper covered boards with creamy white spine strip. Metallic red title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, top edge minimally faded and aged. No other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a mosque and a minaret. Gilt and white titles to spine and face with gilt decoration to borders. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $26.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges 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, very slight paper colouration throughout especially to page edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 287 pp. text. x pp. afterword, blank pages and collaborator's note at rear.*… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Landmark Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card colour photo-covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. 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. No colouration to page margins or edges. FINE* Illustrations: Colour photo-illustrations, colour and b/w line drawn maps within text.* Pages: 102 pp. text. ii pp. index at rear.* Product Description:- The carefully researched text brings you more fun and pleasure as you explore North Devon and Exmoors? attractions. Easy to follow touring and visiting suggestions with scaled road maps.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++.*

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1980* Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Spine faded, edges browned and aged. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Illustrated end papers showing print of Westbury Court. Clean, crisp and tight, with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Numerous b/w & colour photos, prints and line drawn maps throughout.* Pages: 252 pp. text. xviii pp. index at rear.* Description: The region is a feast for the keen garden visitor whether resident or staying in one of the many holiday areas. Location maps in the book make it easy to plan visits from any centre and plans of the larger gardens enable… Read More