Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

9,284 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.

WITH FRENCH AT THE FRONT
Written by F.S. Brereton. Illustrated by Arch Webb.
Stock no. 1324651
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

A story of the Great European War down to the Battle of the Aisne. Beige pictorial cloth. 6 b/w plates. 292 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Name in ink to front pastedown. Small booksellers embossed stamp to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are browned. Foxing to textblock and some fingering to page margins.

Buy now for £16.00 Add to Wish List

A LITTLE GIPSY LASS
Written by Gordon Stables. Illustrated by William Rainey.
Stock no. 1324648
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. Circa 1912. Almost very good condition.

A story of moorland and wild. Blue pictorial cloth. 6 b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Foxing to textblock and top edge of same is dusty.

Buy now for £24.00 Add to Wish List

FANCY THAT! (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1324643
Published by Walker Books. 1st thus 2013. Nearly fine condition.

Three volumes of astonishing stories form the imaginations of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake. Contains How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen, Rosie's Magic Horse and Monsters. All have pictorial boards and colour illustrations. Contained in a pictorial slipcase. ISBN: 9781406353242. All books have very slightly browned spines, otherwise they are fine. Contained in pictorial slipcase which is slightly knocked at edges.

Buy now for £20.00 Add to Wish List

WINTER HOLIDAY
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1324639
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1933. Good condition.

Green cloth gilt title to spine, embossed title to front cover. B/w illustrations. 359 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Spine slightly darkened. Front cover is slightly grubby and there is a slight blue biro(?) mark to rear cover. Foxing throughout. Some fingermarks to page margins.

Buy now for £40.00 Add to Wish List

GOLDEN LOCKS AND PRETTY FROCKS
Written by Edric Vredenburg; Hilda Hart; Grace C. Floyd; M. Dorothy Belgrave. Illustrated by Agnes Richardson.
Stock no. 1324637
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. circa 1918. Very good condition.

Cloth spine with black titles, brown paper boards with white titles, black and pale yellow vignettes, onlay shows two children looking at fairy in boat. 14 stories. 12 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 136 pages plus 4 page book list. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Odd small mark to covers. Ink inscription to half-title page dated 1918. Small bookseller's price label to rear pastedown. A couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers browned. Foxing to text block. Odd grubby fingermark to contents. All plates present, a couple are starting to detach from bottom.

Buy now for £125.00 Add to Wish List

BONNY BAIRNS
Written by Annie Ingham; Elsie Blomfield; Natalie Joan; Agnes Grozier Herbertson; et al. Illustrated by Florence Harrison; Cicely Mary Barker; et al..
Stock no. 1324632
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, pictorial front board shows boy and girl on a sledge on a river which has iced over. Colour frontis by Florence Harrison. B/w text illustrations throughout. A book of short stories and verses. Spine and corners bumped, covers slightly edge rubbed. Large but light stain to rear cover. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and to page margins. One hinge is cracked showing webbing beneath.

Buy now for £18.00 Add to Wish List

THE TALE OF TUPPENNY
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Marie Angel.
Stock no. 1324631
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small format. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations of Tuppenny the guinea-pig. Originally published as Chapter 1 of The Fairy Caravan, this is the later book form. ISBN: 0723217246. Foxing to cover edges. Spine cocked. Foxing to endpapers. Some light fingering to page margins. Price-cut wrapper is a little browned to spine and a little edge rubbed.

Buy now for £14.00 Add to Wish List

THE ROMANCE OF READING FIRST SERIES BOOK III PLEASANT PATHS
Written by R.K. Polkinghorne; M.I.R. Polkinghorne. Illustrated by A.H. Watson; Florence Harrison; Helen Jacobs; Ernest A. Aris; et al..
Stock no. 1324630
Published by Oxford University Press. 1953. Very good condition.

Blue decorated cloth. Some colour plates plus many b/w text illustrations. 192 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine faded. Small dent to lower edges of covers. Some page corners lightly creased, lower corner of last text page neatly removed (text not affected).

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

THE LONE RANGER
No author listed. Illustrated by Tom Beecham.
Stock no. 1324629
Published by Rocking Books. Very good condition.

A shaped book with cardwraps. B/w illustrations to each page with minimal text. ISBN: 0394846907. Some light rubbing to cover edges. Light foxing to contents else clean.

Buy now for £15.00 Add to Wish List

MR MISTOFFELEES WITH MUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPELTEAZER
Written by T.S. Eliot. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1324628
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An exuberant interpretation of two poems from Eliot's classic "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 057115347X. Minimal bumping/rubbing to corners. Foxing to endpapers. Some fingermarks to page margins. Dustwrapper is just a little rubbed at corners.

Buy now for £34.00 Add to Wish List

OLD ENGLISH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1324627
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Music by Horace Mansion. 8 quite charming colour plates plus b/w drawings illustrate this selection of nursery rhymes. Includes musical score for voice and piano. Buff boards with blue pictorial onlay to front cover. 11 x 8.5". 88 pages. Spine and corners bumped, top corner of rear cover quite badly worn. Scuffing to front cover edges. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. One of the plates is loose with ragged edges. Grubby fingermarks to page margins and some foxing to contents.

Buy now for £38.00 Add to Wish List

NUMBER NINE JOY STREET
Written by Michael Lynn. Illustrated by L.R. Brightwell; Eve Garnett; C.T. Nightingale; et al..
Stock no. 1324625
Published by Basil Blackwell. Good condition.

A medley of prose & verse for boys and girls. Contributors include Laurence Housman, Compton Mackenzie, Hugh Chesterman etc. One story illustrated in colour, packed with b/w illustrations. Cream cloth with blue titles and decorations on covers. Spine and corners rubbed, spine slightly browned. Half title-page is detached at lower 2". Colouring to quite a number of the b/w illustrations. Some light fingermarks to page margins.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List