Stella & Rose's Books

PEARS' BLOTTING BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1502760
circa 1901. Fair condition.

With Dictionary with 15,000 words. Atlas with 60 maps and Ready Reckoner. Also contains calendars for 1900 - 1902 and Pears' desk friend. Cardwraps with onlay to front and back cover, gold titles etc. Adverts to endpapers. Approx 46 pages. Covers are worn and creased, bottom outside corner of rear cover is missing, writing within title. Pages of maps at centre of book are detached, other pages partially detached but all pages appear to be present. All pages have ragged edges. Browning to endpapers. Some marks to contents. Name to inside of front cover, couple of words to inside of rear cover.

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SUNDAY STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by E. Stewart.
Stock no. 1502757
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Good condition.

Card wraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Mounted on Linen Untearable Paper. 16 Pages inc covers. Warne's Playtime Toy Books. Spine very worn, most of surface paper missing. Creasing to corners and covers a bit grubby. Staples are missing so contents detached. A few marks to contents.

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MUFF THE CIRCUS MONKEY
Written by Lurline McGuinness. Illustrated by Galina Herbert.
Stock no. 1502756
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Muff is sure everyone knows about circus monkeys, and is surprised to find he is wrong. When he meets Australian bush animals and birds there is plenty of excitement. Black boards with gilt titles. Illustrated endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. 29 pages. A little bumping to spine and corners. Light browning to endpapers and page edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and creased with loss from base of spine. Tears have been repaired on verso with clear tape.

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SOME CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE
Written by Katherine Kennedy.
Stock no. 1502754
Published by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Limited. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

Beige boards with brown titles and pictorial onlay. White spine, brown titles. B/w illustrations. 72 pages. A little bumping to spine, corners and cover edges. Covers a bit grubby. Endpapers lightly browned. Some foxing to page edges and margins. Book has a slight odour.

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JACKIE AND ME
Written by Constance M. Lowe; Cecily M. Rutley; et al.
Stock no. 1502747
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Pictorial front board, pale blue spine, adverts to rear cover. Title page says Under the Big Hat or Jackie & Me. Short stories and nursery rhymes. B/w illustrations. Backstrip is damaged with a few patches of loss. Corners and cover edges worn. Covers grubby. Staples rusty. Top 3.5" of front joint is broken. A few grubby marks to contents and pages are lightly browned.

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THE MOTOR CAR AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Written by Gianni Marin; Andrea Mattei.
Stock no. 1711267
Published by Anthony Blond. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. From Cugnot's Steam Wagon of 1770 to the 'E' Type Jaguar. B/w photos. Wrapper has some closed tears and a little loss to base of rear panel. Some foxing to contents.

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COME MOTOR RACING WITH ME
Written by Ian Nickols. Illustrated by George Lake.
Stock no. 1711261
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. 160 Pages. Wrapper edge-chipped, with hole tear to front panel. Name in ink to front endpaper.

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DIRECTORY OF GRAND PRIX CARS 1945-65
Written by Mike Lawrence.
Stock no. 1711238
Published by Aston Publications. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Every Grand Prix of the period together with specifications and racing history plus details of some projects which never even raced. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0946627460. A limited edition signed copy. This is no. 12 of 200. SIGNED by author Mike Lawrence and Tony Brooks, John Cooper, Stirling Moss, Roy Salvadori, R.R.C. Walker on a bookplate stuck to verso of front endpaper. Binding of book into covers is lower than expected, (publisher error). Wrapper lightly browned. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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IN THE LEFT-HAND SEAT A SPORTING BIOGRAPHY OF THE HON. JOHN DAWSON-DAMER
Written by John J. Coe.
Stock no. 1711235
Published by Turton & Armstrong. 1st 2004. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A former Australian rally navigator champion. B/w photos. ISBN: 0908031807. Very light edge-creasing to wrapper.

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MIXED PICKLES
Written by Mildred Dennis Burton. Illustrated by Doris Burton.
Stock no. 1502737
Published by Roffey And Clark Ltd.. 1st 1929. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial front board shows white elf holding jar in circle surrounded by elves, animals, fairies etc., blue cloth spine, multi-coloured title. 5 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 83 pages. First story is Dulcie's Party. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Light browning to endpapers. One hinge a little cracked. Contents generally clean.

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TWO YEARS IN THE INFANT SCHOOL VOLUME FOUR
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1502735
Published by George Newnes Limited. Very good condition.

Topics 64 to 84 and Special Subjects. Prepared under the supervision of Blyton. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 1309 pages. A little bumping to spine and corners. Spine is faded and gilt dulled. Various marks to covers. Endpapers browned. Contents very good.

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THE FAIRY RING
Written by Brothers Grimm; John Edward Taylor. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
Stock no. 1312924
Published by John Murray. 1st 1846. Fair condition.

"A New Collection of Popular Tales" translated from the German by Taylor. 3/4 leather binding with gilt title and decoration to spine. Blue cloth to covers. B/w plates. Spine is rubbed and slightly darkened. Corners are slightly worn. There are a few light marks to the front cover. Both joints are cracked but not broken. Most of the tissue-guards to the plates have been removed. I think there may be an illustration to the prelims missing. Plate to page 200 has been repaired (was in two pieces has been laid down on a white piece of paper) and the last plate has lower corner torn off (actual illustration not affected). There is foxing and fingermarks to the contents. A decent copy overall of this very rare Brothers Grimm item.

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