July 2024 Newsletter
Welcome to the July 2024 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 this newsletter finds you well. Nothing much to report from the shop. The Great British Summer continues with more than usual quantities of rain! It's been nice to see a steady number of visitors to the shop. We've just heard that the landslide on the Wye Valley Greenway is finally being cleared - so hopefully that will increase traffic to the village.
In other news... one of our staff members spotted an interesting article online listing the best selling books of all time. It makes for interesting reading. No surprises at the top of the list, but some interesting entries lower down.
Many of you may know the partners, Sonia & Maria, are deaf and have hearing dogs... Hearing Dogs charity are appealing for volunteers to train the pups. So if you're a doggy person and have the time and circumstances, why not check out this very rewarding opportunity?
Our articles this month focus on travel and cooking! Maria reminisces about her recent trip around Scotland in her camper van; Theresa looks at some retro-cooking in her featured book article. Enjoy!
Bonnie Scotland (our NC500 trip) contributed by Maria
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We are very lucky in that we have a very nice little camper van (a VW T6) to use for our holidays. Last year we did a tour of Italy, this year we decided to travel a little closer to home and visit Scotland. We planned to follow the NC500 (North Coast 500) route but knew that we wouldn’t have time to seriously enjoy ourselves if we attempted to do the whole 500 miles from Inverness to Inverness. We therefore decided to follow the route travelling the west coast of Scotland and just see how far we got. Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| The Origins of Hertfordshire written by Williamson, Tom | The Dress of The People: Everyday Fashion In Eighteenth-Century England written by Styles, John | Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy At Guadalcanal written by Hornfischer, James D. | History From The Farm written by Hoskins, W.G. |
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| Price: £24.00 | Price: £76.00 | Price: £20.00 | Price: £20.00 |
| Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) SOUTH EAST UK HOME COUNTIES HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORY | Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY (BRITISH) FASHION TEXTILES SOCIAL HISTORY | Categorised in MILITARY NAVY WORLD WAR II | Categorised in FARMING HISTORY ARCHITECTURE |
| Our Friend The Horse written by Barton, Frank Townend | Peggy Speeds The Plough written by Smith, Madge S. | Plants We Play With written by Robertson, H.R. | The Fenland Past and Present written by Miller, Samuel H. & Skertchly, Sydney B.J. |
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| Price: £25.00 | Price: £12.00 | Price: £16.00 | Price: £70.00 |
| Categorised in NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL MAMMALS HORSES | Categorised in CHILDRENS GIRLS FARMS (CHILDRENS) | Categorised in CHILDRENS NATURE (CHILDRENS) | Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) SOUTH EAST UK EAST ANGLIA ANTIQUARIAN |
The English Art of Cookery by Richard Briggs contributed by Theresa
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This book was once owned by the internationally renowned Eleanor Lowenstein, her bookplate is in the front of the book. Eleanor Lowenstein opened the Corner Bookshop on Fourth Avenue New York and was offered her first cookery book collection in 1946. This was just the beginning and the rest as they say is history! Mr Briggs in his Preface says of his recipes the following ‘I have bestowed every Pains to render them easily practicable, and adapted to the Capacities of those who may be ordered to use them. To waste Language and high Terms on such Subjects, appears to me to render the Art of Cookery embarrassing, and to throw difficulties in the Way of the Learner…’ Read more... |
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A Selection from The Special Book Room
| Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix written by Rowling, J.K. | Sherlock Holmes Complete Stories (9 Volumes) written by Doyle, Arthur Conan | An Atlas of Rural Settlement In England written by Roberts, Brian K. & Wrathmell, Stuart | Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Order Passeres (2 Volumes) written by Butler, Arthur G. |
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| 1st thus 2022 Illustrated edition. Packed with glorious colour illustrations by Jim Kay, a winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Yellow boards, metallic green title to spine. Complete with yellow ribbon page marker. 246 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Price: £100.00 | 1994 Nine volume set in two slip cases: The Case-book; His Last Bow; The Return; The Memoirs; The Adventures; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Valley of Fear. Green cloth boards with black silhouette of holmes, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. One set of five and one set of four in slipcase. Second printing. Spines are lightly browned. Gilt titles lightly rubbed. A few minor marks to boards. Contents are clean. Contained in publisher's slipcases which are ... Price: £175.00 | 1st 2000 This Atlas is the culmination of a decade's research work for the Monuments Protection Programme and defines and plots the varied regional character of England's rural settlement. A companion volume to Region and Place: A Study of English Rural Settlement. Very large format. Blue pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps. A few minor scuffs and marks to covers. Name & date in ink to top corner of half-title page. Grubby mark to inside front cover and half-title. Else contents are clean. Price: £130.00 | Two volumes. Large format. Blue/grey cloth spine with gilt title, blue cloth boards. Volume I: 4 color plates of eggs, 56 color plates of birds. Vol II: 4 color plates of eggs, 51 color plates of birds, appendix and index. Colour plates have tissue-guards. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Ex-Lib with bookplate to front pastedown of both volumes and card pocket to rear pastedown. Not dated. A few marks and scuffs to boards, crinkling to cloth on rear board of volume II. Edges are lightly rubbed, corners are bumped... Price: £170.00 |
This Month's Special Offer
Special Offer20% discount on UK Topography books in our Special Book Room. Type in voucher code UKTOP724 at the checkout to apply your discount before payment. Valid to 5th August 2024. Browse current stock in this offer. |
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The Stella & Rose's Books Team
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