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Welcome to the December newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed on a monthly basis of new information, articles and books available on our website. We hope you enjoy it.

This Month - Christmas Lights - contributed by David

It happens every year - and I am not referring to this annual enforced hard labour in a locked cell with a typewriter! No really - writing these articles is joy unconfined (as anyone working here will tell you). No, I am talking (or rather writing) about the annual misery of

P u t t i n g - u p - t h e - C h r i s t m a s - L i g h t s

It always seems to follow the same predictable path. All the lights and decorations which were carefully put away in labelled boxes have, in the intervening eleven months, mysteriously moved around and,..Read the full article.

Christmas Lights
Here Comes Thursday

Featured Book - Here Comes Thursday- contributed by Catriona

There can't be many people who haven't heard of Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond. But I wonder how many of the other characters created by Michael Bond you know of. Amongst them are Parsley the lion & Dill the dog from The Herbs, Olga da Polga - a guinea pig, a dog called Pomme Frites who accompanies his master in the Monsieur Pampelmousse series, even an armadillo called J.D. Polsen. And then there is a mouse called Thursday.

Thursday made his first appearance in Here Comes Thursday....Read More.

A Sample of New Stock

Trout Flies of Stillwater by John Goddard Eskimo Summer by Douglas Leechman
Gems Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification by Robert Webster Alice In Wonderland Jigsaw Book by Lewis Carroll
Trout Flies of Stillwater by John Goddard
A Manual of Falconry by Michael Woodford
Gems Their Sources, Descriptions and Identifications by Robert Webster
Alice In Wonderland Jigsaw Book by Lewis Carroll
Price: £30.00

Other Angling books

Price: £12.00

More Arctic books.

Price: £40.00

Other books about Gemstones

Price: £10.00

More Alice Books

Selection from our Special Book Room

London to the Nore by W.L. Wyllie and M.A. Wyllie A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Bunty and the Boo-Boos by Mabel Lucie Attwell A Lune Sketchbook by Alfred Wainwright
London to the Nore by W.L.Wyllie and M.A. Wyllie
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Bunty and the Boo-Boos by Mabel Lucie Attwell
A Lune Sketchbook by Alfred Wainwright

Columbia & A. & C. Black. 1st ed. 1905. 60 tissue-guarded colour plates with b/w chapter head and tail pieces. 3000 copies printed. A & C Black Colour Book 20 Shilling series.
Price: £220

1st ed. 1915. The first Dickens story Rackham attempted. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations and decorations.

Price: £500

1st ed. 1922. Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. Contains 14 beautiful colour plates (including frontis), some other b/w illustrations.
Price: £340

1980 edition. A collection of 78 drawings of scenes in the valley of the River Lune, by the famous artist Wainwright.

Price: £150

News in Brief

Books catalogued this month include Ladybird Books; Beano and Dandy and other Children's Annuals; Jennings Books; Wainwright; School History and many more.

Important - Last UK posting dates for Christmas

UK 1st Class - Monday 21st December

UK 2nd Class - Friday 18th of December

UK Special Delivery - Wednesday 23rd of December

To see other news in brief, please click here.

Tintern Abbey Across River Wye
Our picture this month is an view of Tintern Abbey taken with the River Wye in the foreground on a misty day.
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