Stella & Rose's Books

THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE
Written by William Shakespeare; Peter W.M. Blayney.
Stock no. 1827950
Published by W.W. Norton & Company Inc.. 2nd 1996. Very good condition.

The Norton Facsimile. Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection. Prepared by Charlton Hinman with an introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney. Large format. Heavy volume. Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. Leather spine. Pictorial cloth. Second edition. ISBN: 0393039854. A lovey copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has some scuffing and a small tear of surface paper to lower edge.

SIR WILLIAM JARDINE: A LIFE IN NATURAL HISTORY
Written by Christine E. Jackson; Peter Davis.
Stock no. 1827836
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Biography. Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) of Jardine Hall near Lockerbie, was a Scottish baronet and landowner. He was also a magistrate, Convenor of the Church of Scotland, and Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire in 1841, but, above all, he was an eminent naturalist in several fields, knowledgeable about birds, fishes, insects, plants and geology. Matt boards. B/w illustrations. xii and 244 pages including index. ISBN: 0718501640. Boards just a little grubby. Light fading to front gutter edge and top of front board. Tiny nick to top of spine. Contents clean.

HARROW & WEALDSTONE 50 YEARS ON - CLEARING UP THE AFTERMATH
Written by Peter Tatlow.
Stock no. 1327492
Published by The Oakwood Press. 2nd 2008. Fine condition.

Second edition. Series X75. A careful and analytical study of the railway accident and its aftermath. Cardwraps. 128 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780853616801.

RAILWAY MEMORIES No. 5 RETURN TO YORK
Written by Peter Rose.
Stock no. 1327449
Published by Bellcode Books. Circa 1994. Nearly fine condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 1871233046. Slight rubbing to cover edges.

LNER LINES IN THE YORKSHIRE RIDINGS
Written by Peter Cookson; John E. Fairline.
Stock no. 1327233
Published by Book Law Publications; Railbus Publications. 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

Yellow and green pictorial cardwraps. Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 1899624333. Slight creasing to corner tips of covers. Contents fine.

THE POWER OF THE B17s AND B2s
Written by Peter W. Swinger.
Stock no. 1327110
Published by Oxford Publishing. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Power Series. Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0860933962. Spine slightly bumped. Some erased pencil writing (previous price) to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

THE POWER OF THE B1S
Written by Peter Swinger.
Stock no. 1327082
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. The B1 class mixed traffic locomotives were the LNER's equivalent of the LMSR's 'Black Fives'. ISBN: 0860934454. Spine very slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is lightly foxed on verso.

EDWARD THOMPSON OF THE LNER
Written by Peter Grafton.
Stock no. 1327060
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1st thus 2007. Very good condition.

The story of the Chief Mechanical Engineer between 1941 and 1946. B/w photos. New edition (original published by Kestrel Books). Card wraps. ISBN: 9780853616726. Corners slightly rubbed. Crease to lower corner of front cover. Pale page browning to page edges else contents fine.

GRESLEY'S B17S
Written by Peter Tuffrey.
Stock no. 1327017
Published by Great Northern Books. 1st 2021. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Green boards with silver title to spine. B/w and colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781912101269. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is very slightly creased at edges.

A4 PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES
Written by Peter Tuffrey.
Stock no. 1326987
Published by Ian Allan Publishing. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition.

A glorious history of the design, construction and service of Gresley's A4 Pacifics, some of the most beautiful locomotives ever to grace Britain's railways. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. 144 pages. Colour and b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9780711083479. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners.

BRITISH RAILWAYS STANDARD PACIFICS
Written by Peter Tuffrey.
Stock no. 1326986
Published by Great Northern Books. 1st 2018. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 189 numbered pages. ISBN: 9781912101764. Corners bumped. Some very slight creasing/rubbing to corners of wrapper.

SUMMER SATURDAYS IN THE WEST
Written by David St John Thomas; Simon Rocksborough Smith. Illustrated by Peter Gray; Kenneth Leech.
Stock no. 1326935
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A remarkable and unusual railway book. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715359126. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Pale foxing and page edge browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and browned on verso.