Stella & Rose's Books

THE MOTOR CAR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1325101
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

A small, shaped book. 13 pages told in verse how a group of children take a motor car. Heavy vertical crease to front cover. Covers rubbed and otherwise lightly creased. Child's name and address in heavy pencil inside front cover. Centre pages are detached but still present. Some grubby marks to pages (small ink splodge to one page).

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THE SPORTSMAN'S BEDSIDE BOOK
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1325099
Published by The Country Library. 1940. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The essence of the English countryside captured in text and superb wood-engravings and sepia plates. 7 etchings by BB, 5 drawings by G.D.Armour and chapter tail-pieces by BB. 237 pages. Green cloth, yellow title to spine. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper is worn and marked with damp stains to spine and loss to spine and corners.

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR SCOUTS 8TH YEAR
Written by Herbert Strang; Harold Markham; Major J.T. Gorman; et al. Illustrated by K.W. Coales; Ellis Silas; Savile Lumley; et al..
Stock no. 1325097
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Circa 1926. Good condition.

Pictorial boards, spine shows totem pole and front shows two scouts on a bouy. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations and plates. First poem is The Shining of the Sun by Markham. Covers are edge worn and a bit grubby, some fading to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock. Small sticker to top margin of page 97 ("April 14 to 19. Easter. House Parties. Worthing & Bexhill").

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR TINY FOLKS 23RD YEAR
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Grace Lodge; M. Sankey; Lilian A. Govey; Molly Brett; et al..
Stock no. 1325095
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

Light pink boards with large pictorial onlays to front cover and spine. Front onlay shows picture of a young girl with bobbed blonde hair in a pink dress. Colour frontis. B/w and three-tone text illustrations. First story is "The Middle of the Night". Spine bumped, onlay to spine worn and chipped with slight loss. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing.

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR TINY FOLKS 17TH YEAR
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; et al. Illustrated by Enid Warne Browne; Lilian A. Govey; Angusine Macgregor; Florence Harrison; E. Dorothy Rees; et al..
Stock no. 1325094
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1930. Good condition.

Pictorial front board illustrated by M.D. Johnston, illustration shows three young children feeding the birds with a puppy at the feet of the children. Colour plates and illustrations, b/w text illustrations. First story is "The Orange Umbrella". Covers are edge worn, spine has splits to front edge. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. Frontis is detached but still present. Foxing to textblock and to page margins, also some slight page browning.

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BLACKIE'S BOYS' ANNUAL
Written by Richard Bird; Percy F. Westerman; et al. Illustrated by Thomas Henry; Ernest Prater; Warwick Reynolds; et al..
Stock no. 1325091
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1925. Very good condition.

Front cover shows man in a canoe going down the rapids. First story is 'All's Well' by Bird. Colour and b/w plates. Covers are slightly edge rubbed and corners slightly worn. Spine bumped. Name plate to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to contents. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis.

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BLACKIE'S BOYS' ANNUAL
Written by Olaf Baker; Percy F. Westerman; C. Bernard Rutley; et al. Illustrated by H.R. Millar; Alfred Sindall; Gordon Browne; et al..
Stock no. 1325090
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth spine with black title and rugby player vignette. Front board shows cowboy on horseback. 4 colour plates. B/w text illustrations throughout. First story "Prairie Boy" by Baker. Covers are slightly edge worn. Spine a bit grubby. Name plate and small booksellers sticker to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock and some grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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RAILWAY TRACK DIAGRAMS BOOK 4 MIDLANDS & NORTH WEST
Written by Mike Bridge.
Stock no. 1825466
Published by Trackmaps. 3rd 2013. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Colour diagrams. Third Edition. ISBN: 9780954986674. A few minor scuff marks to covers else a lovely copy.

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THE SHARP END: SEA HARRIER FRONT LINE
Written by Neil Mercer.
Stock no. 1825445
Published by Airlife. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

A pictorial essay on the Sea Harrier in the Front Line. Card wraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 1853105449. Light fading to spine. Tip of top corners of contents lightly creased. Contents otherwise fine.

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THE CULT OF SAINT GEORGE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Written by Jonathan Goodman.
Stock no. 1825443
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Tracing the origins and growth of the cult of St. George, arguing that, especially after Edward's death, George came to represent a "good" politics and could be used to rebuke subsequent kings of their poor governance. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9781843834694. A lovely copy.

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JOHN DENTON'S HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND
Written by John Denton; Angus Winchester.
Stock no. 1825441
Published by The Surtees Society; Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st thus 2010. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A new, critical edition of the manuscript history of Cumberland, replacing that published in 1887 by Richard S. Ferguson under the title An Accompt of the most considerable Estates and Families in the County of Cumberland. This new edition attempts to reconstruct as much as possible of the original text from surviving copies and to identfy the sources from which it was drawn, enabling factual accuracy of Denton's work to be assessed. Edited by Angus Winchester. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780854440689. Dustwrapper is very slightly grubby else a fine copy.

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GOERGIAN AND VICTORIAN CARLISLE: LIFE, SOCIETY AND INDUSTRY
Written by Sydney Towill.
Stock no. 1825440
Published by Carnegie Publishing Ltd.. 1st 1996. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Analyses the industrial and historical development of Carlisle through the most important period of its development. Deep yellow cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1859360394. Yellow pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and scuffed to rear panel. Includes a relevant newspaper clipping.

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