Stella & Rose's Books

FREIGHT WAGONS AND LOADS IN SERVICE ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY AND BRITISH RAIL, WESTERN REGION
Written by J.H. Russell.
Stock no. 1831533
Published by Oxford Publishing. 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A highly detailed portrait, looking at the great variety of greight wagons and traffic carried by the GWR and BR(WR). Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Contents in landscape format, presented in portrait format. B/w photos. ISBN: 0860931552. Reprint. Very slight lean to spine. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at edges.

GREAT WESTERN WAGONS APPENDIX: A FURTHER SELECTION OF GWR WAGONS AND CRANES
Written by J.H. Russell.
Stock no. 1831532
Published by Oxford Publishing. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A further selection of GWR wagons and cranes. Large format. Presented in portrait format, printed in landscape format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 193 pages including index. ISBN: 009028803X. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. Boards clean. Text block has one or two foxspots. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustgwrapper is lightly scuffed.

NARROW GAUGE LINES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Peter Johnson.
Stock no. 1831531
Published by Ian Allan Publishing. 1st 2015. Slightly better than very good condition.

A lively history of many of the best-known and most interesting lines across Britain. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour & b/w photos. 160 pages including index. ISBN: 9780711037663. A few minor marks to top edge of rear board. Slight lean to spine. Contents clean.

WILLIAM RUFUS (ENGLISH MONARCHS SERIES)
Written by Frank Barlow.
Stock no. 1831529
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

William Rufus was the third son of William the Conqueror and his successor of King of England. Weaving an intimate account of the life of the king into the wider history of Anglo-Norman government, Barlow shows how William confirmed royal power in England, restored the ducal rights in France, and consolidated the Norman conquest. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. A few b/w plates. xix and 484 pages including index. ISBN: 0413281701. Boards clean. Text block browned with foxing to top edge. Contents browned. Personal inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine.

TWILIGHT OF THE HABSBURGS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
Written by Alan Palmer.
Stock no. 1831528
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Alan Palmer's authoritative biography tracks Josef's long life from cradle to grave, describing in the right level of detail the conservative administrator who kept his multi-ethnic nation together for over 70 years from 1848 until 1916. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xii and 388 pages including index. ISBN: 0297813463. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned/grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine.

ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM
Written by George Faludy.
Stock no. 1831527
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Limited. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, born in Rotterdam, was a philosopher, theologian and humanist. With his books, he had a great influence on the cultural and intellectual climate. Erasmus was a world citizen: he believed it was important for people to treat other people, the world and themselves with care and attention. Purple cloth boards, gilt title to spine. x and 298 pages including index. ISBN: 0413269906. Slight discolouration to top and tail of boards. Foxing to top edge of text block. Personal inscription in ink to half-title page. Brown pictorial dustwrapper lightly edge-worn, lihgtly sunned/faded to spine, and a few light marks.

THE WEAKER VESSEL: WOMAN'S LOT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
Written by Antonia Fraser.
Stock no. 1831526
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book describes a woman's lot in 17th-century England in an age when women had no rights or independence, when effective contraception was unknown and when marriage and childbirth dominated their lives. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w plates. xvi and 544 pages including index. ISBN: 0297783815. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Text block lightly browned with some minor foxing. Foxing to verso of free front endpapers else contents clean. Brown pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine and narrow band of discolouration to horizontal edges.

BROWNING: POETRY AND PROSE (THE REYNARD LIBRARY)
Written by Robert Browning; Simon Nowell-Smith.
Stock no. 1831525
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. 1967. Very good condition.

Selected by Simon Nowell-Smith. Black cloth spine with gilt title, mottled red/black boards. xviii and 776 pages including index. Top edge red. Second impression. White speckles to spine else boards clean. Text block a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front pastedown, '3980' written in ink to top corner of front endpaper. Else contents clean.

PARIS: CITY OF LIGHT 1919-1939
Written by Vincent Cronin.
Stock no. 1831524
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is an intellectual, artistic, political and moral history of Paris after World War I to 1939, said to be one of the most creative decades in history, important in itself and by virtue of its influence on our culture today. It was a period of both intense political rethinking and of "folly". Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvii and 334 pages including index. ISBN: 000215191X. Boards clean. Text block lightly foxed and very slightly grubby. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Musty odour present.

THE VOICES OF MOREBATH: REFORMATION AND REBELLION IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
Written by Eamon Duffy.
Stock no. 1831523
Published by Yale University Press. Circa 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book chronicles the coming of the English Reformation to a small village in sixteenth-century Devonshire. Duffy tells the story of Morebath through the eyes of its boisterous vicar, Sir Christopher Trychay, who kept exceptionally detailed records during his fifty-four year career in the village. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. xv and 232 pages including index. ISBN: 0300091850. Second printing. A clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a narrow band of fading to vertical front edge of spine, lightly scuffed to rear panel.

EDWARD V: THE PRINCE IN THE TOWER
Written by Michael Hicks.
Stock no. 1831522
Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Memorable not for his life but his death, Edward V is probably better known as one of the Princes in the Tower, the supposed victim of his Uncle, Richard III. A biography of the king whose fate remains one of the greatest mysteries in English history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w iillustrations. 224 pages. ISBN: 075241996X. Boards clean. Text block a little browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

G.M. TREVELYAN: A LIFE IN HISTORY
Written by David Cannadine.
Stock no. 1831521
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

G.M. Trevelyan was a widely read historian. The author skillfully describes the life of this privileged man from his birth in the British intellectual aristocracy through his smooth progress in the academic and literary spheres until his death in 1962. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvi and 288 pages including index. ISBN: 0002158728. A few minor marks to rear board, reading crease to spine. Text block browned. Else contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed and lightly marked.