Stella & Rose's Books

SKYSCRAPER: THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN STYLE 1891-1941
Written by Roger Shepherd.
Stock no. 2136791
Published by McGraw-Hill. 1st USA 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Annotated extracts from the first 50 years of 'Architectural Record'. ISBN: 0071369708.

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CATHAYS, MAINDY, GABALFA AND MYNACHDY: THE SECOND SELECTION
Written by Brian Lee.
Stock no. 2136757
Published by Tempus. 1ST 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Images of Wales series. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0752418890.

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THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE RAILWAY
Written by Graham Wilson.
Stock no. 2136726
Published by Wolf Creek Books Inc. 3rd 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. 3rd edition. B/w photos. Ride the "Railway Built of Gold" and step back in time to the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. ISBN: 0968195520.

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FIVE GO TO SMUGGLER'S TOP
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 2136716
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1948. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Burgundy textured boards. Gilt titles. Blue pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis. B/w and two-tone illustrations. 2nd impression. Top inch of spine is faded. Wear to cover edges. Foxing to outer page edges and some to prelims. Wrapper is badly torn - front flap torn off - but still present - loss to top of spine - messily taped together in places.

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FLINT MINES IN NEOLITHIC BRITAIN
Written by Miles Russell.
Stock no. 1823516
Published by Tempus. 1st 2000. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Bringing the Neolithic flint mines of Britain centre stage, the author addresses a number of important questions: What were the mine sites? What did they mean to the people who created them? How did they relate to other monuments being built at the same time? Where were they originally dug? What form did they take? And many more... Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations, a few colour photos. ISBN: 075241481X. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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BIRDS OF THE SALTON SEA: STATUS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND ECOLOGY
Written by Michael A. Pattenden; Guy McCaskie; Philip Unitt.
Stock no. 1823510
Published by University of California Press. 1st 2004. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book describes more than 450 species and subspecies. Grey cloth boards, green title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0520235932. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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LONDON SURVEY'D: THE WORK OF THE SURVEY OF LONDON 1894-1994
Written by Hermione Hobhouse.
Stock no. 1823499
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

The survey of London traces its origins to the campaigning zeal of the 1890s when C R Ashbee and a group of like-minded conservationists set up the Watch Committee to campaign against the demolition of historic buildings. Out of this grew 'the great enterprise' of creating an inventory of all London's historic buildings as an aid to their protection and is still ongoing. Red pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1873592191. Base of spine bumped. Contents clean.

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RAILS THROUGH BARNSLEY - A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY
Written by Alan Whitehouse; Peter Rodgers.
Stock no. 1322654
Published by Pen & Sword Transport. 1st 2017. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, silver title to spine. 136 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781473892712. Minimal rubbing to corners and minimal bumping to spine.

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THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Written by W.G. Runciman.
Stock no. 1322648
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguable the central question in the study of human social evolution. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 259 pages. B/w diagrams. Published for The British Adademy, this is Proceedings of the British Academy 110. ISBN: 0197262503.

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ROAD TO POWER
Written by Steven G. Marks.
Stock no. 1322645
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917. The story of one of the most difficult and expensive peaceful undertakings in modern history and the most ambitious initiative of the last two Russian tsars. Light grey cloth, black title to spine. 240 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 1850433453. Minimal bumping/rubbing to spine of book and wrapper.

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GEOLOGY OF THE U.S.S.R.
Written by D.V. Nalivkin; N. Rast.
Stock no. 1322641
Published by Oliver & Boyd. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first complete comprehensive general account of the geology of the U.S.S.R. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 855 pages. B/w photos, pull-out maps and diagrams. ISBN: 0050021974. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is a little faded to spine and slightly creased at edges.

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THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AT SEA
Written by Adrian English.
Stock no. 1322639
Published by Partizan Press. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 191 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781858186535. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Some slight rubbing to wrapper edges.

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