Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

674 stock records found. Did you know that you can now search our sold stock? Look for the 'sold stock' filter at the bottom of the filter options.

ALMANACK FOR 1926
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323503
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1926. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Very small format. Black cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pretty colour illustrations. Minimal rubbing at corners. Contents fine. Tissue-paper wrapper is very slightly edge chipped and creased. Scarce in wrapper.

Buy now for £210.00 Add to Wish List

ALMANACK FOR 1894
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323500
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1894. Very good condition.

Orange cloth spine, pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout, some full-page. 4 x 3 inches. Spine is a tiny bit rubbed at top and bottom. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents are clean.

Buy now for £100.00 Add to Wish List

ALMANACK FOR 1893
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323499
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1893. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. Delightful full-page illustrations in colour. Interesting postal information to rear. Slight rubbing to cover edges and some slight scuffing to covers. Stitching pulled causing contents to be a little loose. Some foxspots to contents.

Buy now for £110.00 Add to Wish List

ALMANACK FOR 1889
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323492
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1889. Almost very good condition.

Very small, slim format. Black cloth spine and black pictorial boards. Orange endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. Slight rubbing to cover edgdes and a small piece of bookworm damage(?) to base of spine and spine edge of front cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to contents.

Buy now for £120.00 Add to Wish List

ALMANACK FOR 1888
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323491
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1888. Very good condition.

Small small, slim format. Cream pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Blue endpapers. Colour illustrations. A few tiny foxspots to covers and some creases to rear cover. Foxing to contents (light). A nice copy of a scarce year.

Buy now for £140.00 Add to Wish List

PEACOCK PIE - A BOOK OF RHYMES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Claude Lovat Fraser.
Stock no. 1323474
Published by Henry Holt and Company. 1st USA 1924. Good condition.

First American edition, limited to 500 copies. White cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 127 pages. 16 colour plates. SIGNED by the author to the limitation page, this is copy no. 135. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, top rear corner is nibbled(?)/worn. Covers slightly grubby and spine slightly browned. Contained in original slipcase which is very worn and a bit grubby. Loss to top and bottom of slipcase.

Buy now for £100.00 Add to Wish List

DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Stock no. 1323471
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1922. Almost very good condition.

A Book of Fairy Poems. Limited edition of 325 copies, cream boards with gilt titles and vignette to front cover.. Colour frontis and 2 other plates. B/w illustrations throughout. 193 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by the author to the limitation page. This is copy no. 214. Spine and corners are slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine is browned, covers are grubby. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers and tissue-guard of frontis are browned else contents are clean.

Buy now for £180.00 Add to Wish List

BIGGLES SETS A TRAP
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323432
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1962. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biggles is on the trail of an extraordinary series of murders. History and excitement combine to make this a thrilling detective story. Red boards, black lettering. B/w illustrations. 159 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and has some light creasing to front flap.

Buy now for £170.00 Add to Wish List

GRAEME AND THE DRAGON
Written by Naomi Mitchison. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Stock no. 1824131
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

When Graeme found a baby dragon things stopped being just everyday-ish... Blue cloth boards, red title to spine. B/w illustrations. Ex-school library with just one school stamp to front endpaper. Piece of dustwrapper spine is stuck to base of cloth spine. Else boards nice and bright. Endpapers lightly browned. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents nice and clean, one or two minor margin marks. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, chip to tail of spine (chip itself stuck to base of book spine), rear panel is browned. A nice copy overall.

Buy now for £280.00 Add to Wish List

PETER PAN'S POSTBAG
No author listed. Illustrated by Albert Rothenstein.
Stock no. 1323259
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Good condition.

Letters to Pauline Chase when she was playing the part of Peter Pan. Brown pictorial cloth with white titles. Fold-out map of Never Never Land to rear of book. Colour frontis. Spine is browned and title to spine has rubbed away. Covers a bit grubby. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. SIGNED by Pauline Chase to lower margin of frontis. Frontis has been removed from original position and taped in between title-page and introduction page (old tape marks to margins of these pages and to margin of frontis). Foxspots to contents. Biro annotation marks to the last letter (page 63 & 64) and map at rear is creased and torn with old tape marks. Booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A few small, light marks to page margins and one hinge is cracked showing webbing beneath.

Buy now for £250.00 Add to Wish List

THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2140948
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1915. Almost very good condition.

The Raphael House Library series. Red cloth spine. Pictorial boards. 12 charming colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 135 pages, publication list to rear. Spine is faded and bumped, with a few nicks to cloth at top and tail. Bumping and wear with scuffing and surface paper damage to edges and corners. Scuffing to covers. Inscription in ink to belongs to box on front pastedown. Rear joint is a bit crack and looks partially repaired. Foxing and margin marks. One plate has slight damage, otherwise still bright; a few margin marks.

Buy now for £110.00 Add to Wish List

THE BOO-BOOS AND BUNTY'S BABY
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2140943
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1922. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Pale blue/green boards with dark blue titles to spine and front cover. Colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 14 colour plates, plus dark green line drawings. Spine and edges are browned; some foxing and fading to covers. Initials and date in ink to belongs to page. Foxing throughout, but not too much to colour plates, which are still lovely and bright! Small writing to top of title page in ink.

Buy now for £280.00 Add to Wish List