Stella & Rose's Books

AUTO UNION GP RACE AND RECORD CARS: THEIR RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION
Written by Peter Vann; et al.
Stock no. 1819399
Published by Mbi Publishing. 1st 2001. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Peter Vann photographed the restored Auto Union racing and record-breaking cars on the banked curve of the Brooklands track in England. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0760313075.

WALES: LIVING MEMORIES
Written by Peter Thompson.
Stock no. 1819379
Published by The Francis Frith Collection. 1st 2005. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Francis Frith's Photographic Memories series. Wales in the mid-twentieth century and the considerable changes it has undergone. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 1859374646. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper.

RAILWAY MEMORIES No. 5 RETURN TO YORK
Written by Peter Rose.
Stock no. 2133011
Published by Bellcode Books. Nearly fine condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 1871233046. Some page edge browning.

HEIRS OF THE FISHERMAN
Written by John-Peter Pham.
Stock no. 2132947
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 2004. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession. Red cloth spine, with gilt title. Brown boards. ISBN: 0195178343. A little pencil annotation.

PETER DUCK
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1318756
Published by Jonathan Cape. 4th 1932. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt title to front. Front endpaper is a chart of the atlantic ocean. B/w text illustrations throughout. 431 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly faded with foxspots. Name in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Foxing to contents, especially at textblock.

A CELEBRATION OF THE GRANTING OF THE ROYAL CHARTER TO THE WORSHIPFUL LIVERY COMPANY OF WALES: CWYMNI ANRHYDEDDUS LIFRAI CYMRU
Written by Bryan Marsh.
Stock no. 1819083
Published by The Worshipful Livery Company Of Wales. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A record of the presentation of a Royal Charter on June 7th, 2014, by the Lord-Lieutenant of South Glamorgan, Dr Peter Beck, to The Worshipful Livery Company of Wales, formerly known as the Welsh Livery Guild. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781903529249.

UNITED STATES MILITARY AIRCRAFT SINCE 1909
Written by Gordon Swanborough; Peter M. Bowers.
Stock no. 2132091
Published by Putnam. 1st thus 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New edition (Third edition). B/w photos. 766 pages including index. ISBN: 085177816X. Bumping to spine. A few light marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

BATH HISTORY VOLUME II
Written by Peter Davenport; et al.
Stock no. 2131975
Published by Alan Sutton. 1ST 1988. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0862995086. Spine is faded. Very light creasing to corner tips of covers.

THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Written by Peter Somerville-Large.
Stock no. 1818676
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd.. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Social History. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & a few colour photos. ISBN: 1856192377. Name in ink to front endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is heavily faded at front spine edge.

CURTISS AIRCRAFT 1907-1947
Written by Peter M. Bowers.
Stock no. 2131906
Published by Putnam. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A complete history of the pioneer work of Glenn Curtiss and of the subsequent companies which bore his name. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 637 pages. ISBN: 0370100298. Name in ink to front endpaper which is browned with some creasing. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

RED LETTER DAYS
Written by Peter Rogers; et al. Illustrated by John Searl.
Stock no. 2131848
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A tribute to Bernard Venables. Peter Rogers has compiled and edited 48 golden memories from the most famous names in angling. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 185223783X. Wrapper has some light edge-creasing and small amount of fading to spine.

COME FISHING WITH ME
Written by Peter Stone.
Stock no. 2131777
Published by Pelham Books. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards with silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0720706637. Small knocks to top and tail of spine. Page edge browning. Wrapper is price-cut with browning to spine. What appears to be a tape glue residue showing through to top of spine (wrapper possibly reinforced to top of spine on verso).