Stella & Rose's Books

THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF LONDON
Written by John Lewesdon. Illustrated by John Berry.
Stock no. 1331167
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 618. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and browned. Small brown mark to front cover, and pale mark to rear. Contents fine. Brown marks and foxing to wrapper, rear panel is a little grubby and sun is slightly sunned. No titles listed on rear flap.

THE STORY OF NELSON
Written by L. Du Garde Peach. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1331161
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 561. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some light brown spots to rear cover (transferred from dustwrapper). A few light foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn has '105' written in blue crayon to top edge of front panel and has brown marks to rear panel. Last title listed on rear flap is David Livingstone.

THE STORY OF HENRY V
Written by L. Du Garde Peach. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1331160
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 561. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper has a light circular drinks mark to front panel (more obvious on verso) and is slightly edge worn. Last title on rear flap is this one.

THE STORY OF FLIGHT
Written by Richard Bowood. Illustrated by Robert Ayton.
Stock no. 1331159
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 601. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Prize plate to front pastedown. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, mark to rear panel. Last title listed on rear flap is The story of the Motor Car.

THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF BRITISH RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
Written by D.L. Joiner.
Stock no. 1331158
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 584. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. (Front cover shows train coming from the right side). First page shows 'Britannia' and 'Duke of Gloucester'. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped with slight browning. A few foxspots else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed with a couple of small tears.

BY PIKE AND DYKE
Written by G.A. Henty.
Stock no. 1331156
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic. Colour frontis and 3 b/w plates and 4 maps. Blue pictorial cloth with white titles. 384 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly grubby. Half title-page is part detached at lower margin, hinge cracked showing webbing beneath. Endpapers browned. Some foxing.

WITH WOLFE IN CANADA OR THE WINNING OF A CONTINENT
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1331155
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Fair condition.

Brown pictorial cloth. Gilt titles. 384 pages plus 32 page publication list. Olivine edges. 12 b/w plates. Prelims are detached (up to title-page). 2 plates are MISSING. Some marks to textblock and page margins. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Cloth scuffed, small mark to lower edge of front cover.

HEREWARD THE WAKE 'LAST OF THE ENGLISH'
Written by Charles Kingsley.
Stock no. 1331154
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Limited. Circa 1911. Very good condition.

The story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. Green decorated cloth, gilt titles. 4 b/w plates. 436 pages plus 16 page booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Spine and top cover edges browned. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. Browning and foxing to contents otherwise clean.

DR. R. GREY'S MEMORIA TECHNICA OR METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL MEMORY
Written by Dr. R. Grey.
Stock no. 1331153
Published by J. Vincent. 1851. Good condition.

Applied to and exemplified in Chronology, Geography, History, Astronomy also, Jewis, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, Measurements etc to which are subjoined Lowe's Mnemonics delineated, in various branches of literature and science. New Edition, Corrected. Brown boards and cloth spine. 215 pages (edges untrimmed). Covers are worn. Black mark (ink?) across rear cover. White title label to spine is browned and unreadable. Rear free-endpaper has been neatly removed. Pages are edge browned and grubby. Tear to vertical edge of title-page.

GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Stock no. 1331152
Published by Hutchinson & Co.. Circa 1920. Good condition.

Green cloth with decoration to front and spine. 8 b/w plates. 320 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly scuffed and marked to rear cover. Endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Some page browning, foxing and fingering but contents still reasonably clean.

CRIS FAIRLIE'S BOYHOOD: A TALE OF AN OLD TOWN
Written by Mrs Elizabeth Elioart.
Stock no. 1331151
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1895. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. 402 pages plus booklist to rear. Some b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Covers scuffed, edge rubbed and slightly grubby. Endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to half title-page (dated 1895). Book leans to one side.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: A LIFE
Written by Stephen Gill.
Stock no. 1831310
Published by Oxford University Press. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xix and 525 pages including index. ISBN: 0198128282. Reprint in the same year as first publication. Boards clean. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine.