‘The romance continues on this next enchanted adventure, and you are invited to join us…but only if you promise to keep a secret!’ This is what is printed on the back cover of this lovely book. So of course, being curious I had to look inside to see what was to be kept secret.
All I will tell you is that the book is full of fascinating information about an Edwardian emporium, a Victorian Chapel and Manor House and a Regency Dolls House. There are pop-ups, flaps to lift, envelopes and house fronts to open to reveal the SECRET!
THE E
NCHANTED DOLLS’ HOUSE WEDDING
Johnson, Robyn. Illustrated by Johnson, Robyn. Stock no. 1301131
The Five Mile Press. 1st. 2006. Fine condition. Large format. Blue pictorial boards (front board is padded). Pop-out scenes, flaps to lift, envelopes to open, etc. Spine slightly bumped. Neat name and date written on acceptance card in first envelope otherwise fine. 174178090X.
Price: £14.00 Click here for availability
This week…
Can you match the breed of dog with their images below?
1) Lhasa Apsos
2) Borzoi
3) Bichon Frise
4) Samoyed
Answer to last week’s Teaser…
Biggles foils the gold thieves in Biggles Works It Out.
I have just finished reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and thought I needed to improve my knowledge of Tudor England and where better place to start than the county in which I live.
TUDOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Johnson, Joan. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 811661
Alan Sutton. 1st ed . 1985. Fine condition. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. 0862992222.
Price: £7.00
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It that time of the year again and the 2nd Westerman Seminar is due very soon. Here is a letter I received from Nigel Gossop who does a lot of hard work putting the day together.
How time has flown since the First Westerman Seminar in February earlier this year. I am pleased to tell you that the programme for the 2012 seminar is almost complete and I have attached a poster and a booking form and would be delighted to see you again at the next, in what is now only a matter of weeks away.
The date for the Westerman Seminar 2012, is Saturday 11th February from 10am till 4pm and once again the seminar will be held in the Portsmouth Grammar School, Memorial Library Guest speakers for this year are Dr Rachel Johnson from the University of Worcester with her talk How Westerman changed the Henty Hero and Dr Philip MacDougal I have listed the main speakers on the poster, but there are a few additional items including an interview/conversation with Eric Axford whose mother Amelia was Percy’s home help. Eric will bring along Percy Westerman’s writing chair from The Barge and tell the story of how he got it, plus many more anecdotes.
Dr Rachel Johnson from The University of Worcester will bring some items from the collection that were not available last year for display and we will have some previously unrecorded items from the Wareham Weekend Reminiscence Project that have been kindly loaned from Wareham residents/participants.
The seminar will be the platform to launch the latest Portsmouth Grammar School Monograph publication titled Tales of Pluck and Daring – the life and work of Percy F. Westerman. Each delegate will receive a complimentary copy of this limited edition full-colour publication.
to view the poster advertising the event click here
And finally if you would like to book you tickets – here is the ticket order form. forthe most up to date information visit the Westerman Yarns Blog
P.S. Click Here to view our stock of Percy Westerman books, over 400 to choose from.
This week…
In which Biggles story does the hero foil a group of international criminals that had disguised stolen gold as sacks of fertiliser?
a) Biggles in the Blue
b) Biggles Works It Out
c) Biggles Flies East
d) Biggles Takes A Holiday
Answer to last week’s Teaser…
In Smiley’s People, Karla reaches the West by crossing a bridge.
The Royal Mail have recently issued a special set of stamps showing characters from six of Roald Dahl‘s children’s books. The stamps show illustrations by Quentin Blake who illustrated many of the books.
Matilda is featured on the 76p stamp. She is a great reader and has read Dickens, and Kipling by the time she is 5 years old! Soon after I came to work at Rose’s Books one of my daughters bought me a mug with Matilda on it and the caption ‘What am I going to read now I’ve read all the children’s books.’
The ‘gloriumptiously collectable’ (in the words of the Royal Mail) stamps also feature Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Twits and The Witches
Click here to see our current stock of Dahl books.
Here at Stella and Rose’s Books we have been working hard on a new internal system, one major change in the upgrade is the way we match our stock against any recorded book interests we have on file for our customers.
From now on customers will receive notification in HTML email format, rather than plain text. This means they will see thumbnail images of the books, along with some brief details and a link to full details. If an interest matches more than 12 books you will receive a link to our website where you will be able to browse more matches with full details. Click here to view an example.
We also have the ability to refine our records to more accurately reflect interests. For example, if you collect 1st editions we can now send you a list within your area of interest which only contains 1st editions. For more examples please click here. Also the frequency with which you receive your matches can be from within hours to yearly, or any period in between – whatever suits you best. Currently the frequency for general interests matches is every three months whereas you would be notified of specific book matches within 24 hours.
If you would like to register or update any book interests you can do so by filling in our form here.
Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and started drawing at the age of five, he left school at the age of 15 and then studied at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology .
In April 1939 he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. In January 1942, he was stationed in Singapore until Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. His original drawings from this period are in a collection along with other P.O.W. artists work in the Imperial War Museum.
In the 1950’s Ronald Searle drew for magazines such as Life and Punch , he compiled more St Trinians books which were partly based on his sister’s school in Cambridge. He also worked with Geoffrey Willans on The Molesworth books .and the Alex Atkinson travel books.. He was also involved in designing for the cinema and worked on ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’. He won many awards and merits for his work including a CBE , The German Order of Merit and was decorated with the Chevalier de La legion D’Honneur.
if you would like details on these and our other Ronald Searle books please click here
After a brief interruption due to the holiday period, Tim’s Teaser returns this week!
In John Le Carre’s thriller Smiley’s People, by which method does Karla ‘come over’ to the West?
a) In a railway wagon
b) By boat
c) Across a bridge
d) Through a tunnel
Answer to the last Teaser…
The Charles Dickens novel was Great Expectations, and the two characters were Estella and Pip.
This week I have chosen a book about the story of the standard gauge railway from Sydney to Perth. Mainly because I am skypeing with my sister in Australia tonight( for the first time)
Although to be accurate she lives in Bunbury.
ALL STATIONS WEST
Fearnside, G.H.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 598095
Haldane Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 1st ed . 1970. Good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The story of the Sydney-Perth standard gauge railway. B/w photos. Book: Ex-lib, stamps to prelims, else contents very good.
Price: £7.00 click here for availability
