Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

33 stock records found. Did you know that you can now search our sold stock? Look for the 'sold stock' filter at the bottom of the filter options.

THE STORY WITHOUT AN END
Written by Sarah Austin. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape.
Stock no. 1328275
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st thus 1912. Good condition.

From the German of Carove. Lilac cloth covers with gilt decorations and titles. Illustrated endpapers. 8 pretty tipped-in colour illustrations. 165 pages. Binding is worn with chipping to top and tail of spine, badly faded and browned to spine. Light damp stain to top margins of endpapers. Name in ink to top margin of title-page (partially crossed). One plate has a light corner crease.

Buy now for £80.00 Add to Wish List

AUSTIN SEVEN
Written by Chris Harvey.
Stock no. 1326534
Published by The Oxford Illustrated Press. 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The facts and figures, development and production history of the Austin Seven in all its forms, together with vivid descriptions of what it was like to drive. Colour and b/w photos. Green boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0946609047. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is just a little edge rubbed, old price sticker to rear panel.

Buy now for £20.00 Add to Wish List

AUSTIN SEVEN 1922-1982
Written by R.M. Clarke.
Stock no. 1326519
Published by Brooklands Books. Very good condition.

Cardwraps. B/w photos. 100 numbered pages. ISBN: 0946489130. A few light marks to covers. Slight rubbing to cover edges.

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Written by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1326009
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Limited edition of eleven hundred and thirty copies, of which 1100 were for sale and the remaining 30 copies were reserved for presentation. Large format. White cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 13 tipped in colour plates plus b/w illustrations. xi and 161 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine and a small section of the front edge starting to split (but hasn't yet). Spine is grubby/sunned with grubby marks to covers are well (see photos). Endpapers are browned. Rear joint is cracked (possibly very neatly repaired). There is a light crease to one of the plates, all others are present and in fine condition. Light page browning and fingering to contents and some light foxing. A small brown spot affects the margins of pages 105 to 113. Overall this is still a very decent copy of the scarce limited edition Rackham Alice.

Buy now for £1800.00 Add to Wish List

WONDERFUL DAYS
Written by Austin Latham. Illustrated by Muriel Dawson.
Stock no. 1325008
Published by Cecil Palmer. 1st 1929. Good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Children's verse. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Pencil scribbles to rear cover, some light marks to front cover. Foxing and fingering throughout. Evidence of heavy pencil writing to front free-endpaper (partially erased).

Buy now for £12.00 Add to Wish List

BACTERIAL FISH PATHOGENS: DISEASE OF FARMED AND WILD FISH
Written by Brian Austin; Dawn A. Austin.
Stock no. 1825190
Published by Springer. 6th 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

Sixth Edition. This book puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease control (by vaccination, immunostimulation, probiotics, prebiotics, plant products, and antimicrobial compounds). Primarily targeted at research workers, including postgraduate students, and diagnosticians, as well as veterinary microbiologists, publich health scientists and microbialecologists. Green glazed boards. A few colour photos. Printed by Printforce, Netherlands, a print on demand company. ISBN: 9783319326733. Spine & corners lightly rubbed, minor knocks to lower edges of boards. Some very slight page crinkling. Contents clean.

Buy now for £120.00 Add to Wish List

POST-WAR BABY AUSTINS A30-A35-A40
Written by Barney Sharratt; James Hunt.
Stock no. 1825127
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The full story of Austin's first chassisless car. Foreword by Hunt. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 192 pages includes index. ISBN: 0850457106. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed, lightly scuffed.

Buy now for £35.00 Add to Wish List

JENSEN
Written by Keith Anderson.
Stock no. 1824017
Published by Foulis; Haynes. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A Foulis Motoring Book. In 1926 two young brothers took an Austin Seven and builty for it a new and sporting body. Even in that first design could be divined the hallmark that was to identify their creations and those that bore their name for the next half century. That hallmark was Style adn the name was Jensen - a combination that produced some of the most prestigious and desired motorcars of any era. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 200 pages including index. ISBN: 0854296824. A nice copy in a clean dustwrapper. Musty odour present.

Buy now for £25.00 Add to Wish List

LAMIA'S WINTER-QUARTERS
Written by Alfred Austin. Illustrated by George Samuel Elgood.
Stock no. 2137588
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1908. Good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. 16 colour plates. 4 page booklist to rear. Spine is bro2wned with small split to base. Damp staining to rear, going through to pages at rear. Foxing.

Buy now for £20.00 Add to Wish List

HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE
Written by Alfred Austin. Illustrated by Agnes Locke.
Stock no. 2137416
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1908. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and front cover. Black/grey patterned border. 20 colour plates. A and C Black 7/6 Series. Originally published in 1902 by Macmillan. 4 page booklist to rear. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some grubby marks and spots to covers. Foxing to various degrees throughout.

Buy now for £25.00 Add to Wish List

THE PIONEERS
Written by R.M. Ballantyne. Illustrated by Henry Austin.
Stock no. 2134840
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Limited. Circa 1917. Almost very good condition.

A Tale of the Western Wilderness. Blue cloth with black/cream titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour frontis. Scuffing to onlay to front cover. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

Buy now for £10.00 Add to Wish List

THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Mrs. Herbert Railton.
Stock no. 1820468
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st thus 1891. Almost very good condition.

Limited Edition of 150. The Temple Library series. Vellum(?) spines, orange/brown title to spine, green cloth boards. Deckle-edged. Numbered copy 139. Both spines grubby, volume II spine is also worn with chips of missing vellum and title is faded. Endpapers and text block browned. Hinges pulled but binding tight.

Buy now for £30.00 Add to Wish List