This Month - A Walk in the Forest of Dean

I went on a wonderful walk the other day in The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, collecting blackberries for jam making (and eating one or two as I went), being thoroughly uplifted by the sight of so much abundance on our trees this year, with all their shades of colour, and listening to the birds seemingly enjoying their day too.

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Featured Books - A. & C. Black's 20/- Colour Books

What links Egyptian Birds, Bonnie Scotland, Children and War?

The answer is that they are among the ninety-two 20/- (20 shillings) series of Colour Books published by A. & C. Black between 1901 and 1921. The Edwardian period was, perhaps, the peak time for book illustrations as, although photography was well established, the black and white images could not match the brilliance of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac and their contemporaries for colour illustrations. The A. & C. Black's 20/- series used water-colour artists and was the first to use the new "three colour" process for colour plates. The books were lavish in their use of colour illustrations with most volumes having 70 or more colour plates. Read More

A Sample of New Stock

The Blue Fairy Book By Andrew Lang

The Long Patrol by Brian Jacques

Memoirs of a Fellwanderer by A. Wainwright

English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum 1558-1958 by C. Wilson Peck

Price: £ 90

Other Fairy Tales Books

Price: £9

Other Animal Story Books

Price: £10

Other Lake District Books

Price: £120

Other Coin Books

News in Brief

Last posting dates for Christmas :-
U.K.:- 2nd Class - 16th December, 1st Class - 19th December
Airmail (Western Europe):- Wednesday 13th December
Airmail (Rest Of World):- Friday 8th December
Surface Mail :- Too late for 2006, order now for 2007

Just In :- A collection of Andrew Lang books including a stunning first edition of The Violet Fairy Book priced at 600 pounds.

Rupert Bear was 86 years old on 8th November and is celebrating his birthday with a makeover!

New Arrival :- One of the donkeys in the field opposite Stella Books has surprised the owners with a beautiful brown foal.

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This Month's Photograph is of the River Wye upstream from Stella Books.