Stella & Rose's Books

BIGGLES IN THE UNDERWORLD
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1331027
Published by Knight Books. 1973. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 0340134798. Second impression of this paperback edition. Spine is faded. Creasing to front edge of spine and also front corner. Names in ink (x2) to half title-page. Contents browned but otherwise clean.

BIGGLES AND THE BLUE MOON
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1331025
Published by Knight Books. 1975. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. 190 pages. ISBN: 0340041501. Fourth impression. Spine very slightly faded. Crease to front edge of spine where the cover has been held open to read. Small number written to top of spine. Contents browned but clean.

BIGGLES AND THE CRUISE OF THE CONDOR
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1331024
Published by Dean. 1985. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial blue and red boards. 184 pages. ISBN: 0603034063. Spine very faded and cover edges slightly faded.

THE BOY BIGGLES
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1331023
Published by Deans International Publishing. 1985. Nearly fine condition.

Title to cover and title-page appears to be backwards (Biggles; The Boy). Text is that of 'The Boy Biggles'. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0603034012. Spine slightly sunned.

NODDY: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL LYNAGH
Written by Andrew Slack.
Stock no. 1831232
Published by William Heinemann Australia. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rugby - Biography of the Australian record-breaking fly-half. Black boards, white title to spine. Colour & b/w photos. xi and 276 pages including index. ISBN: 0855615710. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased and scuffed.

A LAODICEAN: A STORY OF TO-DAY (THE NEW WESSEX EDITION)
Written by Thomas Hardy; Barbara Hardy; Ernest Hardy.
Stock no. 1831231
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who had purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London... Introduction by Barbara Hardy, notes by Ernest Hardy. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and circular TH logo to front. 429 pages. Top edge green. ISBN: 0333177657. Green dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, lightly browned to spine, minor mark to rear panel. A lovely copy.

NEVER CALL RETREAT (THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR VOLUME THREE)
Written by Bruce Catton.
Stock no. 1831230
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

This book is the final installment of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. It covers the period from late 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army and Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 to the end of the Confederacy in May 1865 with the surrender of the last rebel army. Green cloth spine with black titles and silver title on black, grey cloth boards with silver title to front. Maps. xi and 555 pages including index. Top edge red. Boars grubby. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Text block grubby. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Contents otherwise clean.

POETRY AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE
Written by William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes.
Stock no. 1831229
Published by The Nonesuch Press. 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Complete in one volume. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Fourth Edition. The Compendious Series. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 936 pages including index. Reprint. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned with foxing to top edge. Name in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear panel, is edge-worn and torn with slight loss, a bit grubby.

BYRD TO BRITTEN: A SURVEY OF ENGLISH SONG
Written by Sydney Northcote.
Stock no. 1831228
Published by John Baker Publishers Limited. 1st 1966. Very good condition.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 152 pages including index. Spine sunned/faded. Boards very slightly grubby. Name & date in ink to front pastedown and '3903' written in ink to front endpaper. A few minor foxspots to text block. Contents clean.

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Written by James Joyce. Illustrated by Robin Jacques.
Stock no. 1831227
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Illustrated Edition. The story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front board. 6 full-page b/w illustrations. 257 pages. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers, else contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn.

CITIES & PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Written by Mark Girouard.
Stock no. 1831225
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In an inimitable feat of social history, Girouard analyzes how the development of fashionable society, the increase in trade, the growth of population, and the widening of power of the nation state influenced seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cities, and how the Industrial Revolution affected cities of the nineteenth century. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour double-spread title page and colour & b/w illustrations throughout. vii and 397 pages including index. ISBN: 0300035020. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked (very minor). Corner bumped. Boards a little stained (faint). Top edge of text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a 2" split to lower front corners and a few marks. Musty odour present.

THE ATLAS OF LITERATURE
Written by Malcolm Bradbury.
Stock no. 1831224
Published by De Agostini Editions. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book explores the fascinating connection between writers and place. This ambitious and exciting book focuses on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and a time, capturing a town, a city, a region, in its literary heyday. More than 80 essays edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 352 pages including index. ISBN: 1899883673. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked and rubbed. Verso of endpapers and prelims lightly browned. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few minor marks and a small closed tear to top rear edge of spine. Musty odour present.