Stella & Rose's Books

GIMLET GOES AGAIN
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1331316
Published by University of London Press. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

King of the Commandos in another adventure with fighting France and the Grey Fleas of the North. Blue/green cloth, vignette of commando on front cover. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. A few small bumps to cover edges. Foxing to contents. Joints starting to crack. Some fingermarks to page margins but contents generally clean.

WORRALS ON THE WAR-PATH
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1331315
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Pale blue cloth, parachute vignette. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Slight discolouration to top and tail of spine. Small, light damp stain to lower spine corner of front cover. Foxing to textblock, contents clean. Dustwrapper is well worn, torn and creased with loss at edges and to spine, rear flap is creased, there are tears to the folds, the white spine and rear panel are grubby.

EDWARD HEATH: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by John Campbell.
Stock no. 1831457
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography. The son of a carpenter, Edward Heath broke the mould of upper-class Tory leaders and suffered years of snobbish mockery. With accomplishments outside politics, in music and international sailing, he is a veritable Renaissance Man. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xx and 876 pages including index. ISBN: 0224024825. Boards clean. Text block just a little grubby with a few foxspots. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly foxed at horizontal edges.

HAROLD WILSON
Written by Ben Pimlott.
Stock no. 1831456
Published by BCA. 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. Harold Wilson is one of the most enigmatic personalities of recent British history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xv and 811 pages. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Text block a little grubby. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed.

FORGED IN WAR: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Warren F.. Kimball.
Stock no. 1831455
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is a detailed study of the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and its role in shaping the course of World War II. It shows how they were both realists and idealists, consistent and inconsistent, calculating and impulsive. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 422 pages including index. ISBN: 000215482X. Boards clean. Personal inscription in ink to front pastedown and '554-8' written small to top of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top corner and a little scuffed.

EMINENT CHURCHILLIANS
Written by Andrew Roberts.
Stock no. 1831454
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian, tackles six aspects of Churchilliana and uncovers a plethora of disturbing facts about wartime and post-war Britain. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w plates. xii and 354 pages including index. ISBN: 0297812475. Slight lean to spine. Text block heavily foxed. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed and slightly grubby.

THAT MAN: AN INSIDER'S PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Written by Robert H. Jackson; John Q. Barrett; William Edward Leuchtenburg.
Stock no. 1831452
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An intimate memoir which reveals Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency through key events like Court-packing and aiding Britain, while showing his personal side during poker games and breakfast meetings. Edited and introduced by John Q. Barrett with a foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. Black cloth spine with green foil title, grey paper boards. B/w photos. xxviii and 290 pages including index. ISBN: 0195168267. Minor damp mottling to cloth spine, light browning to text block, else a lovely, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

DR BENTLEY: A STUDY IN ACADEMIC SCARLET
Written by R.J. White.
Stock no. 1831451
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Richard Bentley (1662-1742) was the turbulent, despotic, brilliant and almost legendary Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the greatest classical scholar, according to A.E. Housman, "that England or perhaps Europe ever bred". Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 303 pages including index. Some pale damp mottling to boards. Text block browned and lightly foxed. Personal inscription in ink to verso of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at corners and has a small chip to top rear edge, is browned and a little grubby.

ROBERT HARLEY, PURITAN POLITICIAN
Written by Angus McInnes.
Stock no. 1831450
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Robert Harley was prime minister of Great Britain in the early years of the eighteenth century. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. 223 pages including index. ISBN: 0575005211. A few minor marks to rear board, browning to top edge of spine. Foxing to text block. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and browned.

THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1831449
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1979. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their god. But his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment. Peach cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 316 pages. ISBN: 0701109769. Seventh Impression with a sixth impression dustwrapper illustrated by Edward Bawden. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut by the publisher and is ligthly browned to spine. A lovely copy.

CARAVAGGIO: A LIFE SACRED AND PROFANE
Written by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
Stock no. 1831448
Published by The Penguin Group. Circa 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour plates. xxviii and 514 pages. ISBN: 9780241954645. Third printing. Red title to spine lightly faded to pink, light reading creases to spine. Covers lightly scuffed. Text block slightly grubby. Else contents clean.

GOD'S FUNERAL
Written by A.N. Wilson.
Stock no. 1831447
Published by John Murray. 1st 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A magisterial, colorful narrative illuminating the central tragedy of the nineteenth century: that God (or man's faith in him) died, but the need to worship remained as a torment to those who thought they had buried Him. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. xi and 402 pages including index. ISBN: 0719557615. A few minor scuffs to boards. Foxing/browning to text block. Contents clean. Black dustwrapper is a bit scuffed.