Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

60 stock records found. Did you know that you can now search our sold stock? Look for the 'sold stock' filter at the bottom of the filter options.

WORLD TIMBERS VOLUME THREE: ASIA & AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Written by B.J. Rendle.
Stock no. 1826759
Published by Ernest Benn Limited. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive work containing some of the better known world timbers illustrated in colour and concisely described with the minimum of technical terms. The information is presented in a form designed to appeal to those who are interested in timber but are not specialists in wood technology. Intended primarily for use by architects and their clients, the timber trade, and timber-using industries. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0802017185. Previous owner's bookplate to front and rear pastedown. Text block and page edges lightly browned. Black dustwrapper with green spine is lightly rubbed at edges and lightly scuffed.

Buy now for £20.00 Add to Wish List

A GUIDE TO... PHEASANTS & WATERFOWL: THEIR MANAGEMENT, CARE & BREEDING
Written by Danny Brown.
Stock no. 1826649
Published by ABK Publications. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

The keeping of Pheasants and waterfowl in Australia, under Australian conditions. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 0958710236. Covers lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

Buy now for £48.00 Add to Wish List

THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: BEING THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1911-1914
Written by Douglas Mawson.
Stock no. 1825922
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1930. Very good condition.

Abridged Popular Edition. Illustrated with ninety-two photographs, eighteen diagrams and three folding maps. Blue patterned cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Boards browned and just a little marked. Endpapers and text block browned. A few scattered foxspots. All maps present.

Buy now for £56.00 Add to Wish List

MILDENHALL TO MELBOURNE: THE WORLD'S GREATEST AIR RACE
Written by Stuart McKay.
Stock no. 1825595
Published by The Tiger House Press. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The City Fathers of Melbourne, Australia, decided something special was needed to celebrate the centenary of their city in 1934. The result was an air race that would attract the world's best aeroplanes and crews, starting in London and transiting by the most practical route to Melbourne... Large format. Blue paper boards, gilt title to spine and publisher's vignette to front board. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780956398109. Top of spine bumped and corresponding tiny closed tear to dustwrapper else a lovely copy.

Buy now for £56.00 Add to Wish List

THE SITMAR LINERS PAST AND PRESENT
Written by Peter Plowman.
Stock no. 1825182
Published by Rosenberg. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the Sitmar Liners written primarily from an Australian perspective, but also covers the general development of the company and its operations throughout the world. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 1877058254. Spine & corners lightly rubbed. Minor grubby mark to half-title page (cannot be picked up by camera in photos). Else contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed.

Buy now for £110.00 Add to Wish List

THE STORY OF KURRI KURRI THE KOOKABURRA
Written by Leslie Rees. Illustrated by Margaret Senior.
Stock no. 1323479
Published by John Sands Pty. Ltd.. Circa 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards. 42 pages. Colour and two-tone illustrations. Covers are slightly edge worn. Inscription in ink and brown foxspot(?) to front pastedown. Small brown mark to lower edge of front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby/marked with some edge tears/creases.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA
Written by Sheila Hawkins. Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins.
Stock no. 1323215
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

Puffin picture book no. 45. Oblong format, paper wraps. Colour and b/w lithographed illustrations. Lithographed by Brown & Bibby. Name in ink and old price in pencil to front cover. Foxing to covers, inside covers and to page edges.

Buy now for £10.00 Add to Wish List

A HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX VOLUME 1 1928-1939
Written by John B. Blanden.
Stock no. 1823910
Published by Museum Publishing Co.. 1st 1981. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Australian Grand prix is the second oldest Grand Prix still being regularly conducted. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0959467130. SIGNED by the author (best wishes) to title page. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

Buy now for £56.00 Add to Wish List

AUSTRALIAN LONGHORN BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE): VOLUME 2 SUBFAMILY CERAMBYCINAE
Written by Adam Slipinski; Hermes E. Escalona.
Stock no. 2139831
Published by Csiro Publishing. Circa 2016. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781486304585. Some knocks along cover edges. Bumping with tear along edge of rear cover and to one corner. Contents are still excellent!

Buy now for £95.00 Add to Wish List

CHALLENGING HORIZONS: QANTAS 1939-1954
Written by John Gunn.
Stock no. 2139262
Published by University Of Queensland Press. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The second volume in the history of Qantas. The dramatic story of the Qantas wartime operations and the airline through the chaotic postwar decade. Red boards, white titles. Colour pictorial endpapers. B/w photos. 434 pages including index. ISBN: 0702220175. Foxing and marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased and has tear hole to front panel.

Buy now for £24.00 Add to Wish List

THE NORTH-WEST AERIAL FRONTIER 1919-1934
Written by Edward P. Wixted; Joy Taylor.
Stock no. 2138652
Published by Boolarong Publications. 1st AUSTRALIA 1985. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Australian Pioneers of Flight. ISBN: 0908175892. Some light bumping and wear to spine and corners.

Buy now for £20.00 Add to Wish List

AUSTRALIA'S VANISHING MAMMALS: ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT NATIVE SPECIES
Written by Tim Flannery; Paula Kendall; Karen Wynn-Moylan.
Stock no. 2138646
Published by Rd Press. 1st AUSTRALIA 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards with white titles. Colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0864381611. A few knocks along cover edges. Wrapper is a bit faded to spine and some edges.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List