This Month - Edmund Dulac - contributed by Maria

Edmund Dulac was born in Toulouse, France, on 22nd October 1882. His early life was influenced by his father, who was a commercial traveller in textiles and dealt with paintings on the side, and his uncle who sold Japanese prints. At a very early age Dulac began painting himself, with the oriental theme of his uncle's Japanese prints creeping in, forming his own much loved style.

As a young man Dulac decided that he would venture to London and concentrate on magazine illustration; he settled in London permanently in the autumn of 1904.Read More

Featured Book - The Magic Finger - contributed by Joanne

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl is one of the author's shorter works (approximately 60 pages long depending on the edition) so the book can be thoroughly enjoyed in a relatively short time.

This story is told by an eight year old girl, who remains nameless throughout. She tells us of the Gregg family and the 'very funny' things that happened to them the week before. We learn that 'the one thing that Mr. Gregg and his two boys loved to do more than anything else was to go ..... Read More

A Sample of New Stock

Sleeping Beauty by Vojtech Kubasta

Introduction to Inn Signs by Eric R. Delderfield

The Royal Gwent and St. Woolos Hospitals by Brian Peeling

Price: £64

More Pop-up books

Price: £12

Other books on Inns

Price: £25

Other Medical Books

Price: £35

Other Sport Books

Selection from our Special Book Room

A Picturesque Description Of North Wales Embellished With Twenty Select Views From Nature

Strigulensia: Archaeological Memoirs Relating To The District Adjacent To The Confluence Of The Severn And The Wye. By George Ormerod

Bailliere's Atlas Of The Dog Its Anatomy And Physiology by
Frederick Hobday, & F. Harold Stainton,. Illustrated by Dupuy, Georges M

News in Brief

Amongst the books catalogued this month, we have a selection of books about Books, Inns, Mabel Lucie Attwell and Percy Westerman

This's months image is of Chepstow bridge and Castle, located 5 miles from Stella Books in Tintern.

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