Stella & Rose's Books

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF BRITISH GRASSES, SEDGES AND RUSHES
Written by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 1331233
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1947. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer's Book No. 7. With an introduction by A. Bruce Jackson. Describing 100 species with 104 illustrations, 50 of which are in full colour. Small format. Green cloth. Some slight fading to cover edges. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Light foxing to endpapers. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly grubby to rear panel.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF DOGS
Written by Clifford L.B. Hubbard.
Stock no. 1331232
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Observer book no. 8 Describing 300 breeds and varieties with 148 illustrations. Dark green cloth, small format. Reprint of the second edition. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Slight fading to cover edges. Some hinges pulled causing contents to be slightly loose - but still tightly bound. Light foxing/fingering to textblock. Dustwrapper is worn and grubby.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF FRESHWATER FISHES
Written by T.B. Bagenal.
Stock no. 1331228
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observers series No. 6. Revised Edition. Describing 50 species with 32 colour plates. Light green boards with dark titles. ISBN: 0723200890. Spine slightly bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and is price-cut by publisher (with 'new' price sticker above).

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF POND LIFE
Written by John Clegg. Illustrated by Ernest C. Mansell.
Stock no. 1831350
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 2nd 1967. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer's Book no. 24. 2nd edition. 32 colour plates and 16 monochrome plates by Ernest C. Mansell and 42 photographs by the author. Light blue cloth boards, blue titles. ISBN: 0723200661. Light browning to very tip of horizontal board edges. Pale foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, lightly edge-rubbed, lightly browned to spine.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF CATS
Written by Grace Pond.
Stock no. 1831349
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 2nd 1975. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Observer No. 30. Second revised edition. Burgundy boards, green titles. 32 colour photos and 25 b/w photos and numerous line drawings. ISBN: 0723215483. Surface paper damage to diagram on front endpaper (not immediately obvious). Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, red title to spine very slightly faded.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SHIPS
Written by Frank E. Dodman.
Stock no. 1831347
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st thus 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Observers book no. 15. Describing 100 types with 96 text figures, 16 colour plates and 16 Plates of photographs. Revised Edition. Blue cloth boards, blue titles. ISBN: 0723200858. Light rubbing to top & tail of spine. Boards clean. Couple of minor marks to rear endpaper. Diagonal crease to top margin of page 47 and a few corner tip creases. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with a few small tears at corners, rear panel is grubby and has a blue ink blot.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN
Written by Mary Payton; Geoffrey Payton.
Stock no. 1831346
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Observer book 51. Small format. Blue boards, blue titles. Illustrated in line and half-tone with eight pages of colour plates. ISBN: 0723215189. Light vertical reading wear crease to spine. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned (as is usual) and red title to spine has faded to orange (again, a common problem).

GORAU YMGAIS GWYBODAETH: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EDUCATION AT ABERAERON
Written by Eifion Davies; et al.
Stock no. 1831345
Published by Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Text in ENGLISH. Blue boards, gilt title to front cover. 358 pages. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 1859023630. Light vertical reading crease to spine and lightly rubbing to top & tail of spine. Boards clean. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is scuffed, very slightly sunned to spine and rubbed at corners.

CATHERINE THE GREAT
Written by Simon Dixon.
Stock no. 1831344
Published by Profile Books Ltd.. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

More than a conventional biography, this is a full history of her rule and use of power. It shows how Catherine conceived of her power and how she represented it to her subjects, as well as how she wielded this power. Catherine's life and reign are a prism through which the culture and politics of her age are viewed. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w and colour plates. xv and 432 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861977229. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block. A few pale foxspots, mainly to prelims. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed.

ALEX: THE LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL EARL ALEXANDER OF TUNIS
Written by Nigel Nicolson.
Stock no. 1831342
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was Montgomery's Commander-in-Chief at Alamein and conquered Italy from Sicily to the Alps. Cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xiii and 346 pages including index. ISBN: 0297765159. Third impression in the same year as the first. Boards very slightly mottled else clean. Foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few minor foxspots to contents else clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine, light rubbing to corners, rear panel lightly scuffed.

LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER
Written by Ross King. Illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Stock no. 1831341
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King tells the complete story of this creation of this mural: the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous personalities involved - everyone from the Leonardo's young assistants to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work. Ross King's book is both a record of Leonardo da Vinci's last five years in Milan and a 'biography' of one of the most famous works of art ever painted. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and a few colour plates. 336 pages including index. ISBN: 9780747599470. Boards clean. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION
Written by Edward Hyde; Edward Earl Of Clarendon; Roger Lockyer.
Stock no. 1831340
Published by Folio Society; Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1967. Very good condition.

A selection taken from Clarendon's History of the Rebellion covering the period from the raising of the king's standard at Nottingham in 1642 to the end of the second civil war and the execution of Charles I in January 1649. Edited by Roger Lockyer. Elaborately gilt decorated blue cloth. B/w illustrations. Top edge blue. 469 pages including index. Gilt decorations to front board are bright, title to spine is slightly dulled, rear board lightly scuffed. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is well worn at edges and browned.