Stella & Rose's Books

SNAFFLES ON RACING AND POINT TO POINTING
Written by John Welcome; Rupert Collens. Illustrated by Snaffles; Charlie Johnson Payne.
Stock no. 1831130
Published by The Lambourn Press. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) work gives an accurate and interesting development of point-to-poinnting and steeplechasing between 1907 and 1953. Large oblong format. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 159 pages. ISBN: 0951369709. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut and lightly creased across top edge.

SNAFFLES: THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLIE JOHNSON PAYNE (SNAFFLES) 1884-1967
Written by John Welcome; Rupert Collens. Illustrated by Snaffles; Charlie Johnson Payne.
Stock no. 1831129
Published by Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd.. 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A full range of Snaffles's work from the war at sea and on land, hunting, shooting, fishing, polo, show-jumping. big game. pigsticking, point-to-point, horse dealing and otter hunting. Large oblong format. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 160 pages. ISBN: 0091726670. A very nice copy, no visible marks. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded and lightly scuffed.

TWO TALES BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE: "THE SECRET" & "LILY HART"
Written by Charlotte Bronte; William Holtz.
Stock no. 1831128
Published by University Of Missouri Press. 1st thus 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Two early stories by Charlotte Bronte published for the first time in this volume. Transcribed and edited by William Holtz. Large format. Beige cloth spine with gilt title in a lilac title block, blue cloth boards with portrait to front. Includes facsimile text. 143 pages. ISBN: 0826202322. Light rubbing to lower board edges and small nick to cloth of rear board. Inscription in ink to front endpaper, title and colophon page - it appears the book was purchased initially from the Bronte Conference in Leeds 1978. Contents otherwise clean. Beige dustwrapper is browned, grubby with some marks and stains, worn to base of spine.

FAUVES AND FAUVISM
Written by Jean Leymarie.
Stock no. 1831127
Published by Rizzoli International Publications. 1st thus 1987. Very good condition.

Revised paperback edition. Fauves and Fauvism is a lucid, image-centred account that rescues a movement too often reduced to a catchphrase about “wild” colour. Jean Leymarie combines connoisseurship, historical sweep and clear critical intelligence to show that Fauvism belongs among the decisive aesthetic moments of modern painting. This is a comprehensive study, illustrating the work of some twenty artists, French, German, Dutch and Russian, and fills in the essential background of pre-Fauvism going back to Monet, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Large format. Green pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. 120 pages including index. ISBN: 0847808157. Corners of covers lightly rubbed, a few minor marks and scuffs to covers. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean.

THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAWKER HUNTER: THE CREATION OF BRITAIN'S ICONIC JET FIGHTER
Written by Tony Buttler.
Stock no. 1831126
Published by The History Press. 1st 2014. Very good condition.

This booki is devoted specifically to the Hunter's design and development: how and why the aircraft came into being, the troubles it experienced on the way, its flight test programme and what it was like to pilot. Drawing on many original Air Staff and Ministry documents and also the Hawker aircraft day-to-day diaries, it tells the story of one-off modifications and trials projects, aerodynamic modifications and tests with various weapons, along with proposed developments, including supersonic versions. Oblong format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour photos. 166 pages including index. ISBN: 9780752467467. Light creasing to covers, a few minor marks and light scuffing. Contents clean.

MR. PUNCH WITH ROD AND GUN: THE HUMOURS OF FISHING AND SHOOTING
No author listed. Illustrated by Charles Keene; John Leech; Cecil Aldin; H.M. Brock; et al..
Stock no. 1831125
Published by The Educational Book Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Punch Library of Humour. Red cloth boards, Pictorial spine with gilt title, black title to front board. Humourous b/w illustrations and snippets of prose. Top edge gilt. 192 pages. Spine browned and wornt at top & tail. Text block and endpapers browned.Hinges pulled but binding tight. A few foxspots and grubby marks to contents. Undated.

THE GRASSHOPPERS COME
Written by David Garnett. Illustrated by R.A. Garnett.
Stock no. 1831124
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1931. Almost very good condition.

An aviation tale. The experiences of two men and a woman trying to complete a record-breaking air trip, and all the incident that follows. Purple/black mottled covers. 6 wood-engravings. Top edge gilt. 101 pages. Second impression in the same year as the first impression. Spine browned, rear board faded at edges. Front board browned and a small mark. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Scattered foxing throughout.

GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND DROITWICH, ABBERLEY AND KIDDERMINSTER
Written by G.H. Mitchell; R.W. Pocock; J.H.. Taylor.
Stock no. 1831123
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1976. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Geological Survey of Great Britain. An Explanation of One-Inch Geological Sheet 182, New Series. This book describes the geology of an attractive largely rural district in the West Midlands characterised by an undulating agricultural landscape developed for the most part on sandstones and marls of Old Red Sandstone and Triassic age. Orange cloth boards, black titles. B/w diagrams and photos. x and 137 pages including index. ISBN: 0118807625. Second impression (with amendments). Boards clean. Neat name & date in ink to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned at spine, lightly worn to corners, lightly creased.

DUXFORD TO KARACHI: AN RAF ARMOURER'S WAR
Written by Fred Roberts.
Stock no. 1831122
Published by Victory Books. 1st 2006. Almost very good condition.

The author, an RAF armourer, who served on a famous Spitfire squadron at Duxford throughout the Battle of Britain in 1940, and later in India. This memoir is a window on the wartime years, seen through the eyes of an ordinary young man who found himself in extraordinary circumstances and did his 'bit'. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w photos. 202 pages. ISBN: 0955043182. Slight lean to spine, covers lightly worn at corners. Previous price-label to rear cover. Front joint starting to pull away (glue drying out). Contents clean.

BY ROARING LOOM
Written by J. Marshall Mather. Illustrated by Lancelot Speed.
Stock no. 1831121
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Very good condition.

A story of Lancashire life in the factories, told in Lancashire dialect. Brown cloth boards, black titles and circular vignette to front board. B/w plates. 311 pages. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf worn. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned. Joints just starting to crack. Endpapers browned. Hinges slightly pulled but binding tight. A few foxspots present. Undated.

PLANT FORM & FUNCTION
Written by F.E. Fritsch; Edward Salisbury.
Stock no. 1831120
Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd.. 1945. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations and diagrams. viii and 668 pages including index. Reprint. Spine browned and foxed, fraying to top & tail. Fading to edges of boards. Text block browned. Neat name & address in ink to front endpaper. Contents are clean.

TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS
Written by Thomas Hughes; An Old Boy.
Stock no. 1831119
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A semiautobiographical novel that explores the life and experiences of a young boy named Tom Brown at Rugby School in England. The story highlights Tom's journey through the challenges of school life, including camaraderie, bullying, and moral dilemmas, as he navigates the complex social hierarchy of a Victorian boys' school. Blackie's Library of Famous Books; Blackie's Stories of School Life. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, embossed patterned boards. 4 colour plates. 272 pages. Undated. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Boards clean. Endpapers and text block browned. Some foxing present, mainly to prelims, margins and text block. Thin, cream pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few small chips and is a bit grubby.