Stella & Rose's Books

PRETTY TOY PICTURES
Written by L.L. Weedon.
Stock no. 1313586
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Almost very good condition.

A Colour Book of Favourite Objects. Oblong format. Pictorial front board. Thick board pages with colour illustrations showing every day objects with words beside them and short rhymes as well. Covers edge rubbed, wear to corners with minimal loss to lower corner tip of first page as well (no loss of text or illustrations). Some grubby fingermarks and foxspots and name in ink inside front cover. Pale page browning to contents. A nice copy overall of a scarce book.

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THE BEDTIME BOOK
Written by Mrs. Ernest Ames. Illustrated by Mrs. Ernest Ames.
Stock no. 1313582
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1901. Good condition.

Large oblong book, 8 x 10". Cloth bound pictorial boards. Full page colour illus throughout accompanied by adaptations of well known nursery rhymes. Printed one side of paper only. 103 pages. Covers are edge worn with some slight loss of surface paper. Spine bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers have been replaced. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins/edges. Generally contents clean.

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THE PRACTICAL BUILDER'S PERPETUAL PRICE-BOOK
Written by Richard Elsam.
Stock no. 1712337
Published by Thomas Kelly. 1825. Fair condition.

10.5 x 8.5 inches. Brown leather spine and corners. 6 b/w plates. No author mentioned but believed to be Richard Elsam. The Practical Builder's Perpetual Price-Book; Elucidating the Principles of Correctly Ascertaining the Average Value of the Different Artificer's Works Usually Employed in Buildings; With the Customs of Measuring and Valueing in the Various Parts of the United Kingdom. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper which is also part detached from binding. Endpapers foxed. Front board detached. Boards worn with loss of colour. Base of spine chipped with loss. Corners bumped and worn. The plate descriptions on page 160 are slightly confusing and it could be argued that there should be 8 plates in this volume, but only 6 are bound in and none appear to have been removed. Opposite the frontis appears to be the half-title page with no title page present, we believe this is the way this copy was bound.

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MR BUMSTEAD
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1503114
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Mr Bumstead is a spaniel, with a gift for getting into scrapes. Red boards, blue title and black vignette to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Small dark spots to top edge of front cover by corner and outside edge by lower corner. Some light browning to endpapers and prelims. Pen lines to lower corner of page 59, text not affected. Some light foxing to text block with small light stain to top edge. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped with a little loss at top of spine. Tears to side of spine have been repaired on verso with clear tape. Spine is faded, rear panel is browned. Some grubby marks.

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THE VINTAGE ALVIS
Written by Peter Hull; N. Johnson.
Stock no. 1712087
Published by The Alvis Register. 1995. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 620 pages. ISBN: 0952334405.

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A NON STOP RUN
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1313490
Published by Birn Brothers. 1st 1929. Good condition.

Stories and rhymes of our railways by Blyton. Pictorial boards. B/w and red, black and white text illustrations. Binding is a little fragile in that the joints are cracked and staples have been pulled making contents a bit loose. There is chipping to the title-strip with some loss. Contents are browned but generally clean. A decent copy of a very scarce item.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1938 - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1313469
Published by Daily Express. 1938. Good condition.

The third Rupert annual. 1st story Rupert and the Daffodils. Colour pictorial boards. Red cloth spine. 126 pages. 10x7.5". Covers are edge worn, spine and corners bumped. Front joint is almost broken. Name and address in ink in belongs to box. Margin tear to base of title-page. Some page corner tips creased. Hinges cracked, some very weak, because of cracked joints/hinges front cover doesn't sit as is should. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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SEVEN WHITE GATES
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bertram Prance.
Stock no. 1711828
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Lone Pine Story. Red cloth, black titles. Full-page b/w illustrations plus b/w maps to the endpapers. 200 pages. Small splash mark to front cover. Spine faded at top and tail. Some slight bumping to cover edges. Wrapper is torn and creased with some loss, approx. 1/2" to top and tail of spine and similar across top of rear panel, plus some loss at corners.

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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY OVERLAND FROM SIMLA TO PEKIN
Written by Clarence Dalrymple Bruce.
Stock no. 1711750
Published by William Blackwood and Sons. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

A journey made by the author, written up for those less fortunate than himself in opportunities they may have had for gratifying that passion for wandering which is inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race, and to afford them a few hours of interest and amusement. Red cloth, gilt titles and vignette. B/w plates. Folding map to end of volume. Top edge gilt. Spine lightly browned. Corners bumped. Some mottling to covers. Front and rear joints just starting to crack. Name in ink to front free endpaper. A little foxing to contents. All plates present. Map has some edge-creasing and pale fox-spots but generally very good.

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A SPORTING GARLAND
No author listed. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1711743
Published by Sands & Co.. 1st 1902. Fair condition.

Large oblong format. Green cloth spine. Green front board with white banner to left edge. A delightful selection of colour plates throughout contents. Binding weak with 3 plates and rear endpaper detached. Believed to be complete. Detached plates are also have some loss to margins and generally browned. Front endpaper creased. Front joint almost broken. Spine has some splitting and fraying to top and tail. Board edges worn.

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THE PLANT-LIFE OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA A PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL STUDY
Written by W.B. Turrill.
Stock no. 1809254
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1st 1929. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oxford Memoirs on Plant Geography. A monograph. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 11 maps & 10 plates. 490 pages including index. Slight mottling to rear board else boards nice and clean. SIGNED by the author to title page. Minor foxing to text block else contents clean. Price-cut, plain wrapper with blue titles is slightly browned.

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THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1313165
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1911. Good condition.

Brown boards, white lettering. Pictorial onlay of Timmy Tiptoes the little grey squirrel. The year 1911 appears on the title-page. The first two printings are believed to be identical. Small format. 85 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn, slight loss to base of spine. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Prelims are part detached. Front joint (between frontis and title-page) is cracked and a couple of hinges are cracked, this causes the binding to be a little loose but still tightly bound. Title-page is slightly finger-creased with a tiny tear to lower margin. Contents are generally clean.

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