Stella & Rose's Books

A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1309776
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Deluxe, limited to 500 copies. Large format (32 x 26cm). White vellum binding with gilt titles and vignettes. 30 lovely tipped-in colour plates mounted on cream card with green decorative borders and captioned paper guards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 304. Spine and corners are slightly bumped and slightly grubby. Ties missing. Name plate to front pastedown. There is slight bookworm or silverfish damage to the front endpaper and some slight foxing to contents but generally a very nice copy.

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THERE WAS A SOLDIER
Written by Angus Konstam.
Stock no. 2109814
Published by Hachette. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

First-hand accounts of the Scottish soldier from 1707 to the present day. 346 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 9780755318612. SIGNED by author to title page. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

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ZULU HART
Written by Saul David.
Stock no. 2109809
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A novel. George Hart is the bastard son of a pillar of the British military establishment and a half Irish, half Zulu actress. Hart struggles to come to terms with his identity and heads to South Africa and a fresh start... Red cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0340953624. SIGNED by author, with dedication to title page. Wrapper has light edge-wear with couple of nicks to corners.

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THE BLUE BOA
Written by Jenny Nimmo.
Stock no. 1501245
Published by Egmont Books Ltd.. 1st 2004. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Children of the Red King III. Dark blue pictorial boards. ISBN: 1405201266. Minimal bumping. Rear cover is damp marked and rippled. SIGNED to title page. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is very stained on verso and rear flap is partially stuck to inside of rear cover and wrinkled.

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THE HOUSEHOLD KNIGHTS OF KING JOHN
Written by S.D. Church.
Stock no. 1604354
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0521553199. SIGNED by author to title page (without dedication), and also to dedication page 'To Robin, for all the beer!'.

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CHEPSTOW PRINTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 2109311
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. ISBN: 0906134129. SIGNED by author. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing and a couple of nicks.

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THE VOYAGE OF THE FROLIC
Written by Thomas N. Leyton.
Stock no. 1207255
Published by Stanford University Press. 1st 1997. Fine condition.

New England Merchants and the Opium Trade. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. 227 pages. ISBN: 0804738491. SIGNED by author.

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SHH! (DON'T TELL MISTER WOLF)
Written by Colin McNaughton. Illustrated by Colin McNaughton.
Stock no. 2109258
Published by Andersen Press. Circa 1999. Very good condition.

A Preston Pig Lift-The Flap Book. Square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Where's Preston? ISBN: 0862648904. SIGNED by author to front pastedown. Uneven yellowing to spine and cover edges. Lift-the-flaps in very good working order.

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THE TIZZLE SISTERS & ERIK
Written by G.P. Taylor. Illustrated by Dan Boultwood.
Stock no. 1401307
Published by Markosia Enterprises Ltd.. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

Adapted by Tony Lee. Glazed pictorial boards. Comic book style interspersed with normal text pages. St Dunstan's school for wayward children is not an ordinary school and Sadie and Saskia Tizzle are not ordinary young people... ISBN: 9781905692224. SIGNED by author to front free endpaper and by Cliff Wright and Tony Lee to title page. Limited edition (30 of 80). Publisher's blind stamp to title page. Front cover unevenly faded. Remains of sticker to rear cover. Contents are fine.

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THE MISFIT
Written by Doris Canham.
Stock no. 1107794
Published by The Sheldon Press. 1st 1936. Almost very good condition.

Pale blue cloth with black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. SIGNED by author, with inscription. Spine is browned; edges of covers are foxed. Bumping to corners.

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THE MOSS ROSE PRESS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Linda Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 1806809
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 150 copies. A complete list of the Chepstow Society and Moss Rose Press publications from 1948 to 1985. Green cloth. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0906134331. SIGNED by all four authors and illustrators to front endpaper. Pictorial wrapper is slightly faded to spine and lightly edge-creased. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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ON ROYALTY
Written by Jeremy Paxman.
Stock no. 1806761
Published by Viking. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them? An entertaining study of the monarchy and how politics, religion, the military and the law have affected it. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780670916627. SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication). Second impression of the first edition. White dustwrapper is marked to rear panel.

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