Stella & Rose's Books

BOSKY GOLDFISH (POET)
Written by Peter Thornhill.
Stock no. 2112172
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. Colour illustrations throughout. Large print. Byron Omar Shakespeare Kipling Yeats Goldfish was so small when he was born that if he hadn't been all shining gold...nobody would have known he was there at all. Bumping and wear to corners; a little chipping. Front cover is a little bowed. Odd foxspot and margin mark. Illustrations are remarkably bright!

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FRANK FLOWER THE BOY WAR-CORRESPONDENT
Written by A.B. Cooper.
Stock no. 2112167
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Brown pictorial cloth with orange/black titles. Bumping and wear to covers; some scuffing. Front cover is a little bowed. Foxing and some page browning.

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THE HEROIC IMPOSTER
Written by Tom Bevan.
Stock no. 2112166
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles and vignettes. B/w frontis. Some fading to cover edges and spine; a little bumping. Foxing. Wrapper is creased with some edge-tears and chips; a little loss.

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THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Gustav Canton.
Stock no. 1311370
Published by Joseph, Myers & Co.. circa 1863. Good condition.

"An Invitation to the Youth of both Sexes to contemplate animated nature in 16 plates designed and engraved on stone by Gustavus Canton. Text according to the best and latest authorities on natural sciences". Large format. Embossed navy cloth with gilt title and decoration to front cover. 97 pages. Cream endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and worn, spine professionally re-backed retaining original cloth. Cover edges lightly rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Joints cracked and repaired, Small binders sticker to rear pastedown. There is foxing and grubby fingermarks throughout and there are light damp stains to the plates (mainly evident on verso but some do show stains to front, however, colours are still bright on all plates). A decent copy of a very scarce book.

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HERE'S TO YOU RACHEL ROBINSON
Written by Judy Blume.
Stock no. 1501905
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rachel Robinson, gifted musician and straight-A student, is rapidly finding boys to be the biggest problem in her life... Red boards, white title to spine. 196 pages. ISBN: 0434966142. Lower corners bumped, base of spine lightly bumped. Erased pencil marks to front endpaper otherwise contents clean. Rear flap of dustwrapper is edge creased.

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THACKERAYANA NOTES AND ANECDOTES
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray. Illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Stock no. 2112160
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1880. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt/black vignettes to front cover. Depicting Humorous Incidents in his School Life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the Books of his Every-day Reading. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping to cover edges. Some fraying to cloth at edges. Some foxing and page browning. Page edges are 'scraggy', where some pages have been uncut - but have been 'cut', but not neatly - some tears to these pages.

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FIVE IN A FAMILY
Written by Mrs. A.C. Osborn Hann.
Stock no. 1311357
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 160 pages. Spine bumped. Prize plate to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned and some foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and price-cut.

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TREASURE
Written by M.C. Reynolds.
Stock no. 1311353
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Being the strange adventures of Mr. Francis. Red cloth with black titles and decoration to front and spine. 255 pages. Colour frontis. Spine very slightly bumped and rubbed. Prize plate to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is price-cut and slightly chipped at spine and corners.

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ENID BLYTON'S DAFFODIL STORY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1709723
Published by Latimer House Limited. Circa 1958. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth spine, matt pictorial boards of children picking daffodils. 10 x 7.5". Colour illustrations. 60 pages. 9 stories. Corners worn. Spine damp-stained. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is torn and creased with some loss.

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THE PRINCE & THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 5)
Written by Petre Ispirescu.
Stock no. 1605600
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House. 1974. Good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Translated from the Romanian by Ana Cartianu. Retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. 16 pages. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602947. Covers creased and grubby. Page corners are creased and there are some grubby marks but overall contents are VG.

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SANDRO'S BATTLE
Written by David Scott Daniell. Illustrated by Colin Spencer.
Stock no. 1709714
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1962. Good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Front endpaper missing, with surface damage to front pastedown. School library stamp to copyright page. Price-cut wrapper is grubby to rear panel and worn to corners.

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ROUTES DE LA FURKA ET DU GRIMSEL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1709692
Published by Photoglob Co.. Circa 1910. Very good condition.

Oblong format, gilt titles. Collection of 12 photographs of various mountain scenes. Not dated but assume between 1900 and 1920. Covers lightly worn.

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