Stella & Rose's Books

GEORGE IV REGENT AND KING
Written by Christopher Hibbert.
Stock no. 1331084
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. Light pink endpapers. 430 pages (including index), pull-out family tree to rear of book. B/w photos. ISBN: 0713904879. Minimal bumping to spine. Light scratch mark to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and faded to spine.

NUNS AND SOLDIERS
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1331083
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is a story about honour and innocence, lost and found, and about vicissitudes of a deep friendship between two women. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. 505 pages. ISBN: 0701125195. Minimal bumping to spine. Name and date to front free-endpaper. Textblock is slightly dusty. Dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine.

NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
Written by Basil Willey.
Stock no. 1331082
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Coleridge to Matthew Arnold. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 287 pages, lower edges untrimmed, top edge red. Second impression. Spine and corners bumped. Covers lightly damp spotted. Name, address and date to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn, foxed on verso and browned to spine. Wrapper is slightly grubby.

BERTIE - A LIFE OF EDWARD VII
Written by Jane Ridley.
Stock no. 1331081
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2012. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A magnificent and exhaustively researched book, drawing on numerous new discoveries and primary sources, which gives Bertie due credit while painting a vivid portrait of an age in all its excess and eccentricity. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Burgundy endpapers. 608 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780701176143. Some foxing. Front joint cracked. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges.

BALZAC
Written by Graham Robb.
Stock no. 1331080
Published by Picador. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 521 pages (including index). ISBN: 0330332376. Minimal rubbing to cover edges. A few foxspots to textblock, top edge of textblock is grubby. Dustwrapper is lightly edge creased.

THE PURSUIT OF ITALY
Written by David Gilmour.
Stock no. 1331079
Published by Allen Lane. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A History of the Land, its Regions and their Peoples. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. 447 pages (including index). Colour photos. ISBN: 9781846142512. 6th printing. Minimal bumping to spine. Foxing to textblock and verso of wrapper. Light spotting to wrapper.

BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1331078
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and faded to spine. No titles listed on rear flap.

BUNNIKIN'S PICNIC PARTY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1331076
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1966. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Colour illustrations. Verses revised by Perring. Ladybird Series 401. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Name in ink to front pastedown. Grubby fingermarks and crease to front free-endpaper. Some grubby marks but contents generally clean. Price-cut wrapper is grubby and marked (some crayon marks) and very worn and creased. Last title on rear flap is Five Little Kittens.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN AUTUMN
Written by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1331075
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series. 536. Buff pictorial boards. Full-page colour pictures. Slight bumping to spine. Tiny brown spot to front cover. Two names in ink to front free-endpaper and one to rear free-endpaper. Contents otherwise fine. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed and lightly scuffed to rear panel. Last title to rear flap is Trees.

THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF GARDEN FLOWERS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by John Leigh-Pemberton.
Stock no. 1331073
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1961. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. A super copy. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge creased with a tiny black mark to top edge of front panel and rear panel slightly grubby. Last title on rear flap is What to Look For in Winter.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN WINTER
Written by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1331072
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1960. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine else a fantastic copy. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges and a tiny bit grubby to rear panel.

THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE WEATHER
Written by F.E. Newing; Richard Bowood. Illustrated by Robert Ayton.
Stock no. 1331071
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Covers lightly browned. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and just a little grubby to rear flap.