Stella & Rose's Books

THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Written by Karen Wynn Fonstad.
Stock no. 1827706
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Circa 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Drawing on the texts of The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, this Atlas is the most complete and authoritative guide to Tolkien's world. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. Maps throughout. ISBN: 0395286654. Boards clean. Text block a little browned. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is a little scuffed and has a small closed tear to top rear edge.

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THE STORY OF THE STUBBYDUB
Written by Rab; Rachel Cassels Brown. Illustrated by Rab; Rachel Cassels Brown.
Stock no. 1327311
Published by W. Westall & Co., Ltd.. Circa 1918. Very good condition.

The Stubbydub is a peculiar creature with pointed ears and webbed hands and feet. Pictorial boards. Full page colour and b/w illustrations. Large format. Covers edge worn. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Tear to one of the last pages at lower edge (not a colour plate).

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HALFWAY TO HEAVEN: THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE RAILWAYS IN THE WORLD
Written by Terry Martin.
Stock no. 1827705
Published by Railromances. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 1879-2000. In a land of extremes, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway captures the imagination of all who take the train that works its way from the cauterising heat of the plains into the shadow of Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain on Earth. No proper survey was made prior to the laying of the track, which followed a road originally designed for animals to haul carts to Darjeeling, and nobody was surprised when the train fell off the rails five times on opening day! Cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Limited to 2,000 copies. B/w & some colour photos, folding sketches of plans. ISBN: 1900622033. This is copy 1535 of 2000. A lovely copy.

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TISBURY BLUE
Written by Jim Smith. Illustrated by Jim Smith.
Stock no. 1327310
Published by The Hobnob Press. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition.

Tisbury is a remarkable cat that lived in a corner shop. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0946418012. SIGNED by the author with a small doodle to front free-endpaper. Spine very slightly bumped. A few small, light scratch marks to rear cover. Contents fine.

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WIZZIL
Written by William Steig. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1327309
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Wizzil is a bored witch. So she turns herself into a common housefly and sets off to Frimp Farm to cause a little trouble. ISBN: 0747550328. SIGNED by the illustrator to title-page.

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THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF EAST COAST JOINT STOCK
Written by Ken Hoole.
Stock no. 1827704
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The passenger carriages used on the East Coast Route (London-Edinburgh). Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and sketches of carriages. ISBN: 0860934306. A lovely copy.

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A STORY ABOUT DUCKS
Written by Jack Townend. Illustrated by Jack Townend.
Stock no. 1327308
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Small, oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light sellotape(?) mark to fore-edge of front cover. Stitching pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still tightly bound.

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HISTORIC HASTINGS
Written by J. Manwaring Baines.
Stock no. 1827703
Published by Cinque Port Press Ltd.. 1st thus 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Amended and revised edition. Red boards, gilt titles. 438 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0948869003. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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A WAY OF LIFE: GLIMPSES OF TODMORDEN PAST
Written by Roger Birch.
Stock no. 1827702
Published by E.J. Morten. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An insight to life in Todmorden as recorded by the early camera. Brown mottled cloth boards, dark brown title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0901598585. Spine and horizontal board edges lightly browned. Text block lightly browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to contents and pale foxspots to endpapers. Else contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is browned and lightly edge-worn.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND THE WIZARD OF OZ
Written by Lewis Carroll; L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger.
Stock no. 1327307
Published by North-South Books. Circa 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two classics illustrated by Zwerger. Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0735813426. 2nd printings. Spines and corners are slightly bumped. Ex-libris plate to rear pastedown of Wizard of Oz (covering a patch of surface paper damage). Contents are otherwise fine. Slipcase is just a little grubby/marked and slightly bumped/rubbed at corners, crease to one panel at top edge.

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SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAYS: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
Written by Adrian Gray.
Stock no. 1827701
Published by Middleton Press. 1st 1998. Very good condition.

Two feuding Kent railway companies are united in an uneasy marriage. The story of a railway company and the people who ran it at a pivotal point in British railway history. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1901706087. Spine faded. Boards a little scuffed. Contents clean.

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PETER PAN & WENDY
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson.
Stock no. 1327306
Published by Robert Frederick Ltd.. 2003. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. A Treasury of Stories Series. Colour illustrations and one tone illustrations. ISBN: 0907789145. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A couple of small foxspots to lower edges of front endpapers else contents clean.

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