Stella & Rose's Books

THE MARINE MACHINE
Written by William Mares.
Stock no. 1828523
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The making of the United States Marine. A vivid chronicle of ten weeks of Boot Camp as seen by a young professional photographer who once shared it. With pen and camera he followed a 75-man platoon through every aspect of basic training, a world of intense mental and physical suffering dominated by a man who is teacher-priest-guard-father-mother hen, and for the recruits, sadistic jailer - the Drill Instructor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and 139 numbered pages. Boards a little marked, mainly to lower edges and spine. Text block lightly browned. Front joint pulled between front free-endpaper and half-title page. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned, grubby and scuffed, lightly worn at edges with a few minor chips.

MAY MADRIGAL
Written by M. Pardoe. Illustrated by Leslie Atkinson.
Stock no. 1328077
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The second book in a series designed for young people over 12 years of age (the first being Charles Arriving). Green boards, silver title to spine. 223 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Some light page browning to endpapers and light foxing to endpapers, prelims and textblock. Contents otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut, browned on verso and just a tiny bit edge rubbed.

CHARLES ARRIVING
Written by M. Pardoe. Illustrated by Leslie Atkinson.
Stock no. 1328074
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. 249 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is a tiny bit edge rubbed with a few small foxspots.

THE SUBMERGED CAVE
Written by M. Frow.
Stock no. 1328016
Published by Hutchinson's Books for Young People. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

A complete story of the Intelligence Corps. Blue cloth, cream titles. 208 pages. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Spine bumped, some rubbing to cover edges. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with loss (mainly at spine), rear panel and spine are grubby.

YOUNG ROBIN BRAND DETECTIVE
Written by Freeman Wills Crofts.
Stock no. 1328012
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with dark blue titles. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Slight fading to top and tail of spine. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is worn, grubby and slightly foxed with loss to top and tail of spine.

YOUNG RENNY
Written by Mazo De La Roche.
Stock no. 1828265
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1947. Good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Chronicles of the Whiteoak Family series. Adeline Whiteoak is at the height of her sway as a vigorous and domineering matriarch of eighty. Adeline's grandson, Renny, is in a feud between him and his grandmother and his Cousin from Ireland. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Boards mottled by damp (mainly rear board). Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few minor foxspots present. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and grubby.

MARK MARTIN: DRIVEN TO RACE
Written by Bob Zeller.
Stock no. 1828207
Published by David Bull Publishing. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

The story of the ambition that turned a young boy from Arkansas, into one of the most successful NASCAR drivers. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 0964972239. Spine slightly faded. Minor foxing to prelims. Contents clean.

THE WATER-SPINNERS
Written by Chris Aspin.
Stock no. 1828020
Published by Helmshore Local History Society. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

A new look at the early cotton trade. A history of the cotton mill, the thousands who laboured for long hours, the nimble fingers of young children that kept the water-frames that spun the thread constantly in motion. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, illustrations and maps. ISBN: 0906881137. Light vertical crease to spine, spine lightly faded. Text block a little grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper.One instance of annotation in ink to margin of page 253 else contents clean.

A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR YOUNG READERS
Written by Florence Harrison; Jessie Pope; et al. Illustrated by Florence Harrison; Nina K. Brisley; Helen Jacobs; et al..
Stock no. 1327691
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Orange cloth,black titles to spine. 4 colour plates including 2 by Harrison (one with fairies!), numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Front free-endpaper neatly removed. Foxing else contents clean.

MARGERY MEETS THE ROSES
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1327049
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

18-year-old Margery Paine goes to Rainbows, a model village built by a young heiress, to open its first sweet shop. Blue cloth, black title to spine. B/w frontis. 258 pages. Spine slightly bumped with some slight fading to base. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light browning to endpapers and light foxing to textblock. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge chipped at spine.

ST. NICHOLAS VOL XXXIX PART 1 NOVEMBER 1911 TO APRIL 1912
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827386
Published by The Century Co.; Frederick Warne & Co.. 1912. Good condition.

An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks. Red cloth covers with black and gilt decoration. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine bumped and browned. Split in cloth at front edge of spine plus smaller splits at top and bottom. Corners bumped and worn. Some marks to covers. Rear joint broken. Front joint beginning to crack. Some hinges cracked. Browning to endpapers and some pages. Foxing and some grubby marks. Small tears to edges of a few pages.

THE TARTAN PIMPERNEL
Written by Donald Caskie.
Stock no. 1326473
Published by Collins. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Abridged for young readers. Red boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with a couple of small tears at corners and a tiny patch of surface paper damage to top corner of front panel (a small label has been removed).