Stella & Rose's Books

PAPER BEFORE PRINT
Written by Jonathan M. Bloom.
Stock no. 1204478
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2001. As new condition.

The history and impact of paper in the Islamic world. Large format. Black cloth spine, glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0300089554.

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FORAGER HIS ADVENTURES
Written by May Byron. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1105953
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1912. Good condition.

Happy Family Series No. 6. Brown boards, pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Title on cover is 'Cecil Aldin's Happy Family'. 8 x 7.5 inches. Joints badly cracked showing webbing. Lacks front endpaper. Rear endpaper detached and torn with loss. Three pages with an edge tear. Spine slightly split and worn at base. Corners rubbed. Covers grubby. Colour plates bright.

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GYP'S HOUR OF BLISS
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1305264
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. circa 1919. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth spine. Buff boards with blue title and white vignette of Gyp (a young white Aberdeen terrier) to front cover. 15 colour illustrations and b/w text illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and worn, cover edges rubbed. Some browning/foxing to endpapers. Two leaves have small patches of damage to them. A couple of hinges are cracked. Some fingering to contents but generally clean. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby, is edge chipped and rubbed and has a large closed tear to rear panel which has been repaired.

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THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Jacob H. Studer.
Stock no. 1804391
Published by The Natural Science Association Of America. 1897. Very good condition.

Re-issue. 119 artistic colored plates (lithographs) representing the different species and varieties drawn and colored from nature including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure. Very large format. Full red morocco binding with gilt title to front and spine. All edges gilt. 182 pages plus index. Spine faded, edges rubbed, a few scuff marks to front & rear board. Corners worn. Front joint between title page and frontis pulled. Some scattered foxing. A few closed margin tears. Some grubby margin marks (fingering). All plates present and beautifully bright.

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SYMPTOMS OF BEING AMUSED VOLUME 1
Written by Henry Alken. Illustrated by Henry Alken.
Stock no. 1804390
Published by Thos. McLean. 1st 1822. Almost very good condition.

Volume 1 (all published). Large oblong format. Three quarters burgundy leather with cloth sides. 42 handcoloured plates including title page by Alken, many in his sporting/equine style. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Includes Symptoms of a Preface page. Boards worn, faded and marked. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Inscription in ink to verso of first blank page. 41 of 42 hand coloured plates present. Frontis has been expertly repaired/relined. Probably a rebound copy as the tissue guards have watermark dating 1865. Plates wonderfully bright but grubby marks to margins and slightly affecting plates. Overall a nice copy of a weird and wonderful item!

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WELSH SCENERY (CHIEFLY IN SNOWDONIA)
Written by T.G. Bonney. Illustrated by Elijah Walton.
Stock no. 1703843
Published by W.M. Thompson. 1875. Good condition.

Large format. Gilt and black titles and decorations. 20 tipped-in paper guarded chromolithograph plates. Some wear to cloth mainly to corners, with a little fraying. Front and rear joints cracked. All plates present but with some foxing. 1 plates has paper-guard missing. Another plate appears to have been re-inserted, but in the wrong place. The paper guards have a fair amount of damage with some pieces missing.

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THE THIN GREY MAN
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Desmond Knight.
Stock no. 1305037
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Crown Books Series. Grey/blue/black pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to half title-page and last text page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some small tears and some slight loss, mainly top and tail of spine, there is a vertical crease to front flap.

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A CHILD'S BOOK OF HOURS
Written by Constance Irving; Noel Irving.
Stock no. 1703716
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 1935. Good condition.

13 full-page coloured illustrations, many other illustrations to text. Printed on thick card, linen-hinged. Tall folio measuring 15 x 9.5". Cloth backed pictorial boards. Delightful rhymes featuring the hours of the day from morning to school-time, dinner time etc. Beautifully illustrated and unusually bound. Corners bumped. Edges worn. Some scuffing to covers. Front endpaper MISSING. A little foxing.

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SPRING-HEELED JACK
Written by Philip Pullman. Illustrated by David Mostyn.
Stock no. 1804085
Published by Doubleday. 1st 1989. Fine condition.

A Story of Bravery and Evil. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w text illustrations throughout. 112 pages. ISBN: 0385269757. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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MILITARIZATION AND DEMILITARIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
Written by Glenn D. Hook.
Stock no. 1803966
Published by Routledge. 1st 1996. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Routledge Japanese Studies Series. The gradual transformation of Japan into a 'normal' military state, the political forces supporting and opposing this transition, and the underlying values at the base of the critique of militarization. Black boards, silver title to spine. xiv and 256 pages including index. ISBN: 0415022746.

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BIRDS OF SURINAME
Written by F. Haverschmidt; G.F. Mees. Illustrated by Paul Barruel; Inge Van Noortwijk.
Stock no. 1204194
Published by Vaco. 1st 1994. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Dark green imitation leather with gilt titles. Colour plates. Includes fold-out sketch map of Suriname to rear. 584 pages. ISBN: 999140029X. Rear joints are just starting to crack. Wrapper a little edge-chipped.

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THE FEUD IN THE FIFTH REMOVE
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Ellis Silas.
Stock no. 1304589
Published by R.T.S.; Girl's Own Paper. 1st 1932. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt title and black vignette to spine, black title and decoration to front cover. Colour frontis. 222 pages. Spine and corners bumped, small split to base of spine. Remains of very small white sticker to front endpaper. Foxing and some fingering to contents but generally clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss, 2" loss to base of spine, tape repair to top of spine on verso and a few tiny holes (caused by scratches) to front panel. Rear panel is a bit grubby. A nice copy in a decent enough dustwrapper.

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