Stella & Rose's Books

WINGS ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE
Written by Alex Henshaw.
Stock no. 1827793
Published by Cirrus Associates. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition.

Postwar flying in Africa in the 1940s. A fascinating glimpse of the last days of relative freedom in the air overseas, before stricter regulations and universal air traffic control virtually closed the doors to the intrepid long-distance non-radio pilot. Sequel to 'The Flight of the Mew Gull' and 'Sigh for a Merlin'. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. 183 pages. ISBN: 1902807197. Boards ligthly scuffed else a lovely copy.

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THE NORTH WALES QUARRY HOSPITALS AND THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF THE QUARRYMEN
Written by Edward Davies.
Stock no. 1827792
Published by Gwynedd Archive Services. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The quarry hospitals of Dinorwig, Bethesda and Ffestiniog. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 311 pages. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 0901337838. Minor bump to top of spine. Minor mark to rear board. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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GREENWITCH
Written by Susan Cooper.
Stock no. 1827791
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The third book of The Dark is Rising series. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 147 pages. ISBN: 0701150483. Light browning to base of spine. Light vertical crease to spine. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed, minor blue mark to spine, narrow band of fading at spine edge of front panel (vertically).

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CAROLINE CANTERS HOME
Written by Caroline Arkill. Illustrated by Elizabeth Grant.
Stock no. 1827790
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A pony story. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 034021385X. A few minor foxspots to text block and endpapers. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, grubby to rear panel, lightly edge-worn.

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THE BALLET TWINS
Written by Jean Estoril; Mabel Esther Allan. Illustrated by Lucy Su.
Stock no. 1827789
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st thus 1989. Very good condition.

Originally published as 'We Danced in Bloomsbury Square'. Debbie and Dorrie share a determination to be ballerinas... by the author of the Drina books. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0356168042. SIGNED with personal gift inscription and dated by the author to front endpaper. Boards lightly bumped at corners and a little scuffed. Tiny nick to top of spine. Contents browned.

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A PASSION FOR PLANTS: THE TRESEDERS OF TRURO
Written by Suzanne Treseder.
Stock no. 1827788
Published by Alison Hodge. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

The story of the Treseder family's passion for plants and of six generations of Treseders who were nurserymen for over 150 years. Matt pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780906720370. Light bumping to board corners. Minor foxing to text block and gutter edge of endpapers. A few pages have pale brown foxspots.

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NINETEEN ACRES
Written by John Healy.
Stock no. 1827787
Published by Kennys Bookshops & Art Galleries Ltd.. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of the author's mother's family and how they lived, lvoed, fought and worked on, and for, nineteen acres of mixed land in Mayo, the battlefields of France, the Republican movement at home, or amid the sick of Brooklyn, New York. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0906312108. Spine faded, top & tail of spine more-so. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Text block browned. A few minor marks and foxspots to endpapers. Dustwrapper is worn at edges with loss to top of spine, and a few small closed tears.

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HERBS, SPICES, AND MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR HUMAN GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS: HEALTH BENEFITS AND SAFETY
Written by Megh R. Goyal; Preeti Birwal; Durgesh Nandini Chauhan.
Stock no. 1827786
Published by Apple Academic Press Inc.. 1st 2023. Slightly better than very good condition.

This volume presents valuable information for exploring the health claims of plant-based phytochemicals for the treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal disorders. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour & b/w charts and photos. ISBN: 9781774637142. Board corners lightly bumped. Contents clean.

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EXPLOSIVES, PROPELLANTS AND PYROTECHNICS (BRASSEY'S WORLD MILITARY TECHNOLOGY)
Written by A. Bailey; S.G. Murray.
Stock no. 1827785
Published by Brassey's. 2000. Very good condition.

Written for those who wish to improve their knowledge of military weapons and equipment. This book introduces the reader to the science of technology associated with the three main classes of explosive, detonating high explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1857532554. Reprint. Boards lightly rubbed at corners, lightly scuffed. Small stain to text block which merges onto the margins of a few pages. Else a clean copy.

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HUMAN NATURE AND THE CAUSES OF WAR
Written by John David Orme.
Stock no. 1827784
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. Circa 2018. Nearly fine condition.

This book examines the effects of six types of regime on foreign policy, monarchy, republic and sultanistic, charismatic and military and totalitarian dictatorship.Light brown pictorial boards. ISBN: 9783319771663. Lower corners lightly rubbed. Still in original shrinkwrap which is starting to split on spine.

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NOT FORGETTING THE 9TH: THE WAR DIARY OF SGT. CYRIL GRIMES 1944-1945
Written by Cyril Grimes; Sylvia Fox.
Stock no. 1827783
Published by Timebox Press. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition.

With the 9th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment, to India, Burma and Malaya. Cyril Grimes was conscripted into the newly formed 9th Battalion in the Summer of 1940 when he was in his mid 20's. Cyril's first sight of action was in the Arakan in 1944 and for the whole of this and the following year, he made a daily entry in secret diaries. This is the story of Cyril's war and a tale of friendship and discovery. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps and photos. Colour map to inside rear cover. ISBN: 9780955021916. A lovely copy.

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THE LIZARD CANARY AND OTHER RARE BREEDS
Written by G.T. Dodwell.
Stock no. 1827782
Published by Saiga Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. B/w and a few colour illustrations. Cage and Aviary Series. ISBN: 0862300525. Boards clean. Text block slightly browned. Light browning to contents. A very few pale foxspots to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and is scuffed to rear panel.

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