Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

  Basket is empty
  Login Register

25 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.

A WEEK'S HOLIDAY IN THE FOREST OF DEAN
Written by John Bellows.
Stock no. 1831383
Published by John Bellows Ltd.. 1965. Very good condition.

Eighth Edition, revised and brought up to date. Being a Series of Detaileed Itineraries embracing all areas of the Forest for the guidance of walkers, cyclists and tourists. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos, maps & illustrations. 70 pages including index plus adverts to front and rear. Covers slightly grubby, very lightly edge-rubbed. Light page browning else contents clean.

DAS DDR HANDBUCH: THE EAST GERMAN HANDBOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831014
Published by Taschen. 1st thus 2019. Nearly fine condition.

Artworks, artifacts, and everyday objects from East Germany 1949-1989. A travel guide to a vanished country. Text in German and English. Stiff cloth boards in the colours of the flag and circular onlay to front. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations throughout. 815 pages. ISBN: 9783836571883. A lovely, clean copy.

HOLIDAY TOURS IN SPAIN, PORTUGAL & MADEIRA. ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1830915
Published by The Booth Steampship Co. Ltd.. 6th 1913. Almost very good condition.

Sixth Edition, published before the War. A brief sketch of the places on the route of The Booth Steampship Company's Steamers and visited onthe Tours arranged by the Company. Blue cloth boards, gilt title blocks to front board with blue cloth embossed title. Colour & b/w illustrations, fold-out maps. 135 pages including index plus lxiv advertisements to rear. Spine and top rear board is faded. Boards are rubbed at edges and a few brown spots to spine. Minor browning to top edge of text block. Fold-outs all present with varying degrees of foxing. Some browning to contents. Overall, a decent copy.

SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL HANDBOOK TO THE ENGLISH LAKES
No author listed. Illustrated by Thomas Gilks; Edward Gilks.
Stock no. 1830026
Published by Evans & Longley Associates. 1st thus 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

With a new Foreword by John Wyatt, Head Warden, Lake District National Park. He writes: 'The author of this little gem of a guide is unknown... but, Sylvan's Handbook is still not only capable of helping the new adventurer intto the bewitching wilderness: it is also very much a book for browsers...' First published in 1847 by John Johnstone, republished in this edition in 1974 by Evans & Longley Associates. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations & maps. 248 pages including index plus folding map to rear. ISBN: 0904293025. Minor rubbing to base of spine. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly browned.

SHETLAND
Written by Norman Newton.
Stock no. 1829285
Published by The Pevensey Press. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The essential guide for the discerning tourist and island devotee: everything the visitor needs to know about the islands' heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos throughout. 112 pages including index. ISBN: 0907115950. Light rubbing to base of spine. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

TOURIST'S GUIDE TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE: HILL, VALE, AND FOREST
Written by R.N. Worth.
Stock no. 1829260
Published by Edward Stanford. 1896. Very good condition.

Small format. Brown cloth boards, gilt titles. Fold-out map to front. 127 pages including index plus local advertisements to rear. 1888 to title page but adverts to rear are dated 1896-97. Boards lightly rubbed at edges. Text block browned. Light browning to contents and a few minor foxspots present.

A WEEK'S HOLIDAY IN THE FOREST OF DEAN
Written by John Bellows; Ian Standing.
Stock no. 1327848
Published by Holborn House. 1st 2013. Fine condition.

A replica of the first edition with an introduction and printing history by Ian Standing. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos.

VENICE AND ITS LAGOON
Written by Giulio Lorenzetti.
Stock no. 1827118
Published by Edizioni Lint Trieste. 1st thus 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reprint from the 1961 edition. Small format. Cream cloth boards, blue titles and black illustration to front. B/w photos. Folding maps. Text block a little grubby. Tiny crease to tip of top corners, light diagonal crease to top corner of prelims. Else a clean copy. Blue dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and has a biro mark crossing out to rear panel (price?).

BLACK'S TOURIST'S GUIDE THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF GLOUCESTER, HEREFORD & MONMOUTH
No author listed.
Stock no. 1826389
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1860. Almost very good condition.

Small format. B/w illustrations. Modern brown library binding with gilt title to spine. Ex-lib, Library label to front endpaper. Stamp to verso of frontis, contents clean but browned. Library repairs to hinges using white tape.

HANDBOOK FOR SHROPSHIRE, CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
No author listed.
Stock no. 2124520
Published by John Murray. 1st 1870. Good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles. With Map. 64 pages of advertisements to rear. New red spine, with gilt titles (old spine is still inserted loosely into book). Heavy wear to edges, with some scuffing to covers. Some foxing. A few small pencil annotations to margins. Map is present, but very fragile!

HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN NORWAY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1208692
Published by John Murray. 9th 1897. Almost very good condition.

Ninth Edition Revised with Maps and Plans. Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Pocket for map inside front cover. All maps and plans present. Map in front pocket has a small mark and tear to margin but no loss. Rear pocket contains Murray's Hand-Book to Norway Cycling Routes, Grammar and Vocabulary. Spine browned. Covers marked. Inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Name and date in ink on verso of front endpaper. Contents clean.

HANDBOOK FOR NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND RUTLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1208690
Published by John Murray. 1st 1878. Good condition.

Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles. With Map. A Murray's Guide. Map in rear pocket present and complete without tears. Covers marked. Spine browned with wear and small split at top. Joints cracked. Tear to lower edge of front endpaper. Name and date in ink to half-title page. Foxspots to prelims else contents clean. A sound copy of the first edition.