Stella & Rose's Books

CLARENDON: POLITICS, HISTORY & RELIGION 1640-1660
Written by B.H.G. Wormald.
Stock no. 1831420
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1951. Very good condition.

This celebrated study offers a reinterpretation of the writings and attitudes of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609–74), best known for his History of the Rebellion and the Civil War and his autobiography, which presents an excellent record of the English Civil War. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xii and 330 pages including index. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Boards are a little faded and scuffed, spine is faded and mottled, gilt title to spine has rubbed off over time. Text block browned. Lengthy gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present mainly to endpapers and prelims. One hinge pulled but binding overall is tight.

DARWIN
Written by Adrian Desmond; James Moore.
Stock no. 1831418
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations. xxi and 807 pages including index. ISBN: 0718134303. Light bump to top rear corner. Text block a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present, mainly to endpapers and prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is clean.

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by Hugh Brogan.
Stock no. 1831417
Published by Profile Books Ltd.. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Cream pictorial endpapers, a few b/w plates. 724 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861975096. Light shelf wear to base of spine. Text block browned and has a few minor marks. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and is lightly scuffed.

JONATHAN SWIFT: A SHORT CHARACTER (MASTERS OF WORLD LITERATURE)
Written by Nigel Dennis.
Stock no. 1831416
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1965. Very good condition.

In this book, attention is focused as much on the complex personality of Swift as on his works, relating him to his age and to his time. Here is the bitter moralist, the restless politician, the rigid churchman, the great satirist. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. 160 pages including index. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Rear board lightly marked. Foxing to top edge of text block, endpapers and last page of index. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

THE SERJEANT-MAJOR
Written by James Leasor.
Stock no. 1831415
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The life-story of R.S.M. Ronald Brittain, M.B.E., Coldstream Guards - "The man with the loudest voice in the Army". Foreword by Sir Oliver Leese. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 191 pages. A few minor marks to boards. Gilt title to spine has dulled. Text block a little grubby. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots to margins else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and creased, sligth loss to edges, a little grubby to rear panel.

COBBETT'S ENGLAND
Written by William Cobbett; John Derry. Illustrated by James Gillray.
Stock no. 1831414
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. This is a selection from the writings of William Cobbett. Edited with an introduction by John Derry. Blue cloth spine, pink boards. B/w illustrations. 276 pages. Spine is heavily sunned/faded and has a small white mark toward the lower edge. Boards are clean. Minor marks to text block. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little scuffed. Musty odour present.

THE KINGS DEPART
Written by Richard M. Watt.
Stock no. 1831413
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution. German history, the collapse of the Kaiser's armies. Extraordinary drama in an era of violent upheaval. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. 604 pages including index. Top edge red. ISBN: 029717858X. Lower edge of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Light foxing to top of boards and spine. Text block a little grubby and foxing to vertical edge. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn. Musty odour present.

FRANCE: FIN DE SIECLE
Written by Eugen Weber.
Stock no. 1831412
Published by Belknap Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In Eugen Weber's France, Fin de Siècle, statesmen and treaties are set aside in favor of the stuff of everyday existence. We learn about bathing, smells, sanitation, domestic quarrels, underwear, sexuality and the bicycle as they evolved during the last two decades of the nineteenth century… Terracotta cloth spine with gilt title on blue to spine, beige cloth boards. B/w illustrations. x and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 0674318129. Boards clean. Light foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and a little grubby to rear panel which also has a barcode label stuck over last three lines of writing.

DRESDEN: TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 1945
Written by Frederick Taylor.
Stock no. 1831411
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city... This book is a serious reappraisal of an event that lives in the popular memory with Guernica and Hiroshima as a by-word for the horror of twentieth-century air warfare. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and maps and 518 pages including index. ISBN: 0747570787. Boards clean, text block grubby. Occasional foxspot to contents. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine.

TAMING THE INFINITE: THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS
Written by Ian Stewart; Matt Parker.
Stock no. 1831407
Published by Folio Society. Circa 2012. Nearly fine condition.

Introduced by Matt Parker. Pale grey/blue cloth with decorations. Colour photos and b/w diagrams. xxii and 325 pages including index. Still in original shrinkwrap which has a couple of small tears. This book would make a wonderful gift.

A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: SELECTED WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Written by Abraham Lincoln; Fred Kaplan.
Stock no. 1831406
Published by Folio Society. Circa 2015. Nearly fine condition.

Brown cloth spine with gilt title, pictorial front board. A lovely copy. Still in original shrinkwrap. This book will make a wonderful gift.

THE ISLE OF VOICES AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1831405
Published by Folio Society. Circa 2007. Nearly fine condition.

A selection from The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson published by The Modern Library, New York in 2002. 14 colour plates including frontispiece. Black cloth with silver and blue blocked design, silver title to spine. Still in original shrinkwrap. This book would make a wonderful gift.