Stella & Rose's Books

THE LINDLEY LIBRAY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1708833
Published by Royal Horticultural society. 1927. Very good condition.

Blue cloth gilt titles. Corners bumped. A little relevant annotation.

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THE GREEN GOBLIN BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.
Stock no. 1807692
Published by George Newnes Limited. Circa 1935. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 10" x 7.5". 120 pages. Light marks to front cover. New free front endpaper expertly inserted. Scattered foxing throughout. A few grubby margin marks. Hinges pulled. Pictorial wrapper is nice and bright, worn at corners with chipping, strengthened to verso with clear tape. Wrapper spine is faded but otherwise wrapper is a very nice, bright example.

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THE COMPLETE ANGLER'S VADE-MECUM
Written by Capt. T. Williamson.
Stock no. 1807687
Published by Payne And Mackinlay. 1st 1808. Almost very good condition.

...Being A Perfect Code of Instruction on the Above Pleasing Science: Wherein are Detailed, A Great Variety of Original Practices and Inventions; Together With All That Can Contribute to the Sportsman's Amusement and Success. Paper boards. 10 b/w engraved plates to rear. xi and 316 pages. Expertly re-backed with matching modern paper, board edges also expertly repaired to match boards. Ink stamp to front pastedown. Deckled edges. Page 9-16 have loss to top margin corner. A few grubby finger marks to margins. Some slight bleeding of text. All plates present. A good working copy for the books age of over 200 years old.

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THE SILENT HUNTER
Written by Phyllis Briggs. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard.
Stock no. 1501551
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1939. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The story of a Lynx whose hunting ground is in the forests of Sweden. Captured by a boy who loves the wild creatures of the wood it is at last released to live its own happy life. Beige cloth, brown titles & borders with vignette of lynx to front cover. 222 pages. Top edge brown. B/W illustrations. A little bumping to spine and corners. Spine and some cover edges slightly browned. Endpapers browned. A few light fox spots otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears, creasing and some loss especially at top of spine.

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OLD FRENCH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1401869
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with white titles and borders. Cheap edition. B/w illustrations to song headings. Music by Horace Mansion. Songs in French. Spine and corners a little bumped. A little browning to endpapers else contents are clean and bright. Price cut dustwrapper is edge creased with a small closed tear to spine. Front panel has a vertical crease. A little grubby at spine and folds.

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THE DISINHERITED LITTLE PRINCE
Written by Chieton Chalmers.
Stock no. 1501548
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Blue cloth covers with black title to spine. Lined border and title to front cover. 123 pages with 4 page publication list to rear. 3 colour plates. B/w chapter headers and tailpieces. Approx, 6.5" x 5.25". Spine, corners and cover edges worn. Some bumping to spine and corners. Browning to front cover and spine. Front joint cracked. Star stamp and pencil numbers to front endpaper. Last plate is slightly off register. Odd margin mark and fox spot but contents generally clean.

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THE SPIRIT OF THE LETTER IN PAINTING
Written by Jean Leymarie.
Stock no. 2111950
Published by Hallmark. 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Yellow mottled boards. Colour plates. Wrapper is grubby and foxed with closed tears and chips; a little loss.

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THE ENGLISH FACE
Written by David Piper; Malcolm Rogers.
Stock no. 2111949
Published by National Portrait Gallery. 1992. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 185514008X. A few small marks to prelims. Wrapper is lightly edge-creased, with a few marks.

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BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON 1786-1846
Written by David Blayney Brown; Robert Woof; Stephen Hebron.
Stock no. 2111947
Published by The Wordsworth Trust. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Painter and Writer, Friend of Wordsworth and Keats. Includes a catalogue to rear. ISBN: 1870787250. Some light wear and small nicks along cover edges. Uneven fading to rear cover.

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THROUGH THE FRENCH CANALS
Written by Philip Bristow.
Stock no. 2111938
Published by Navigator Publishing Ltd.. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A detailed 'how-to-do-it' book. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Fold-out map tipped in to front. B/w maps and photos. 200 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little fading to spine. Page browning and a few foxspots to pages. Wrapper is grubby with some edge-creasing and browning.

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THE AVENUE
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.
Stock no. 2111935
Published by Collins. 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. 221 pages. B/w illustrations. Light bumping to cover edges. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Some page browning and foxing; mostly to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-creasing and chipping; a little loss.

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PECK'S BAD BOY AND HIS COUNTRY COUSIN CYNTHIA
Written by George W. Peckham. Illustrated by Walter McDougall.
Stock no. 1310981
Published by Stanton And Van Vliet Co.. circa 1907. Good condition.

Peck's ingenuity is taxed to originate new pranks for Cynthia, but honors are about even. Very large, oblong format (16.5 x 11"). Cardwraps with colour illustration to front. Printed on one side of the page only, short stories told in comic format. Binding repaired with new red spine covering. Front cover quite badly creased and edge worn. Wear to page edges of first few pages. Lower corner tips (at inner margins) torn off before restoration, no text/pictures affected. Some foxing and pale page browning else contents clean.

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