Stella & Rose's Books

MORNING IS A LITTLE CHILD
Written by Joan Walsh Anglund. Illustrated by Joan Walsh Anglund.
Stock no. 1328720
Published by Collins. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pink boards with black title to spine and vignette to front. Delightful colour pictures every page. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and foxed.

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THE BIRD TALISMAN
Written by Henry Allen Wedgwood. Illustrated by Gwen Raverat.
Stock no. 1328719
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1946. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

An Eastern Tale. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is torn, has loss at edges, is browned to spine and foxed.

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THE HONEY SIEGE
Written by Gil Buhet; Geoffrey Sainsbury.
Stock no. 1328718
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The book society's fiction choice. Blue boards, red title to spine. 253 pages. Translated from the French by Sainsbury. Spine very slightly bumped. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Foxing to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, faded to spine, grubby to rear panel and foxed on verso.

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THE LITTLEST ONE: HIS BOOK
Written by Marion St. John Webb. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 1328717
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A new edition of The Littlest One and The Littlest One Again with additional poems. Blue cloth with dark blue titles and vignettes. 160 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped with slight fading at top and tail. Endpapers partially browned. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss and verso of wrapper is browned.

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BEST FRIENDS
Written by Mary Bard. Illustrated by Hellmuth Weissenborn.
Stock no. 1328716
Published by Hammond, Hammond & Company Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the moment Suzie and Co Co became best friends life became exciting. Green boards, black title to spine. 191 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some tiny loss to top edge of front panel and slight fading to spine.

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THE MAGIC SEA-SHELL
Written by Margaret J. Baker. Illustrated by Marjorie-Ann Watts.
Stock no. 1328715
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Flying Foal Books. Blue boards, black title to spine and mermaid vignette to front cover. 95 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped, some slight discolouration to cover edges. Endpapers lightly browned. Hampshire Education Committee ink stamp to front free-endpaper ('staffroom copy' written in ink below). Foxing to textblock. One page incorrectly cut during binding process resulting in a crease to the lower corner tip and also the page is a little larger than the rest. Price-cut wrapper is worn and torn with some pieces of loss, rear panel is a bit grubby.

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INTO THE CASTLE
Written by Margaret J. Baker. Illustrated by Terry Freeman.
Stock no. 1328714
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, green title inside a cream title-box on spine. 120 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine bumped. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a red biro price to front flap (printed price crossed out).

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THE ITALIAN SPRING
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328713
Published by Collins. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Maria Henniker-Hadden's (the delightful heroine of The Warden's Niece) adventures in Italy spring of 1877. Blue mottle boards, silver title to spine. 256 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Name, date and old price in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light foxing. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly grubby to rear panel.

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JAMES WITHOUT THOMAS
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328712
Published by Collins. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Without the influence of his eldest brother, Thomas, James comes into his own as the hero of the Christmas holidays. Purple cloth, silver title to spine. 255 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Light mark to front cover. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby to rear panel and has tears to rear spine edge and to top corner of rear panel.

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TO TAME A SISTER
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328711
Published by D. Van Nostrand Company. 1st USA 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In summer 1875 Margaret had the chance to escape to her cousins in the country, she hardly knew whether to be delighted at the prospect of mingling with artists and poets or to be apprehensive of the inevitable misdeeds of her brothers. Yellow boards, blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Name and date in pencil to front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is just a little edge rubbed/chipped and slightly browned to top edge of rear panel.

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THE ELEPHANT WAR
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328710
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

The fourth story of the Smith family, beginning with a misunderstanding (like many wars before and since). Red boards, silver title to spine. 256 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Light tape mark to front cover. Name in ink and also evidence of removal of a label to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge worn, chipped with slight loss, a bit grubby to rear panel and has a large tear across front panel which has been tape repaired on verso and is not very noticeable to front.

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES OF THE WORLD
Written by Jacques Bosser. Illustrated by Guillaume De Laubier.
Stock no. 1829006
Published by Thames and Hudson. 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Internationally renowned photographer, Guillaume de Laubier, takes the reader on a journey to more than twenty of the most historical of these magical places called libraries. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos throughout. 248 pages. ISBN: 0500511551. Reprint. Top of spine bumped. Lower edges of boards have a slight knock. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, lightly creased to lower edge, lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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