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Hobbies Meet Work - Work Meets Hobbies As a rule I prefer to try and keep work and home life separate but as they say 'life is not that simple!' When I first started working for Stella Books, some 15 years ago (seems like yesterday), I was employed to process the orders in the fast developing internet side of the business. Well, after a couple of years I developed a fondness for Biggles books when I was looking for something to read one afternoon. As is my way when I like an author, I wanted to read all of the books written by W.E. Johns, and so I started to buy the odd cheap reading copy and this somehow spiraled into a full-blown collecting habit... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| Rupert The Knight And The Lady - Rupert Little Bear Library No. 8 by Tourtel, Mary | The Municipal Parks, Gardens, And Open Spaces Of London: Their History And Associations by Sexby, J.J. | Neolithic Dew-Ponds And Cattle-Ways by Hubbard, Arthur John & Hubbard, George | A Synopsis Of The British Mosses by Hobkirk, Chas P. |
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| Price: £60.00 | Price: £48.00 | Price: £12.00 | Price: £14.00 |
| More Rupert Little Bear Library | More London books | More Neolithic books | More Botany books |
The Tailor of Gloucester
By Beatrix Potter The second of the twenty-three Peter Rabbit tales, The Tailor of Gloucester, was Beatrix Potter’s personal favourite. In a presentation copy of Warne’s edition Beatrix wrote ‘This is my own favourite amongst my little books’. Along with many of the other Tales, The Tailor originally started life as a picture letter to a child. The child in question was Winifreda Moore (often called Freda or Frida), second daughter of Annie Moore, Beatrix’s former companion and dear friend. It was while visiting a cousin who lived in Stroud in Gloucestershire that Beatrix first heard the strange story of the Tailor of Gloucester... |
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Selection from our Special Book Room
| 1st. 1965. Priceless champion bulls start disappearing from English farms and as Biggles says "This racket isn't being run by one or two country yokels". The crooks are highly organised and dangerous! Price: £185 |
Published by I.T. Hinton in 1831. Three-quarters leather binding with gilt title to spine and marbled paper boards. Engraved title page plus 30 engraved plates. Engraving by J.C. Allen. Price: £240.00 |
A comprehensive and authoritative account of the origins and development of stamp perforation in early Victorian Britain. Includes an Illustrated Guide to Perforation Varieties. Price: £100.00 |
Published in1810. Illustrative of the science of botany... but more particularly intended to illustrate botanical extracts; or the philosophy of botany. Contains 44 engraved plates; mostly showing specimens viewed under the microscope. Modern binding. Price: £700.00 |
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