Stella & Rose's Books

THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
Written by John Carswell.
Stock no. 1831212
Published by The Cresset Press. 1st 1960. Almost very good condition.

The South Sea Bubble was a significant financial crisis that occurred in the early 18th century, primarily driven by the South Sea Company, which was established in 1711 to monopolize British trade with South America. The company was granted this monopoly in exchange for taking on a portion of the national debt, which had been exacerbated by the costly War of the Spanish Succession. The company's promise of immense profits from trade, particularly involving enslaved Africans, attracted a surge of speculative investment, driving stock prices to unprecedented highs and ultimately the world's first financial crash. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xii and 314 pages. Boards a little marked/stained. Spine faintly sunned. Text block browned and sunned with heavy foxing, some foxing bleeding on to page margins. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins.

TROLLOPE: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by N. John Hall.
Stock no. 1831210
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1993. Very good condition.

This authoritative biography draws a picture of an engaging, contradictory, extraordinary man and writer, one who left behind a legacy of some 70 novels. Red pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. xv and 581 pages plus publisher list to rear. ISBN: 0192830716. Spine is lightly sunned. Covers have light reading wear. Base of text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

LETTERS FROM GEORGE III TO LORD BUTE 1756-1766
Written by King George Iii; Romney Sedgwick.
Stock no. 1831208
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1939. Very good condition.

John Stuart, Earl of Bute, was a favourite of George III. He was the King's tutor in the 1750s and rose quickly to high political office after George's accession in 1760. Bute faced the difficult task of negotiating peace at the end of the Seven Years War. Edited with an introduction by Romney Sedgwick. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. lxviii and 277 pages including index. Spine lightly browned. Text block lightly browned and foxed. Endpapers browned. A few annotations in the form of pencil highlighting to margins. A few foxspots to margins.

GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS
Written by Herbert Butterfield.
Stock no. 1831207
Published by Collins. 1st 1957. Almost very good condition.

A biography, which addresses the historical view of the monarch George III, and also discusses the scholarly controversy that centres on the King and his reputation as an unconstitutional tyrant. Turquoise cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 304 pages including index. Slight lean to spine. Boards are grubby, spine browned. Text block and endpapers browned. Some foxing present, mainly to text block.

GEORGE III AND THE MAD-BUSINESS
Written by Ida Macalpine; Richard Hunter.
Stock no. 1831206
Published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

George III and the Mad-Business, argues that George III was not mad as was once thought. Instead, the author's claim that George suffered from the inherited metabolic disease, acute intermittent porphyria, a diagnosis they later amended to the milder, though even rarer disorder, variegate porphyria. This book is a fascinating combination of medical, pshychiatric and historical detection. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xv and 407 pages including index. ISBN: 0713901063. Text block lightly browned and lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

1492: THE YEAR OUR WORLD BEGAN
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.
Stock no. 1831205
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st thus 2011. Almost very good condition.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year: the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe; the way major religions and civilisations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations and maps. vi and 346 pages including index. ISBN: 9781408809501. Covers show reading wear. Text block is browned and foxed. Foxing throughout, mainly bleeding from text block to margins.

THE ENGLISH RADICAL TRADITION 1763-1914
Written by S. Maccoby.
Stock no. 1831204
Published by Nicholas Kaye Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book five of The British Political Tradition series. Brown cloth boards, red title and title block to spine. xiii and 236 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block and prelims foxed and browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Grey dustwrapper is browned to spine and a little grubby.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: AN AMERICAN LIFE
Written by Walter Isaacson.
Stock no. 1831203
Published by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. Circa 2004. Almost very good condition.

This biographical work details the life and times of prominent U.S. statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Pictorial cardwraps. A few colour & b/w illustrations. xii and 586 pages including index. ISBN: 074325807X. Cover edges rubbed and worn, rear cover a little scuffed. Spine is a little concave. Text block grubby. Contents clean.

AN EXPERIMENT IN CRITICISM
Written by C.S. Lewis.
Stock no. 1831202
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1969. Slightly better than very good condition.

In which Professor Lewis proposes that the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written, but by hProw often they are re-read. Small format. Red cardwraps. 142 pages. ISBN: 0521093503. Reprint. Spine and rear cover lightly browned. Small publisher price label to front cover. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

THE STATECRAFT OF MACHIAVELLI
Written by H. Butterfield.
Stock no. 1831201
Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1940. Almost very good condition.

Machiavelli lived from 1469 to 1527 and he saw what we may regard as the culmination of the Italian Renaissance. 'The Statecraft of Machiavelli' is divided into four parts, each focusing on a particular aspect of Machiavelli's writings. All four are directly appurtenant to how his policies, concepts, maxims which comprise them are actually viable in the real world of politics. Fuschia cloth boards, silver title to spine. 167 pages. Top & tail of spine worn and frayed, title to spine has all but rubbed off. Spine is browned. Boards lightly marked. Slight lean to spine. Text block and endpapers lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some page browning and a few scattered foxspots. Some annotation in the form of pencil marks to margins. Overall, a good working copy.

THE ADVENT OF THE LABOUR PARTY
Written by Philip P. Poirier.
Stock no. 1831200
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

Accounts for the emergence of the British Labour Party as a political force between 1900 and the general election of 1906. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. 287 pages including index. Top edge red. Spine is very slightly dulled. Text block browned and a little dusty. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present and annotation in the form of pencil marks to margins.

PITT VERSUS FOX: FATHER & SON 1735-1806
Written by Erich Eyck.
Stock no. 1831199
Published by G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.. 1st thus 1950. Good condition.

The political history of England 1735-1806 as illustrated by Henry and Charles James Fox and the Elder and the Younger Pitt. Translated from the original in German, the history has a decidedly "liberal" German perspective. Eyck uses a series of coincidences to give unity to his ambitious tale: The elder Pitt and Henry Fox, destined like their sons to be political rivals, entered the House of Commons the same year, 1735. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. viii and 396 pages including index. Boards mottled and scuffed. Spine is faded/sunned, scuffed and worn at top & tail, title is rubbed. Text block and endpapers browned. A few foxspots present.