Welcome to the January 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.
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This Month - Achieving A Dream - contributed by ChrisThis was the headline to an article in a national newspaper which described how our family got started in the business of selling out-of-print books. Back in the days when I worked for a very large multi-national company, travelling abroad frequently and driving my posh company car, if anyone had told me that in twenty years time I would be a bookseller with two shops selling second-hand books - I would never have believed them! But here I am and this is how it happened… Read More |
Featured Book - Worrals Flies Again by W.E. Johns- contributed by AdamFirstly let me introduce you to Flight Officer Joan Worralson, known to her friends as 'Worrals'. She is a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (W.A.A.F.) the female section of the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) established in real life in 1939. From the earlier book Worrals of the W.A.A.F. we learn that Worrals's job is supposed to be ferrying aeroplanes from one airfield to another, mainly for maintenance reasons, and she was not in any circumstances to engage in combat.... Read the full article. |
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A Sample of New Stock
| The Spell of Sicily by Will S. Monroe | Fifty Years of Racing at Chepstow by Pat Lucas |
Springboks In Wales by John Billot | The School at Skelton Hall by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
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| Price: £20
Other books about Italy |
Price: £14
More Horse Racing books |
Price: £14 Other Rugby Books |
Price: £16 More Girls School Stories titles |
Selection from our Special Book Room
| The Book of the Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker | The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton illustrated by Arthur Rackham | A History of English Speaking Peoples by Winston S. Churchill | The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit by Beatrix Potter |
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| Published by Blackie & Son Ltd. Circa. 1951.
Comprising the Fairies of Spring, Summer and Autumn. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette of fairy to front cover. 72 beautiful flower fairy plates. |
Subtitled: The Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fishponds Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers.
12 colour plates plus numerous b/w illustrations. |
4 Volumes.
Volume 1: The Birth of Britain. Volume II: The New World. Volume III: The Age of Revolution. Volume IV: The Great Democracies. |
Frederick Warne & Co. 1st ed. 1906.
This story in its original concertina style format. (Later published in small book format). Colour pictures, green borders to pictures and text. |
Included in the titles that have been added to our stock this month we have books about Buses, Mountaineering, Conjuring and Stage Magic; published by Folio Society; illustrated by Walter Crane & Maurice Sendak and many more besides. NO Tax on Books. Selected posts from our Blog:- Harness' Electropathic Belt To view the latest from the blog, please click here. I look forward to reading your comments. |
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| This month's picture is simple and elegant; plant in frost. |
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