Stella & Rose's Books

GRANNY'S STORIES
Written by Edric Vredenburg; Margery Williams; Nora Chesson; et al. Illustrated by M. Bowley; E.M. Taylor; T. Noyes Lewis; Mabel Lucie Attwell; et al..
Stock no. 1505486
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. circa 1909. Almost very good condition.

Stories and poems. First story is The Wizard's Ring. Pictorial front board showing Granny with two girls. Edited by Vredenburg. Red cloth spine. Colour frontis with b/w and two tone illustrations. Father Tuck's "Golden Gift" series. Spine bumped. Wear to corners and cover edges. Rear cover slightly grubby. Name and date in pencil and small red marks with small patches of surface paper damage to front pastedown. Outside edge of front endpaper and frontis creased and nicked. A couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers and contents browned with a couple of marks.

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SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
Written by Edric Vredenburg; Grace C. Floyd; Lilian Holmes; et al. Illustrated by M. Bowley; A.L. Bowley; Hilda Cowham; M.A. Peart; et al..
Stock no. 1505485
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. circa 1924. Good condition.

Father Tuck's Children's Own Library series. Stories in Prose and Verse. Cloth spine, pictorial covers, front shows two children with rake and armfuls of weeds, rear shows girl with swans. Colour frontis, two tone and b/w illustrations. First story: The Welsh Fire Dragon. Spine bumped, small holes along rear edge, also slightly darkened. Bumping and wear to corners and cover edges. Covers a bit grubby with light scratches and small spots of surface paper damage. Name and date to front endpaper. Pencil writing to frontis, pencil underlining of text on one page and erased pencil words on a few pages and rear endpapers. Some fingering and a few marks to contents.

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FROM HULL, HELL AND HALIFAX: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF No.4 GROUP 1937-1948
Written by Chris Blanchett.
Stock no. 1811580
Published by Midland Counties Publications. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The story of an incredible effort by the Yorkshire-based No.4 Group of RAF Bomber Command, over an eleven-year period that encompassed the Second World War. Large format. Black boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 0904597814. Vertical crease to front pastedown caused in binding process. Dustwrapper corners lightly rubbed.

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HAPPY HEARTS AND MERRY EYES
Written by L.T. Meade; Evelyn Everett-Green; L.L. Weedon; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain; W. Foster; Gordon Robinson; et al..
Stock no. 1505464
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. circa 1922. Almost very good condition.

A book of stories and verses. Large format. Cloth spine with pictorial front board showing children in a cart being pulled by a donkey. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations throughout. First story is "The Goose Step". Stains to both bottom corners and top edge of rear cover. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Rear cover is mottled. Inscription in ink to top edge of front endpaper. Browning to endpapers and page edges. One hinge cracked. Light creasing to top inside corner of all pages. Just an odd mark to contents.

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NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGY OF A FINE CITY
Written by Brian Ayers.
Stock no. 1811565
Published by Amberley. 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Revised and Updated. An overview of the history and development of the city, beginning with its pre-urban days, through the fundamental changes brought by the Normans, the thriving medieval commercial centre, and on to post-medieval industrialisation, war-damage and post-war development. Cardwraps. B/w photos and colour plates. ISBN: 9781848683723. A nice copy.

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COMBEN LONGSTAFF & CO. LTD
Written by K.S. Garrett.
Stock no. 1811528
Published by World Ship Society. 1st 1996. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Merchant shipping in the 20th century. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780905617824. Dustwrapper lightly edge-creased.

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FANTASTIC ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN IN BRITAIN, 1850-1930
Written by Diana L. Johnson.
Stock no. 2119771
Published by Museum Of Art. 1979. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth, gilt titles. Colour plates, b/w photos and illustrations. Limited to 7000 copies. Not only a book on the subject of fantastic illustration, but also the catalogue of an exhibition. Foxing and some page browning. Wrapper is unevenly foxed and browned, with edge-creasing and a few chips and nicks.

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SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES
Written by Eleanor Smith. Illustrated by Florence Young.
Stock no. 1404958
Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

Words and music. Green cloth with black titles and black and red vignette of children singing to front board. 6 colour plates. 65 pages. Spine bumped and a little rubbed. Corners bumped. Small brown mark to bottom of rear board. Couple of hinges cracked. Page edges browned. Margin tears to page 35 and the plate opposite page 52. Contents generally clean.

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PARTRIDGE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL - 5TH YEAR
Written by Dorothea Moore; John Lea; Fay Inchfawn; et al. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris; Louis Wain; Harold C. Earnshaw; Savile Lumley; Margaret Tarrant; Chris Temple; et al..
Stock no. 1505453
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd.. circa 1913. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine with black titles and black vignette, pictorial front board shows small girl riding on shoulders of older girl. Advert to rear cover. Blue pictorial endpapers. Colour plates, two-tone and b/w text illustrations. Spine bumped with a few small, light marks. Wear to corners and cover edges. Rear cover slightly grubby. Paper covering rear joint split for 1" at top and bottom. Nick to outside edge of front endpaper. Dated ink inscription to verso of frontis. A couple of hinges cracked. Brown mark, mostly to inner margins of two pages, one of which is a two-tone illustration page. A few fox spots and fingermarks but generally clean otherwise.

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SEVEN LITTLE PLAYS FOR CHILDREN
Written by Rose Fyleman.
Stock no. 2119723
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 7th 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Seventh Edition. Small format. Blue paper boards, white title block to front. Spine and cover edges are a little faded. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased and chipped, with a few tears and a little loss; some surface paper damage to front panel.

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THE JOLLY BOOK - FOURTEENTH YEAR
Written by Edwin Chisholm; Harold Avery; Ethel Talbot; G.E. Hopcroft; et al. Illustrated by Lawson Wood; W.H.C. Groome; Peter Fraser; et al..
Stock no. 1505452
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

Large format. Colour pictorial boards show children running after dog. 16 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 287 pages. Edited by Chisholm. First story: Pocket Thunder by Harold Avery. Spine bumped, picture on it worn, 1.5" split to bottom of front edge. Bumping and wear to corners and cover edges. Covers very grubby. Erased writing and faint ticks to both endpapers and verso of frontis. Pencil writing about contents to front endpaper. Some light foxing and a few marks to contents but most pages are clean. All plates present.

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VALENTINO ROSSI THE YELLOW GIANT
Written by Yves Jamotte; et al.
Stock no. 2119704
Published by Apach Publishing. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. Text in French, English and Italian. ISBN: 2930354011. Creasing to top corners of pages and covers. A few marks to wrapper.

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