Stella & Rose's Books

A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN
Written by J.E. Austen-Leigh; Fay Weldon.
Stock no. 1831265
Published by Folio Society. 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduction by Fay Weldon. Peach cloth boards with silver title to spine, portrait silhouette to front cover. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. xx and 202 pages including index. Fourth printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is just a little grubby at edges.

SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831264
Published by Quartet Books Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition.

Holmes's book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. xiii and 829 pages including index. ISBN: 070433111X. Light reading crease to spine. Tip of lower corner and prelims creased. Foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean.

SHELLEY POETICAL WORKS
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Thomas Hutchinson; G.M. Matthews.
Stock no. 1831263
Published by Oxford University Press. 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This volume contains a complete collection of poetry written by the seminal Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelly. Shelley's poetry is infused with his belief in the power of human love and his faith in the perpetual improvement and ultimate progress of human kind. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson. This is the second edition, corrected by G.M. Matthews. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxviii and 920 pages including index. ISBN: 0192541439. Reprint. Boards clean. Minor foxspots to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has a few marks.

SELECTED POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Margaret Forster.
Stock no. 1831262
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st thus 1988. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is a relatively short compilation of some of the more notable poems by Victorian poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Selected and with an introduction and prefaces by Margaret Forster. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxii and 330 pages including index. ISBN: 0701133112. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Boards clean. Foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly sunned.

SELECTED LETTERS OF RICHARD WAGNER
Written by Richard Wagner; Stewart Spencer; Barry Millington.
Stock no. 1831261
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

With original texts of passages omitted from existing printed editions. Translated and edited by Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ix and 1030 pages including index. ISBN: 0460046438. Boards clean. Text block very slightly grubby. Binding error to gutter edge of front endpapers (slightly misplaced when gluing). Pages 1027-1030 top corner heavily creased. Else, a decent copy. Price-cut black dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and slightly grubby to rear panel.

BRUNO WALTER: A WORLD ELSEWHERE
Written by Erik Ryding; Rebecca Pechefsky.
Stock no. 1831259
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Bruno Walter, one of the greatest conductors in the twentieth century, lived a fascinating life in difficult times. This engrossing book is the first full-lengthbiography of Walter to appear in English. Grey cloth spine with silver title, black paper boards. B/w photos. xvii and 487 pages including index. ISBN: 0300087136. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

THE FRIENDSHIP: WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE
Written by Adam Sisman.
Stock no. 1831258
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent estrangement contribute to a tragic tale. Sisman's wonderful biography of this most remarkable friendship seeks to re-examine the orthodox assumption that these two poets flourished as a result of their relationship. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xxv and 480 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007160525. Vertical reading crease to spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine.

THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Written by Alan Moorehead.
Stock no. 1831257
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

AUTHORITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: THE REITH LECTURES FOR 1948-9
Written by Bertrand Russell.
Stock no. 1831256
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A series of six lectures exploring the balance between social order and individual freedom in modern society. Delivered in 1949, Russell examines how institutions like government, education and religion shape behaviour, often at the expense of personal liberty. Pale yellow cloth boards, green titles. 125 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Top edge green. Spine lightly browned, some foxing to boards. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some scattered foxspots present. Green dustwrapper is browned, stained and marked, title barely visible to spine.

LORD CHATHAM: PITT AND THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR
Written by O.A. Sherrard.
Stock no. 1831255
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Limited. 1st 1955. Very good condition.

The second volume of Life of Lord Chatham, dealing with the period from November 1755, when he was dismissed from his post as Paymaster, to October 1761, when he resigned the Seals as Secretary of State. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 437 pages including index. Spine very sunned, gilt title no longer vibrant. Boards a little scuffed and lightly faded across the top front board. Text block browned with minor foxing. Endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

BARE RUINED CHOIRS: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES
Written by David Knowles.
Stock no. 1831254
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The book examines the changing economic and religious climate as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression. The fate of the monastic buildings and lands and of the religious themselves is described in full, and numerous engravings and photographs illuminate this account of the transition from splendour to desolation. An abridged edition of The Religious Orders in England, III: The Tudor Age first published in 1959. Book Club Edition. Light brown cloth boards, gilt title in burgundy title block to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 329 pages including index. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some minor foxing present and a musty odour. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly browned to rear panel.

THE PRE-RAPHAELITES & THEIR WORLD: A PERSONAL VIEW
Written by William Michael Rossetti; Angela Thirlwell.
Stock no. 1831253
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1995. Very good condition.

From Some Reminiscences and other writings of William Michael Rossetti. Introduction and Epilogue by Angela Thirlwell. Purple cloth with elaborate gilt decorations to front. Colour photos. xvii and 234 pages including index. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned to text block (very minor). Pale foxspots to last page. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is in Very Good condition, having some pale marks and stains.