Stella & Rose's Books

WINGS AND THE CHILD
Written by E. Nesbit. Illustrated by George Barraud.
Stock no. 1505374
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Or The Building of Magic Cities. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black titles and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations and photographs. 197 pages. Spine lightly browned and a little bumped and worn. A little wear to corners and rear corners bumped. Just a couple of light marks to covers. Name and 1/-, both in pencil, to front endpapers. A couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. A little foxing. Just an odd mark to contents.

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PANDORA OF PARRHAM ROYAL
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.
Stock no. 1607743
Published by Collins. 1st 1951. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pandora comes to Parrham Royal to live with her father following the death of her mother. Pink cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 286 pages. Uneven fading to spine; spine and corners bumped. Inscription to front endpaper. Contents very good indeed. Price-cut wrapper is edge chipped with some loss; patch of surface damage to front panel, and scuffing to folds and edges.

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WHAT THE CHILDREN LIKE
Written by F.E. Weatherly; Ernest Nister; et al. Illustrated by Ernest Nister.
Stock no. 1404845
Published by Ernest Nister. circa 1897. Slightly better than good condition.

A pop-up book with introduction by Weatherly. 5 pop-up scenes plus numerous b/w illustrations. Green cloth spine, pictorial front board shows children dancing around a Christmas tree. Decorative endpapers. Nister no. 853. Spine bumped and worn. Corners bumped and very worn. Board edges are scuffed. Boards are scratched and a bit grubby. Front joint cracked. Endpapers and page edges browned. Staples rusty. One page, which has ragged edges, is detached. 4" tear to last page of text plus other smaller tears to page edges and margins. Light colouring to several illustrations. Some fingering to contents. Horse's tail slightly creased in second pop-up, and couple of small patches of surface paper damage in deer pop-up. Other pop-ups nice and bright.

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HILDA COWHAM'S BLACKLEGS AND OTHERS
Written by Hilda Cowham. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham.
Stock no. 1404830
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1911. Very good condition.

Beige cloth covers with gilt title to spine and pictorial front cover. Stunning colour and b/w plates throughout. Humourous brief text captions ajoining plates. Simple b/w text illustrations accompanying verses. Large format. 76 pages. Top edge gilt. A delightful book! Spine and corners a little bumped. Covers a little grubby. Small booksellers label to rear pastedown plus date stamp. Endpapers browned. Small tears and a small piece missing to front endpaper. Couple of hinges slightly cracked. Contents very good. Includes a book mark with an original drawing.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE BURNT COTTAGE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by J. Abbey.
Stock no. 1315317
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The First Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog. Discoveries, Shocks, Surprises and Excitements by the dozen! Blue cloth, magnifying glass vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 164 pages. SIGNED by the author on an autograph slip which has been stuck to the front free-endpaper and dedicated to Ria. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Autograph slip is foxed but contents are fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased and torn with some slight loss and tape repairs on verso.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1315250
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Large format. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and front cover. 30 stunning tipped-in tissue-guarded colour plates, mounted on card with green decorative borders. Numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some very light rubbing to covers. A few foxspots/fingermarks else contents clean. All plates present, 2 have corner creases.

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DRAGON CASTLE
Written by Elinor Lyon.
Stock no. 2119196
1st 1956. Very good condition.

Pale blue/green cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Spine is browned. Some light wear to cover edges. Small sticker and blue mark to front endpaper. A few pencil margin marks; other yellow marks to some pages internally. Contained in a colour PHOTOCOPY wrapper.

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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 1811329
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Boards lightly mottled at edges. Text block a little grubby. 1.5cm x 6.5cm cut from top of front endppaer. Minor foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Boards slightly bowed.

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SUCH FUN
Written by Norman Gale; Grace C. Floyd; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2119056
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Father Tuck's 'Children's Own' Library. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations by Wain throughout - all pussy cats! Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Scuffing and chipping along cover edges. Front board is a little bowed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and grubby marks, mostly to endpapers and page margins.

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FAIRY STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2119054
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. The 'Attwell Kiddies' Story Book. Beautiful mounted colour plate to front cover and colour frontispiece. Two-tone illustrations. Contains very short versions of 'Robinson Crusoe'; 'Aladdin'; Jack the Giant-Killer' and 'Tom Thumb'. A thin booklet style item. Some creasing to covers; a few marks. Foxing/browning to some pages.

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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 2119041
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine is browned. Some marks and scuffing to covers. Light page browning and some foxing.

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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
Written by Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1315197
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Grey/green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. 12 pastoral colour plates capture the spirit of this well-loved book. B/w text illustrations. Grey/green pictorial endpapers. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers are sunned, light scratch mark to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, light foxing to textblock and heavier foxspots to prelims. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with damp stains to sides of spine, 2" loss to top of spine and a small patch of loss to centre of rear panel.

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