Stella & Rose's Books

NEW BOYS AT GREYFRIARS
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1406427
Published by Howard Baker. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Greyfriars Book Club Volume No. 13. Collectors edition limited to 500 copies. Facsimile of The Magnet issue nos. 43-50, + 59. Simulated green leather, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0703001191. SIGNED by publisher, copy no. 403. A little bumping to spine and corners. Contents very good. Tissue paper wrapper has browned spine and one flap is creased. Some small nicks to top edge. Contained in a slipcase which is bumped at the corners and browned at the edges.

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MORE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE
Written by Jean De La Fontaine; Edward Marsh.
Stock no. 1506863
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Edition Limited to 165 copies, of which 150 are for sale. White spine with gilt title, pale blue paper boards. 48 fables. 88 pages. Edges uncut. Light bump to top of spine. Foxing and a few tiny marks to covers. Foxing, mainly to endpapers. Browning to half-title page and last text page. Contents otherwise clean. Copy no. 97 SIGNED by Marsh. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped with a little loss. Panels grubby, spine browned.

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I LEONARDO
Written by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1506771
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Raucous, anarchic, exquisite and moving... Large oblong format. Green boards with gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0224019163. SIGNED by Steadman with dedication and date. He appears to have torn page with pen when signing so has written oops!! alongside. Contents clean. Dustwrapper ever so slightly edge worn.

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OLD RHYMES IN A NEW SETTING
Written by Edmund V. Megson. Illustrated by Ethel Hall.
Stock no. 1506728
circa 1904. Almost very good condition.

First Series. Brown cloth covers with black titles and vignettes of geese and windmill. 9.5 x 9.5". Nursery rhymes with b/w illustrations and musical score. Pages printed on one side only. Music by Megson. SIGNED by Megson, with inscription, on verso of front endpaper. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks and some darkening to covers. Joints just starting to crack. A few marks/fingermarks to contents.

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WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO?
Written by Mel Calman. Illustrated by Mel Calman.
Stock no. 1506718
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some sketches from a cartoonist's life. Grey boards with gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 105 numbered pages. ISBN: 0413588408. Signed by author, with inscription, on front endpaper. A little fading to base of spine and edges of covers alongside. Faint erased pencil writing to front endpaper otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a few small marks, very light browning to spine area.

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DARK ESTUARY
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2122674
Published by Hollis & Carter. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A source of abiding delight to all those who love wildfowl and the lonely firths of Scotland. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 15 glorious colour plates plus b/w drawings. SIGNED by author to dedication page. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks with a little scuffing to covers. Pale foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine, with edge-tears and chips; some repairs; only a little loss. Wrapper also has some grubby marks.

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CHERRYWOOD CANNON
Written by Dimitri Sidjanski. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1316279
Published by Paddington Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. White boards with black silhouette to front cover. Colour illustrations. A Fable of War and Peace. ISBN: 0448229781. SIGNED by the artist to title-page with a small doodle to the cannon illustration. Small nibble patch to base of spine of book. Ink (biro) 2.00 written to top corner of front free-endpaper. Some loss to lower spine corner of front panel of wrapper (where it was nibbled). Dustwrapper is lightly browned, some lifting of laminate at lower edge of front panel.

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LANDSCAPES & MEMORIES AN INTERMITTENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by John Prebble.
Stock no. 1608922
Published by Harpercollins Publishers Ltd. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Moving backwards and forwards between the distant and recent past, between Prebble's recollections of his own life and of the lives and history he has written about. B/w photos. ISBN: 0002151847. Spine and corners bumped. SIGNED by author on title page (with dedication). Wrapper is edge creased.

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IMMORTAL MEMORY BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE
Written by Christopher A. Whatley.
Stock no. 1608908
Published by John Donald. 2016. Nearly fine condition.

Card wraps. ISBN: 9781910900086. SIGNED by author on title page (without dedication). This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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A CAGE OF ARMS
Written by Sylvia Read.
Stock no. 1506456
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Life in Catholic Spain is conventional and tradition-bound. Beatriz rebels against staying at home and travels to London as an au pair. Here her eyes are opened to some of the realities of life and love. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. 240 pages. SIGNED by author to front endpaper with inscription. Minimal bumping to spine. Foxing, mainly to text block and top margins. Contents otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a browned spine and grubby rear panel.

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AN ARTIST'S MODELS
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1316213
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

SIGNED/LTD edition of which 300 copies are for sale. Not a collection of lovely ladies but a collection of even lovelier dogs! 20 superb full-page sketches depicting models the artists has known in various doggy poses. White boards, gilt titles. Plates have captioned tissue-guards. 80 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by Aldin to limitation page. This is copy no. 46. Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing and slight grubbiness to covers. Evidence of removal of a name plate to front pastedown. Some pale foxing else contents clean.

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PENELOPE THE FAIRY
Written by Jill King. Illustrated by Janet Kucharnik.
Stock no. 1316149
Published by Vantage Press. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An imaginative fantasy story. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 31 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0533103622. SIGNED by the author by means of an inscription (to David & Audrey) to front free-endpaper. Contents otherwise fine. White pictorial wrapper is very slightly browned.

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