Stella & Rose's Books

LORNA DOONE
Written by R.D. Blackmore. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards.
Stock no. 1328602
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream decorated cloth with red titles. 24 line drawings and 8 colour plates. xi and 493 pages. Children's Illustrated Classics series. Spine and corners bumped. Light foxing to textblock. Name in pencil to verso of front free-endpaper, name in ink to front fly-leaf. Red pictorial wrapper is price-cut and slightly edge chipped.

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MANCHESTER AND ASHTON UNDER LYNE TROLLEYBUSES (TROLLEYBUS CLASSICS 25)
Written by Stephen Lockwood.
Stock no. 1828911
Published by Middleton Press. 1st 2010. Very good condition.

The Manchester and Ashton trolleybus network was one of the largest in the country. Manchester's red and Ashton's blue vehicles shared the wires on most of the services between the two areas, and in addition Manchester had a substantial network of its own. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos throughout. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781906008734. Covers lightly creased & rubbed at corners. Front hinge pulled and therefore a few pages of the section are a little loose from the lower edge. Else contents clean and binding tight.

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THE CAT NEXT DOOR
Written by Birsa Shepard. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Stock no. 1328601
Published by The Children's Book Club. 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth spine, blue boards with black titles. B/w illustrations. 64 pages. Mollie rescues some kittens! Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and foxed, wear with minimal loss to spine and some fading.

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SALT ABOVE GOLD AND OTHER BOHEMIAN FOLK STORIES
Written by Charles K. Offer. Illustrated by Wendy D. Lewis.
Stock no. 1328600
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. 6 tales. Orange, black and white illustrations. 64 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Contents clean.

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FLINT FLUSHWORK: A MEDIEVAL MASONRY ART
Written by Stephen Hart.
Stock no. 1828910
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Flint Flushwork is a wholly external decorative medium, where the skills of a medieval craftsman blended with the iconography of the medieval church to create a new art form. It is an artistic achievement that is built into the very fabric of many hundreds of medieval churches. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and a few colour photos. v and 175 pages. ISBN: 9781843833697. Neat name & date in ink to front endpaper else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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MEDIEVAL WALL PAINTINGS IN ENGLISH & WELSH CHURCHES
Written by Roger Rosewell.
Stock no. 1828909
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Five hundred years ago the interior walls of every church were richly painted with religious imagery and vibrant patterns. This book explains when the paintings were made; what they show; who made them; how they were made; why they were made; why the Church stopped making them. The book also contains a Gazeteer listing 500 churches and chapels where wall paintings can still be seen in England and Wales. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9781843833680. Neat name & date in ink to front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed along lower rear edge.

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MANCHESTER BUSES FROM THE PLATFORM
Written by Ronald Barton.
Stock no. 1828908
Published by Sonnick Publications. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

The working life and times of a Guard and Driver at MCTD's Queens Road Garage. Large format. Red glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w photos. 393 pages. ISBN: 9780957676800. Slight lean to spine. Light scuffing to boards. Contents clean.

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A TRIBUTE TO RIGBY ROAD WORKS BLACKPOOL VOLUME ONE 1922-1954
Written by John Woodman.
Stock no. 1828907
Published by Rigby Road Publishing. 1st 2008. Very good condition.

A personal reflection on a unique transport enterprise, still under public ownership. Limited edition. Matt pictorial boards. Oblong format. Colour & b/w illustrations and photos. 195 pages. Board corners lightly rubbed. Text block and page edges lightly browned else contents clean.

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FRIGATES, SLOOPS AND PATROL VESSELS OF THE ROYAL NAVY 1900 TO DATE
Written by M.P. Cocker.
Stock no. 1828906
Published by Westmorland Gazette. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 128 pages including index. ISBN: 0902272527. Top corner of rear board creased. Remains of label to front endpaper. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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BORIS'S BUS: THE MAYOR'S NEW ROUTEMASTER
Written by John Aldridge; Gavin Booth; et al.
Stock no. 1828905
Published by Capital Transport. 2nd 2015. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Second and enlarged edition. The New Bus for London launched to the press towards the end of 2011 was generally well received. It was a bold new design that was the end product of a process that began when Boris Johnson promised a new Routemaster if he became mayor of London in 2008. He did, and this book is the story of how that pledge was developed into a bus during the first four years of his time as mayor and the further developments during his second and final term. Large format. Matt white pictorial boards. Colour photos. 208 pages, Light rubbing to top & tail of spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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THE STLs
Written by Ken Blacker.
Stock no. 1828903
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 1984. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The STL was one of the largest and certainly one of the most complex classes of motor bus ever to run in London service. This book is a record of the type's history from its introduction in 1932 to its demise almost a quarter of a century later. Large format. Matt red pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0904711617. Boards clean. Hinges are pulled wide (glue dried out) but binding is tight. '5' written in pen to gutter edge of front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine, rubbed at corners with lifting of red laminate.

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ST. HELENS TROLLEYBUSES (TROLLEYBUS CLASSICS 29)
Written by Stephen Lockwood.
Stock no. 1828901
Published by Middleton Press. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition.

The trolleybuses in this industrial Lancashire town provided silent and pollution free public transport for over thirty years between the 1920s and 1950s. This book looks at each route in turn, showing how St Helens looked during this period, including the shops, fashions and road vehicles of the day. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781908174420. A nice, clean copy.

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