December 2020 Newsletter

Welcome to the December 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.

As always, we hope you and your families are keeping well and staying safe despite the ongoing pandemic. December is always a busy month for us as we deal with the inevitable - and much appreciated - Christmas rush. Although last postage dates are somewhat uncertain at the moment, there should still be time to order books and have them arrive in time for the big day. Please see our home page for a full list of approximate last posting dates.

Sonia has written our article this month, looking back on what has been a crazy year for Stella Books. It started with floods, was followed by the ongoing saga of COVID-19, and not to forget our ongoing attempts to repair the damage from the floods!

We recently purchased an exceptionally rare book by Rev. W. Awdry - a first edition of his first book: The Three Railway Engines. It seemed like an obvious choice for our featured book this month. Even if it's out of your price range, we hope you find the article and photos interesting. Enjoy!

That Was 2020 That Was… contributed by Sonia

Wow! What a year! So many things have happened… well, two main things but it seems like a lot! The evening of March 11th 2020 saw extremely high Spring Tides in Tintern resulting in the River Wye, which flows opposite our shop, deciding it was going to overflow its banks and the road, and come into the building and browse our shelves! Prior to this, we did have a flood alert from the Environmental Agency and we had prepared ourselves. The flood boards were in place and books were moved from floor level to shelves to higher up. This we thought would be enough and, anyway, the river was highly unlikely to enter the building - wasn’t it? Read more...

A Sample of New Stock

The Story Of Monmouthshire Volume One written by Clark, Arthur	Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince written by Rowling, J.K.	British Military Uniforms 1768-1796 written by Strachan, Hew	Kingdom written by Young, Robyn
Price: £14.00	Price: £14.00	Price: £40.00	Price: £12.00
Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) WALES MONMOUTHSHIRE HISTORY	Categorised in CHILDRENS FANTASY	Categorised in MILITARY UNIFORMS ARMY HISTORY	Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY (BRITISH) LITERATURE SCOTLAND

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe written by Adams, Douglas & Roberts, Adam	Struwwelpeter written by Hoffmann, Heinrich	Masting And Rigging The Clipper Ship & Ocean Carrier written by Underhill, Harold A.	The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Rise And Fall Of Pontypool Rfc written by Bishop, Nick & Carter, Alun
Price: £30.00	Price: £38.00	Price: £34.00	Price: £12.00
Categorised in FOLIO SOCIETY LITERATURE SCIENCE FICTION	Categorised in CHILDRENS	Categorised in MARITIME SAILING HISTORY TALL SHIPS	Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) WALES MONMOUTHSHIRE SPORT RUGBY

The Three Railway Engines by Rev. W. Awdry contributed by Maria

The Three Railway Engines by Rev. W. Awdry This is the very first title in the popular Railway Series and was originally published in 1945. There are 42 titles in the series, 26 of which were written by Rev. W. Awdry and a further 16 which were written by his son, Christopher. Nearly all the stories within The Railway Series books were based on real-life events. Rev. Awdry was a lifelong railway enthusiast and he was keen that his stories should be as realistic as possible. The engine characters were generally based on real classes of locomotives and some of the railways were based upon real railway lines within the British Isles. Read more...

A Selection from The Special Book Room

More Pleasant Surprises written by Weatherly, F.E.	Motocourse 1978-79 No author listed.	The Vintage Motorcyclists' Workshop written by Radco, & Farrington, Frank	A History Of British Mollusca, And Their Shells (4 Volumes) written by Forbes, Edward & Hanley, Sylvanus
1st 1893 Large format. 13 x 10 inches. Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. 8 chromolitho moveable pictures. Pull the tab and the picture changes. B/w illustrations. Text in verse. Spine bumped and some light rubbing to cover edges. A few light spots to... Price: £220.00	1978 The Motorcycle Road Racing Annual. Large format. Colour photos throughout. Foreword by Kenny Roberts. Text block lightly browned. Top of spine shelf worn. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased & browned across horizontal edges. Price: £280.00	1st 1986 Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and digrams. 'Radco' (Frank Farrington) was an enthusiast and talented restorer. A few small knocks along cover edges. Fading to a couple of cover edges. Two relevant newspaper clippings have been taped... Price: £100.00	1st 1853 Leather spines and corners. Maroon title blocks to spines, gilt titles. Marbled outer page edges and endpapers. 203 hand-coloured plates. Bookplates of 'The Wheelton hind Collection 1920' to front pastedown of each book. Rear join at rear of Volume 1... Price: £1400.00

This Month's Special Offer

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