Stella & Rose's Books

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 1407026
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1914. Almost very good condition.

Limited edition of 500 SIGNED by Hugh Thomson. White vellum, heavily decorated with gilt. 20 beautiful tipped-in colour plates. Top edges gilt. 235pp. 12.5 x 10". A very handsome book. SIGNED by Thomson. This is copy no. 148. Bumping to spine and corners. Covers are grubby and rear cover has a couple of marks. Creasing to front endpaper and prelims including mount and tissue guard for frontis but plate itself is not affected. Browning to endpapers. Some light page browning. Light foxing mostly to prelims and page edges and some fingering. One page and last tissue guard creased. Plates all present and in very good condition.

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THE LITTLE GREEN ROAD TO FAIRYLAND
Written by Annie R. Rentoul. Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Stock no. 1407025
Published by A. & C. Black Ltd.. 1932. Very good condition.

Dedicated "to all who love fairies and have found The Little Green Road". 8 magical colour plates and 8 b/w plates, all of fairies. Pale green cloth, dark green titles and vignette to front cover. 102 pages. 10.75 x 8". Bumping to spine and corners. Spine browned. Uneven fading to covers. Light browning to endpapers. Light browning to endpapers and some internal pages. Some light foxing mostly to prelims and page edges otherwise contents are very good. Plates are all present and in very good condition.

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LITTLE DUTCHY - NURSERY SONGS FROM HOLLAND
Written by Will Ransom. Illustrated by Rie Cramer; Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1507493
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Nursery Songs From Holland. Large format. Blue cloth spine. Brown boards with very large colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis plus 12 mounted colour plates. Poems plus songs and music. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Name to top edge of front cover. A few small marks to covers. Contents are clean but there is foxing throughout.

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RUPERT LITTLE BEAR'S ADVENTURES NUMBER TWO
Written by Mary Tourtel. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 1507450
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1924. Good condition.

Grey paperboards. Large colour pictorial onlay. Colour plates and monotone illustrations. Contains four stories: Rupert & the Magic Key, Rupert & the Brigands, Rupert & Reynard Fox, Rupert in Dreamland. Approx. 9.75 x 7.5". Spine is split down both sides, looks like backstrip has been glued into place. Spine and corners bumped and worn. A few marks to covers, onlay slightly rubbed, rear cover more rubbed and buff board is starting to show through in places. Last text page almost detached. Bear's head transfer stuck to blank page opposite first text page. Tape repair to bottom of two pages and to one of colour plates. Foxing and a few marks to contents.

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HEYO, BRER RABBIT!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Kathleen Nixon.
Stock no. 1507449
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1938. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Tales of Brer Rabbit and his friends, retold from the original. Green cloth, gilt titles to spine. 10 x 7.5". Red, grey and white illustrations throughout. 128 pages. Top front corner bumped. A couple of very small marks to covers. Just a little light browning to endpapers and light foxing to text block. Text pages clean. Very scarce dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss from top of spine and top corner of front panel. A couple of horizontal tears to spine with a few white labels stuck to verso to strengthen/repair. Spine browned. Wrapper slightly grubby.

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STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Agnes Richardson.
Stock no. 1814112
Published by Geographia Ltd.. 1923. Very good condition.

Dark green spine with light green covers with pictorial onlay to front. 7 Colour plates and b/w illustrations. 80 pages. Cloth spine fading, glue to rear of cloth spine becoming dried out. Light uneven fading of cloth. Pictorial onlay clean. Light page browning. All plates present.

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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1406768
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1915. Slightly better than good condition.

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Green cloth, gilt titles & vignettes. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Spine and cover edges darkened. Gilt on spine is dulled. Large score mark to rear cover. Newspaper cuttings have been stuck to front endpaper. Small booksellers label and small patch of newsprint to front pastedown. Front joint beginning to crack. Browning to endpapers and tissue guard to frontis. Name and numbers (Isa 14/20) written in ink on front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and page edges. Some fingering. Plates all present.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1944 - RUPERT IN MORE ADVENTURES
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1813976
Published by Daily Express. 1944. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps showing Rupert with chums, waving from a tree. First story Rupert and Rollo. 119 pages. 9.5 x 7 inches. Base of backstrip split to rear for almost 2", no loss. Covers lightly rubbed at corners. Rear joint is split so the rear cover is detached from spine. NOT price-cut or inscribed. Contents are clean. Slight musty odour present. If not for the rear joint and base of spine, this would be an almost fine copy.

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SKY HIGH
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 2123176
Published by Newnes. Circa 1936. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, black title to spine. 251 pages. The First in the Steeley Series, a young adventurer of the skies. Assumed 1st edition 1936 - UNDATED! Spine and cover edges are browned. Foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Book affected by tobacco odour. Contents are still very good.

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LET'S PRETEND
No author listed. Illustrated by I. Bennington Angrave.
Stock no. 1813857
Published by Nelson. Almost very good condition.

16 colour plates with one line of text to each. Blyton liked these plates so much that she used them in the copy of her book of the same name. Large format. Stiff cardwraps. Spine rubbed, boards browned and rubbed at corners. One or two grubby marks to contents. A hard to find copy.

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THE BLACK PUPPY BOOK
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1316482
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1909. Very good condition.

This is a book about all sorts of puppy dogs and their games and sports. It may serve to amuse you, but should it fail, well, this is only a puppy dog's tale. Pictorial green cloth. B/w text and full page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Front cover lightly marked, rear cover has white vertical stain. Foxing to contents. It is possible that the endpapers have been professionally replaced.

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THE BRITISH SHOTGUN VOLUME TWO 1871-1890
Written by I.M. Crudgington; D.J. Baker.
Stock no. 1813471
Published by Ashford. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The intricate and elaborately woven story of the evolution and development of the British shotgun between 1871 and 1890. Yellow boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. vi and 250 pages including index. ISBN: 1852531339. Base of spine bumped. Contents fine. Price-cut dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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