Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

237 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.

BRITISH BUILT AIRCRAFT VOLUME 5 NORTHEN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Written by Ron Smith.
Stock no. 2139193
Published by Tempus. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. 255 pages. ISBN: 075243487x. A few small marks.

Buy now for £14.00 Add to Wish List

BRITISH BUILT AIRCRAFT VOLUME 4 CENTRAL & EASTERN ENGLAND
Written by Ron Smith.
Stock no. 2139192
Published by Tempus. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

An essential directory of the British aircraft industry, encompassing Central and Eastern England. Card wraps. B/w photos. 224 pages. ISBN: 0752431625.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

THE COPPER KING: A BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS WILLIAMS OF LLANIDAN
Written by J.R. Harris.
Stock no. 2137905
Published by Landmark Publishing. 2nd 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

2nd edition. Landmark Collector's Library. Red boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1843060922. Some erased pencil inscription to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

HOME-GROWN ENERGY FROM SHORT-ROTATION COPPICE
Written by George Macpherson.
Stock no. 2137197
Published by Farming Press. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0852362897. Spine is faded. Page edge browning.

Buy now for £20.00 Add to Wish List

SUGAR CONFECTIONERY AND CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURE
Written by R. Lees; E.B. Jackson.
Stock no. 2136826
Published by Blackie Academic & Professional. 1994. Very good condition.

Brown/tan boards with gilt titles. B/w diagrams and photos. ISBN: 0751401145. Some light staining to front cover. Outer page edges are marked.

Buy now for £60.00 Add to Wish List

EARLY AMERICAN MILLS
Written by Martha Zimiles; Murray Zimiles.
Stock no. 1823449
Published by Bramhall House. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

All over the Northeastern part of the United States stand the remains of the buildings that housed the birth of industry in America. This book examines America's industrial revolution in a lively and instructive way, with the emphasis always on the architectural beauty and value of the early mills, factories, and mill villages. Large format. Blue cloth spine with dark blue title, blue paper boards. B/w photos and illustrations and 11 colour plates. ISBN: 0517181282. Light browning to horizontal edges of boards and text block. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few closed tears, some repaired with clear tape, a few grubby marks and some fading to rear panel.

Buy now for £15.00 Add to Wish List

THE PREHISTORY OF METALLURGY IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by R.F. Tylecote.
Stock no. 1823436
Published by The Institute Of Metals. 1st 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A completely revised edition of the author's 'Metallurgy in Archaeology' (published 1962). Incorporating the results of work done since 1960, this revised text covers native metals, copper and copper-based alloys, tin, lead, antimony, and the fabrication of non-ferrous metals. The Iron Age is divided into various periods appropriate to Britain, ending with the introduction of the blast furnace. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations & photos. ISBN: 0904357724. Top & tail of spine & corners lightly rubbed. Previous owner's white address label to front endpaper. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is heavily faded at edges and spine, closed tear to top edge of rear panel (no loss) and top of spine.

Buy now for £40.00 Add to Wish List

PAPERMAKING IN BRITAIN 1488-1988: A SHORT HISTORY
Written by Richard L. Hills.
Stock no. 1823434
Published by The Athlone Press. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing to this country, through major developments in the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0485113465. Previous owner's library label to front pastedown. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is lightly browned.

Buy now for £14.00 Add to Wish List

BENJAMIN OUTRAM 1764-1805: AN ENGINEERING BIOGRAPHY
Written by R.B. Schofield.
Stock no. 1823411
Published by Merton Priory Press. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of an engineer. B/w photos. Outram worked on canals and railways as well as establishing an iron company. ISBN: 1898937427. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and front edge of spine.

Buy now for £48.00 Add to Wish List

THE END OF A REVOLUTION: THE LAST DAYS OF STATIONARY STEAM
Written by Colin Bowden.
Stock no. 1823409
Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st 2008. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Landmark Collector's Library. The reciprocating steam engine as a source of industrial power almost completely disappeared during the final years of the twentieth century. This book illustrates some of the last of those engines still working, and others which remained on site, out of use or derelict. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781843063520. A review copy with press release present.

Buy now for £40.00 Add to Wish List

SCOTTISH COLLIERIES
Written by Miles K. Oglethorpe.
Stock no. 2136628
Published by The Royal Commission On The Ancient And Historical Monuments Of Scotland. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An Inventory of the Scottish Coal Industry in the Nationalised Era. Large format. Black boards, white titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781902419473. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper spine is faded; a few small nicks to edges.

Buy now for £45.00 Add to Wish List

THE TEXTILE MILL ENGINE VOLUME 1
Written by George Watkins.
Stock no. 1322492
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. David & Charles Library of Textile History. ISBN: 071534983X. Spine bumped. Pale page browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge rubbed with a tear to top edge of front panel.

Buy now for £15.00 Add to Wish List