Stella & Rose's Books

THE BLUE DRAGON FLY
Written by M.M.H..
Stock no. 1104929
Circa 1898. Almost very good condition.

Cream boards with gilt titles and borders. Two-tone illustrations. 53 pages. Covers are very grubby and foxed; small split to top of spine and worn corners. Some foxing. Inscribed by author 'For Queenie, with love from the author, Christmas 1898'.

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HOW THE WHALE BECAME
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by George Adamson.
Stock no. 1303954
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A collection of stories about the days when the world was brand new, and the animals were still making up their minds just what they wanted to be. Blue mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 72 pages. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Light page browning to half-title page else contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby on rear panel and slightly worn at top and tail of spine. A nice copy of the scarce first edition.

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MARGERY MERTON'S GIRLHOOD
Written by Alice Corkran.
Stock no. 1303938
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1906. Almost very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 6 b/w plates. 286 pages plus 32 page catalogue at rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. A few small bubbles in the cloth on rear cover. Prize plate to front pastedown (name crossed out). Some fingering but contents generally clean. Last page of catalogue is slightly torn at inner margin.

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THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1601309
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1908. Good condition.

Red cloth covers with bevelled edges, pictorial onlay of Samuel Whiskers to front. 21 x 16.5cm. Colour and b/w illustrations. 69 pages. Spine bumped, edges rubbed, boards unevenly discoloured. Book is affected by damp with staining and red 'bleeding' to page edges (especially towards the front of the book). Inscription in ink (dated 1909) to front endpaper. Scattered foxing. Text is legible and illustrations are clean.

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THE MANOR HOUSE SCHOOL
Written by Angela Brazil. Illustrated by F.G. Moorsom.
Stock no. 1303911
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1923. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red pictorial cloth, cream titles. Colour frontis, 4 b/w plates. 256 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing throughout (some heavy). First gathering of pages is loose. White pictorial wrapper is grubby, creased and edge worn, 1.5" loss to top of spine and slight loss to base, a few repairs on verso.

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OCEAN PICTURES
Written by Jane Hunter-Cox.
Stock no. 1803039
Published by Webb & Bower. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel 1936-1959. Unique and unpublished photographs of royalty, celebrities and politicians including Noel Coward, Elizabeth Taylor, Winston Churchill, Clark Gable, Duke & Duchess of Windsor and many more. Oblong format. Blue boards, light blue title to spine. B/w photos throughout. 128 pages. ISBN: 0863502504. Edges rubbed, contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and slightly grubby.

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OFF THE RECORD
Written by David Rose.
Stock no. 1803027
Published by Spellmount Ltd.. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Life and Letters of A Black Watch Officer. Taking the reader through quarter of a century of service with the Regiment. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. xiv and 222 pages. ISBN: 1873376766. SIGNED by author to half-title page. Base of spine bumped else contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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THE LONG GRAY LINE
Written by Rick Atkinson.
Stock no. 1803019
Published by Collins. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

West Point's Class of 1966 and the Vietnam War. The true story of an extraordinary generation of military officers and the women they loved. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. xiii and 592 pages including index. ISBN: 0002154994. Top & tail of spine lightly bumped, text block a little grubby. Contents fine. Grey wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
Written by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1203263
Published by Ealing Studios. 1st 1947. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. The story of the production of the film version. With full page colour illustrations by Ardizzone. Includes original cast list and story summary. A nice clean copy, with just a little browning to covers.

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PEEPS INTO FAIRYLAND
Written by E. Nesbit; F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy.
Stock no. 1303868
Published by Ernest Nister. circa 1896. Almost very good condition.

A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories. Nister book 633. Six stunning three-dimensional stand-up scenes. Large oblong format. Green cloth spine, colour pictorial paper boards. Front cover shows the Babes in the Wood riding on a leaf in the air harnessed to a pair of robins. Green/white floral endpapers. Spine has been rebacked with red cloth. Corners and cover edges are worn. There is some scuffing to the covers. Front free-endpaper is missing. Inscription in ink to top margin of title-page. One page has a large closed tear which has been neatly repaired. From the pop-up scenes there are some flowers missing at the top of the fairy's oar (in the swan picture) and the giant is missing from behind Jack (in the Jack and the Giant picture) otherwise the pop-ups are complete, bright and in excellent working order. The text pages are well fingered and thus a little grubby. A decent copy of a scarce pop-up book.

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ON HONOUR
Written by Ellinor Davenport Adams.
Stock no. 1303861
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1st 1902. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with illustration to front and spine. Colour frontis and title page. 332 pages plus 4 page publication list to rear. A school and home story. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few light marks and an embossed school stamp to rear cover. Prize plate to front pastedown. Endpapers partly browned. Some light foxing to page edges and prelims else contents clean.

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THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MINERAL KINGDOM
Written by Alan Woolley.
Stock no. 1601289
Published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Hundreds of the most common and widely distributed minerals are described in detail. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Illustrated endpapers, numerous explanatory line drawings and colour photographs throughout. 240 pages. ISBN: 0600362639. Corners rubbed, contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is a little edge creased.

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