Stella & Rose's Books

EXPELLED: BEING THE STORY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
Written by Bernard Heldman.
Stock no. 1331293
Published by James Nisbet & Co.. Circa 1894. Good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title label to spine and gilt title to front cover. Black decoration to spine and black illustration to front cover. B/w plates. 347 pages plus booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, small split to top of spine. Some spotting to covers. Initials and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxing, page browning and fingering to contents. Some hinges cracked and pulled but binding still tight.

LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER
Written by Ross King. Illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Stock no. 1831341
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King tells the complete story of this creation of this mural: the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous personalities involved - everyone from the Leonardo's young assistants to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work. Ross King's book is both a record of Leonardo da Vinci's last five years in Milan and a 'biography' of one of the most famous works of art ever painted. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and a few colour plates. 336 pages including index. ISBN: 9780747599470. Boards clean. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

OUR EXPLOITS AT WEST POLEY
Written by Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1331189
Published by Oxford University Press. 1979. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Hardy's only story seriously intended for a young audience. Exploring Nick's Pocket, a cave in the Mendips, Leonard and his cousin Steve find a mysterious subterranean stream... Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w wood engraving illustrations. x and 77 pages. ISBN: 0192745271. Some light scuffing to spine edge of front cover. Name, town and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is bright.

JACKIE ANNUAL 1978
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831296
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1978. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards depicting young teen in a striped multi-coloured jumper. First article is 50 Way to Warm Up Your Winter. Cartoon script style stories and text stories, articles, quizzes etc. Colour & b/w illustrations. 92 pages. A lovely copy, NOT price-cut or inscribed.

JACKIE ANNUAL 1977
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831295
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards depicting a young teen. First article is When your Get Up and Go Has Gone... Cartoon script style stories and text stories, articles, quizzes etc. Colour & b/w illustrations. 92 pages. Light rubbing to top & tail of spine. Boards very lightly scuffed. NOT price-cut or inscribed. Contents clean.

JACKIE ANNUAL 1979
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831292
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1979. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards depict a young teen in a red beret. First article is 50 Ways to be a Winter Winner. Colour & b/w illustrations. Cartoon script style stories and text stories. 95 pages including pastedowns. Boards lightly scuffed. Puzzles on pages 8 and 26 neatly completed. Else contents clean. NOT price-cut or inscribed.

JACKIE ANNUAL 1980
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831291
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1980. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards show colour photo of young teenageer in red & yellow jumper, holding a soft toy. First article is Fifty Ways to Get That Warm Winter Feeling. Colour & b/w illustrations. Cartoon script style stories and text stories. 93 pages. Minor knock to top edge of front board. A few minor marks and light rubbing to corners. One quiz has been neatly completed else contents are clean. NOT price-cut or inscribed.

JUNE BOOK 1974
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831286
Published by IPC Magazines Ltd.. 1974. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards depicting a young girl on the swimming pool steps with another young girl in the water behind, holding a ball. First story is Lucky's Living Doll. Cartoon script stories and text stories. Colour and two-tone illustrations. 126 pages. ISBN: 0850370647. Light rubbing to top & tail of spine and board corners. Boards clean. Some hinges pulled - glued binding drying out with one or two pages almost detached. Else contents are lovely. NOT price-cut or inscribed.

THE GATES OF BANNERDALE
Written by Geoffrey Trease.
Stock no. 1331129
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st thus 2007. Fine condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. One of the Bannerdale series. 223 pages. ISBN: 9781847450234.

GEORGE GISSING: A LIFE
Written by Paul Delany.
Stock no. 1831266
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

George Gissing was an English novelist. Throughout his adult life, Gissing's difficult financial situation was exacerbated by the responsibility he felt to support his family. But the focus of Delany's book is on Gissing's mistakes as a young man and on his lifelong difficulty with women and sexuality. Maroon cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w photos. xiii and 444 pages including index. ISBN: 9780297852124. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Written by James Joyce. Illustrated by Robin Jacques.
Stock no. 1831227
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Illustrated Edition. The story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front board. 6 full-page b/w illustrations. 257 pages. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers, else contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn.

THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1831157
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1962. Almost very good condition.

Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Flopsy are the parents of six young rabbits called simply the Flopsy Bunnies. The story concerns how the Flopsy Bunnies, while raiding a rubbish heap of rotting vegetables, fall asleep and are captured by Mr. McGregor who places them in a sack. Cream boards with triangular pictorial onlay and red titles. 5.5 x 4" approx. 59 pages. Boards grubby. Edges of boards rubbed & worn at corners and top & tail of spine. Text block lightly browned. A few marks to contents.