Stella & Rose's Books

MISS EMMA OF DUSTBIN ALLEY
Written by Isobel St. Vincent. Illustrated by Helen Haywood.
Stock no. 1330462
Published by Hutchinson's Books for Young People. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Miss Emma was a maiden lady cat who had made a delightful home for herself in a dustbin. Pale blue boards, red titles. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 80 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Faint vertical score mark to spine edge of rear cover and light (damp?) stain to fore-edge of rear cover. Endpapers lightly browned. Musty smell to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut (with 'new' price sticker above) and is a bit grubby. Dustwrapper is edge worn and has tape repairs on verso

DRAWN TO ENCHANT
Written by Timothy G. Young; Patrick Kiley. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 1330448
Published by Beinecke Rare Book And Manuscript Library; Yale University Press. 1st 2007. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Original Children's Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection. Large format. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, colour pictorial boards. 223 pages. Packed full of colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780300126730.

QUIET AS MOSS
Written by Andrew Young. Illustrated by Joan Hassall.
Stock no. 1330433
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Thirty-six poems chosen by Leonard Clark. Green boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. 39 numbered pages. Small mark to front edge of spine. Spine very slightly bumped. Foxing else contents clean. Pale blue pictorial wrapper is edge worn, foed and faded to spine and folds. Small damp stains to front fold.

KING ARTHUR: THE SWORD IN THE STONE
Written by Hudson Talbott. Illustrated by Hudson Talbott.
Stock no. 1830501
Published by William Morrow & Company Inc. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The only person able to draw a sword from an anvil, a young boy proves himself to be the successor to the throne of all Britain. Books of Wonder; Morrow Junior Books. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0688094031. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, lightly edge-worn to top & tail of spine, lightly scuffed, grease spot to top edge of rear panel, previous bookseller's label to rear.

FOURTEEN SONGS FROM WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG
Written by A.A. Milne; H. Fraser-Simson. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 1330359
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.; Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.. 6th 1925. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Cloth spine, brown boards with title label to front. Songs with music and b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight grubbiness to cover edges. Endpapers lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and edge torn with minimal loss. Vertical crease to spine edge of front panel of wrapper.

MESSENGER OF FEAR
Written by Michael Grant.
Stock no. 1830461
Published by Electric Monkey. 1st 2014. Very good condition.

The Messenger sees the darkness in young hears, and the damage it inflicts upon the world. If they go unpunished, he offers the wicked a game. Win, and they can go free. Lose, and they will live out their greatest fear... Matt black paper boards with black title to spine and decorations to boards. All edges dark red. 308 pages. ISBN: 9781405265157. SIGNED by the author to front fly leaf. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly worn. A few marks to text block. Contents clean. Red dustwrapper is a little scuffed.

TOM MERRY'S TRIUMPH
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1330160
Published by Spring Books. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Arthur Augustus D'Arcy, who in endeavouring to get his young brother, Wally of the Third, out of a scrape, finds himself compelled to do something of which he normally 'disappwoves vewy stwongly.' Red boards. Gilt title to spine. 216 pages. Spine and corners bumped. A few light marks to covers. Top corner of front free-endpaper has been neatly removed. Light page browning throughout and some foxing to textblock else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge chipped with some tape repairs on verso and minimal loss at corners.

COMMANDOS OF THE CLOUDS (HUNTER HAWK - SKYWAY DETECTIVE No. 4)
Written by Eric Leyland; T.E. Scott-Chard.
Stock no. 1830280
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1959. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

South America calls... and Skyways Investigation Limited, in the persons of Hunter Hawk and his bold young cousin Mike, fly off to investigate and exceedingly grave situation! Red cloth boards with black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 128 pages. Some foxing throughout else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and repaired to verso with clear tape, grubby to rear panel.

DRAGON RIDER
Written by Cornelia Funke. Illustrated by Cornelia Funke.
Stock no. 1330041
Published by The Chicken House. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Firedrake, a brave young dragon, and his loyal brownie friend Sorrell and a lonely boy called Ben are united as if by destiny. Together they embark on a magical journey to find the place where silver dragons can live in peace forever. Translated by Anthea Bell. Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour folding pop-up map. B/w chapter headers and illustrations. ISBN: 1903434904. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

BATTLE OVER BAVARIA: THE B-26 MARAUDER VERSUS THE GERMAN JETS - APRIL 1945
Written by Robert Forsyth; Jerry Scutts.
Stock no. 1829980
Published by Classic Publications. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The story of the Martin B-26 Maruader, a much-maligned yet capable aircraft and its performance against one of the most controversial, mysterious and enigmatic units of the Luftwaffe. A story which aims to set the record straight about the Marauder's combat performance as well as the desperate efforts of young German airmen to shoot it down in the final days of the war. Large format. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. 200 pages. B/w photos, colour illustrations. ISBN: 0952686740. Minor mark to front board. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

YOUNG JOHNNIE BIMBO
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1329645
Published by John Murray. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Michael and Mary Story. Mike and Mary and their friend Vicky are spending a holiday on the Grand Union Canal. Pale blue boards, red titles. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Some faint mottling to covers. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock. Some grubby marks to page margins. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with tape repairs on verso, rear panel is a bit grubby.

A FREEDOM DEARLY BOUGHT
Written by Ernest Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1829803
Published by Ernest Ackroyd. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

In 1939 the 122 (West Riding) Field Regiment Royal Artillery TA was formed and on February 15, 1942, it ceased to exist with the fall of Sinapore. Only 13 members of the regiment were killed in action; more than 200 members who formed the regiment were to die a cruel and agonising death at the hands of their Japanese captors. The author was one of those young men who suffered but survived to tell the story. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. xiii and 136 pages. Covers lightly creased, lightly rubbed at corners. Contents clean.