Stella & Rose's Books

THE PICTURE SHOW
No author listed.
Stock no. 1302306
Published by Ernest Nister. circa 1895. Good condition.

Green cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing girl dressed in clown suit. "A Novel Picture book For Children". Four pop-up colour pictures. B/w text illustrations. Spine worn at top and tail. Corners worn and cover edges rubbed. Joints and hinges cracked, front free-endpaper missing. A few loose pieces to first pop-up and skipping rope is twisted (but still intact), other 3 pop-ups in excellent working order. Some tears to inner margins and some loose pages caused by the cracked hinges. Some light page browning and fingering. Still a nice copy of a very scarce Nister pop-up.

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MISS DUTCH OF DOLLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1302259
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Valentine's Book Toys, Dolly Series, no. B221. A shaped book with card covers, face to front is moveable. Two-tone illustrations. Backstrip covering is mostly missing. Some creases to covers and crack to rear cover. Contents are fingered and foxed else clean.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 25 - RUPERT AND THE FRENCH POODLES
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1701597
Published by Daily Express. 1955. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Second story is 'Rupert and the New Jersey'. 22 pages. Colour illustrations. 2" split to base of spine. Covers creased.

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PUCK ON PEGASUS
Written by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell. Illustrated by John Leech; John Tenniel; et al..
Stock no. 1801549
Published by John Camden Hotten. 6th 1869. Fair condition.

Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. Blue cloth boards, bevelled edges, gilt titles, xii and 196 plus four page publisher adverts to rear. B/w illustrations. Boards marked, spine worn with loss to top. Front joint cracked. A few hinges split and one section detached. One or two margin marks but contents generally clean.

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 2
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1801540
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 090080744X. Small white mark to top corner of both boards. Else covers clean. Small patch of surface paper damage to top front corners of prelims caused by damp and affecting margin only. Blue pictorial wrapper has a 1.5" closed tear to top front edge of spine which has been repaired to verso with tape.

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PLAYTIME & COMPANY
Written by E.V. Lucas. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 1801536
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Green pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Rhymes for children. Corners lightly worn, covers a little scuffed, red spine slightly faded. Contents clean.

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THE TRAGIC EMPRESS
Written by Comtesse Des Garets; Marie-Louyse Des Garets.
Stock no. 1901002
Published by Skeffington & Son, Ltd.. Circa 1931. Very good condition.

Cream cloth. B/w plates. Biography of Empress Eugenie of France. Name in ink to front endpaper. Corners slightly bumped.

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TALES FROM FAIRYLAND
Written by Rosa Annesley.
Stock no. 1801502
Published by Charles Taylor. 1st 1893. Almost very good condition.

A collection of stories. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles, illustration to front cover is of a sunset with a young boy flying on a bat over a pond with a frog sat on a toadstool. B/w illustrations. Floral endpapers. All edges gilt. Corners rubbed, top & tail of spine worn. Covers lightly scuffed. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Small closed tear to lower edge of front joint and free front endpaper. Endpapers, title page and last page browned. Hinges pulled but binding tight. A few marks to contents. Still a nice copy.

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THE ENCHANTED UNCLE
Written by Christian Tunstall. Illustrated by Doris Pailthorpe.
Stock no. 1701554
Published by Silas Birch Limited. 1924. Very good condition.

Green cloth with dark titles and image of armoured hero surrounded by children. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by author with personal dedication to front endpaper. Some foxing.

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OUR UPS AND DOWNS
Written by Mabel Ince. Illustrated by Mabel Ince.
Stock no. 1302143
Published by Castell Brothers Ltd.. circa 1905. Very good condition.

Four young children King & Queen of Sealand and the Queen of Cloudland. Small format. Pictorial cardwraps with string tie to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. Covers a little grubby and edge rubbed. Old price in ink inside front cover (6/-). Pages are lightly browned but otherwise clean, light foxing to centre pages. Crease to top corner of rear cover.

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VERY GOOD PICTURES AND TALES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1801477
Published by Dean & Son. Circa 1889. Fair condition.

To Laugh At, To Draw, and To Colour. By Francis, "Boz", and Bodfish. Large format. Red cloth spine (untitled), pictorial paper boards. Front cover shows kitten being tickled by a blade of wheat by a mouse whilst sitting on a high stool having his photo taken by a cat. B/w illustrations throughout, some to colour, some to copy. Covers worn with some surface paper loss, spine a little frayed at top and tail. Joints split. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Hinges pulled apart. Some pages detached. Possible that some pages may be missing but not known. Contents grubby with fingermarks. Binding still holding but fragile. White colouring to couple of pages. A reading copy only.

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A LONG DELAY
Written by Rev. T. Keyworth.
Stock no. 1801469
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1887. Slightly better than very good condition.

Red pictorial boards with gilt titles and vignette to front. Grey floral endpapers. B/w plates. All edges gilt. Spine slightly faded else covers appear excellent, bright and clean. Light browning to endpapers. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. One hinge pulled. A lovely copy.

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