April 2020 Newsletter
Welcome to the April 2020 newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed of new information, articles and books available on our website.
Most importantly, we hope you and your families are safe and well. What a crazy month it's been. We ended last month battling flood water - and have spent April battling the Corona virus. Thankfully we remain virus free - and are managing to function reasonably well - albeit with a reduced staff.
After the flood in mid-March, we had closed the shop to the public whilst we dried things out. So we simply have not re-opened in compliance with the current lock-down. We have some staff working from home carrying out IT and admin tasks - it's actually given us an opportunity to do some data clean up tasks that we've been putting off for years! Anyhow, we've been able to keep the internet side of the business running well. The orders have kept coming in for which we are very grateful. The main issues we've had are with postal collections. These stopped last week so we've been having to take all parcels to the local sorting office. This is no big problem - but does mean that parcels are delayed by one day as the sorting office is only open for a few hours each morning.
We'll keep posting any updates on the home page of our website. Due to our reduced staff, we'd appreciate if any enquiries could be sent via email - answering the phone can be a little challenging at the moment.
We hope this newsletter gives you a little escape from the current situation. Sonia has written an interesting article about the ever-popular Lord of the Rings - in particular the rare deluxe edition, and Chris has written a steamy article all about... uh... steam! Enjoy!
Steam contributed by Chris
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What springs to your mind when you hear the word steam? The kettle boiling, ready for a steaming hot cuppa? A steaming hot bath? Or sauna maybe? Or, like me, do you think of the magnificent steam locomotives that used to be a regular sight on our railways? My earliest memories of steam trains are those of going on holiday to far away climes, well, actually it was to the south coast of England but in those days that was an epic journey by train from where we lived... Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| The Magician's Nephew written by Lewis, C.S. | Battles Of The Crusades 1097-1444 From Dorylaeum To Varna written by Devries, Kelly & et al, | Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779 written by Cook, Captain & Williams, Glyndwr | Fifty Years Of Racing At Chepstow written by Lucas, Pat |
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| Price: £94.00 | Price: £20.00 | Price: £20.00 | Price: £12.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS FANTASY | Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY GENERAL HISTORY (MEDIEVAL) CRUSADES MILITARY RELIGION | Categorised in FOLIO SOCIETY TRAVEL EXPLORATION HISTORY HISTORY GENERAL BIOGRAPHY | Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) MONMOUTHSHIRE WALES HORSE RACING |
| The Golden Goose Book Illustrated by Brooke, L. Leslie. | World War II Data Book: Hitler's Secret Weapons 1933-1945 written by Porter, David | Vikings At War written by Hjardar, Kim & Vike, Vegard | Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Illustrated by Robinson, Charles. |
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| Price: £30.00 | Price: £30.00 | Price: £40.00 | Price: £38.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS FAIRY TALES | Categorised in MILITARY WORLD WAR II ROCKETS NAZIS | Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY GENERAL VIKINGS MILITARY | Categorised in CHILDRENS RHYME |
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Deluxe Edition contributed by Sonia
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How many of you have read The Lord of the Rings from beginning to end? No, watching the films does not count! I have to admit that it took me three attempts to get through it. I finally managed to read the entire three books in my mid-teens. When I had accomplished this no small feat, I found that I did enjoy it. My favourite characters are Gollum and Shelob. Why? I couldn’t say… I think I like Gollum’s childlike simplicity although I might be biased with images of Gollum in the films turning his back and muttering ‘My precious’. Shelob is a huge spider guarding the pass into Mordor. Being a tarantula keeper, I guess it just fell into place. Read more... |
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A Selection from The Special Book Room
| Patch And A Pawn written by Oxenham, Elsie J. | The Grey Lady written by Merriman, Henry Seton Illstrated by Rackham, Arthur | Motocourse 1976-77 | Tarzan Of The Apes written by Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
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| 1st 1940 Orange cloth, black titles. B/w frontis. 250 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some splash marks to covers. Foxing and some fingering to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss to spine and top edge of rear panel, grubby... Price: £185.00 | 1st thus 1897 Grey cloth, gilt titles. 12 b/w plates. 342 pages plus 2 page booklist to rear. Grey endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers grubby and marked, particularly to rear. Front joint slightly cracked. Some hinges... Price: £240.00 | 1st 1976 Large format. Maroon cloth boards with gilt title to spine. B/W and colour photos. 200 pages. Small fade mark to top of spine. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few closed tears and chips; small amount of loss to top of spine. Price: £370.00 | 2012 Large format. Deluxe Signed, Limited edition to 800 copies. Exquisite green leather binding with raised bands to spine. Red and gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Frontis is a tipped-in colour plate - folded in half... Price: £300.00 |
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