Stella & Rose's Books

CHILDREN OF THE NORTHLIGHTS
Written by Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'Aulaire. Illustrated by Edgar Parin D'Aulaire.
Stock no. 1831086
Published by The Viking Press. Circa 1972. Very good condition.

Inspired directly by a remarkable journey the d’Aulaires took to northern Europe and their time spent among the Sami, Children of the Northlights is a brightly illustrated portrait and celebration of the Sami people, culture, and snow-covered landscapes of the frozen north, from two of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations, colour pictorial endpapers. 37 pages. A few marks to boards. Top of spine bumped. Name in ink to top of front endpaper. A few scattered grubby marks and foxspots to contents.

PERONNIK
No author listed. Illustrated by Christiane Lesch.
Stock no. 1831085
Published by Inner Traditions International, Ltd.. 1st thus 1984. Almost very good condition.

A French Fairy Tale of the Grail Quest. Peronnik is a poor country orphan who, after many knights have failed, enters the castle Kerglas of the wicked magician Rogear in order to retrieve the stolen lance and cup. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. Text in English. ISBN: 0892810610. Board edges rubbed, spine faded. Some foxing throughout.

HOW TOM BEAT CAPTAIN NAJORK AND HIS HIRED SPORTSMEN
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1831084
Published by Walker Books. 1st thus 2013. Nearly fine condition.

This is the story of Tom who likes to fool around. His aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong thought he was playing, and that too much playing was bad for kids. So she called in Captain Najork to teach him a lesson. But - it turns out fooling around was the exact thing to do to teach Tom what he needed to learn.Large format. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 9781406343830. A lovely copy.

FOXIE THE SINGING DOG
Written by Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'Aulaire. Illustrated by Edgar Parin D'Aulaire.
Stock no. 1831083
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition.

One day Foxie's owner's pranks go too far when he lures his dog out onto the busy city streets with a tasty bone and loses her. Foxie is soon rescued by a roly-poly circus-animal trainer who spots her flair for singing and adds her to his act, alongside a piano-playing cat and a strutting rooster. Oblong format. Pictorial cloth boards. Library binding. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Boards faded. Corners lightly rubbed and worn. Contents clean. Despite the fading, this is a lovely book.

RBK A VERY PARFIT GENTIL KNIGHT
Written by Simon Harris.
Stock no. 1831082
Published by Rooke Publishing. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Ralph Kite was an ordinary Edwardian schoolboy, who was sent home at an early age from Tasmania to be educated in England. During his tragically short life he rose to command a company of the 52nd Light Infantry on the Somme. Having won the Military Cross he was mortally wounded and spent an agonising month dying of his wounds. In essence this is an informal history of the 52nd Light Infantry between the spring of 1915 and late 1916. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xxiii and175 pages including index. ISBN: 095486400X. SIGNED with a personal dedication to half-title page. Also includes a letter signed by the author. A lovely copy.

PORTRAIT OF THE SEVERN
Written by J.H.B. Peel.
Stock no. 1831081
Published by Robert Hale. 2nd 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

2nd edition. The Severn is Britain's longest river. Rising near the summit of Plynlimon, it enters the sea as an estuary ten miles wide. No other British river flows through such varied scenes... the wild heights of Wales, the industrial debris of Ironbridge, the pastoral hillscape of the Malverns, the solitudes of Aust. Green cloth boards, orange title block to spine with gilt title. B/w photos. 205 pages including index. ISBN: 0709184506. Small mark to rear board else a lovely, clean copy. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine.

AFTERMATH
Written by Harold Owen.
Stock no. 1831079
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

William Harold Owen was the younger brother and biographer of the English poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen. Harold Owen's notable trilogy Journey from Obscurity closed with the death of his elder brother Wilfred in France in November 1918. This volume continues the story and is a self-portrait, having a high degree of truth and sensitivity that characterized the earlier works; as a picture, in vivid painter's prose, of aspects of English life in the twenties, it stays in the mind. Brown cloth boards, black title label with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 199 pages. ISBN: 0192111957. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to front endpaper. Also includes an addressed postcard from Harold Owen (blank). Base of cloth boards has a thin line of fading, light damp mark to base of front board at spine edge. Text block lightly browned with a few small marks. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper has a corresponding damp stain to verso (not visible to front), is edge-rubbed and scuffed.

LINEN HOUSES OF BANBRIDGE
Written by Catherine Cahill; Jack Diamond. Illustrated by Clare Boyce; Elizabeth McCalla.
Stock no. 1831077
1st thus 1995. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A Historical and Architectural Study of the Houses of The Linen Merchants of Banbridge, Ireland. Limited Edition of 200. Oblong format. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 72 pages including index. This is copy 88 of 200. A few scuff marks to dustwrapper else a lovely copy.

BAYREUTH: A HISTORY OF THE WAGNER FESTIVAL
Written by Frederic Spotts.
Stock no. 1831076
Published by Yale University Press. 1994. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is the first to provide a frank and comprehensive account of the institutions's history and functioning. The core of the study is a critical analysis of the performances and productions, brought alive with illustrations of stage settings, conductors and singers in costume. Around this artistic history is woven the remarkable story of why Wagner established the Festival and how his controversial descendants have managed it after him. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. x and 334 pages including index. ISBN: 0300057776. Reprint. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

PEREGRINATIONS OF A PARIAH
Written by Flora Tristan; Charles De Salis; Joanna Richardson.
Stock no. 1831074
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1986. Slightly better than very good condition.

the story of Flora Tristan's progressive transformation into a "Woman Guide" whose religious destiny is to lead the way, or "trace new routes" for a struggling humanity deeply troubled by revolution and its aftershocks. Translated by Charles de Salis. Introduction by Joanna Richardson. Red pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. Top edge light grey, endpapers light grey showing maps. xv and 291 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is grubby at one end.

SAMUEL JOHNSON
Written by J.C.D. Clark.
Stock no. 1330914
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st PB 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Literature, religion and English cultural politics from the Restoration to Romanticism. Cardwraps (paperback edition). 270 pages including index. ISBN: 0521478855. Minimal rubbing to edges. Some light grubby marks to textblock (contents not affected).

ROBERT SOUTHEY ENTIRE MAN OF LETTERS
Written by W.A. Speck.
Stock no. 1330913
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Purple endpapers. B/w photos. 305 pages. ISBN: 0300116810. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper else a super copy. Small mark to rear panel of wrapper.