This Month - Edmund Dulac - contributed by Maria

Edmund Dulac was born in Toulouse, France, on 22nd October 1882. His early life was influenced by his father, who was a commercial traveller in textiles and dealt with paintings on the side, and his uncle who sold Japanese prints. At a very early age Dulac began painting himself, with the oriental theme of his uncle's Japanese prints creeping in, forming his own much loved style.

As a young man Dulac decided that he would venture to London and concentrate on magazine illustration; he settled in London permanently in the autumn of 1904.Read More

Featured Book - A Child's Garden Of Verses- contributed by Chris

Who has not heard of A Child's Garden of Verses? Probably very few... But how many would associate this delightful collection of poetry with the exciting and romantic adventure story Treasure Island, or the much darker and most famous study of the abysmal depths of personality The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? All came from the pen and fertile imagination of the Scottish writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson.

Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 into a family more famous for engineering than for literary prowess - his father, Thomas, invented the marine dynamometer, which measures the force of waves, and his grandfather, also a Robert, was Britain's greatest.... Read More

A Sample of New Stock

The Flora of Bristol by James Walter White

Consolidated B-24 Liberator by Martin W. Bowman

Gower Coast Shipwrecks by Carl Smith

Price: £20

More Botany books

Price: £22

Other books on Aviation

Price: £15

More books about Shipwrecks

Price: £56

Other Beano Books

Selection from our Special Book Room

Music In Pussytown Illustrated by Louis Wain

Winnie-The-Pooh and The Bees by A.A. Milne and Illustrated by E.H. Shepard

My Days With The Fairies by Mrs. Rodolph Stawall and Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

The Jennings Report by Anthony Buckeridge

Father Tuck's "Wonderland" Series. 4 full page colour illustrations plus two tone illustrations of Wain's anthropomorphic cats.
Price: £900

Circa 1952. A New Full-Colour Edition, with Four pop-ups. A beautiful Pooh book!
Price: £90

Cira 1913. A new and enlarged edition of "Fairies I Have Met". 8 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards. Price: £450

1st edition 1970. The nineteenth title in the popular Jennings Series. A rare item.
Price: £105

News in Brief

Amongst the books catalogued this month, we have a selection of Edmund Dulac, Millicent Sowerby, Frank Richards, Just William books by Richmal Crompton and various editions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

This Month's image is of owners Chris & Cliff (left) and Rosemary (me) and Tim towards the right, shortly before the awards ceremony for the British Small Business Champions, where Stella Books made it through too the final six for the Wales region.

New Website Launched: www.booksondogs.co.uk for easy searching of of all our dog books plus much more for the dog lover.

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