Stella & Rose's Books

REPUBLIC P-47 THUNDERBOLT: THE OPERATIONAL RECORD
Written by Jerry C. Scutts.
Stock no. 1831002
Published by Airlife. 1st 1998. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of the single seater second world war fighter plane. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 167 pages including index. ISBN: 1853108219. Light bump to lower front board corner. Couple of minor small brown marks to front endpaper. Brown mark to top vertical edge of rear endpaper. Text block browned and has a few small marks. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

BIGGLES' SECRET ASSIGNMENTS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Studio Stead.
Stock no. 1330895
Published by Prion Ltd.. 1st thus 2009. Fine condition.

Four more of our flying hero's classic adventures: Biggles' Second Case; Biggles Breaks the Silence; Biggles Gets His Men and Biggles Follows On. 654 pages. B/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff cardwraps. ISBN: 9781853757440.

BIGGLES AND THE PLOT THAT FAILED
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330893
Published by Knight Books. 1st PB 1970. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. 157 pages. ISBN: 0340104600. Light creases to spine where book has been held open. Light page browning else contents clean.

BIGGLES AND THE BLACK MASK
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330891
Published by Knight Books. 1979. Good condition.

Paperback edition. 157 pages. ISBN: 0340190914. Covers edge worn and lightly creased. Name and date to half title-page. Page browning else contents clean.

BIGGLES AND THE PENITENT THIEF
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330890
Published by Knight Books. 1st PB 1974. Very good condition.

Paperback edition. 159 pages. ISBN: 0340190906. Vertical creases to spine where book has been held open. Light page browning else contents clean.

BIGGLES HUNTS BIG GAME
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330889
Published by Armada. 1st PB 1963. Almost very good condition.

Green pictorial cardwraps. Crack/split between pages 28 and 29. Name in ink inside front cover.

GEORGE STEPHENSON A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE FATHER OF RAILWAYS
Written by Hunter Davies.
Stock no. 1330888
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book club edition. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 337 pages. B/w photos. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and first few and last few pages. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and creased.

THE CLIMATE OF TREASON: FIVE WHO SPIED FOR RUSSIA
Written by Andrew Boyle.
Stock no. 1330886
Published by Hutchinson. 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

How did it happen that three young men, all contemporaries, all members of the English upper class, all products of public schools and Cambridge University, should join the profession in the service of the Soviet Union and, over a period of years, consistently betray their country? Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 504 pages including index. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 009139340X. Reprint of December 1979 (published in same year as first edition). Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS
Written by C.A. Patrides.
Stock no. 1330885
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st thus 1980. Very good condition.

The selected discourses of four seventeenth-century philosophers. Paperback edition. 343 pages including index. ISBN: 052129942X. Light vertical creases to spine where book has been held open. Light foxing and slight grubbiness to textblock. Name and date in ink inside front cover else contents clean.

THE CRIME OF GALILEO
Written by Giorgio De Santillana.
Stock no. 1330884
Published by Mercury Books. 1st thus 1961. Very good condition.

A biography of the Italian scientist, concentrating on his prosecution for urging belief in revolutionary astronomical discoveries. Paperback edition. 338 pages including index. Covers are edge rubbed, grubby and browned. Spine especially browned. Name and date in ink inside front cover. Foxing and slight grubbiness to textblock.

KEPLER
Written by John Banville.
Stock no. 1330883
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book 2 of the Revolutions trilogy. Black boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. ISBN: 0436032643. Minimal bumping to spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is a tiny bit edge creased aqnd slightly sunned to spine.

JOHN ADAMS
Written by David McCullough.
Stock no. 1330882
Published by The Free Press. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

The adventurous life of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot. Paperback edition. Some colour and b/w plates. 751 pages including index. ISBN: 0743232291. Textblock is slightly grubby and foxed. Spine is lightly creased from the book being held open to read.