Search Results: Titles starting with I from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus ?stated?.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Serpent?s tail.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a man walking away through the rain. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners. Small crease to top rear corner. Very light reading creases & slight lean to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly-used. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions to text, no tanning, some age to top and fore-edge with slight damp stain to lower edges of last few pages, no other visible faults. GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 334 pp. text. iv pp blank at rear.* Product Description:- Book 2 in the Detective Sean Duffy series. Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close. Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his… Read More

P & L A, 2023-01-01. First Edition, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. F/F/ND. Box 35 SOFTBACK ""AUTHOR SIGNED, SHORT STORY COLLECTION,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2023* Publisher: P & L A.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing numerous people walking on a striped background, grey ground. Blue & white titles to spine & face. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. No visible marks. FINE (AS NEW).* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Author Signed. No other annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE (AS NEW). * Illustrations: Small b/w vignettes to chapter headings.* Pages: 230 pp. text. ii pp. acknowledgements at rear.* Description:- This collection of short stories takes the reader from a mansion in New England to a slum in Colombo, from a crypt in Assisi to a billiard hall in the North of England, from the parched… Read More

SPIRAL BOUND SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus?* Impression: 1st.?* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Recycled Paper Products Inc.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No damage to wire spine or to perforated edges. Very slight nicks to rear top-edge & front fore-edge. Minimal shelf wear. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no tanning, seems un-used. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous line drawn cartoons within text. One per opposing page.* Pages: Unpaginated.* Product Description :- A small desk diary with a ?Food for Thought? theme, one week per page with one of Sarah Boynton?s hilarious animal based cartoons to each opposing page. If Sarah Boynton is to your taste don?t miss this. It is a scarce item and very funny in un-used condition.* A NEAR FINE COPY with some light cover wear reducing it to VG+ *

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Andre Deutsch.* Cover: Absolutely minimal faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Black and white photo-illustrated jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head of spine. 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: A number of colour & b/w photos.* Pages: 255 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Yorkshire-born Pauline Samarraie set off for Baghdad in 1962, full of hopes and dreams, to start a new life with her Iraqi husband, Munem, a talented young scientist with a bright future. But as the 60s made way for the 70s, the ruling Baath party, and increasingly Saddam Hussein himself, had an ever more invidious role in the running of Iraq. Dissenters were not tolerated. The ruthless dictator cast a… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Chrome yellow cloth, dark brown title to spine. Slight bumps to corners, no rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. Covers a little grubby. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat owners inscription to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only minor reading wear, a few slight marks to margins & edges, otherwise no tanning or other visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 160 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Josephine, Christine & Diana Pullein Thompson wrote numerous ?horsey? books which were juvenile ?fodder? for a whole generation of young ladies in the 40?s, 50?s & 60?s. ?I Wanted A Pony.? was Diana?s first solo novel, which was first published in 1946. It's not amongst her best-known books, and the author considered it derivative, but many… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression:1st. 1.3.5.7.9.8.6.4.2.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: Picador (Pan MacMillan) * Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, impressed design to front board. FINE.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.99, drawings to illustrated cover, some very minor shelf wear to top edge and chip to top of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, b/w design to end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w drawings throughout.* Pages: 187 pp. text. vi pp. Acknowledgements & notes.* Description: A brilliantly crafted, utterly compelling memoir about her parents' survival of the Holocaust. Meeting in Auschwitz and marrying shortly after Liberation, the pain and suffering of their ordeal was ever present, despite their new life in a nice neighbourhood in Canada. The author helps to convey the pain her parents'… Read More

L. Reeve & Co, 1949-01-01. 5th. Revised Edition.. Hardcover. VG++/VG++/VG. Box X34 HARDBACK ""VOLUME 2 OF 2,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 5th. Revised.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1949.* Pub: L. Reeve & Co. Ltd. (Ashford).* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine strip and blind impresses logo to face. No bumps, minimal rubs, very slight marks to boards. No other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper, dark sapphire titles to spine and face. Pale blue thick marbled paper. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of 25/- to spine. Some minor age wear to top and bottom edges with age darkening to spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat, small, owners name to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight toning to top edge. VG++* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawn… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: Norman Price.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some marks too boards. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, some offsetting to end papers, all edges a little dusty. VG* Illustrations: Colour & b/w line drawings & diagrams throughout.* Pages: 69 pp. text. iv pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Published for The Television Society at a time when colour television was under discussion throughout the technical scene in the UK. The two lectures upon which this monograph was based, were given to the Television Society at the Royal Institution in 1954. The first part deals with colour theory and aims at presenting some of the fundamental aspects which used to be understood by a television engineer engaged upon studying the… Read More

Peter Lunn, 1945-01-01. 1st Thus, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/VG++/VG. Box 13 HARDBACK ""CHILDREN'S BOOK,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. * Date: 1945.* Pub: Peter Lunn.* Binding and cover condition: Royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine only. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. Top edges very slightly faded, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Black & white illustrated jacket showing geese in flight. Black titles to spine and face, front cover background lime green. Price clipped showing no shelf price. Minor shelf wear to top and bottom edges, & slightly grubby marks. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, some spotting to prelims and all edges. No tanning or other visible faults. Some slight toning to all edges. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawn illustrations one full page at frontis and to chapter headings throughout.* Pages: 182 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A story of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1963* Publisher: Belmont.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: Book exchange copy, stamped at front and rear. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. All edges coloured (green), fore-edges "nibbled". No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, minor paper colouration throughout, especially to edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 141 pp. text. iii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Biogenic advances in electron-microscope Roentgen-ray analysis having made possible the exact determination of the genes of human inheritance in the human adult, the individual's instincts can now for the first time be successfully controlled. The science-fiction masterpiece about a machine that computed men's futures ~ and one man who dared to tamper with… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Pen & Sword (Military).* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges and to head and tail of spine which has very slight lean. VG++* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper on coloured ground, white and beige titles to face and spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £19.99 ($34.95). Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. In clear protective wrapper. VG++* Contents condition: Ex-Library copy with some neat, clean labels. Clean crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: One sixteen page block of b/w photos.* Pages: 230 pp. text. xxxii pp. appendices, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The untold top secret story of a spellbinding SOE… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint/Revised. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Little Brown & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour text illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.99. Slight 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, absolutely minimal paper colouration. VG++* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 402 pp. text.* Description: When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. It is Kid, who Jack once regarded as a son, who bullies him back from self-pity. When Kid is found dead, Jack knows he owes him and… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Seafarer Books.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card photo-illustrative covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges and corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Single crease to lower front corner. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. Seems Un-read. FINE* Illustrations: 1 block 12pp. colour photographs with B/w line drawings and maps within text.* Pages: 248 pp. text. iv pp. Advertisements, & biography at rear.* Product Description:- "an evocative tale of good old-fashioned adventure amid one of the bleakest landscapes on earth ... vividly and thoughtfully written, an inspiration ..." Royal Naval Sailing Association, Summer 2008.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Orion Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing James Bond insignia, a revolver and an Iron Cross. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine but creases to hinge and front cover near spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight age to page edges, no other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 243 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'. Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel's Mossad. The team dubbed 'Icebreaker' waste no time double crossing each other, as they try to root… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Orion Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing James Bond insignia, a revolver and an Iron Cross. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine but creases to hinge and front cover near spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight age to page edges, no other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 243 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'. Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel's Mossad. The team dubbed 'Icebreaker' waste no time double crossing each other, as they try to root… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: (1930?s)?* Publisher: Dean & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated colour paper covered boards showing two boys on one bicycle with rods and a jam jar, blue and yellow title to face. Red cloth spine without title. Considerable bumps and minor rubs to edges and corners, some shelf wear to face. Back cover in grey board only ith some marks. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Ffep removed. Clean, crisp and tight with only light reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning to interior. Some age to page margins and edges. GD+.* Illustrations: Full colour plate to frontis. A few b/w line drawings within text* Pages: 140 pp. text.* Description: Eleven adventure stories ancient and modern by different authors. First story is Margin for Error by Samual Jeans. Contributions by : F. W. Gumley, Edmund Burton, E. B. Childs and more. There are no non-fiction items and no games… Read More

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Indicated.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Fourth Estate.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, metallic copper title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. FINE* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper, metallic copper titles & design to face and spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.99. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (black). Top edge coloured slightly grubby. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no other visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 310 pp. text. i pp. acknowledgements at rear.* Description: Katherine has given up trying to be happy. Her cynical wit repels the people she wants to attract, and attracts the people she knows she should repel. Her ex Daniel, meanwhile, isn?t sure… Read More

LEATHERBOUND VOLUME in "THE PEOPLE'S EDITION", "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1896* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Deep red leather, embossed gilt title to spine and gilt design to front "A.T. & sprig of leaves". Corners & edges good and spine ends have some rubbing. Otherwise VG+.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Minimal offsetting to end papers, clean, crisp and tight with very slight reading wear, no marks to text, top edge gilt, slight marks to other edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 96 pp. text.* Description: The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Idylls of The King Vol. I contains The Dedication, The Coming of Arthur, The Round Table:- Gareth and Lynette. The first of the Idylls covers the period following Arthur's coronation, his accession, and marriage. Tennyson based "Gareth and Lynette" on the… Read More

LEATHERBOUND VOLUME in "THE PEOPLE'S EDITION", "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1896* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Deep red leather, embossed gilt title to spine and gilt design to front "A.T. & sprig of leaves". Corners, edges and spine ends have some rubbing. Otherwise GD+.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Small Bombay booksellers label to front paste-down. Offsetting to end papers and previous owners name to ffep, clean, crisp and tight with some reading wear, no marks to text, top edge gilt, slight marks to other edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 84 pp. text.* Description: The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Idylls of The King Vol. II containing The Marriage of Geraint with Geraint and Enid. Geraint, tributary prince of Devon and one of Arthur's bravest knights, is married to Enid, the only… Read More

LEATHERBOUND SET OF SIX VOLUMES in ?THE PEOPLE?S EDITION?, "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1896* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Deep red leather, embossed gilt title to spine and gilt design to front ?A.T. & Sprig of leaves?. Corners, edges and spines, worn to good and spine ends have some rubbing. Volume 2 has a split at the head of the front hinge. Otherwise GD.* Jacket condition: No dust wrappers. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Minimal offsetting to end papers, four volumes have owners signature to fep, clean, crisp and tight with very slight reading wear, no marks to text, top edge gilt, slight marks to other edges, otherwise no visible faults. At least GD++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: Total of 490 pp. text.* Description: The Idylls of The King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809?1892; Poet… Read More