Stella & Rose's Books

HEATHLANDS (NN 72)
Written by Nigel Webb.
Stock no. 1202149
Published by Book Club Associates. 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series No. 72. Book Club edition - no price on dustwrapper and no Collins at base of spine. Green cloth. 20 colour photos and over 100 b/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0002190206. Foxing to endpapers. Free front endpaper has pencil erasure marks and top corner is creased. Text block is slightly grubby otherwise contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine (normal for this series).

Price: £96.00 £72.00.

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A CORNISH CHRONICLE
Written by F.E. Halliday.
Stock no. 1202148
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Carews of Antony From Armada to Civil War. B/w frontis. B/w map. 171 pages. Small dent to edge of a few pages. Wrapper price-cut and scuffed.

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HENRIETTA TAKING NOTES
Written by E. Crosby Heath.
Stock no. 1302678
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1912. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine, cream title and illustration to front cover. 304 pages plus catalogue to rear. Top edge blue. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. "Compliments" label stuck to front endpaper from John Bull (insurance) Xmas 1915. Pale browning to endpapers. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is just a little rubbed and marked. A nice copy of a scarce title.

Price: £52.00 £39.00.

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MASTIFF IMAGES
Written by Hans Rosingh. Illustrated by Hans Rosingh.
Stock no. 1801978
Published by Bbpress. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Light grey paper boards with dark grey titles. Light grey image of Bullmastiff to front pastedowns. The result of three decades of magnificent photographs of Mastiffs in all their various guises. Diary entries in English and Dutch to rear. 212 pages (the last page being blank). ISBN: 9076717052. Boards a little grubby and lightly bumped at corners. Contents fine. A lovely copy of a very scarce title!

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THE WHITE ADMIRAL
Written by H.E. Bates. Illustrated by Peggy Chapman.
Stock no. 1103199
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1968. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. The White Admiral used to visit the butterflies every year for his holidays! Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0234779543. Wrapper is price-cut.

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A BOY AND A BOX
Written by Mrs. Frank Lee.
Stock no. 1103198
Published by David C. Cook Publishing Co.. Circa 1924. Very good condition.

3/4 blue cloth, gilt titles, marbled boards. Some b/w illustrations. 93 pages. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to front free endpaper.

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INDEX TO CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by Arthur D. Mortimore.
Stock no. 1801957
Published by D. Mortimore. 1st 1977. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Indexing nearly 4000 books available in British libraries in 1975 and 1976 and intended to help librarians, teachers and parents to find the books that children ask for. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. 191 pages. ISBN: 0950566500. Ex-lib with library plate to front pastedown and stamps to text block & verso of title page. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is browned at spine and lightly scuffed.

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COLLECTING CHILDREN'S BOOKS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1801956
Published by Diamond Publishing Group. 3rd 2007. Very good condition.

Third Edition, completely revised and updated. Compiled by Book And Magazine Collector, Britain's Leading Publication for book and magazine collectors. Listing over 15,000 titles by the most collectable authors with values of first editions. Blue glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w photo illustrations. 413 pages. ISBN: 9780953260171. Top & tail of spine and corners worn. A couple of grubby marks to endpapers and text block, contents clean.

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ENGINES OF INSTRUCTION MISCHIEF AND MAGIC
Written by Mary V. Jackson.
Stock no. 1801950
Published by Scolar Press. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Children's Literature in England from its Beginnings to 1839. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 304 pages including index. ISBN: 0859678369. A clean copy in a black pictorial wrapper which is edge-worn and scuffed.

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TOBY AT TIBBS CROSS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 1302642
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1st 1942. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth with green title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 192 pages. An exciting story with a background of farm life in wartime. Spine and corners bumped and spine very slightly darkened. Covers just a little bit grubby. Foxing throughout else clean.

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CURIOUS CORNWALL
Written by B Trevail.
Stock no. 1801938
Published by Tor Mark Press. Circa 1971. Almost very good condition.

Tor Mark Press series. Yellow pictorial cardwrap booklet, 48 pages. B/w photos. Includes: Roche Rock; Cornish Crosses; Cornish China-Clay; The Lost Land of Lyonesse; The Old Wreckers; Billy Bray's Chapels; Cornwall's Ancient Language; Bodmin Moor and much more. Covers unevenly faded and grubby. Contents generally clean.

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OLD CORNWALL VOL. XII No. 2 SPRING 1998
Written by Terry Knight.
Stock no. 1801937
Published by The Federation Of Old Cornwall Societies. 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

A twice yearly publication edited by Terry Knight. Green pictorial cardwraps showing old traction engine 'Perseverance' near Bodmin Road in July 1944 to front. Includes articles on Lifeboat Houses of St. Ives; Cornish Crosses; Falmouth Rectories plus many short items. 52 pages. Rear cover a little scuffed. Contents fine.

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