Stella & Rose's Books

LITTLE CHICKS AND BABY TRICKS
Written by Ida Waugh. Illustrated by Ida Waugh.
Stock no. 1108596
Published by Griffith Farran & Co.. Very good condition.

Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover showing two young girls feeding the chickens. Colour illustrations accompany the verses. Some bumping and wear to corners and cover edges. A little chipping along cover edges and to laminate on covers. New front endpapers. Foxing and grubby margin marks to some pages.

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A YOUNG PRETENDER
Written by Dorothea Moore.
Stock no. 1108522
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, black titles. Colour frontis. Some page browning and foxing. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped; both flaps have been detached (one now repaired with tape); some loss to tears along edges.

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LITTLE FOLKS VOL 25
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1311173
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1887. Almost very good condition.

A Magazine for the Young, new and enlarged series. Cloth spine, pictorial boards with front showing face of little girl in circle to centre surrounded by roses. First story ""Bunty and the Boys". Colour frontis and one other colour plate, b/w illustrations throughout. Binding has been professionally repaired/reinforced with possible new spine and tape to joints (matches yellow paper of endpapers). Foxing and grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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JIM ALONG, JOSIE
Written by John Langstaff; Nancy Langstaff. Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Stock no. 1501670
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Collection of Folk-songs and Singing Games for Young Children. Piano arrangements by Seymour Barab. Guitar chords by Happy Traum. Optional percussion accompaniments for children. Orange boards with gilt titles to spine and ant vignette to front cover. 124 pages. ISBN: 0193305364. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Couple of small marks to covers. Erased pencil writing to front endpaper. Small area of loss to bottom edge of front endpaper (piece is stuck to front pastedown). Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn.

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THE ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK
Written by Ida May.
Stock no. 1310575
Published by Albert E. Marriott. circa 1931. Very good condition.

Blue boards, black titles. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour photos of the very young Princess Elizabeth and two-tone illustrations for the children's stories. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Small nick to lower edge of spine. Inscription in ink and small Xmas sticker to front endpaper. Pale page browning and light foxing to first few and last few pages else contents clean.

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OUR DARLINGS
Written by Esther Branthwaite; Duncan McLaren; F. Anstey; et al. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris; Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1310566
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. circa 1912. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows young boy sailor with a small girl on his shoulder. First story is "Molly's Decision" (this is a long story serialised throughout the annual) by Branthwaite. Colour plates mounted on green paper plus b/w text illustrations throughout. Spine bumped and faded with small dark mark to centre. Covers edge rubbed. Endpapers browned, small piece chipped from lower edge of front endpaper. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to page edges. One plate has slight damage to edges, one mount has very slight paper damage to verso.

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THE FIELDS OF WAR
Written by Philip Warner.
Stock no. 1604768
Published by John Murray. 1st 1977. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A young cavalryman's Crimea Campaign. B/w photos. ISBN: 0719533562.

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THE ADVENTURES OF PETER AND JUDY IN BUNNYLAND
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Lennie Young.
Stock no. 1501331
Published by Collins. 1st 1935. Very good condition.

Large format. Yellow cloth spine. Black pictorial boards. Superb vivid full-page colour illustrations. Spine is bumped, a little worn and browned. Corners and cover edges are worn. Some scratch marks and small areas of surface paper damage to front cover. Back cover is slightly grubby with some light stains. Endpapers are browned. Closed tear of approx. 3cm to bottom edge of page 29/30. Only a very odd mark mark. Illustrations lovely and bright.

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ALL SORTS OF DAYS
Written by Doris Rust. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 2109529
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition.

Six stories for the very young. Red boards with blue title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis and b/w text illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Uneven fading to covers, with damp marks. White correction fluid to front pastedown, with new inscription in ink over the top. Some foxing.

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THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY FROM GWENT
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1207559
Published by Ivor Waters. 1st 1976. Nearly fine condition.

Yellow card wraps. Poetry by the Chepstow historian. ISBN: 0950007978.

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THE TIZZLE SISTERS & ERIK
Written by G.P. Taylor. Illustrated by Dan Boultwood.
Stock no. 1401307
Published by Markosia Enterprises Ltd.. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

Adapted by Tony Lee. Glazed pictorial boards. Comic book style interspersed with normal text pages. St Dunstan's school for wayward children is not an ordinary school and Sadie and Saskia Tizzle are not ordinary young people... ISBN: 9781905692224. SIGNED by author to front free endpaper and by Cliff Wright and Tony Lee to title page. Limited edition (30 of 80). Publisher's blind stamp to title page. Front cover unevenly faded. Remains of sticker to rear cover. Contents are fine.

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THE YOUNG MAN OF CURY AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Charles Causley. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1501092
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0333538129. Spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Odd fox spot to contents. Wrapper is foxed on verso and a little edge creased with tiny split near top of spine.

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