Stella & Rose's Books

THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 2139762
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1889. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine and vignettes to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations throughout. 390 pages plus 16 page booklist to rear. All edges gilt. Catalogue to rear of book is dated August 1889. Spine is bumped with wear and faded. Corners are bumped. Front hinge next to frontis page is cracked, with browning glue marks showing. Frontis is edge-creased with a few nicks and some foxing. Tissue guard to frontis is heavily foxed. A couple of hinges are pulled. Foxing to varying degrees to pages throughout book.

TOLD AGAIN
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 1322909
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Traditional tales told by de La Mare. Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 320 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Small dent to edge of rear cover. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are browned. Some foxing to contents.

THE FIRELIGHT BOOK OF NURSERY STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by John Hassall.
Stock no. 2132133
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1954. Almost very good condition.

Fairy tales for Little Folk. Cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Full page colour and b/w text illustrations. First story is Puss in Boots. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Heavy wear and chipping to corners. Presentation plate stuck to front pastedown. Foxing to outer page edges. Contents are still very good.

CINDERELLA AND OTHER FAIRY STORIES WITH REALISTIC POP-UP PICTURES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1318251
Published by Purnell & Sons, Ltd.. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. 5 pop-up scenes. Colour illustrations. Other stories are Dick Whittington and Sleeping Beauty. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some lifting of laminate at spine edges with dust beneath. Front cover is curved a little. Some foxing to contents. Pop-ups in good condition.

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AND BLUE BEARD
Written by Walter Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1318036
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1914. Almost very good condition.

Small format, 14 x 11cm. Grey/green pictorial boards. Full-page colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. A couple of hinges are slightly cracked. A few small foxspots else contents clean.

THE GOLDEN BUDGET OF NURSERY STORIES
No author listed.
Stock no. 2131356
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial boards and spine showing Puss in Boots. Colour frontis. B/w text illustrations. Wear to cover edges and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Colouring to some b/w illustrations internally.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Written by Kathleen Lines. Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 2131035
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book of Nursery Stories. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Written by Margaret Early. Illustrated by Margaret Early.
Stock no. 2130707
Published by Walter McVitty Books. 1st AUSTRALIA 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Red/pink covers with gilt title to spine. Australian Edition. Retold by Early. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0949183792. Light wear to top and tail of spine. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small nicks to top and tail of spine.

SIX OLD WORLD FAIRY TALES
Written by F.S. Williams. Illustrated by J.K. Wilkinson.
Stock no. 2130305
Published by Peter Hopwood & Co. Ltd. Circa 1926. Good condition.

Stories adapted by Williams. Includes 'Sleeping Beauty'; 'Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs'; 'Beauty and the Beast' and more. Large format. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. Spine has large splits, which have been somewhat repaired with glue. Heavy creasing and scuffing to covers; some chipping and nicks. Inscriptions in ink to prelims. Creasing and chipping to some page edges; margin marks to some page with foxing. A reading copy.

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AND BLUE BEARD
Written by Walter Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 2128334
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1914. Very good condition.

Small format, 14 x 11cm. Grey/green pictorial boards. Full-page colour plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Small inscription in ink to bottom of front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins.

BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 31ST YEAR
Written by Barbara C. Freeman; Norman Hunter; Ruth Ainsworth; et al. Illustrated by Harry Rountree; Cicely Mary Barker; Peter Fraser; Kenneth Harrow; et al..
Stock no. 2128131
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Beige cloth spine with dark titles. Pictorial front cover shows four children at a campfire. Colour plates plus colour and b/w illustrations. Marks to spine; splash mark to top. Scuff marks to covers. Wear and bumping to corners. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Foxing and some grubby margin marks.

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Written by C.S. Evans. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1816121
Published by Chancellor Press. 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, white title to spine. Silhouette illustration to front board. Colour frontis. B/w silhouette illustrations. Reproduction of the 1920 edition. ISBN: 1851520562. Corners lightly rubbed. Gift inscirption in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.