Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

  Basket is empty
  Login Register

1,095 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.

PRIMARY SUCCESSION ON LAND
Written by J. Miles; D.W.H. Walton.
Stock no. 2126545
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Special Publication Series of the British Ecological Society Number 12. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0632035471. Light bumping along cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine.

GUIDELINES FOR BASELINE ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
No author listed.
Stock no. 2126531
Published by E. & F.N. Spon. 1997. Almost very good condition.

Glazed boards. Colour photos. ISBN: 0419205101. Ex-lib. with some usual markings. Bumping to corners and cover edges.

BRITISH FRESHWATER FISHES
Written by Len Cacutt.
Stock no. 2126502
Published by Croom Helm. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of their evolution. B/w photos. ISBN: 0856643203. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few chips and faded to spine.

BRITISH MAMMALS (NN 21)
Written by L. Harrison Matthews.
Stock no. 2126146
Published by Collins. 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series. 16 colour plates, 48 b/w photos. 92 figures in the text. Green cloth, gilt titles. Spine is bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges; some to page margins. Wrapper is covered with clear adhesive film and is browned to spine.

LOCH LOMONDSIDE (NN 88)
Written by John Mitchell.
Stock no. 2126122
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 88. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards. ISBN: 0002201453. Foxing to top edges of outer page edges. Contents are fine. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

THE NEW NATURALISTS (NN 82)
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 2126121
Published by Collins. 2ND 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 82. Second Edition. Colour and b/w photos. The behind-the-bookshelf story of the New Naturalist Library. With bibliography. ISBN: 0007197160. Foxing to top edge of outer page edges. Some edge creasing to wrapper.

BRITISH THRUSHES (NN 63)
Written by Eric Simms. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor.
Stock no. 1816300
Published by Collins. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series. Dark green boards, gilt title to spine. 24 b/w plates. Maps, diagrams and text figures. A detailed research into the six true species of thrush breeding in the British Isles; including a chapter of Britain's vagrant thrushes and a further substantial chapter on the seven species of small chat-like thrushes of the British Isles, including the Nightingale and the Robin. ISBN: 0002196700. Heavy foxing to top edge of text block but contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and has clear laminate attached causing slight bleeding of text and image.

BRITISH WARBLERS (NN 71)
Written by Eric Simms.
Stock no. 1816243
Published by Collins. 1985. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 71. 2nd state - light green boards, square spine, originally produced as 500 paperback copies and then turned into hardback. One of the scarcer titles in the series. ISBN: 000219810X. Second state. A few small marks to boards. Foxing to text block especially top edge. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine (as is usual with this series).

A COUNTRY PARISH (NN 9)
Written by A.W. Boyd.
Stock no. 1816242
Published by Collins. 1st 1951. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series no. 9. Green cloth. An account of the Country Parish of Great Budworth in the County of Cheshire. 34 colour photographs. 48 b/w photographs. 9 text figures. Browning and minor foxing to text block especially the top edge. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers. A few small margin marks related to ageing. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is covered with clear plastic film (starting to come loose stickiness and thus beginning to come away), protecting from further damage to small chip at top of spine and 1" closed tear. Dustwrapper spine is browned, as is the rear panel.

THE LIFE AND ART OF ATHOS MENABONI
Written by Barbara Cable Taylor.
Stock no. 1610668
Published by Mercer University Press. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. One of the world's finest illustrators and painters of bird life. ISBN: 0865547122.

RAYMOND SHEPPARD CAPTURING THE MOMENT
Written by Raymond Sheppard. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard.
Stock no. 2125412
Published by Langford Press. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. Much of this book's text are Raymond Sheppard's own words and have been taken from the three 'Studio Publications' on drawing published in the late 1940s and early 1950s. ISBN: 9781904078340.

THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
Written by Stephen Harris. Illustrated by Robert Thornton.
Stock no. 2125063
Published by Folio Society. 2008. Fine condition.

Very large format. The first ever full-size facsimile of the greatest English florilegium. Quarter-bound in Nigerian goatskin, cloth sides. Front board printed and blocked with design by David Eccles from 'The Night-Blowing Cereus'. 232 pages with 9 preliminary monochrome plates, 5 preliminary colour plates and 29 flower illustrations. Text printed on felt-marked Modigliani Neve paper and plates printed on Modigliani Insize. Green ribbon marker. Coloured top edges. Book Size: 22.5" x 18.25". Commentary volume by Stephen Harris. Presented in solander box, bound in buckram. 128 pages. 12" x 8.25". Of the Limited edition of 1980 copies only 600 have been bound into book form. Due to the size of this book, if posted, it will need to be sent via courier. This is Copy No. 90. Also contains 2 beautiful colour plates in an envelope - for you to frame! Contained in original slip case that has bumping to a couple of corners and some scuff marks. This is a gorgeous item! This copy would make a wonderful gift. This book is VERY heavy and will be needed to be sent via courier.