Stella & Rose's Books

THE MOTOR CYCLING CLUB
Written by Peter Garnier.
Stock no. 1824430
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The story of Britain's oldest sporting club for motor cycles and cars, founded in 1901. Black cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. 221 pages pages includes index. ISBN: 0715393111. Light bump to top of spine.

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OVERLAND
Written by Peter Fraenkel.
Stock no. 1324001
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Covering most of the snags, many of the pleasures and virtually all of the official pieces of paper that are an unavoidable part of being a modern nomad. Beige boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715370405. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock, top edge of textblock is dusty. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, slightly edge creased and slightly faded to spine.

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PIETER PLUNKER FLYING TAILOR
Written by Peter Dennis. Illustrated by Peter Dennis.
Stock no. 1824387
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

The true story of the beginnings of flight and how a simple tailor beat the Wright Brothers by four hundred years... Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour comic strip story. ISBN: 035607904X. Boards corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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THE DUKE'S OWN
Written by J. Percy Groves. Illustrated by Lieut. Col. Marshman.
Stock no. 1323803
Published by Griffith Farran Browne & Co Limited.. Very good condition.

Or, the adventures of Peter Daly. Green pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 320 pages. B/w frontis with tissue-guard. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Small dent to top edge of rear cover. Prize(?) plate has been removed from front pastedown. Endpapers are browned. Foxing to contents. Ink spot to edge of textblock.

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE MODERN CENTURY
Written by Peter Galassi. Illustrated by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Stock no. 1824268
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Published to accompany the major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, drawing fully on the extensive holdings of the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. Large format. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine and blind publisher's vignette to front. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780500543917. Boards clean and bright. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Red dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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LITTLE PETER
Written by Lucas Malet. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 1323723
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1909. Very good condition.

A Christmas Morality. Pretty cream pictorial boards. Gilt titles. 8 colour plates mounted on grey captioned card. 175 pages. 8.75 x 6.5". Spine and corners bumped. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Name plate to front pastedown. Heavy foxing throughout and endpapers slightly browned. Plates present and in fine condition.

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THE HOLIDAY TRAIN GOES TO AMERICA
Written by Peter Heaton. Illustrated by Peter Heaton.
Stock no. 1323669
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Baby Puffin Book no. 6. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour lithographed illustrations. Printed by W.S. Cowell. Covers foxed and edge rubbed. Staples rusty. Lower staple has been pulled away from front cover. Neat name written in ink to front cover. Foxing inside covers. Some light fingering to contents but generally clean.

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SEASHORE LIFE
Written by Gillian Matthews. Illustrated by Peter Parks.
Stock no. 1323615
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1965. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 120. Oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Foxing and slight grubbiness to rear cover. Foxing to textblock. Small booksellers sticker to inside front cover.

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PETER DUCK
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1323551
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine and blind title to front board. Endpapers are maps. B/w illustrations. 431 pages. ISBN: 0224606336. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly worn at spine and corners, browned to spine and grubby to rear panel.

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PETER DUCK
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1323543
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind title to front. Front endpaper is a chart of the atlantic ocean. B/w text illustrations throughout. 431 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Endpapers slightly browned. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut and browned, a little worn to spine and corners.

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THROUGH THE AIR
Written by Michael Bratby; Peter Scott. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1323485
Published by Country Life. 1st 1941. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Adventures With Wild Fowl, and Small-Boat Sailing. Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Heavy foxing to textblock and to preliminary pages. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss and a little browned to spine.

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DUKE THE LOST ENGINE
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by Gunvor Edwards; Peter Edwards.
Stock no. 1323440
Published by Kaye & Ward Ltd.. 1974. Very good condition.

Small oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour pictures. Railway Series No. 25. ISBN: 0718208404. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Front cover is unevenly faded. Contents clean.

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