Stella & Rose's Books

JOHN MILTON: LIFE, WORK AND THOUGHT
Written by Gordon Campbell; Thomas N. Corns.
Stock no. 1831182
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography of the great seventeenth-century English poet. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiii and 488 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199289844. Slight lean to spine. Boards clean. Text block slighty grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine.

142 STRAND: A RADICAL ADDRESS IN VICTORIAN LONDON
Written by Rosemary Ashton.
Stock no. 1831181
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An extraordinary circle gathered at 142 Strand - George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill - the brightest lights of radical Britain, drawn by the charismatic John Chapman, a publisher like no other. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 386 pages including index. ISBN: 9780701173708. Front hinge pulled but binding is tight. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, especially to rear panel.

AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND BEFORE A.D. 1800
Written by H.C. Darby; et al.
Stock no. 1831180
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1951. Almost very good condition.

Fourteen Studies, edited by H.C. Darby. Burgundy cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. B/w maps and diagrams. xii and 566 pages including index. Reprinted with corrections. Boards faded, spine browned and gilt title has lost the gilt. Two inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Text block browned with a few foxspots. Foxing to prelims and endpapers. Margin of page 525/526 has a small tear which has been repaired with clear tape, now yellowed with age. Contents otherwise clean.

RALPH RICHARDSON: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
Written by John Miller.
Stock no. 1831177
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Ralph Richardson was a contradictory genius who remains a legendary power and presence dominated stage and screen for over 50 years. Richardson eschewed most of the romantic heroes that made his two friends, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, famous; he was the only one of the three thought capable of playing the ordinary man. Foreword by John Gielgud. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xv and 384 pages including index. ISBN: 0283062371. Text block very slightly grubby else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine (sunned) and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 4
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater; John Drew.
Stock no. 1831176
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 4: The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers 1859-70. Edited by Michael Slater and John Drew. This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade of Dickens' life, before his untimely death in 1870, and represents the culmination of a lifetime's work in popular journalism. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxiii and 476 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877283. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Couple of minor 'dints' to prelims else contents clean. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, base of spine has a tear, no loss.

WILKES, WYVILL AND REFORM: THE PARLIAMENTARY REFORM MOVEMENT IN BRITISH POLITICS 1760-1785
Written by Ian R.. Christie.
Stock no. 1831175
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1962. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A detailed history of the "Wilkes and Liberty" movement and the association movement that followed it. This study is an attempt to answer certain questions about the agitation for parliamentary reform in Great Britain during the age of the American Revolution. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 247 pages including index. Boards damp mottled. Text block lightly browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint pulled between front endpaper and half-title page but binding is tight. Endpapers lightly browned, some browning to contents.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 2
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater.
Stock no. 1831172
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st thus 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 2: The Amusements of the People and Other Papers: Reports, Essays and Reviews 1834-51. Edited by Michael Slater. Slater reprints some of Dickens' best journalism from the period, including well-known pieces like "Pet Prisoners," "Old Lamps for New Ones," and "On Duty with Inspector Field," along with unfamiliar gems such as "Snoring for the Million" and "Demoralisation and Total Abstinence." Annotated. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxviii and 408 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877275. Slight bump to top of spine. Boards clean. A few minor foxspots to text block and top edge of text block a bit grubby. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

THE LIFE OF HENRY BROUGHAM TO 1830
Written by Chester W. New.
Stock no. 1831171
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, FRS was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis portrait. xi and 458 pages including index. Minor foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Blue dustwrapper is foxed, lightly browned to spine with some heavier foxing.

THE HISTORY OF LEAD MINING IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
Written by Les Turnbull.
Stock no. 1831170
Published by Sandhill Press. 1st thus 1987. Slightly better than very good condition.

An historical introduction and a description of all the principal processes involved in the mining, dressing and smelting of lead ore. The communities established in the dales and the lives of the men and women connected to the industry. Also contains ideas from exploring the region by car and on foot. Black pictorial cardwraps. Stapled binding. B/w photos. 72 pages. ISBN: 0946098026. Light rubbing to spine. Covers lightly scuffed. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean.

COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS
Written by Blair Whitton; Margaret Whitton.
Stock no. 1331001
Published by Hobby House Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Paper Dolls, Paper Toys, & Children's Books. Fascinating facts about the rise, fall and triumphant return of the world's most beloved paper toy company! Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 173 pages plus index. ISBN: 0875883702. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with evidence of removal of a label to front panel.

THE DANDY BOOK 1975
No author listed.
Stock no. 1331000
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1975. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0851161014. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Spine sunned. Price NOT cut. Belongs to box NOT filled in. Light musty smell to contents.

THE DANDY BOOK 1977
No author listed.
Stock no. 1330999
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1977. Almost very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows Korky blowing up a balloon with face of father christmas on it! ISBN: 0851161510. Spine top and tail worn and slightly split. Spine slightly faded. Sight rubbing at corners. Price NOT cut. Belongs to box NOT filled in. Light musty smell to contents.