Search Results: Titles starting with U from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. * Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Cassell Military Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps, slight rubs to edges and corners. Slight creases to spine, hinge & top front corner. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Cassell Plc stamp to fep. Clean, crisp & tight. No Annotations or Inscriptions. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG+* Illustrations: 2x16 pp. B/w photos & b/w line drawings + maps by Paul Millar.* Pages: 151 pp. text. x pp. Appendices, bibliography, Acknowledgements & Index at rear.* Product Description:- The story of an anti-submarine commander's cold and dangerous war hunting down German U-boats in a battered old destroyer. Vivid accounts of life and death at sea in a war that had to be won.* This is a VG copy with some shelf wear & light tanning to page edges.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Cassell Miltary Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card covers, No shelf wear to edges or corners, FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: 32pp. B/w photos.* Pages: 151 pp. text. ix pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Acknowledgesments & Index.* Product Description :-. Whinney served as A/S officer in Duncan, then moved to Cossack - the leader of Vian's flotilla - in which he saw action in the Bismarck operation. After a spell ashore in West Africa, he took over the V & W destroyer Wanderer, and joined Escort Group B1 in the Atlantic and Arctic, and finally served as a D-Day convoy escort. Whinney was one of the highest scoring submarine hunters of WW2. A FINE copy in AS NEW condition.

SOFTBACK ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Not known.* Date of Publication: Not known.* Publisher: UDV Operations Italy * Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers with French flaps showing a ?Facon de Venise? goblet and cover dated 1580. No bumps or rubs. Very slight 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. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning or colouration to page edges. FINE* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photographic illustrations to every page throughout with descriptions and introduction in English.* Pages: 64 pp. text. no index at rear.* Product Description:- The UDV Glass Collection was created by Cinzano in 1970 and is a private collection curated by the United Distillers and Vintners and consists of glasses, goblets and stemware made exclusively from glass. They were sourced from all over… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Huglets.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo illustrated soft paper covers, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no creases to spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 228 pp. Advertisements features and directories at rear.* Product Description:- The Huggies Teddy Bear Guide celebrating a hundred years of the teddy, the essential source for all Teddy Bear Lovers, giving 1001 sources for teddy bears and related collectables. This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st.edition with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Huglets.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo illustrated soft paper covers, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no creases to spine, slight crease to lower front corner. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 257 pp. Advertisements features and directories at rear.* Product Description:- The Huggies Teddy Bear Millenium edition, the essential source for all Teddy Bear Lovers.giving 1001 soures for teddy bears and related collectables. This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st.edition with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Huglets.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo illustrated soft paper covers, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & lower rear corner, slight ripples to spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 223 pp. Advertisements features and directories at rear.* Product Description:- The Huggies Teddy Bear Guide No 18, the essential source for all Teddy Bear Lovers, giving 1001 sources for teddy bears and related collectables. This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st.edition with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 2nd.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Bradt Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & 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. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: Colour photos and b/w line drawings & maps throughout.* Pages: 343 pp. text. xi pp. Appendices, advertisements & index at rear.* Product Description:- Rail travel in the USA is the ultimate in luxury: comfortable, fast and quiet, with glass-domed trains to lure the traveller attracted by the grandeur of the Rockies and the sheer vastness of the great plains. In addition to Amtrak there are still privately financed steam trains for the enthusiast to travel. USA by rail describes in detail 27 long-distance rail journeys in the United States, with… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint. Everyman 482.* Date of Publication: 1963 (1910)* Publisher: Dent. Everyman.* Jacket: Red, black and white standard ?Everyman?s Library? livery. In clear protective library jacket. Absolutely minimal shelf wear.*Binding and cover condition: Crimson cloth covered boards gilt title to spine. Minimal shelf wear to corners & to head of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Coloured and patterned end papers. No annotations, neat owners names to prelims, no other visible faults. No tanning. Top edge slightly coloured. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 393 pp. text. ix pp. Index at rear one explanatory advertising page.* Product Description:- This volume brings together three treatises epitomizing Mill?s characteristic philosophy, stated succinctly as that of the doctrine of ?the greatest good of the greatest number.?* Here is a NEAR VG++ copy with minimal shelf & reading wear reducing it to VG.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Arrow.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers with illustration to front. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Un-read. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. Un-used. AS NEW* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 506 pp. text.* Product Description:- This book features three people, three stories, and a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war. Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man. His daughter, Sarah Scott is a beautiful young scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now, she has vanished. Her lover, Jed Bradley is one of the SAS's toughest young agents, dropped behind enemy lines in the build up to the Iraq War to find the truth about Saddam… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Paragon.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card coloured photo-cover. No bumps, slight rubs to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no marks. Very slight shelf wear to edges. VG++* Illustrations: Colour photos and layouts throughout. * Pages: 254 pp. text. ii pp. Index at rear.* Product Description:- An encyclopaedia of techniques and inspirational ideas with over 150 projects suitable for beginners and accomplished cross stitchers. Easy-to-follow charts, clear step-by-step instructions and over 250 commissioned photographs. Hints and advice on starting and finishing, using and creating charts, and which tools and materials you will need.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with slight shelf wear reducing it to VG+*

SOFTBACK. Bloomsbury, 1st. Thus 2006. 259 pp. Very Good + copy. Clean, bright and tight, in decorative soft card covers. Contents clean and bright; Signs of handling at edges but no hinge or spine creases, A very nice copy near Fine. Exuberant comic fantasy ?.The plots entangle with spontaneous combustion, poisoned ice-creams, the cloning of Jesus, buried skulls, sexy nuns, false names and lots of gunfire. The Sunday Times.

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a wrought iron gate in front of a heritage building, in clear slip-on library jacket. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: Ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 278 pp. text.* Product Description:- Tommy Porter, came into this world whilst the Second World War was in full flow. His home was the heavily bombed docks area of Liverpool called Bootle. Poverty was rife and times were hard for Tommy and his family; but life was good and his was full of love and fun. Until, that is, tragedy struck the family. This is the true story of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: The Canned Food Advisory Service.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Seems lightly used. Slight marks to back cover. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. VG+* Illustrations: colour illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 39 pp. text. i pp. index at rear.* Product Description:- An uncommon 198O?s Pamphlet which encourages the housewife to use tinned goods as part of their normal cooking routine. A variety of recipes and techniques are described and well illustrated in this booklet.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition with minimal shelf & reading wear.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Sceptre.* Binding and cover condition: Photo-illustrated stiff card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Very slight dish to spine. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning. A few slight marks to rear end papers. Very slight ageing to page edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 260 pp. text.* Product Description:- A Danish journalist is led to Los Angeles in search of the murderer of his girlfriend. Here, he encounters a terrifying world of computer-enhanced imagery, pornography, and industrial theft. A riveting, thought-provoking and darkly erotic thriller that presents a chilling vision of a future that has already begun. A debut novel.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear.*

HARDBACK ?INCLUDING ALISON UTTLEY SHORT STORY? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1948* Publisher: Purnell & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Bright yellow boards with family scene showing a father in his armchair and a group of children with toys to front and rear boards, red cloth spine strip untitled. Slight bumps & fairly heavy rubs to corners and lower edges. No marks. GOOD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Front and rear end papers illustrated, fep corner clipped & neat owners name at top edge. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very minor reading wear, no marks to text. Paper (low quality) aged but not tanned. VG+* Illustrations: Monochrome colour backed b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 157 pp. text. no appendices or index at rear.* Description: This was Uncle Mac's own selection of his favourite stories which were broadcast on Children's Hour, with some true stories by famous people who… Read More

Pickering and Inglis. Hardcover. VG++/VG+/ND. Box X14 HARDBACK ""FROM THE EXELSIOR LIBRARY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date: Pre 1931. (1852).* Pub: Pickering and Inglis.* Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth covered boards showing a picture of two men with two mountain peaks behind them. Dark blue titles to face & decoration with title to spine. Very slight bumps, no rubs. Very slight marks to tail of lightly faded 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. School prize plate to ffep dated 1931. no tanning or other visible faults. Some age toning to all edges. VG++* Illustrations: One full page colour illustration at frontis and a couple of full page b/w illustrations in text.* Pages: 149 pp. text. vi pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a powerfully moving story that follows the lives of African-American… Read More

HARDBACK, ?LIBRARY EDITION, VOL. XXVII,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Rep.* Date of Publication: Not dated.* Publisher: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: The boards were bound by Gale & Polden of Chatham for the 5th. Irish Lancers. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine & impressed military gilt logo to face. Considerable bumps & rubs, some shelf wear to upper & lower edges and heavy damage to head of spine. Some marks to boards. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: Officer?s Mess copy for the 5th Royal Irish Lancers with a bookplate to front paste-down & dedication to the officer?s mess. Coloured end papers (pale yellow). All edges somewhat aged. Sewn binding badly shaken but no pages missing. Contents clean and crisp, with some reading wear. A few light marks. ACC* Illustrations: Eight full page b/w line drawn illustrations.* Pages: 362 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The Un-commercial Traveller consists of a collection of literary… Read More

SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Five Islands Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated, soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Single light crease to top rear corner. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat authors? signature to title page. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 72 pp. text.* Product Description:- Brook Emery?s poems are characteristically sophisticated meditations on the transformation of knowledge into wisdom. There is a strong narrative quality about many of the poems, and a philosophical temper embedded in a sense of the reality of the world? his poems have a polished elegance that combines love of nature and wonder at the artistic impulse that keeps us… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full Number Line.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Constable & Robinson Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing portrait of Robert Dudley against background of Warwick Castle. Red title to spine and face. 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. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: One block of 8pp. b/w photos.* Pages: 373 pp. text. xlii pp. references, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troubled centre of court and council. During those years the Dudleys were never far from controversy. Three of them were executed for treason. They were universally condemned as… Read More

HARDBACK "FIRST NEW NOVEL FOR SIX YEARS,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK.* Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal spine lean. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour racing scene illustration to dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £18.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to back cover. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright. Very lightly used, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 348 pp. text. v pp. blank at rear.* Description: Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.' It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day,… Read More