November 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the November 2023 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.
Autumn has well and truly arrived resulting in the annual spectacle of autumn colour in the Wye Valley. Our photo this month (thanks to Chris Bryant) captures a little of the magic with a view from Symonds Yat.
The festive season is approaching fast! If you live outside the UK and would like to order in time for Christmas, the last posting date given by our courier is Wednesday 13th December. However, as always, this is not a guarantee but the absolute last date for any hope of arriving in time. Our advice is shop early and choose a tracked method at the checkout!
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Imagine our horror, earlier in the month, as we looked out of the window from our first floor office and espied a man climbing down the river bank towards the water and then laying face down in the mud! Fortunately, it turned out that this was a practice rescue (SARA?) and a couple more incidents occurred in the river during the next couple of days. Phew! Here is a photo of the end of one of the rescue missions. |
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In shop news, we have just purchased a large collection of Biggles, Worrals, Gimlet, and related W.E. Johns books. So if you're a W.E. Johns fanatic, keep an eye on the appropriate website category over the next few weeks as Maria steadily gets them all loaded onto our website.
And speaking of websites... Alison's article this month shows you some of the alternative ways of searching our website. These can allow you to narrow your search quickly to just the books that interest you. It's well worth a read - and will hopefully save you some time! Meanwhile, our featured book this month was written in 1996 - but contains a very up-to-date environmental message. Enjoy!
Alternate Ways To Search For Books On Our Website contributed by Alison
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If you are interested in books on a particular subject, it can be hard to find the books that interest you through general searches on websites. On the Stella and Rose’s Books website we provide a number of features to help with this. In case you haven’t come across these features on our website search before, here is some information to get you started. Categories is a powerful search feature we have on the website. Every book at Stella & Rose’s is assigned one or more categories... Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| Biggles Detective De L'air... Le Vol Du Wallenstein written by Johns, W.E. & Oleffe, Michel | Worrals Flies Again written by Johns, W.E. | The Country Seat: Studies In The History of The British Country House written by Howard, Colvin & Harris, John | London In The Age of Industrialisation: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 written by Schwarz, L.D. |
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| Price: £14.00 | Price: £18.00 | Price: £24.00 | Price: £16.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS BIGGLES COMIC BOOK FOREIGN LANGUAGE FRENCH BOYS | Categorised in CHILDRENS WORRALS GIRLS | Categorised in ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGS HISTORY HISTORY (BRITISH) | Categorised in HISTORY LONDON INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY ECONOMICS |
| Goodnight Mister Tom written by Magorian, Michelle | The Moomins and The Great Flood written by Jansson, Tove | Cranham: The History of A Cotswold Village written by Cranham Local History Society, | Horse Guards written by White-Spunner, Barney |
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| Price: £58.00 | Price: £18.00 | Price: £26.00 | Price: £14.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS | Categorised in CHILDRENS | Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) SOUTH WEST UK COTSWOLDS HISTORY HISTORY (BRITISH) | Categorised in HISTORY REGIMENTAL HISTORY (UK) MILITARY CAVALRY |
The White Goblin contributed by Maria
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Written and illustrated by Ul De Rico and published in 1996, this is the sequel to The Rainbow Goblins which was published in 1978. It is a children’s book (probably for older children unlike its predecessor) and the story is about the White Goblin who was banished by his brothers, the Rainbow Goblins, and lives in a world of snow and ice. After learning of his brothers’ ignominious death, he wonders, “who am I to be thrust out of the beautiful, coloured world” and goes on a very selfish colour-drinking rampage. He greedily catches, licks and sucks every colour... Read more... |
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A Selection from The Special Book Room
| Andersen's Fairy Tales written by Andersen, Hans Christian | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland written by Carroll, Lewis | A Bundle of Rags In A Cyclone: The Irish Water Spaniel written by Waters, Nick | Bo Bartlett: Selected Works written by Ratcliff, Carter & Houston, David |
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| Circa 1924 8 glorious colour plates, 7 full page b/w line drawings. Pale grey cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 159 pages. Large format. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. 2 of the plates have small tape repairs to the margins and 1 plate has a small mark. Foxing to textblock. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Dustwrapper is well worn and grubby, section across rear panel has been torn off and replaced with magic tape, another small piece has been torn and creased. Tape repairs on verso of wrapper. Price: £140.00 | 1st 1907 With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Limited edition of eleven hundred and thirty copies, of which 1100 were for sale and the remaining 30 copies were reserved for presentation. Large format. White cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 13 tipped in colour plates plus b/w illustrations. xi and 161 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine and a small section of the front edge starting to split (but hasn't yet). Spine is grubby/sunned with grubby marks to covers are well (see photos). Endpapers are browned. Rear joint is cracked... Price: £1800.00 | 1st thus 1998 A celebration of a unique and versatile dog - a breed now recognised at the very top levels of competition in the show ring, a working gundog; a sniffer dog; an obedience and agility dog, but, above all, a character and companion. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and colour illustrations. SIGNED by the author on a compliments slip loosely included. Contents fine. Pictorial dust wrapper is lightly scuffed. Price: £180.00 | 1st 2016 This long-awaited mid-career retrospective is published in anticipation of the opening of the new Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University College of Arts, in Bartlett's hometown of Columbus, Georgia. The first publication to document Bartlett's evolution as an artist, his personal creative process, and positions his work in the context of his predecessors and peers working in the long-standing tradition of American Realism. Light blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to rear spine edge, else a delightful copy. Price: £200.00 |
This Month's Special Offer
Special Offer20% discount on FairyTale books in our Special Book Room. Type in voucher code FTALEX at the checkout to apply your discount before payment. Valid to 13th December 2023. Browse current stock of books in this offer. |
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The Stella & Rose's Books Team
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