Stella & Rose's Books

LITTLE HEARTS
Written by Bertha Upton. Illustrated by Florence Upton.
Stock no. 2113053
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1897. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine. Cream boards with small colour pictures. Colour & b/w illustrations. Recased and restitched. Wear and fading to spine. Cover edges and corners are bumped and scuffed. A few marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Grubby marks to outer page edges. A few grubby margin marks.

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MR BUMSTEAD
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1311844
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Mr Bumstead is a spaniel, with a gift for getting into scrapes. Red boards, blue title and black vignette to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. A few foxspots and a light stain to edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and rubbed with minimal loss and is a little grubby on rear panel.

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STEINLEN AND HIS ART TWENTY-FOUR CARTOONS
No author listed. Illustrated by Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen.
Stock no. 1710303
Published by Chatto & Windus. Circa 1911. Fair condition.

Large format. Pictorial cloth. Illustrations tipped-in on all four corners. With a critical introduction and descriptive notes. Backstrip missing. Rear board detached, front board fragile at binding. All plates present. Fraying to cloth edges. Rippling to cloth on front cover. 1 plate has a large closed tear. Odd margin mark.

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THE CHILDREN AT THE POLE
Written by Lionel Fable. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Stock no. 1208010
Published by George G. Harrap & Company. Circa 1914. Very good condition.

From the "Willy Pogany Children" series. A small fold-out panorama with the story on one side and a poem on the other. Colour illustrations above the text of the poem. Pictorial boards. Book: name in ink to front endpaper. A few small blemishes to contents else generally a clean bright copy. Corners slightly worn.

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MY DOLLY'S HOME
Written by Doris Davey; Helen Waite. Illustrated by Margarethe Stannard.
Stock no. 1207996
Published by Arts and General Publishers Ltd.. Circa 1920. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. Story is followed by full colour page scenes to put your dolls in and play - many doors/windows to 'open'. Corners worn. Contains figures in rear pocket: 3 umbrellas, Nurse, Alice, Anne, Mummy, Daddy, Babbs (young boy), cook, rickshaw, fir tree, palm tree, door and archway.

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A PAINTING BOOK OF LITTLE DUTCH FOLK
Written by Walter Chapman. Illustrated by Ethel Parkinson.
Stock no. 1207995
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1915. Slightly better than good condition.

Large oblong format. Beige boards with large colour pictorial onlay to front. White cloth spine. Colour illustrations with b/w pictures to paint. Verses by Chapman. Some pictures coloured in with mixed ability! Corners worn. Boards a little grubby.

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THE RELUCTANT DRAGON
Written by Walt Disney; Robert Benchley; Kenneth Grahame.
Stock no. 1207806
Published by Garden City Publishing Co.. 1st 1941. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Green cloth spine. Yellow pictorial front cover with picture of plump dragon. Introduced by Benchley from Grahame's Dream Days. Colour & b/w illustrations. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Very light rubbing to top and tail of spine and corners else covers and contents fine. Attractive pictorial wrapper is slightly edge-chipped.

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ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1207797
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1950. Fine condition.

Seen through the eyes of a child. Adapted from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor production. Red cloth spine. Pictorial boards. A Tuck Book with four delightful colour pop-up scenes. A superb copy with just slight evidence of staple rust.

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SHADOWMANCER
Written by G.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1207795
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 2003. Fine condition.

A world of superstition, magic and witchcraft where nothing can be taken for granted, and the ultimate sacrifice might even be life itself. Uncorrected proof copy. Grey cardwraps. ISBN: 0571220460. SIGNED by author. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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OLD AND NEW CHESTERFIELD ETC.
Written by Tatler; John Richard Walbran; Grant W. Macdonald; Alfred Wallis; J.J. Sheahan; John George Bishop; et al.
Stock no. 2112523
Almost very good condition.

This is EIGHT volumes collected and bound into one book. Titles are: Old and New Chesterfield; A Guide to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Aldborough, Brimham Rocks, Newby Hall, Hackfall, Tanfield and Several Places of Interest in Their Vicinity; A Brief Account of the Parish of Holbeach and Its Church of All Saints; Bemroses' Guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth; Haddon Hall etc.; Hand-Book to Beverley; The Practical Guide to the City of York; The Brighton Pavilion and Its Royal Associations; The Abbey of Saint Alban. Black leather spine and corners. Uneven browning and mottling to covers. Wear to cover edges and corners. Ink stamps to a few pages. Some foxing and browning. Some pages have been cut down severely at margins - but text all appears to be present.

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EARLY GEORGIAN PORTRAITS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by John Kerslake.
Stock no. 2112520
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1977. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Maroon cloth with gilt titles. Volume 1 is Text and Volume 2 contains the plates. ISBN: 0112900437. A few grubby marks to outer page edges. Wrapper spines are faded. Contained in a very good slip-case that has some scuffing and wear to edges.

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WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA, AND AFTER PRETORIA: THE GUERILLA WAR (4 VOLUME SET)
Written by H.W. Wilson.
Stock no. 2112218
Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited. Circa 1901. Good condition.

A History of the Boer War 1899-1900. Very large format. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos and illustrations. This set comprises of the 2 copies of With the Flat and the 2 supplement volumes of After Pretoria; all uniform to each other. Heavy! All spines are faded and browned, with some wear. Differing amounts of damp staining to covers and pages internally. Still a good working set.

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