Stella & Rose's Books

THE VICTOR BOOK FOR BOYS 1969
No author listed.
Stock no. 1330996
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1968. Slightly better than good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Spine worn with small splits at top and tail. Damage to front free-endpaper (circular drink mark?) with small hole. Foxspots to prelims. Price NOT cut. Slight musty smell to contents.

THE VICTOR BOOK FOR BOYS 1972
No author listed.
Stock no. 1330995
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1971. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light musty smell to contents.

VALIANT ANNUAL 1972
No author listed.
Stock no. 1330993
Published by IPC Magazines Ltd.. 1971. Almost very good condition.

ISBN: 0901267694. Spine and corners bumped. Front joint cracked showing webbing beneath. Pages browned else contents clean.

THUNDER ANNUAL 1972
No author listed.
Stock no. 1330991
Published by IPC Magazines Ltd.. 1972. Slightly better than good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0901267864. Damage to lower page edges where pages have been roughly opened after the binding process. Light page browning throughout.

COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS
Written by Blair Whitton; Margaret Whitton.
Stock no. 1330990
Published by Hobby House Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very 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 edge worn with a couple of small tears.

ANGLESEY LANDSCAPES - GLYN DAVIES
Written by Glyn Davies. Illustrated by Glyn Davies.
Stock no. 1831167
Published by Glyn Davies Photography. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

Glyn Davies is a leading photo-artist in Wales. This is a collection of his favourite personal responses to the landscapes of Anglesey, those that have inspired him the most but also those that have been most admired and collected by customers. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w photos. Text in English and Welsh. 119 pages. ISBN: 9780955700309. Boards a little scuffed and marked. Lengthy gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean.

THE DODO: THE BIRD THAT DREW THE SHORT STRAW
Written by Jan Den Hengst.
Stock no. 1831166
Published by Art Revisited. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Analysing and comparing 17th century illustrations along with eye-witness accounts, the book reconstructs an accurate portrait of the Dodo. Slightly oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 118 pages. ISBN: 9072736265. Spine lightly sunned. Corners lightly bumped/rubbed. Name & date in ink to first page else contents clean. A nice copy.

WINGS ACROSS THE BORDER: A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN NORTH WALES AND THE NORTHERN MARCHES VOL III
Written by Derrick Pratt; Mike Grant.
Stock no. 1831165
Published by Bridge Books. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

This third volumes of Wings Across the Border, complete in itself, covers the period 1940-1, a period of experimentation as the RAF and other armed services tried to tackle the problems of countering the Luftwaffe. Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos and maps. 256 pages. ISBN: 1844940101. Cover corners lightly rubbed, covers a little scuffed. Minor mark to top edge of text block. First section pulled. Contents clean.

RECONSTRUCTING BEHAVIOR IN THE PRIMATE FOSSIL RECORD
Written by J. Michael Plavcan; Richard F. Kay; William L. Jungers; Carel P. Van Schaik.
Stock no. 1831164
Published by Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers. 1st 2002. Almost very good condition.

Advances in Primatology series. Edited by Plavcan, Kay, Jungers, and van Schaik. This volume brings together a series of papers that address the topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record. Black pictorial glazed boards. xi and 437 pages including index. ISBN: 030646604x. Ex-lib with library marking to prelims, text block and some page margins. Else contents clean. Boards are a little scuffed and lightly rubbed at corners.

DINORWIC: THE LANBERIS SLATE QUARRY 1780-1969
Written by Reg Chambers Jones.
Stock no. 1831161
Published by Bridge Books. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A fascinating account of the history of the quarry, the life of the men who worked there and the harsh conditions they operated under, the local community, and the industrial railway system that flourished around it. Now home of the National Slate Museum and the Electric Mountain Visitor Centre. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 175 pages. ISBN: 1844940330. Top of spine and corners lightly bumped. Pale grease spot to vertical edge of front endpaper, half-title page and colophon page. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and front panel, base of spine & lower corner lightly worn.

ORLANDO (THE MARMALADE CAT) THE FRISKY HOUSEWIFE
Written by Kathleen Hale. Illustrated by Kathleen Hale.
Stock no. 1831160
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st thus 1972. Very good condition.

Orlando and his wife Grace, decide to establish a shop where customers can either exchange goods or pay for them with milk and fish so that the stray cats of the neighbourhood can be gainfully employed and fed. Originally published in 1956 by Country Life. Red pictorial glazed boards depict Orlando on a Magic Carpet. Colour illustrations throughout. 32 pages. 10.75 x 7.75". ISBN: 022400753X. Spine has a slight lean to the left. Corners of boards lightly rubbed. Boards lightly scuffed. Contents beautifully clean.

FUNNYBONES
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg.
Stock no. 1831159
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1989. Very good condition.

A frightfully funny Hallowe'en classic tells the story of three skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton - who venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, only to find that everyone is in bed. Who will they scare now?! Yellow glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Not paginated. ISBN: 0434925039. 1" split to front edge of spine. Lower corners lightly bumped. Boards lightly scuffed. Remains of old label to rear board. Contents clean.