Stella & Rose's Books

VALODE & PISTRE
Written by Marc Auge.
Stock no. 1606725
Published by Editions Du Regard. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Text in FRENCH. Large format. Colour photos. ISBN: 2841050025. Corners bumped, some dents to board edges. Wrapper is edge creased with a couple of small edge tears. Some fading to spine and edges.

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DEAN'S LITTLE FOLK'S LIBRARY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1314447
Published by Dean & Son. circa 1880. Good condition.

Contents: A, Apple Pie; Jane and Her Brother; Pretty Puss and Little Dog; My Picture Book. Small format. Green cloth with gilt title labels to front and oval pictorial onlay of a bird. Yellow endpapers. Chromo illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers lightly discoloured, spine browned. Small pink mark to lower edge of front cover. Joints cracked, front joint possible repaired. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins and some light foxing to contents. Top corner tips lightly creased.

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WORLD'S CHILDREN
Written by Dorothy Menpes. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes.
Stock no. 1314438
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1903. Very good condition.

Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies. White decorated cloth with gilt titles. 100 colour plates. 246 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by the artist. This is copy no. 322. Spine and corners bumped. White cloth is slightly grubby. Foxing throughout (affects tissue-guards but not actual plates).

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GOLDEN APOLLO
Written by Phyllis Hastings. Illustrated by Margery Gill.
Stock no. 1504226
Published by Hutchinson of London. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of a boy's fight to save a Jersey calf from the butcher! Brown boards, black title and vignette to front. B/w text illustrations. 204 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Small light mark to rear cover. Some foxing and browning otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a couple of small tears and chips. Spine slightly darkened, rear panel grubby, light foxing.

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THE MOUSEWIFE
Written by Rumer Godden. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.
Stock no. 1403797
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, red vignette of mouse and title to front. Superb b/w text illustrations throughout. 37 numbered pages. 9 x 6.5". A little bumping to spine and corners. Slight fading to bottom of boards. Light foxing to top of boards. Front board is a little bowed. Foxing to endpapers and page edges otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edgeworn and creased. Spine is browned. Panels are foxed. Verso of wrapper is browned. Small ink stamp to front panel.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE PREFECT
Written by Nancy Breary. Illustrated by Leo Bates.
Stock no. 1504223
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1947. Slightly better than good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Lindsay's appointment as a prefect at River Place school astonishes the sixth form, because Lindsay is apparently as casual as she is popular. But the Head knows of what good stuff she is made. Green cloth with brown titles to spine and front. 304 pages, top edge green. 4 b/w plates. Spine bumped and faded, Wear to corners. Brown marks and foxing to spine and cover edges. Ink name and address to front pastedown, Book 14 written to front endpaper. Some light browning and foxing. Dustwrapper has numerous tears, some large, but not a great deal of loss. Creased, edge worn and grubby with foxing.

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NODDY GOES TO SCHOOL
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 1713434
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1952. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Noddy Book 6: Pink pictorial boards, rounded spine. Colour illustrations throughout. Corners bumped. Very edge of bottom of front cover stained. Wrapper torn and creased with a little loss.

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NODDY GETS INTO TROUBLE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Mary Brooks.
Stock no. 1713432
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; C.A. Publications Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Noddy book 8. Green pictorial boards. Colour pictures. Belongs to box completed in ink. Covers edge worn. Wrapper torn and grubby with patch of loss to top of front panel and some surface damage.

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SHAKESPEARE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE
Written by Emma Marshall.
Stock no. 1810858
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Good condition.

Oblong format. Green cloth boards, gilt titles, bevelled edges. Colour & b/w illustrations. A few marks to contents. Front endpaper torn at gutter edge with no loss. Hinges pulled, rear hinge messy with creasing to rear endpaper and small chips to edges.

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THE BLACK THUMB MYSTERY
Written by Bruce Campbell.
Stock no. 1713416
Published by World Distributors Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Ken Holt mystery for Boys. Red boards, black title to spine and vignette to front. B/w frontis. Top edge yellow. Wrapper edge-chipped with some creasing.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN FLAME
Written by Bruce Campbell.
Stock no. 1713407
Published by World Distributors (manchester) Ltd. 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Ken Holt Mystery for Boys. B/w frontis. The tenth book in the series. Wrapper edge-worn with a couple of chips.

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PATIENCE
Written by P. Francis Grant.
Stock no. 1504210
Published by Geoffrey Bles. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Small format. Red cloth. 20 new and original games including The Anchor, Rainbow, Grand National, Noak's Ark etc. 63 pages. Cloth a little rippled on rear cover. One hinge cracked. Some browning to joints and a few fox spots to endpapers. Dustwrapper is browned, especially front panel. Edge worn with a few chips, creases and marks. Name in pen to top of front flap.

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