Stella & Rose's Books

BEACONS IN THE LANDSCAPE: THE HILLFORTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Written by Ian Brown.
Stock no. 1828022
Published by Windgather Press Ltd.. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Were the hillforts of Britain's landscape something special by those who created them or is the 'hillfort' purely an archaeologists' 'construct'? How were they built, who lived in them and to what uses were they put? A valuable synthesis of the rich vein of research carried out in England and Wales on hillforts. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781905119226. Covers lightly scuffed. Name & date in ink to title page. Else a lovely copy.

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THE WATER-SPINNERS
Written by Chris Aspin.
Stock no. 1828020
Published by Helmshore Local History Society. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

A new look at the early cotton trade. A history of the cotton mill, the thousands who laboured for long hours, the nimble fingers of young children that kept the water-frames that spun the thread constantly in motion. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, illustrations and maps. ISBN: 0906881137. Light vertical crease to spine, spine lightly faded. Text block a little grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper.One instance of annotation in ink to margin of page 253 else contents clean.

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THE DROVERS: WHO THEY WERE AND HOW THEY WENT
Written by K.J. Bonser.
Stock no. 1828018
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An Epic of the English Countryside. The life of the drovers who brought the cattle and sheep hundreds of miles, often along ancient grassy drove roads, how they lived, what sort of men they were, how they made their money, the kinds of cattle that they drove. Green cloth boareds, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 256 pages including index. Text block browned. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Book seller's address label to foot of title page. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn.

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CHURCH COURT RECORDS: AN INTRODUCTION FOR FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORIANS
Written by Anne Tarver.
Stock no. 1828017
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The church courts have existed since the Middle Ages, summoning vast numbers of ordinary people to appear before the representatives of the bishop or archdeacon for the 'reformation of their souls and the correction of their manners'. This book provides an introdcution to these documents, which have been relatively neglected; not least because the earlier papers, before 1733, were written in Latin. Sometimes scandalous (the bawdy courts), sometimes serious, the causes can provide much local background material, through which we can hear people talking about their daily lives and problems, of particular interest to historians in genearal and local and family historians in particular. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0850339278. Personal bookplate to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine and slightly scuffed.

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MEDIEVAL DEATH: RITUAL AND REPRESENTATION
Written by Paul Binski.
Stock no. 1828016
Published by British Museum Press. 1st thus 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

An absorbing study of the social, theological and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. The author examines pagan and Christian attitudes towards the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual and mortuary practice, and the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and colour plates. ISBN: 0714128031. Very slight fading to rear cover. Initials and date in ink to half-title page. Else, a lovely copy.

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THE GREEN CHILDREN
Written by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Illustrated by Margaret Gordon.
Stock no. 1828015
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1966. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Winner of the Arts Council Award for the best children's book 1966-1968. A mysterious folk tale from our early history. Boards rubbed & worn at edges. Base of spine bumped. Rear board lightly scuffed. Minor knock to top edge of boards. A few minor marks to contents else clean.

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THE GREAT WAR AT SEA: A NAVAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Written by Lawrence Sondhaus.
Stock no. 1828014
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2014. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A naval history of the First World War, revealing the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps and illustrations. ISBN: 9781107036901. Light scuffing to black pictorial dustwrapper else a lovely copy.

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AN HISTORICAL TOUR IN MONMOUTHSHIRE (2 VOLUMES)
Written by William Coxe. Illustrated by R.C. Hoare.
Stock no. 1327737
Published by T. Cadell. 1801. Good condition.

Two volumes. Full brown calf binding, red title labels to spine. Gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations and maps, some fold-out. Spines rebacked retaining original title-strips. Covers are very edge-worn and scuffed. New endpapers. Two names in ink to top margins of title-pages of both volumes (one name crossed out in each volume). Heavy foxing to contents and a musty (antiquarian) smell to contents. All plates are present. Fold-out map of Monmouthshire to volume 1 has been neatly repaired on verso with clear tape. Plan of Monmouth in volume 2 (pg292) has been neatly/professionally repaired and plan of Chepstow in volume 2 (pg357) has a small hole to it (not affecting any text or the illustration).

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THE ART OF RENAISSANCE WARFARE
Written by Stephen R. Turnbull.
Stock no. 1828013
Published by Greenhill Books. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

From the Fall of Constantinople to the 30 Years War. The story of the knight in the Renaissance. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 1853676764. Very slight fading to dustwrapper spine else a lovely copy.

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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Written by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1327734
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A handsome new edition with the characters sensitively portrayed and the action evocatively and faithfully depicted by the 1963 winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Colour plates plus b/w line drawings. Pale green boards. Gilt title to spine. 240 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. ISBN: 0722657463. Spine slightly bumped. Some light finger creases to first few pages and a couple of page margins are slightly creased. Dustwrapper rubbed/creased at top edge (where it has been moved in and out of the slipcase), small tear to top of spine. Slipcase has a few very small marks at top edges.

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THE HEAVY CRUISER TAKAO (THE ANATOMY OF THE SHIP)
Written by Janusz Skulski.
Stock no. 1327731
Published by Conway Maritime Press. 1st 1994. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Anatomy of the Ship series. B/w photos and technical line diagrams. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0851776280. Small mark to lower edge of front cover. Small bump to top of spine. Dustwrapper is slightly worn at top of spine.

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THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER VICTORIOUS (ANATOMY OF THE SHIP)
Written by Ross Watton.
Stock no. 1327730
Published by Conway Maritime Press. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Anatomy of the Ship series. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 160 pages. ISBN: 0851775802. Spine of dustwrapper is slightly faded. Spine of book is slightly bumped.

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