Stella & Rose's Books

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF FIREARMS
Written by Nicholas Du Quesne-Bird.
Stock no. 1331351
Published by Frederick Warne (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer's Book No. 75. With 119 Black and white photographs and 9 line drawings. Small format. Dark green boards. ISBN: 0723215715. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Old price (10p) written in red biro to front free-endpaper. Light mark to same page. Price-cut wrapper is lightly browned (darker browning to vertical edge of front panel), title to spine is slightly faded.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF JAZZ
Written by Mark White.
Stock no. 1331350
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Observer No. 76. With 76 b/w photos. Small format. Red boards. ISBN: 072321588X. Spine bumped. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is lightly browned.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SEA FISHING
Written by Peter Wheat; Ray Forsberg. Illustrated by Baz East.
Stock no. 1331349
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1982. Very good condition.

Observers series no. 82. Laminate boards. Small format. With 8 colour plates, 14 b/w photographs and numerous diagrams in text. ISBN: 0723216002. Fading to spine, slight browning to edge of front cover. Small pencil erasure mark to front free-endpaper (our stock numbers/prices as well in pencil). Contents otherwise fine.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF THE COTSWOLDS AND SHAKESPEARE COUNTRY
Written by Geoffrey Palmer; Noel Lloyd.
Stock no. 1331348
Published by Frederick Warne. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer book no. 73. 8 colour plates and 49 b/w photos. Small format. Orange boards. ISBN: 0723215766. Light fading to spine and cover edges. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is very slightly browned (as usual) and title to spine is slightly faded.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF THE LAKE DISTRICT
Written by John Parker.
Stock no. 1331347
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer Series No. 74. With 8 Colour plates and 67 Black and white photographs. Small format. Dark blue boards. ISBN: 0723215707. Spine and corners very slightly bumped. Some very slight fading to top and tail of spine. Top ege of textblock is slightly foxed. Price-cut wrapper is lightly browned.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SEASHELLS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Nora F. McMillan. Illustrated by Bridget Finlow; John Clegg.
Stock no. 1331346
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1977. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observers book No. 70. With 195 Line Drawings and 8 colour plates. Small format. Cream boards. ISBN: 0723215677. Minimal bumping to cover edges (just from slight shelf wear). Some light foxing to textblock else contents fine. Dustwrapper is browned to rear panel (along spine edge and is faded to spine.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF COINS
Written by Howard W.A. Linecar.
Stock no. 1331345
Published by Frederick Warne. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer's book No. 69. Later to be renamed, Observer's book of British Coins. With b/w photographs and digrams. Small format. Blue boards. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few marks to prelims and also on page 11. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and browned.

SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1331343
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

40 tipped in colour plates, tissue guarded. Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine. 143 pages. 11 x 8.5". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. A few small dents to cover edges. Spine is foxed and has a small worn patch to rear edge with slight loss of cloth. Front joint is cracked. There is some light foxing to the contents. Some of the tissue-guards are creased but all plates are present and in fine condition.

RUPERT ANNUAL 1957
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1331342
Published by Daily Express. 1957. Very good condition.

Glazed boards. Front cover shows Rupert in air balloon with springs. 1st story is Rupert & the Crackerjack. 10x7 inches. 107 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Light scratch mark to rear cover. Belongs to box filled in by child (with some scribbles). Price NOT cut. Colouring contest page has been completed (messibly with pencil crayon) but form not completed. Some crayon scribbles on facing page. Other puzzles untouched. Light foxing to page edges.

STEEPLE MORDEN STRAFERS 1943-45
Written by Ken Wells.
Stock no. 1331341
Published by East Anglia Books. 2nd 1996. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. A remarkable story of courage and dedicaton, with many individual combat reports, the stories of escape and evasion also show the courage of Resistance fighters who helped downed airmen. A fascinating social documentary on the impact of war on a handful of tiny rural viallages, their inhabitants and of a lifestyle which has now almost vanished. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. Fold out site plan of Steeple Morden at rear. ISBN: 1869987020. Minimal bumping to spine else a fine copy. Wrapper is sunned to spine and front spine edge.

BORN AN OPTIMIST
Written by Jean Lee.
Stock no. 1331340
Published by M.I.P.I. PUBLISHING. 2nd 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Story of Geoffrey Groves, Inventor. Second (revised) edition. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 095405590X. Minimal rubbing at edges and minimal fading to spine.

BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1331339
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned. Heavy pencil initials to front free-endpaper (KR). Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed, slightly faded to spine and a bit grubby to rear panel.