Stella & Rose's Books

TINKER, TAILOR
Written by Edric Vredenburg. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1314506
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1914. Good condition.

Brown cloth spine, brown paperboards. Front cover has vignettes of cats with central pictorial onlay of a cat tailor sewing on a patch. 12 wonderful colour plates and numerous b/w drawings - all of cats! 136 pages plus 4 page publication list. Spine and corners bumped and worn with slight loss of paper covering to lower front corner. Some light wrinkling to paper covering on covers. Name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and light fingering to contents, light pink stain to inner margin of last plate (affecting the illustration slightly). A very desirable copy of a scarce Wain title. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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BURNING RUBBER THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF FORMULA ONE
Written by Charles Jennings.
Stock no. 1810768
Published by Quercus. 1st 2010. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The fast and furious tale of motor sport's premier competition, from its earliest roots in the suicidal road raced of the Edwardian age to the brave new world of Hamilton, Button, Massa and Vettel in the 2000s. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour plates. ISBN: 9781849160926. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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A GENIUS FOR FAILURE: THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON
Written by Paul O'Keeffe.
Stock no. 1713374
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The tragedy of Haydon lay in the extent to which his failures were unwittingly engineered by his own actions - his refusal to resort to the painting of fashionable portraits, for example, and his self-destructively acrimonious relationship with the RA. Colour plates. 568 pages. ISBN: 9780224062473. SIGNED by author to title page. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE POP-UP BUCK ROGERS
Written by Phil Nowlan. Illustrated by Dick Calkins.
Stock no. 1403471
Published by Pleasure Books. 1935. Very good condition.

Strange adventures in the spider-ship. Pictorial boards. 3 colour pop-ups. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners a little bumped and rubbed. Couple of light foxspots to covers which are a little grubby. Foxing mostly to page edges. A little creasing to the reptile's tail in the last pop-up where it doesn't quite fit in the book. Buck Roger's gun and hand also a little creased. Pop-ups otherwise in excellent condition. This copy would make a wonderful gift

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URBAN SPACES No. 5
Written by John Morris Dixon.
Stock no. 1810468
Published by Visual Reference Publications. Circa 2008. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large format. ISBN: 9781584711056. Still in original shrinkwrap! This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE THIEF LORD
Written by Cornelia Funke. Illustrated by Cornelia Funke.
Stock no. 1503838
Published by The Chicken House. 1st 2002. Fine condition.

A story about two brothers called Prosper and Bo who have run away from home. Their mum has died and they escape from their horrible aunt, ending up in Venice and being taken in by a gang of homeless children. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Blue paperwraps with black titles. B/w illustrations. 348 pages. ISBN: 1903434777. SIGNED by author to title page with doodle. Mark to rear cover from removal of label. Crease to tip of lower corner of front cover with small spot above. Red marks to lower edge of text block. Contents clean. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY JOURNEY
Written by David C. Williams.
Stock no. 1810028
Published by Silver Link Publishing. 1st 2014. Fine condition.

Kidderminster to Bridgnorth. Silver Link Silk Editions series. Oblong format. Silver paper boards, silver/grey ribbon page marker. Vivid colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781857944365. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES
Written by Jean M. Auel.
Stock no. 1809787
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 2011. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

6th book in the Earth's Children Series. ISBN: 9780340824252. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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MASTERS OF THE SEA
Written by Roger Quarm; Scott Wilcox.
Stock no. 1809761
Published by Phaidon Press. 1st 1987. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A survey of the marine watercolour, from its origins in the seventeenth century to the fresh and fluent seascapes of the early twentieth century. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0714824909. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 2006
Written by Jim Henderson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1313563
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 2006. Fine condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows Rupert and a baby Yak on top of a reindeer. ISBN: 0850793203. SIGNED by the illustrator to front pastedown with an accompanying couplet. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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STRAVAGANZA CITY OF MASKS
Written by Mary Hoffman. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Stock no. 1711991
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 2002. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A compelling, poweful novel about the parrallel world of Talia. Colour decorated boards. Map of Talia to front endpaper, b/w chapter headers. ISBN: 0747555338. SIGNED by author. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB
Written by Paul Britten Austin. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1313168
Published by Radiotjanst. 1st 1954. Very good condition.

2 volumes. Summer course in English for Swedish radio. Small format. Cream cardwraps. B/w text illustrations. Includes a mounted miniature book in 2nd volume. Covers very slightly edge rubbed and grubby, spines lightly browned. Small partially erased pencil mark to front cover of volume 2. Illustration on page 15 of 2nd volume has been very neatly coloured in with crayons. A nice set. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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