September 2025 Newsletter
Welcome to the September 2025 newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed of new information, articles and books available on our website.
The last few weeks have seen a dramatic change in the weather here in the UK. The lovely summer has given way to some wet and windy weather. However, the shop remains open 7 days a week (see our website for opening hours) and there are a number of local activities throughout September including falconry displays at the Abbey.
The Tidenham Tunnel on the Wye Vally Greenway closes on the 30th September to allow the bats to hibernate. The Greenway remains open throughout the winter - but it's a little trickier to use with the tunnel closed. So just a couple more weeks to enjoy this beautiful cycling and walking route from Chepstow through to Tintern.
We hope you enjoy this newsletter. We have just the one article this month - on the history or Beeswax. It's actually the first of a two-part series so look out for part-two next month. Enjoy!
Beeswax - Part One - The History of Beeswax contributed by Bernice
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Beeswax is a remarkable substance and is the only animal-based wax. All others are plant based. Beeswax and History I knew beeswax had been used for a long time but did not realise for how long. By 3000BC there was already established technology involving the use of large quantities of wax. In ancient Egypt it was used for embalming and modelling; exquisite examples of cats and eagles among other waxen figures have been recovered from graves and from the pyramids. Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| Yesterday's Town: Hereford written by Whitehead, David | Edwin Lutyens written by Dunster, David | The Last Hero written by Pratchett, Terry | Struggle: The Art of Szukalski written by Szukalski, Stanislav & Kirsch, Eva & Kirsch, Donat |
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| Price: £18.00 | Price: £20.00 | Price: £16.00 | Price: £25.00 |
| Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) WEST MIDLANDS HEREFORDSHIRE HISTORY | Categorised in ARCHITECTURE HOMES AND HOUSING BIOGRAPHY | Categorised in CHILDRENS FANTASY | Categorised in ART SCULPTURE POLISH |
| The Rover Book for Boys 1950 No author listed. | The Blue Fairy Book written by Lang, Andrew & Aiken, Joan | The New Yorker: On The Money The Economy In Cartoons 1925-2009 written by Mankoff, Robert | The Roe Deer: Conservation of a Native Species written by Prior, Richard |
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| Price: £15.00 | Price: £60.00 | Price: £15.00 | Price: £30.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS ANNUALS BOYS | Categorised in FOLIO SOCIETY CHILDRENS FAIRY TALES | Categorised in HUMOUR ECONOMICS CARTOONS MAGAZINE BANKING | Categorised in NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL DEER MAMMALS CONSERVATION |
A Selection from The Special Book Room
| The Tyger Tray written by BB, | Complete Set of Winnie-The-Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young; Winnie-The-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House At Pooh Corner written by Milne, A.A. | The Ruined Abbeys of Britain (2 Volumes) written by Ross, Frederick | The Expression of The Emotions In Man and Animals and The Autobiography written by Darwin, Charles & Pinker, Steven |
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| 1st 1971 A rich blend of mystery and excitement involving an Indian tray, a tiger skin and some very powerful hocus-pocus! Purple boards with gilt title to spine. B/w woodcut illustrations. Minimal shelf bumping to spine and corners. Pale page browning to endpapers and light foxing to textblock. A few small, light marks to preliminary pages. Dustwrapper is price-cut, slightly faded to spine. Price: £120.00 | 1934 Four volumes. "Cheaper" editions each with blue cloth and black titles to spines and vignettes to front covers. B/w illustrations throughout each volume. Each volume is slightly bumped at spine. There is a small faded patch at the bottom of the spine of W-T-P. Endpapers are lightly browned. Some foxing to textblocks. Winnie-the-Pooh has an inscription in ink to the front fly-leaf else contents are clean. Matching blue dustwrappers are complete with just the tiniest of grubby marks and very lightly browned spines. Each priced at 2/6net on spines of wrappers. Very unusual... more Price: £420.00 | Two volumes. Very large format. 14.5 x 11". Dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Bevelled edges. Elaborate red and gold vignette to front covers. All edges gilt. 12 superb colour plates. Numerous b/w text illustrations. Tintern Abbey is the colour frontis and first subject of volume I. Undated. Spines worn to top & tail with board beneath cloth exposed. Corners are rubbed. A few marks to boards. Joints starting to crack. Vertical crease to front endpaper of volume I. Plate opposite page 48 (The Cistercian Abbey of Melrose) and page 124 (The Premonstratensian Abbey of Dryburgh) are missing... more Price: £110.00 | 1st thus 2008 Introduced by Steven Pinker. Brown/grey cloth with blocked design in black and gilt to spine and front side. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Top edge brown. xxii and 372 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed. Price: £190.00 |
This Month's Special Offer
Special Offer20% discount on all CECIL ALDIN books in our Special Book Room. Type in voucher code Browse current stock in this offer. |
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Best regards,
The Stella & Rose's Books Team
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