Welcome to the November newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed on a monthly basis of new information, articles and books available on our website. We hope you enjoy it.
This Month - Pop Up and Moveable Books - contributed by SoniaWhile pop-up books and moveable books of today are mostly created with children in mind, before 1700 AD books aimed specifically at children were simply not produced. Those few children who were lucky enough to be able to read had to content themselves with the material found in their parents' library. In the early seventeenth century the development of the printing processes made the production of small, inexpensive books possible. The 'chapbook' thus came into being. Typically these were booklets of eight or twelve pages......Read More |
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Featured Book -The Origin of Humankind - contributed by PeteIt's amazing what you can deduce from a load of fossilised old bones.Richard Leakey has made a career out of it. As a paleo-anthropologist (one who studies ancient humans as found in fossil hominid evidence such as petrifracted bones and footprints) he speculates on many of the social developments that have accompanied Humankind's biological evolution. Where did we come from? Where are we going?....Read More |
A Sample of New Stock
| The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J.R.R. Tolkien | Hardy's Book of Fishing by Patrick Annesley |
Taming The Flood by Jeremy Purseglove | West Country Passenger Steamers by Grahame Farr |
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| Price: £50
More Childrens Books |
Price: £10
Other Angling Books |
Price: £18
More Books about Natural History |
Price: £25
Other Maritime Books |
Selection from our Special Book Room
| Rupert Annual 1938 - The New Rupert Book by Alfred Bestall | The Wren by Edward A. Armstrong | A Tour Through The Isle of Man by David Robertson | Donald & Pluto Movie Book in 10 Reels by Walt Disney |
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| 1938 edition.
Cover: Rupert standing waving at the reader from the branch of a tree, with Algy, Bill Badger, Edward Trunk, etc Price: £210 |
1st edition 1955. Published by Collins.
New Naturalist Monograph Series No. 3. Price: £400 |
E. Hodson. 1st ed. 1794.
Full brown leather binding. Gilt titles and decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers. 8 aquatint plates. 12 unnumbered pages of prelims + 235 pages. Price: £330 |
10 flip books, all contained in one! 2000 pictures. A complete Film of Donald's adventures. A rarer Disney item! Price: £1350 |
| News in Brief Amongst the books catalogued this month, we have a selection of new Ladybird books, Lone Ranger titles, New Naturalist Series, Observer books and Puffin Picture books, to name a few! Hay-on-Wye Winter Food Festival - November 29th 2008 - part of the Hay Winter Weekend! Noddy's Return - Noddy is returning, to celebrate his 60th birthday in style. In a new book, written by Enid Blyton's grand-daughter Sophie Smallwood. Last posting dates for Christmas: |
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| This month's image is of some magnificent autumn colours in the woods of the Wye Valley in Tintern. |
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