Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus (Combined).* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: The Quaker Tapestry Scheme.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. 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: Colour facsimile illustrations to virtually every page.* Pages: 87 pp. text. ix pp. further reading list & index at rear.* Product Description:- The Quaker tapestry is a unified crewel embroidery of seventy-seven panels that celebrate the spiritual insights that have motivated the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) since it was founded by George Fox in 1652. The tapestry began in 1981 in the Friends Meeting in Taunton, Somerset, and was continued by groups of friends, young and… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus, reprint.* Date of Publication: 2000(1998)* Publisher: Not known.* Binding and cover condition: B/w photo-illustrated stiff card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear and a few slight marks. Back cover creased & somewhat grubby. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Contains two un-used colour postcards of Quarr Abbey. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Several b/w photo-illustrations & line drawn maps.* Pages: Un-paginated, app. 20 pp. text.* Product Description:- A brief historical sketch in two sections. The first part deals with the pre-reformation history of the original abbey from 1132-1536. Founded by Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, who formed the Benedictine foundation under the Abbot Gervase of Savigny in Normandy. It was a sizeable community and developed the Areton… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2012.* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing the inmates of the retirement home. No bumps or rubs, no reading creases to spine. Minimal shelf wear to spine edges, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. Minimal age to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 83 pp. text. ix pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In a home for retired musicians, live opera singers Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred. Each year there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. When Jean, the one-time bride of Reggie, moves in she disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on. This is presented as a screen play and was made into a movie in 2008.* This is a NEAR VG+ text copy of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2002 (1999)* Publisher: Truran Puplishers.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrated covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems Un-read. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawn vignettes to each of four parts by Martin Orme.* Pages: 132 pp. text.* Product Description:- In these four little cameos the author lovingly describes the pleasures and sadness of a lifetime with cats, His compelling honesty will evoke a rich core of sympathy with all ardent cat lovers. The back cover photograph shows A.L.Rowse with ?Arthur? about 1960; the front cover illustration shows the four cats in the garden, whilst Beryl the housekeeper can be seen at the window holding the telephone for Peter to listen to his master?s voice. When he was at Oxford, A.L.Rowse who was an historian… Read More

John Gifford Ltd., 1944-01-01. 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.. Hardback. VG++/VG/ND. Box X43 HARDBACK ""VERY UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1944 * Publisher: John Gifford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue-black cloth covered boards, dull gilt title to spine only. Very slight bumps & rubs, no marks or other visible faults. VG.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no visible reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, very slight age to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: One block of 16pp. b/w photos at rear. * Pages: 208 pp. text. xviii pp. b/w photos with one blank page at rear.*Description: Renate Müller (26 April 1906 ? 7 October 1937) was a German singer and actress in both silent films and sound films, as well as on stage. One of the most successful actresses in German films from the early 1930s, she was courted by the Nazi… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 6th.* Date of Publication: 1922* Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Pale green cloth, black title to spine and logo and frame to face. No bumps or rubs, a few slight marks. Spine minimally faded. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with no reading wear, no annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, poor quality paper showing considerable tanning throughout. GD.* Illustrations: B/w advertisements for commercial products and services to front and rear.* Pages: 316 pp. text.* Description: An Unwin?s shilling novel. The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines. A race descended from ancient Abyssinian Jews and others who are surrounded in their mountain fastness of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: A Bee Craft Book.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers on dull blue ground. No bumps or rubs. Slightly grubby overall but with minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Staple bound with some rust showing through. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight with spotting to page margins and edges. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight paper colouration throughout. VG* Illustrations: B/w photos within text.* Pages: 48 pp. text. iii pp blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Commercial producers of queens have been fairly adequately provided for by writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr. Abbott, the founder of Bee Craft Magazine, is obviously acquainted with their techniques, but realises that the smaller honey producer needs methods suited to his skill and circumstances. He… Read More

HARDBACK "A LIFE OF LAETITIA PILKINGTON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, pale metallic blue title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper in clear unattached protective wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head & tail 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: One block of 8pp. colour & b/w photos.* Pages: 321 pp. text. xliii pp. notes, bibliography, index & blank page at rear.* Description: Poetess, fallen woman and wit, Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Favoured by, among others, the newly celebrated Jonathan Swift in Ireland in the 1730s, she collected the stories and developed the brazen… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2016* Publisher: Simon & Schuster.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing The Queen at the microphone. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. 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: Two 8pp.blocks of colour & b/w photographs.* Pages: 268 pp. text. xxviii pp. time-line, acknowledgements, bibliography, index and list of speeches at rear.* Product Description:- On 21 April 2016, Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history, celebrated her 90th birthday. During her 64 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work that sheds new light on her thoughts, personality and the issues that really… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Sepia photo-illustrated soft card covers with black, white and red titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. 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: One block of 8pp b/w photo-illustrations, and several b/w plates within text.* Pages: 390 pp. text. xxiv pp. bibliography, glossary & index at rear.* Product Description:- An intriguing work of history, philosophy, and popular science that explores the human desire to quest. Scientists continually look for the genetic factors that make humans so very different in appearance and behaviour from most animals - the genes that are… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Self Published.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured-pencil illustrated soft card covers. 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 & bright. Neat owners name inscribed to fep. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 143 pp. text. i pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The history of the Herby family?s attempts to take to the air go back to the year 1838 with the birth of George William Herby, son of a mariner, and whose mother was of Irish origins, was gifted with striking blue eyes and an abundance of humour. A humour that would be tried and tested to the extreme during the forthcoming ambitious adventures of her offspring. George studied the flight of birds and at 12… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: C.C.Productions.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrative covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. Unused. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. Un-read. AS NEW* Illustrations: Colour illustration inside covers & B/w photo plates within text block.* Pages: 222 pp. text. ii pp. Advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In Quest for the Beloved, Kevin N. Roberts, poet, scholar and professor of English literature, takes an unprecedented look at how poetry can open its readers up to a greater understanding of what it means to be human. Despite the recent resurgence of popular interest in spirituality and artistic expression brought on by the dawn of a new millennium, little has been written of late regarding the role of poetry as a tool for individual spiritual growth.… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Reprint: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1988(1982)* Publisher: Grafton.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated. Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing girls in the countryside with bomb blast in the background. 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 or other visible faults. Very slight colouration to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: A number b/w line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 310 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Deep in the ancient forest that the creatures called the Wild Wood amid the scented bracken and towering beeches, there were whispers of a legend whose ending was lost in the mists of time. It told of a heroic journey and a saviour destined to possess the secret power of the Faradawn.… Read More

Pan, 1963-01-01. 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp.. Paperback. GD++/GD++/ND. Box X29 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1963* Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a colourful bird on a branch with a small b/w photo of Attenborough at bottom right corner. No bumps, minor rubs, some minor shelf wear to edges and corners. No reading creases to spine or hinge. Spine dished & with minimal wear to tail. Seems lightly used. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations or inscriptions. Clean & tight. Considerable tanning throughout especially to page margins and edges. GD++* Illustrations: B/w Line drawn map at front & one block of 8pp b/w photos. * Pages: 191 pp. text. i pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Little needs to be said about David Attenborough and his extraordinary range of Natural History travels and books. This was one of the first, following on… Read More

SOFTBACK "FROM THE AUTHOR OF GILDAS COMMUNICATES," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: The C.W.Daniel Company Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing a blue cloudscape. Black titles to spine & face in white rectangular labels. Light shelf wear to edges, lower corners but not to head or tail of spine. No visible marks to covers. VG++.* 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: Several b/w line drawn diagrams within text.* Pages: 173 pp. text. iii pp. Glossary at rear.* Description:- This unique book suggests and demonstrates a sane approach to the current interest in channelling and guidance. It defines the differences between inner guidance and contact with discarnate worlds. It builds an important bridge from psychology to spiritual exploration,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st.* Impression: 1st. (assumed).* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Oneworld Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Mono-illustrated soft card covers showing a skull. Gold and black titles tospine and face. No bumps or rubs. No visible faults. No creases to spine or hinge. 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. Seems un-used. FINE * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 218 pp. text. vi pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In the wake of an infection that has left Baton Rouge unsettled and roiling with the ?undead?, three young friends ? Mazoch, Vermaelen and Rachel ? band together to search for Mazoch?s missing father. Their mission is to visit all the places he once lingered: his favourite fast food restaurants, the movie theatre he frequented with his son and the city park.* This is a FINE copy of the… Read More

HARDBACK " SIMON SERRAILLER, BOOK 7," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight spine lean. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper in clear un-attached protective cover. White title to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. No visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (black). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight mark to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 354 pp. text. vi pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Duchess of Cornwall Close: sheltered accommodation, a mix of bungalows and flats, newly built and not quite finished. Despite the bitterly cold weather, elderly residents are moving in. They don't notice the figure in the shadows. Someone… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1973 * Publisher: David & Charles. * Binding and cover condition: Light grey/green textured cloth, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a coach and horses with a coachman. Price clipped but showing a shelf price of £4.50 on a publishers label. Maroon and black titles to face and white to slightly faded olive spine. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. No other visible faults. Now in a 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, very slight age & marks to top edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 201 pp. text. xxiv pp. appendices, bibliography, bibliography, acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.*… Read More

HARDBACK ?FIFTY-PLUS YEARS OLD? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1957 (1955)* Publisher: Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title & border to red spine label. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Black and yellow paper dust wrapper. Black title to spine and white text to face, showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to edges and to edges. Spine slightly aged. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, owners name to front paste down. Top edge coloured but a little dusty, small amount of foxing to end-papers & fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 211 pp. text. index at rear.* Description: The Quiet American was written during and after four weeks spent in Indo-China when Greene was a war correspondent for the Sunday Times and Le Figaro. Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle,… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976* Publisher: University of North Carolina Press.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. Some tape marks, VG+* Jacket condition: Black, blue and grey illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges (lower edge darkened). Now in clear protective jacket. VG+* Contents condition: Ex-Library with usual neat stamps and labels. Coloured and illustrated end papers. (Black on blue-grey.) Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings and diagrams within text.* Pages: 134 pp. text. xxvi pp. Revolutionary calendar, notes, bibliography, epilogue, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The author, Hunter James, mined Moravian archives and recounts details of life during the… Read More