Stella & Rose's Books

RAT TRAP ISLAND
Written by P.M. Hubbard.
Stock no. 1331492
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, black title to spine. 144 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Small mark to top edge of front cover. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed and fadded, white rear panel is very slightly grubby.

THE WOULDBEGOODS
Written by E. Nesbit. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
Stock no. 1331491
Published by Folio Society. 2009. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine with gilt title. Cream pictorial boards. Green endpapers. B/w text illustrations. Minimal rubbing to spine. Contents fine. No slipcase.

THE LAND THE RAVENS FOUND
Written by Naomi Mitchison. Illustrated by Brian Allderidge.
Stock no. 1331490
Published by Collins. 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An Icelandic saga. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 192 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine bumped. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with some slight loss, rear panel is a little grubby.

THREE SCHOOL CHUMS
Written by John Finnemore.
Stock no. 1331489
Published by Latimer House Limited. 1953. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Teddy Lester Books No. 1. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w frontis. 183 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is lightly foxed on verso, is badly sunned to spine and is edge worn.

THE LARK ON THE WING
Written by Elfrida Vipont. Illustrated by T.R. Freeman.
Stock no. 1331488
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press. 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, silver title to spine and vignette of Lark to front. B/w illustrations. Second impression. Foxing to outer page edges. Nice, bright dustwrapper is complete with just minimal edge rubbing.

EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES
Written by Erich Kastner.
Stock no. 1331487
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1942. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth. Black titles and vignettes. B/w text illustations. One colour plate opposite page 168 (as issued). 222 pages. New and Cheaper Edition. With an introduction by Walter de la Mare. Spine and corners bumped. Cover edges sightly faded and grubby. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock slightly grubby. Front free-endpaper partially browned. Dustwrapper is very grubby and is edge worn and torn with sections of loss.

THE RIB OF THE GREEN UMBRELLA
Written by Naomi Mitchison. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1331486
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Italy 1944, three children work together to help the partisans, receiving and passing on messages. Black spine with silver title, green boards with silver vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 160 pages. Spine bumped. Large crease across front cover (cracking to pastedown because of this crease). Endpapers partly browned. Marks and remains of labels to endpapers. Very grubby fingermarks to some pages. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with small tear and minimal loss to top of spine, old tape repairs on verso.

HENRIK'S FOREST HOME
Written by M.E. Drewsen.
Stock no. 1331485
Published by Pickering & Inglis Ltd.. 1948. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards. 96 pages. Colour frontis. Spine and corners bumped. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Name and address in ink to half title-page. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge worn and torn with some loss, rear panel is grubby.

THE KNOCKERS
Written by Sheena Porter. Illustrated by Gareth Floyd.
Stock no. 1331484
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow boards, gilt title to spine. 132 pages. B/w tex tillustrations. Foxing to endpapers and top edge of textblock (also affecting top edges of covers). Dustwrapper is lightly edge rubbed and creased.

ESCAPE IN DARKNESS
Written by Kathleen Fidler. Illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam.
Stock no. 1331483
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1961. Good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Set in Culross on the Forth in the early seventeenth century. Blue boards, black title to spine. 160 pages. Colour frontis, some b/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and some tiny indentations to cover edges. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Some foxing to textblock else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut and edge worn, torn and slightly chipped (minimal loss).

DEVIL BY THE SEA
Written by Nina Bawden.
Stock no. 1331482
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Originally published by Collins in 1957, this edition is abridged. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 191 pages. ISBN: 0575021411. Spine and corners bumped. Covers and contents clean. Price label covering printed price on front flap has been partially removed. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF A GALLEY-SLAVE
Written by M. Betham-Edwards.
Stock no. 1331481
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1901. Good condition.

Translated from the French by Betham-Edwards. Famous Books for Boys and Girls series. Green decorated cloth with gilt title to spine. 192 pages plus 16 page publication list to rear. B/w frontis. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Prize plate to front pastedown. Front free-endpaper removed. Grubby fingermarks to page margins. Page browning. Name in ink to rear pastedown. Small red ink(?) mark to top edge of textblock also affects top edge of rear pastedown.