Stella & Rose's Books

FLIGHT TWO: CANADA
Written by David Scott Daniell. Illustrated by Jack Matthew.
Stock no. 1330290
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 587. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed. Rear panel is slightly grubby.

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FLIGHT ONE: AUSTRALIA
Written by David Scott Daniell. Illustrated by Jack Matthew.
Stock no. 1330289
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 587. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and browned. Some slight corners creasing. Small foxspot to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is price-cut, faded to spine and edge rubbed.

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STRUGGLE: THE ART OF SZUKALSKI
Written by Stanislav Szukalski; Eva Kirsch; Donat Kirsch. Illustrated by Stanislav Szukalski.
Stock no. 1830420
Published by Last Gasp. 2nd 2023. Nearly fine condition.

Szukalski was a Polish sculptor. Foreword by Leonardo & George DiCaprio. Second Edition. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. 199 pages. ISBN: 9780867194791. Third printing. A very nice copy.

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THE EDWARDIAN GARDEN
Written by David Ottewill.
Stock no. 1830417
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive study of the Edwardian garden, a beautifully illustrated tour of some of the finest gardens of this period and a survey of the peoople, attitudes, and theories that influenced their design. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. x and 230 pages including index. ISBN: 0300043384. Top of spine bashed with a 0.5" tear to rear edge. Corners lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots present. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine edge, has a corresponding tear to top rear edge of spine and is crinkled to rear panel.

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ART DECO
Written by Norbert Wolf.
Stock no. 1830414
Published by Prestel Verlag. 1st thus 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

This opulent volume traces the chronology of Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and early '30s, and the artistic movements that paralleled its popularity. Large volume. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 286 pages including index and appendix. ISBN: 9783791382418. Boards lightly bumped & worn at corners, scuffing to rear board. Contents clean.

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A BOOK OF NONSENSE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1830412
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st thus 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reproduced from a rare copy, published around 1870, in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first in which the drawings appeared in colour. Large format. Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Cream endpapers. Bold colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0723227152. Very light fading to boards. Minor pencil erasure mark to half-title page. Else a clean copy. Red pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, lightly faded to spine and a small nick, minor wear to top of spine.

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ARMAGEDDON OST: THE GERMAN DEFEAT ON THE EASTERN FRONT 1944-5
Written by Nik Cornish.
Stock no. 1830410
Published by Ian Allan Publishing. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

By the summer of 1944 World War 2 was approaching its finale. This book examines the final year of the war on the Eastern Front. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 160 pages including index. ISBN: 9780711030367. Minor mark to lower edge of front board. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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FORMATIVE FORCES IN CRYSTALLIZATION
Written by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer.
Stock no. 1830407
Published by Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.; Anthroposophic Press. 1st UK 1936. Almost very good condition.

English Edition. A condensed and revised translation of the Author's works, Kirstalle and Studium von Formkraften an Kristallisationen. Green cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. xxi and 63 pages plus 93 illustrations to rear. Boars grubby and stained. Illustration pages to rear affected by damp crinkling to lower half of pages (not stained). Blank label to front endpaper with name & date in ink to front pastedown (covering older inscription). Some light foxing, mainly to prelims.

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND THE FUTURE
Written by Geoffrey Holme.
Stock no. 1830406
Published by The Studio Limited. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

A Challenge to the Producer. Industrial Design. Green cloth boards, black title to spine, black pattern to front board. B/w photos. 160 pages. Boards a little marked, rubbed at edges and lightly worn to corners. Endpapers and text block browned. Some foxing present. Slight tobacco odour present.

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OLD EBBW VALE IN PHOTOGRAPHS VOLUME 1
Written by Keith Thomas; Michael Foot.
Stock no. 1830405
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ebbw Vale owes its existence to the iron, steel and coal industries. There has been a rapid decline in the iron and steel industry in Ebbw Vale, but in 1920 the accent was on expansion and the population rose from less than 500 in 1780 to over 40,000 in 1920. These photographs are a permanent reminder of a completely different way of life in Ebbw Vale, which was bound up with hard manual; work, dirt, smoke and grime. Foreword by Michael Foot. Light red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 193 b/w photos. ISBN: 0900807377. SIGNED & dated by the author (no dedication) to front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Board edges lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Pale dampstain to lower corner of pastedowns and rear endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is dampstained at edges, faded to spine with a small closed tear repaired to verso at top of spine. Tobacco odour present.

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THE NEW YORKER: ON THE MONEY THE ECONOMY IN CARTOONS 1925-2009
Written by Robert Mankoff.
Stock no. 1830404
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cartoons about personal and national financial issues have been a feature of The New Yorker's humour throughout the magazine's history. Here is a collection that will keep readers laughing at over eighty years of classic cartoons on money, banking, investments, employment, and the economy. Edited by Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. Terracotta cloth spine with gilt title, speckled cream paper boards. B/w cartoons throughout. xii and 260 pages including index. ISBN: 9780740784903. A few minor spots to text block else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and is lightly faded to spine.

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TWELVE HUNDRED MILES FOR THIRTY SHILLINGS
Written by L.J. Paterson.
Stock no. 1830403
Published by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd.. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cosatal Cruising from the Clyde. This book is based largely on a collection of ninety-year-old lantern slides, dramatically saved from destruction, giving an insight into those famous Clyde-built steamships, their passengers and teh ports and cities they called into. An unforgettable glimpse of an age which vanished with the First World War. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 127 pages. ISBN: 1851581979. A few tiny spots to boards. Pale browning to cream endpapers. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and a little scuffed.

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