Stella & Rose's Books

COWBOY SAM AND PORKY
Written by Edna Walker Chandler. Illustrated by Jack Merryweather.
Stock no. 1402710
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. 1st 1966. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Cowboy Sam Series Book 8. Big Bill is a cook on Cowboy Sam's ranch and Porky is his horse. All Porky seems to do is eat and sleep until one day the secret of how to make him work like other cowboy horses id discovered. Grey pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Large, easy to read text. 63 pages. Spine and corners a little bumped and rubbed. Board edges are browned. Small nick to centre of spine. Foxing to endpapers and to some pages otherwise contents are clean. Slight musty smell. Pictorial dustwrapper is edgeworn with small tears. Small holes to front panel, spine and fold at front. Wrapper is browned and grubby with foxing and some damp marks to verso.

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THE BEASTLY BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 1313082
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Quotations from works as diverse as those of Chaucer, Chesterton, Binstead and Byron. Grey cloth with red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 182 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned and light foxing to edges of covers. Endpapers partially browned, some foxing. Contents unused. Heavy foxed dustwrapper is also very browned to spine and and rear panel edges, is edge worn with loss and section of loss to top of spine and front panel.

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SERAPHINE-DI GOES TO SCHOOL
Written by Dorothea Moore.
Stock no. 1502869
Published by The Girl's Own Paper Office. circa 1937. Almost very good condition.

Light green boards black decoration and black title to front cover. Gilt title to spine. Colour frontis and 4 b/w full page illustrations. 189 pages plus 2 page book list. Spine is bumped and has white splash marks. Couple of small marks to rear cover. Front joint and a couple of hinges starting to crack. Presentation plate to front endpaper, neat child's writing to front pastedown. A little foxing and browning, contents generally clean. Top text block edge grubby.

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SECRET ARENA
Written by Elleston Trevor.
Stock no. 1313046
Published by White Lion Publishers Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in 1951. Pale blue boards with gilt title to spine. 222 pages. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is marked to rear panel, slightly browned to spine and a little bit edge worn.

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PICTURE LIVES OF GREAT HEROES
No author listed.
Stock no. 2114723
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1886. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brown cloth with gilt title and green/brown decorations to front. With 48 coloured and tinted illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Front endpaper is browned, with tear to bottom of page next to spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few hinges are pulled. Margin marks and a little foxing.

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CHILDHOOD
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 2114719
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, gilt title. Blue boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. A book of poems. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing to corners. Chipping to cloth at top and tail of spine. Uneven fading to cover edges. Foxing and some grubby margin marks throughout. Stitching is pulled in a few places.

Price: £60.00 £45.00.

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PUMPKIN PALACE
Written by Evelyn Powell-Price. Illustrated by Cicely Steed.
Stock no. 2114718
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards, with cloth spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Some colour. 75 pages. 10 x 7.5". Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is grubby, with tape repairs to edges (some to verso) and a few small nicks of loss.

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WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Wal Paget.
Stock no. 2114707
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1898. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. 12 b/w plates. 384 pages + 32 page booklist. All edges green. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some foxing to pages internally. Name in ink to front endpaper. All plates present.

Price: £54.00 £40.50.

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THE ADVENTURES OF JACK
Written by Frances Brundage. Illustrated by Frances Brundage.
Stock no. 2114699
Published by Stecher Litho. Co.. Fair condition.

Large format (tall). Pictorial card wraps. Colour and two-tone illustrations. Covers are foxed and grubby, with chips and tears to corners. Some creasing to covers. Contents are detached from covers. Small inscription in ink to first page. Grubby margin marks.

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THREE-POINTED STAR
Written by David Scott-Moncrieff; St. John C. Nixon; Clarence Paget.
Stock no. 1711495
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of Mercedes-Benz cars and their racing successes. B/w photos. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Wrapper spine faded with some edge damage.

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LAST STOP
Written by Ralf Obergfell.
Stock no. 1711480
1st 2008. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A photographic history of the final days of the Routemasters Buses. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781859836101.

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PLIMPLOMPLIMPS THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JACK-IN-THE-BOX
Written by Julius Berstl; Compton Mackenzie. Illustrated by Wilgart Hofheinz.
Stock no. 1711471
Published by The Bodley Head. Circa 1938. Very good condition.

Cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Scissor-cut b/w illustrations. Foreword by Mackenzie. Covers and edges worn. A few marks to covers. Ink inscription and marks to front endpaper.

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