Search Results: Titles starting with W from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Bloomsbury ~ Wisden.* Binding and cover condition: Black line drawn illustration of a cartoon of W.G.Grace against a yellow background. Soft card covers with black titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Spine very slightly sunned. 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: Numerous b/w line drawn illustrations throughout.* Pages: 150 pp. text.* Product Description:- A spoof 1896 periodical from The Wisden Cricketer archives that looks at cricketing events of 2010 through the Victorian lens. Funny irreverent and lavishly illustrated, W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo draws inspiration from the exuberant sporting papers of the Victorian era to lampoon England… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: The Society For Theatre Research.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated boards with sepia illustration on light pink background, dark sepia titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. Probably as issued. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems little used if at all, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 203 pp. text. xvi pp. notes, bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Description: Jane Stedman has brought together a collection of W.S. Gilbert?s theatrical criticism first published in the pages of ?Fun? between 1862 and 1871. Often writen in spoof-dramatic form these reviews provide an entertaining chronicle of the Mid-Victorian stage from the engaging pen of… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1953* Publisher: Cambridge Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some slight marks to boards. VG++* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper, maroon weather chart on grey. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 30/-. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Some small nicks and tears. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight offsetting to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w line drawn charts throughout. Some with monochrome highlights.* Pages: 192 pp. text. vi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book is a commentary by a young professional meteorologist on the weather that he observed in England as a boy, in 1936, when he had no more facilities than are available to every reader.… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Merehurst.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated colour photo-illustrated cover and white spine strip with black title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper (Probably as issued).* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults, no tanning. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w prints maps and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text. x pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: David Hewson makes a selection of sights, hostelries and engagingly retold historical incidents that together make up his recommendation of how to spend time off in the region. To do this he divides Wessex into six areas of interest so that the reader can choose where to organise a ?short break? of a few days or to undertake a more lengthy investigation of a… Read More

HARDBACK "ILLUSTRATOR SIGNED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Merehurst Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated colour photo-illustrated cover and off-white (possibly faded) spine strip with black title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper (Probably as issued).* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Signed & dedicated by illustrator to title page. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults, absolutely minimal paper colouration to page margins. Top edge spotted and aged. VG++.* Illustrations: B/w prints maps and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text. ix pp. local information, appendices & index at rear.* Description: David Hewson makes a selection of sights, hostelries and engagingly retold historical incidents that together make up his recommendation of how to spend time off in the region. To do this… Read More

HARDBACK "FINE AS NEW," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Thus. Rep/Revised.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2008 (2005)* Publisher: Reader?s Digest.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated photo-illustrated boards, black and white title to spine and white to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, as issued. 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: Mostly colour & a few b/w photos, throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. viii pp. Glossary, contact details, index & credits at rear.* Description: Britain has more historic houses, great and small, that are open to the public than anywhere else in the world. Stately homes, ruined castles and abbeys, merchants? mansions, peasant cottages ? the stories of such buildings and their occupants, past and present, add up to an extraordinary record of our history. Author Simon Jenkins is a leading… Read More

HARDBACK ?UNCOMMON IN THIS EDITION, ISBN:- 0-7472-0108-0? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Headline Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. Light bump to top front corner, no rubs, edges very lightly sunned. VG.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Part of front cover badly sunned. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to margins of rear end-paper, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 133 pp. text. xii pp. glossary, appendices & index at rear.* Description: ?Whales? is a new environmental study, fully documenting over 80 different species of the world's largest mammal and highlighting… Read More

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 1949 (1938)* Publisher: B..Batsford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, spine & title faded. Minor bumps to lower corners. Considerable wear to lower edges and to head and tail of spine. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very little reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to end-papers & to top & fore-edges, otherwise no major faults. VG.* Illustrations: Two colour plates & 100 b/w photos illustrations throughout.* Pages: 116 pp. text. vi pp., index & advertisements at rear.* Description: One in the British Nature Library series from Batsford. Chapters are Acknowledgement and Introduction followed by ~ Garden Birds, Birds of Woodland and Hedgerow, Birds of the Field or Common, Birds of the Moors, Glens and Lesser Hills, Birds of the Lake, Loch, River and Marsh, Birds of the Sea-coast and Islands, Mountain Birds, Wild… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: Undated.* Publisher: Birn Brothers Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour glossy paper covered boards showing cowboy on horseback fighting off indians, red title to spine, red and yellow to face. Tail of spine lightly bumped minor rubs to all edges, lower rear corner severely nibbled and worn. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Red, black and white line drawn illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, a few very light marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: One full colour plate to frontis, black and white line drawings throughout some with red highlights.* Pages: 93 pp. text.* Description: The book contains several stories, informative non-fiction articles a couple of strip stories and a puzzle. Arthur Groom is credited with the authorship. There is obviously a serious western… Read More

HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1952* Publisher: The Falcon Press.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon rexine cloth with gilt title to spine and bands to head and tail, (possibly a rebind, no publisher indicated to spine. End papers brighter than the text block.) No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with very light reading wear. Dated birthday gift inscription to ffep, no annotations to text, slight fox marks to all edges and to page margins. VG* Illustrations: B/w photo reproduction of a painting by the author and ten line drawn maps within text.* Pages: 256 pp. text. vii pp. index at rear.* Description: This is the story of a small unit of 1st Parachute Brigade during 2 years of action in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and finally Arnhem. Written by a young Troop Leader who served in all the most important actions… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: New English Library. (Severn Valley Press).* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a picture of Winston. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear, some slight reading creases to spine, none to hinge. A few very small chips. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Very small inscription to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous colour and b/w photos & some press facsimiles within text throughout.* Pages: 160 pp. including advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Winston's life and career, born 1874 and first elected to parliament in 1900. He was a less than successful First Lord of The Admiralty in the first world war but survived his failures to lead his party to Victory in the second. This collection of articles and memoirs takes one through his… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, metallic bronzed title to spine. No bumps or rubs. FINE* Jacket condition: Coloured illustrative cover NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. 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: None.* Pages: 292 pp. text. xvii pp. Advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves ~ even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question of this story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well ~ or hardly at all. Athena, the "Witch of Portobello Road," was abandoned by her gypsy mother, raised by adoptive parents in Beirut, and ended up living all over the globe, finally in London where… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1960)* Publisher: Penguin* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers illustrated with film tie-in photograph. Considerable rubs & wear to edges & creases to corners. Some ageing & with light creases to spine and hinge. Considerable dish to spine. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & tight. No annotations. inscriptions or marks to text. Slight colouration to page edges, margins & end papers. GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 541 pp. text. iii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- This magnificent novel, which Lawrence himself considered his best, is the story of the lives and emotional conflicts of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula, who also appeared in The Rainbow. They live in a Midlands colliery town and the story covers their relationships and convictions about love and modern society. Made into a seminal film by United Artists directed by Ken Russell.* This is a GD copy with… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1999 * Publisher: Stirling Publishing. Co. UK. * Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers with green and white titles to face on a purple ground and white title to blue spine strip. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little-used. In clear slip-on protective jacket. VG++. * Contents condition: Ex school-library with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Very slightly grubby to top page edges. VG+ * Illustrations: A number of b/w vignettes within text. throughout.* Pages: 188 pp. text. iv pp. notes & index at rear.* Product Description:- Which words are hardest to rhyme? What word is longer than any other? Do you know what a tautonym is, or a "head 'n' tail" ? Language can provide hours of entertainment. These 'games' will challenge your mind ? and… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint.* Impression:1st. thus.* Date of Publication: 1980 (1977) * Publisher: W.H.Smith for the Hamlyn Publishing Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minimal shelf wear, no bumps or rubs, VG++.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £4.95, colour photo-illustrated jacket showing several different clocks and watches to front and a number of watches to rear, absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Spine slightly faded. VG+.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour photo-illustrated end-papers showing a clock repairers workshop. Clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, top edge age darkened. Minimal age to page margins. No other visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous colour and black & white photographs throughout.* Pages: 253 pp. text. iv pp. Bibliography, index and blank pages at rear.* Product description:- For the… Read More

SOFTBACK "2007 Edition," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 4th. Thus. Revised and updated.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: The Charlton Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a dancer with a fan (Daisette). No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE/AS NEW* 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/AS NEW* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photographs throughout.* Pages: 436 pp. text. xiv pp. index and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- A reference for all wade collectables. Suitable as reference for collectors and dealers of pieces produced by George Wade, Wadeheath and Irish Wade potteries. This volume contains a cross-section of the most collectable items among the figurines, general issues, decorative ware, liquor containers, and more. The book shows the various marks and… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997.* Publisher: Brown Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo laminated cover, White title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £24.99, colour photographic cover to match boards, some very minor shelf wear and one 10mm tear at head of spine (repaired). FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations. No visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w Photos and Colour illustrations throughout.* Pages: 175 pp. text. i pp. Index at rear.* Description:- Waffen-SS: Hitler's Black Guard at War features all the Waffen-SS's battles and campaigns, such as the Demyansk Pocket, the retaking of Khakov and the Battle of Kursk. The story of one of the most brutal, fanatical and feared military organisations in history.* A NEARLY NEW copy of the True First Edition -… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 6th with number line.* Date of Publication: 2013 * Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated stiff card covers with blue highlights and showing a Vienna street scene, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges, some minor creases to lightly dished spine but none to hinge. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight age darkening to page edges. VG++ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 429pp. text. ix pp. Advertisements, & blank pages at rear. * Product Description:- Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's pre-eminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimat nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated soft card covers. B/w line drawing with orange, green and brown patterned frame. 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 but lightly tanned particularly to page edges and margins. This is a study copy with a number of annotations & inscriptions to 1/3 of the text mostly to Act I, (may be of interest to student). GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 93 pp. text.* Product Description:- Nothing happens, nobody comes,nobody goes, it is terrible was Jean Anouilly?s judgement after the first performance of Waiting for Godot. But, he went on to conclude, that evening at the Babylone in 1952 was the most important premiere put on in Paris for forty years. Nobody to whom the names of Pozzo, Lucky. Vladimir and Estragon are… Read More

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1958* Publisher: B.T. Batsford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Scarlet cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, a few slight marks, edges dusty. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, and showing no shelf price. Top & bottom edges worn and chipped with some small losses. Aged marked and worn. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end-papers. Neat inscription with dedication to prelims. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks or tanning to text, slight spotting to top and fore-edge. VG+* Illustrations: Coloured photos and black and white line drawn map at frontis.* Pages: 96 pp. text.* Description: Heritage colour book series. Text and notes by W Griffith. This eminent Welshman with his knowledge of Welsh history has distilled the essential Cymric in terms of language and character, full page polychrome… Read More