June 2020 Newsletter
Welcome to the June 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.
This month there are signs of things returning to a new normality! The first book auctions have restarted, albeit with strict social distancing and online bidding. This has allowed us to start obtaining some new stock in larger quantities. Most of our staff are now back in work, although a little spread out through the building to keep everyone safe.
Just before lock-down we had some flood damage to a couple of rooms downstairs. Once lock-down started we struggled to get quotes for the needed repair work, but this is now slowly changing, and we hope to get the repair work started very soon. At the time of writing this, shops in Wales (selling non-essential items) are still not allowed to re-open to the public. Unfortunately, as Wales slowly comes out of lock-down and shops start re-opening to the public we will not be ready to. We will of course let you know as soon as we are able to do so! In the meantime, please continue to place your orders via the website or telephone. Thank you for your patience.
Lastly, we have launched our new website! Don't worry - it looks exactly the same as the last one! We have needed to update the underlying code and framework the website runs on for some time now; in fact, we started the upgrade project well over a year ago. The new site finally went live last Tuesday (9th June). We had a couple of minor bugs after launch, but the launch otherwise went very smoothly. Please do let us know if you spot any issues. As well as meaning the website now runs the latest stable and secure code, we are now in a position to build some new features we've had in mind for a while. Watch this space...
Dogs contributed by Steve
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So I thought this month I’d raise a controversial subject: are you a ‘dog person’ or a ‘cat person’? The nation seems fairly evenly split – so maybe it’s time to wade into this debate from a Stella Books perspective. Whilst we do have some cat lovers here, I think it’s safe to say that the dog lovers are in the majority! Before the current pandemic, we would regularly have 4 dogs in the office. So, I thought I’d write a little piece about my love of dogs, a short bio on each of our 4 office dogs, and finally try and find a tenuous link to books! Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| Rallycourse 1996-97 written by Williams, David | Sail Away Shrew written by Soper, Eileen | Shadows In The Desert: Ancient Persia At War written by Farrokh, Kaveh | Adam Bede written by Eliot, George |
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| Price: £35.00 | Price: £58.00 | Price: £24.00 | Price: £20.00 |
| Categorised in TRANSPORT CARS RALLYING MOTOR SPORT | Categorised in CHILDRENS ANIMAL STORY | Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY (FOREIGN) PERSIA MILITARY | Categorised in LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED |
| What To Look For In Summer written by Watson, E.L. Grant | Charlotte Bronte And Her 'dearest Nell' written by Whitehead, Barbara | Monsoon Traders: The Maritime World Of The East India Company written by Bowen, H.V. & McAleer, John & Blyth, Robert J. | The WD Austerity 2-8-0 The BR Record written by Hooper, John |
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| Price: £22.00 | Price: £48.00 | Price: £30.00 | Price: £40.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS LADYBIRD LADYBIRD 536 NATURE NATURE (CHILDRENS) | Categorised in BIOGRAPHY | Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY (FOREIGN) INDIA MARITIME | Categorised in TRANSPORT RAILWAYS LOCOMOTIVES |
Edward Hopper contributed by Theresa
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This book was produced to coincide with the exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2004. I was lucky enough to go to the Tate Modern to see this exhibition and it was stunning! The book follows the life and works of Edward Hopper and would be ideal for an Edward Hopper fan. So let me tell you a little about him. Edward Hopper was born in 1882 in Nyack, New York. He showed a talent for drawing from an early age, even then playing with light and shadow, a theme he continued throughout his work. He first studied art via a correspondence course but later transferred to the New York School of Art and Design where he studied under the inspirational teacher Robert Henri. Hopper once said of Robert Henri “Few teachers of art have got as much out of their pupils, or given them as great an initial impetus”. Robert Henri was founder of the Ashcan School of Art which was concerned with representing ordinary everyday subjects, people at work and urban scenes. Read more... |
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A Selection from The Special Book Room
| Porsche 911 The Definitive History 1971 To 1977 written by Long, Brian | Bill Badger's Finest Hour written by BB, | Little Wars written by Wells, H.G. | Napoleonic Army Handbook: The French Army And Her Allies written by Partridge, Richard & Oliver, Michael |
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| 1st 2004 Volume 2 in the series. Large format. Dark grey boards, silver title to spine. Colour and b/w photos throughout. Minimal bumping to spine. A couple of tiny marks to front endpapers else contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed/creased. Price: £150.00 | 1st 1961 A Reindeer Book. Brown and green pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 138 Pages. Spine and corners bumped, cover edges rubbed. Contents clean. Book leans to one side. Dustwrapper is worn at spine and corners with slight loss. Price: £180.00 | 1st 1913 H.G. Wells brought his considerable imagination to bear on the formulation of simple but effective rules to rationalise the small boy's pastime of shooting down toy soldiers with toy cannon. A foundation stone of the present hobby of playing wargames... Price: £180.00 | 1st 2002 A comprehensive regiment by regiment guide to the armies who fought with Napoleon including uniform design, organisation and tactics. Top corners bumped else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased where bumping to corners... Price: £110.00 |
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The Stella & Rose's Books Team
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