Stella & Rose's Books

THE STORY OF IRON
Written by J.B. Fortune. Illustrated by Paul B. Mann.
Stock no. 1323700
Published by Penguin Books. 1st 1948. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 79. Oblong format. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Heavy foxing to covers and contents. Staples rusty. Small piece torn (and missing) from lower spine corner of front cover.

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MUSIC TIME
Written by Prudence Hemelryk. Illustrated by Sheila Jackson.
Stock no. 1323699
Published by Penguin Books. 1st 1947. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 80. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Music with a comment on the tune. Covers slightly grubby with a couple of small chips at spine edges. Sum in ink to front cover (21-1=20). Annotations in ink to first few music pieces.

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CHIMPY
Written by Harry Fleming.
Stock no. 1323692
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The idea of selling Chimpy to a zoo was altogether too much to bear... so Trudy and Dennis look to team up with the circus. Blue boards, black titles and vignettes. 135 numbered pages. Spine very slightly bumped and browned. Endpapers partly browned and foxed. Top edge of textblock is foxed. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped with minimal loss, a little grubby to rear panel and browned to spine. Verso of wrapper is heavily browned/foxed.

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COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY
Written by Badger Gerry.
Stock no. 1824254
Published by Mitchell Beazley. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Essential reference work for everyone interested in collecting photographs, from the novice to the experienced collector. Large format. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w and a few colour photographs. ISBN: 1840007265. Lower edge of boards slightly faded. Small mark to half-title page. Otherwise contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a damp stain to verso lower edge of front flap (not visible from right side).

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WILLIAM THE EXPLORER
Written by Richmal Crompton. Illustrated by Thomas Henry.
Stock no. 1323690
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1st 1960. Almost very good condition.

Green boards, gilt titles and vignette of William to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. 256 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Some margin marks and small piece missing from one margin.

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PEACOCK PIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rowland Emett.
Stock no. 1323688
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st thus 1941. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A book of rhymes. Beige cloth with dark green titles. B/w line drawings. Spine and corners bumped. Small dent to lower edge and stain to top edge of front cover. Light page browning and fingering else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss, rubbed at edges and a little grubby to rear panel.

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LA FAMILLE MISTIGRI
Written by Benjamin Rabier. Illustrated by Benjamin Rabier.
Stock no. 1323687
Published by Garnier Paris. Circa 1950. Very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations to every page. 24 pages, text in French. Staples rusty. Covers very slightly faded at edges with a few small marks to front. A couple of pages are lightly browned else contents clean.

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PLAYTIME
Written by Chas. Herbert. Illustrated by Jaques Browne.
Stock no. 1323684
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. Circa 1923. Fair condition.

Cardwraps, front shows kittens playing with two girls watching through a window. 2 colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Frontis and title-page almost detached, old tape marks to verso of frontis and inside front cover. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Staples rusty.

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OUR TIM PICTURES & STORIES
Written by Edith E. Carter; W. Percival Westell; et al.
Stock no. 1323683
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1910. Fair condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing portrait of a terrier dog. Colour frontis "waiting for Master". B/w text illustrations and photos. 160 pages. Covers are edge worn. Some foxing to rear cover. Both joints are broken causing front free-endpaper to be almost detached. Contents browned, creasing to rear free-endpaper.

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CHICKABIDDY STORIES
Written by Edmund Mitchell. Illustrated by S. Barham.
Stock no. 1323680
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1921. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth covers with red titles and yellow decoration and chicks, small oval onlay to front. 7 stories. 4 tipped-in colour plates on brown mounts plus b/w illustrations. 110 pages. 7 short stories. Spine and corners bumped. Some light foxing and fingering to endpapers. Fingermarks to page margins. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss to top and tail of spine.

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THE BLACK PANTHERS
Written by Shames Stephen; Bobby Seale; Charles E. Jones. Illustrated by Stephen Shames.
Stock no. 1824248
Published by Aperture. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition.

Campus uprisings, urban rebellions, and the Vietnam War rocked the nation when the Black Panther Party arose during the last 1960s. Stephen Shames's exceptional photographs - ranging from the affectionate private moments to intense demonstrations - span the places where the Panthers made their greatest impact. Powerful and poignant images of the most courageous group of young black people ever organized in America. Matt white pictorial boards. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781597110242. A lovely copy with some light scuffing to boards.

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ENIGMAS OF NATURAL HISTORY
Written by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by Barbara Greg.
Stock no. 1323679
Published by The Cresset Press. Circa 1936. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. 24 essays of curious facts such as the Australian toad that fills itself with water and then burries itself during the dry season. Fascinating! Spine bumped. Covers discoloured. Foxing to endpapers and some pages. Crease to top corner of front free-endpaper. Yellow dustwrapper is grubby and foxed, browned to spine and worn at top and tail of spine.

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