This Month - The Armchair Time-Traveller by Tim Santon

Hands up all of you who read the title and thought that this was going to be about H.G. Wells and The Time Machine ... Isn't it amazing how a few words can so powerfully create an image in the mind of the reader? Although a scientist with too much time on his hands may yet create a time-travelling armchair, we can all achieve personal transportation with alternative, but perhaps no less sophisticated, equipment: a book and the human mind .

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Featured Books - The Redwall Library - Brian Jacques

The Redwall books, authored by Brian Jacques , are so named after the central fictional location of the stories, Redwall Abbey. The heroes are peace-loving mice, moles, shrews, squirrels, and their friends, who exhibit human characteristics in a medieval setting. They face the dark side of the animal world, represented by rats, weasels, stoats, foxes, and their villain allies, in the day-to-day struggle of good versus evil, life versus death.

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A Sample of New Stock

Mother Goose Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell

The Garden Shed by Charles Keeping

Behind the Stumps by Godfrey Evans

The Theatre Royal at Bath by William Lowndes

Price: £ 70

Other Nursery Rhyme Books

Price: £18

Other Picture Books

Price: £8

Other Cricket Books

Price: £14

Other Somerset Books

Selection from our Special Book Room

The Complete Costume History by Auguste Racinet

Rivers of Great Britain The Thames from Source to Sea

Butterflies of the Oriental Region Part III by Bernard D'Abrera

Babar and Father Christmas by Jean De Brunhoff

1st ed 2003, 473 plates, 636 pages. Beautiful pictorial cloth binding. Price: £110

1st ed1891, All edges gilt. B/w illustrations. Priced: £110

1st ed1986, Packed with superb colour photos. Price: £150

1st ed UK1940. The Last Babar book to be written by Jean De Brunoff. Price: £100

News in Brief

Exciting news for collectors of children's books, we have recently catalogued a number of Richmal Crompton's William Books, and Angela Brazil's Girl School Stories - many 1st editions in their rare dustwrappers. Also just in, a collection of Percy Westerman Books.

This month's images are of the newly opened Special Book Room at Stella Books. With all the extra space it's now a pleasure to browse - and you can even sit and read a little.

Remember with over 6,000 books reduced by 30% in our Springsale there are plenty of reasons to come and browse our stock. Click here to browse our sale stock.

To coincide with the new film on the life of Beatrix Potter "Miss Potter" we have added to our stock of Potter books and some of our existing stock is in our sale.

For collectors of Observer's Books and Ladybird books we have recently launched websites which are dedicated to these collectable series. The sites are: www.ladybird-books.com & www.observerbooks.co.uk

We have recently improved the search capabilities on our Advanced Search form to make it easier for you to locate the books you want. It is now possible to sort search results by Most Recent Stock or by Illustrator surname, as well as by author, title or price.

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