Stella & Rose's Books

A TRIP TO TOYLAND
Written by Henry Mayer. Illustrated by Henry Mayer.
Stock no. 1314646
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1900. Very good condition.

Large oblong format with red cloth spine and green pictorial boards. Packed with full-page colour plates. Printed one side only. Spine bumped. Corners slightly worn and some very slight rubbing to cover edges. Covers are just a little marked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers are lightly browned. Some foxing and fingering to contents which are generally clean.

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ARCHIE AND THE STRICT BAPTISTS
Written by John Betjeman. Illustrated by Phillida Gili.
Stock no. 1504435
Published by John Murray. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of Archibald Ormsby Gore, the teddy bear. This book tells of his youthful adventures while hunting for history and flying with home-made wings over the Berkshire Downs and over the village with its church, its four chapels and four public houses. Yellow boards with small gilt vignette of teddy and title in gilt to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0719534291. SIGNED by author to half-title page. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Odd tiny spot to covers. Page edges are browned otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss from top 2" of rear fold. Spine slightly faded.

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CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Written by Dick Sheppard; Jacquie De Creed.
Stock no. 2116967
Published by Tweenbrook Publishing. 1st 2011. Almost very good condition.

So you'd like to know more about stunting..... Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780956532916. SIGNED by Sheppard, with dedication to title page. Spine has crease vertically down it. Cover corners are creased. Glued binding is drying out and thus contents are liable to become detached, indeed several pages are detached.

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TANNHAUSER
Written by Richard Wagner; T.W. Rolleston. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Stock no. 1314507
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. circa 1915. Very good condition.

Publishers full brown calf binding with gilt decorations/titles. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour and b/w mounted plates plus b/w illustrations. Very slight rubbing to cover edges. There is foxing to the contents (which affects the b/w plates but not the colour ones) but otherwise this is a lovely, bright copy. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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TINKER, TAILOR
Written by Edric Vredenburg. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1314506
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1914. Good condition.

Brown cloth spine, brown paperboards. Front cover has vignettes of cats with central pictorial onlay of a cat tailor sewing on a patch. 12 wonderful colour plates and numerous b/w drawings - all of cats! 136 pages plus 4 page publication list. Spine and corners bumped and worn with slight loss of paper covering to lower front corner. Some light wrinkling to paper covering on covers. Name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and light fingering to contents, light pink stain to inner margin of last plate (affecting the illustration slightly). A very desirable copy of a scarce Wain title. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE CONQUEST OF CHRISTINA
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by G.B. Foyster.
Stock no. 1404020
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with pictorial onlays to spine and front cover; decoration borders. Gilt titles to spine. Black titles in gilt title block. Colour frontis and half-title page. B/w illustrations. 343 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Mark to pictorial onlay on front and gilt a little rubbed. Pictorial only on spine is very rubbed as is author's name. Light marks to rear board. Front joint and a few hinges are cracked. Name in ink to top of half title page. Foxing mostly to prelims and page edges. Top edge of text block is a bit grubby. Some fingering otherwise contents generally clean.

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NODDY'S SHOP OF BOOKS
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1314494
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1958. Slightly better than very good condition.

Five little card wrap books contained in box shaped to look like a sweetshop with opening door at front. Volume 3 has a small ink mark by staple to covers and there is a tiny mark to front cover of volume 5. There are a few light creases to covers and tiny nicks at edges. Overall the books are lovely and bright and would be difficult to find in better condition. Box has creases and is slightly edge rubbed, there is an inscription in blue biro to lower edge of front of box.

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NODDY'S TOY STATION OF BOOKS
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1314492
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Dennis Dobson Ltd.. 1st 1956. Very good condition.

Set of small format paperwrap Books contained in a shaped box: Noddy and his passengers; Noddy and the magic boots; Noddy flies a kite;Noddy and naughty Gobby; Noddy has hankie troubles. Foxing to page edges and cover edges. Light creases to rear cover of volume 5. Box is lightly creased with some foxing but otherwise complete and bright.

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OVER THE SEA
Written by A Patchett Martin; F.E. Weatherly; et al. Illustrated by Emily J. Harding; H.J. Johnstone; T.J. Hughes; R. Carrick.
Stock no. 1403972
Published by Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh. 1st 1890. Almost very good condition.

Stories of Two Worlds. Brown cloth spine. Cream pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 7 colour plates. B/w illustrations. 8 Stories. 48 pages. Spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Rear cover is marked and grubby. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Mark down the side margin of one plate otherwise plates are all clean and bright. Faint transfer of colour from plates to opposite pages. Some margin marks otherwise contents are very good.

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SWITZERLAND: ITS MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
Written by Woldemar Raden. Illustrated by A. Closs.
Stock no. 1606890
Published by Bickers & Son. 1878. Very good condition.

Large, heavy format. Brown leather binding with gilt decoration, raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt page edges. With 418 illustrations engraved by A. Closs. 487 pages. Some scuffs to leather at corners and edges, and a chip to leather towards top right corner of front board, and smaller chip at bottom of rear board. Leather on rear board is stained. Front joint starting to carck from top. Binding firm. Pressed flowers and foliage taped to front endpaper, with inscriptions. Endpapers foxed, some scattered foxing throughout contents, mainly to page margins. Engravings are generally clean and bright. A handsome volume.

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MELBOURNE TEN
Written by Brian J. Rapier.
Stock no. 1606830
Published by Air Museum Publications (york) Ltd. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Contains contemporary views of life and death from a number of diaries and events concerning a bomber squadron in World War II. B/w photos. ISBN: 0950732613. SIGNED by author, illustrator and researcher on title page (no dedication).

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A MASQUE OF MAY MORNING
Written by W. Graham Robertson. Illustrated by W. Graham Robertson.
Stock no. 2116289
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green pictorial cloth. 12 pretty colour illustrations. A play featuring fairies and the seasons. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some browning and foxing to spine and cover edges. Nicks to top corner of spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates are present - 2 are detached, but still present and loosely inserted. Several plate pages have ink dots (......) to margin at very edges, near where book is bound. Some pencil annotation to one page in prelims. Foxing.

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