Stella & Rose's Books

PUPPY STORIES
Written by Evien G. Beaudry. Illustrated by Diana Thorne.
Stock no. 1801113
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

Eight short stories accompanied by a full page colour illustration by Diana Thorne. Large format. Blue cloth spine, pink pictorial paper boards showing a terrier puppy looking quizzically at a dish of chicks! Corners worn, small patch of surface paper loss where possibly a small label has been removed from front cover else covers nice and bright. Top of front joint split but binding still tight. Contents nice and clean.

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OUR PETS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1801108
Published by The Alexandra Publishing Co.. Circa 1900. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Full page colour illustrations plus two-tone pictures. 8 pages. Untearable book. Spine lightly rubbed with a little surface paper wear. Covers have a few minor marks but essentially nice and bright. Contents lovely and bright.

Price: £56.00 £42.00.

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THE MAGIC CROOK OR THE STOLEN BABY
Written by Greville Macdonald. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes.
Stock no. 1201459
Published by A.C. Fifield. 1st 1911. Very good condition.

A Fairy Story. Green cloth, white titles. B/w illustrations. 273 pages + 2 page booklist. Top edge gilt. Free endpapers lightly browned. A few scattered foxspots but contents generally clean and bright. Top and tail of spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed.

Price: £95.00 £71.25.

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THE ROSE AND THE LILY
Written by Mrs. Octavian Blewitt. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Stock no. 1201458
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1877. Almost very good condition.

Pink cloth with elaborate gilt decorations. B/w frontis by Cruikshank. Believed to be the last book illustrated by him. The Rose And The Lily, How They Became the Emblems of England and France. A Fairy Tale. 62 pages + 36 page booklist dated October 1876. Top of spine chipped with loss. Spine browned and bumped and base. Small mark to front cover. Some page edges ragged from uneven opening.

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PONTO PAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A PET DOG
Written by Kate J. Fricero. Illustrated by Kate J. Fricero.
Stock no. 1801106
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1911. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brown cloth spine, brown boards, yellow pictorial onlay to front cover. Delightful full-page colour illustrations in french-fold format. Stapled binding. Unpaginated. 11 x 8.5". Edges rubbed, corners worn. Boards a little marked. Spine a little discoloured. Staple binding rusty. Bottom staple broken therefore some sections splitting from base as seen in the photos. A few minor foxspots else a beautiful copy!

Price: £70.00 £52.50.

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THE FAVOURITE PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Helena Maguire; William Foster.
Stock no. 1301482
Published by E.P. Dutton & Co.. circa 1896. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

'Untearable'. Green cloth spine, pictorial front board. 16 full-page colour illustrations plus sepia line drawings. Floral decorated endpapers. All edges dyed pink. Short animal tales told in verse. Spine slightly bumped, corners just a little worn. A tiny dent to lower edge of front cover. Endpapers are lightly browned with a couple of small crayon marks to front free-endpaper, also light vertical crease to edge of front free-endpaper which has a tiny tear at base. Staples are rusty. Contained in original paper dustwrapper (b/w illustration to front) which has a couple of small closed edge tears. Dustwrapper has done its job and kept the covers beautifully bright and clean!

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CAROLA STORMS THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1301476
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1951. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black titles to spine. 253 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Name and address in ink to front pastedown. Pale browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Price-cut wrapper (with new publisher price above) is edge worn and torn with slight loss at corners and just a little bit grubby on rear panel.

Price: £90.00 £67.50.

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DIANA THORNE'S DOG-BASKET
Written by Diana Thorne; Albert Payson Terhune. Illustrated by Diana Thorne.
Stock no. 1801103
Published by William Edwin Rudge. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

A Series of Etchings (18 in total) with an Introductory Note on The Mind of the Dog by Terhune. Limited Edition of 1500 copies. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to front, spine untitled. B/w illustrations. Lower edge of boards slightly mottled by damp. Corners lightly worn. A few minor foxspots and light page edge browning else a very presentable copy.

Price: £70.00 £52.50.

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ARCHANGEL 1918-1919
Written by Edward Ironside.
Stock no. 1201439
Published by Constable. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition.

The author's time as part of the International Army that was thrown into North Russia at the end of the first world war. Green cloth, silver title to spine. B/w photos. Contents very good indeed. Covers a little rubbed and grubby.

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OXFORD TOPOGRAPHY AN ESSAY
Written by Herbert Hurst.
Stock no. 1201435
Published by Oxford Historical Society. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w folding map. 248 pages + 4 page booklist. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Free endpapers browned. Contents very good. Top of spine chipped. A few small marks to covers.

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THE GUINNESS BOOK OF MAMMALS
Written by John A. Burton. Illustrated by Jean Vaughan.
Stock no. 1201427
Published by Guinness Superlatives Ltd.. 1st 1982. As new condition in a as new dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Colour photos. ISBN: 0851123058.

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CRICKHOWELL YESTERDAY VOLUME II
Written by John Addis.
Stock no. 1201409
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1996. As new condition in a as new dustwrapper.

Crickhowell is described as The Garden Of Wales. The book consists of 241 b/w photos with text captions. ISBN: 1872808441.

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