Stella & Rose's Books

SURPRISED BY JOY: THE SHAPE OF MY EARLY LIFE
Written by C.S. Lewis.
Stock no. 1831198
Published by Geoffrey Bles Ltd.. 1st 1955. Good condition.

Lewis recounts and remembers his early years with a measure of amusement sometimes mixed with pain. However, while he does describe his life, the principal theme of the book is Joy as he defined it for his own purpose. Lewis ultimately discovers the true nature and purpose of Joy and its place in his own life. Grey cloth boards, title to spine. 224 pages. Boards a little grubby and scuffed. Title to spine has completely faded, no longer readable. Spine has a slight lean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper and date in ink to rear endpaper. Some foxing throughout. A decent reading copy.

GARIBALDI AND THE THOUSAND
Written by G.M. Trevelyan.
Stock no. 1831196
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1909. Almost very good condition.

This third volume in the famous trilogy covers Giuseppe Garibaldi's role in the events of June to November 1860, the decisive year in the making of Italy ending with his conquest of Sicily and Naples and his acknowledgement of Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia as king of a united Italy. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates and 5 maps. xv and 395 pages including index plus publisher adverts to rear. 3rd Impression. Spine faded, boards slightly scuffed and slightly mottled. Text block and endpapers browned. Inscription ink to front endpaper. Foxing throughout.

JOHN KEATS: THE MAKING OF A POET
Written by Aileen Ward.
Stock no. 1831195
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This biography follows Keats, one of the English Romantics, from his childhood, through his education and training as a surgeon, to his untimely death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. Purple cloth boards, red & silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xii and 450 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Half-title page and last page to rear are browned. A few foxspots present else contents clean. Purple dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine, a little scuffed, grubby to rear panel.

THE POEMS OF TENNYSON
Written by Alfred Tennyson; Christopher Ricks.
Stock no. 1831194
Published by Longmans. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition.

Longmans' Annotated English Poets series. Edited by Christopher Ricks. Red cloth boards, gilt title on blue to spine. 3 b/w plates. xxxiv and 1835 pages. Top edge red. Boards clean. Lower edge of text block slightly grubby. Text block lightly browned. Name & date in ink to top of front pastedown, '4110' written in ink to top of front endpaper. Contents are clean.

THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: AN ESSAY
Written by Jacob Burckhardt.
Stock no. 1831193
Published by Phaidon Press Ltd.. 4th 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fourth Edition, revised. In this work Burckhardt traced the cultural patterns of transition from the medieval period to the awakening of the modern spirit and creativity of the Renaissance. Phaidon Pocket Series. Complete and Unabridged. Red cloth boards, gilt titles on brown title blocks. B/w plates to rear. xxiii and 462 pages including index. Some light mottling to boards and a few minor marks. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Browning to endpapers and a few scattered foxspots, mainly to text block. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is browned, rubbed at edges and a little grubby.

SWIFT: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND SELECTED WRITINGS IN PROSE & VERSE
Written by Jonathan Swift; John Hayward.
Stock no. 1831192
Published by The Nonesuch Press. 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Nonesuch SWIFT in the Compendious Series. Edited by John Hayward. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xviii and 868 pages including notes. Top edge red. ISBN: 0370005171. Spine lightly sunned. Top red edge is fading at gutter edge and is lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and rear panel.

CAMBRIDGE COMMEMORATED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UNIVERSITY LIFE
Written by Laurence Fowler; Helen Fowler.
Stock no. 1831190
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The daily lives of dons and students, town and gown relations, change and continuity are unfolded in letters, diaries, memoirs, novels, college records, newspapers and magazine articles. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 384 pages including index. ISBN: 0521257433. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light page edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly edge-creased.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: A VICTORIAN IN HIS WORLD
Written by Richard Mullen.
Stock no. 1831188
Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography of the famed 19th century novelist. The author intermixes details about Trollope's life with discussions such as the reading habits of the novel-reading public. He also describes and analyzes many of Trollope's forty-seven novels. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 767 pages including index. ISBN: 0715622935. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else, contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded/sunned to top edge of front panel and spine, is a little grubby and lightly creased.

THE AGE OF WONDER: HOW THE ROMANTIC GENERATION DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY AND TERROR OF SCIENCE
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831186
Published by Harper Press. Circa 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Brilliantly conceived as a 'relay race of scientific stories', this is a celebration of innovators of science before Darwin and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner's lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration. Dark blue paper boads, silver title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. xxi and 554 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007149520. Base of spine lightly rubbed. Small knock to lower edge of front board. Corners bumped. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Written by Michael Stapleton.
Stock no. 1831185
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

A guide to the literature of the English-speaking world from earliest times to 1970 in a single volume. The lives of many writers are described at some length, as well as major characters, subjects, and works of poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy. Blue cloth boards, gitl title to spine and crest to front board. B/w illustrations. xi and 992 pages. ISBN: 052125647X. Top & tail of spine and corners bumped. Base of spine ligthly discoloured. Text block grubby. contents clean.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 3
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater.
Stock no. 1831184
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 3: 'Gone Astray' and Other Papers from Household Words 1851-59. Edited by Michael Slater. Containing works never before collected together. Gone Astray picks up where The Amusements of the People leaves off, after the 1st 18 months of Dicken's contributions to HouseholdWords. Annotated. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxi and 542 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877267. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Cream dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine.

IVOR GURNEY: COLLECTED LETTERS
Written by Ivor Gurney; R.K.R. Thornton.
Stock no. 1831183
Published by The Mid Northumberland Arts Group. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Composer, poet of the First World War, incurable psychiatric patient. After the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted as a private soldier with the Gloucester Regiment. It was during the war where he began to write poetry... These Collected Letters give the fullest picture yet available of the nature of this fascinating writer, who looks set to rank with the greatest English song-writers, and the finest poets of the First World War. Edited by R.K.R. Thornton. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxvi and 579 pages including index. ISBN: 0904790657. Boards clean. Text block a little grubby, minor foxing to top edge. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.