Stella & Rose's Books

CB: A LIFE OF SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN
Written by John Wilson.
Stock no. 1831626
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He had known the extremes of political failure and success. At one time he was execrated as a man who was said to sympathise with the enemies of his country. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 717 pages including index. ISBN: 009458950X. Boards clean. Text block grubby, some page edges grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Otherwise contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and sunned/faded to top edges and spine.

NELSON MANDELA: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by Martin Meredith.
Stock no. 1831332
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Circa 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This biography does not only describe Nelson Mandela's experiences and suffering under the minority white Nationalist Party rule but goes back even further. The author goes into incredible detail about Mandela's tragic past,his imprisonment and acquittal during the infamous Treason Trial of 1956 which lasted five years. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. viii and 596 pages including index. ISBN: 0241136288. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Light damp mottling to top of boards. Text block a little grubby. Photos printed on glossy paper have become stuck together by damp (can be prised apart with some surface paper loss). Orange dustwrapper is faintly sunned to spine and is just a little scuffed.

BUNNIKIN'S PICNIC PARTY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1331076
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1966. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Colour illustrations. Verses revised by Perring. Ladybird Series 401. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Name in ink to front pastedown. Grubby fingermarks and crease to front free-endpaper. Some grubby marks but contents generally clean. Price-cut wrapper is grubby and marked (some crayon marks) and very worn and creased. Last title on rear flap is Five Little Kittens.

BUNNIKIN'S PICNIC PARTY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1331064
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 10th 1950. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 401. Brown boards with black titles and colour pictorial onlay to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped, spine slightly faded. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Contents clean.

LABOUR IN CRISIS: CLEMENT ATTLEE AND THE LABOUR PARTY IN OPPOSITION, 1931-1940
Written by John Swift.
Stock no. 1831217
Published by Palgrave. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An examination of how Labour, from being driven from office as unfit to govern, recovered to be seen as essential to the effective prosecution of the war, and how Attlee emerged from relative obscurity to become a central figure in the War Cabinet. Grey cloth boards, silver title to spine. ix and 209 pages including index. ISBN: 0333800877. A lovely copy. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

THE ADVENT OF THE LABOUR PARTY
Written by Philip P. Poirier.
Stock no. 1831200
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

Accounts for the emergence of the British Labour Party as a political force between 1900 and the general election of 1906. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. 287 pages including index. Top edge red. Spine is very slightly dulled. Text block browned and a little dusty. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present and annotation in the form of pencil marks to margins.

THE SECOND TORY PARTY 1714-1832
Written by Keith Grahame Feiling.
Stock no. 1830999
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. vii and 451 pages including index. Boards are faintly mottled by damps. Text block browned and has minor foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents clean.

THE ORIGINS OF THE LABOUR PARTY 1880-1900
Written by Henry Pelling.
Stock no. 1330829
Published by Oxford University Press. 2nd 1965. Very good condition.

Second edition (first published by Macmillan). Blue cloth, git title to spine. 256 pages (including index). Some b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light and neat pencil annotations to page margins. Light foxing to textblock.

KING GEORGE III AND THE POLITICIANS: THE FORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 1951-2
Written by Richard Pares.
Stock no. 1830945
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1954. Very good condition.

This study of British politics from 1760 to 1832 deals with the reasons why people went into politics, the functions of party and patronage and the balance of power between King, Lords and Commons. George III is the central figure of the work and the author discusses the King's conception of his mission and his struggles with "that hydra faction". Reprinted lithoghraphically from corrected sheets of the first edition of 1953. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 214 pages including index. A few tiny air bubbles between cloth and boards. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Top rear edge of board knocked. Text block browned with a few minor foxspots. Endpapers browned. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots mainly to prelims.

LITTLE GREY RABBIT'S SPRING-CLEANING PARTY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Katherine Wigglesworth.
Stock no. 1330125
Published by Collins. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow pictorial boards. Delightful colour pictures throughout. 63 pages. ISBN: 0001941313. Covers are edge rubbed else bright. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby to rear panel.

TOYTOWN PARTY
Written by Yvonne Perrin. Illustrated by Yvonne Perrin.
Stock no. 1330001
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Pixie Book. Green pictorial boards. 4x4". Colour illustrations. Contents are slightly pulled at staples but still tightly bound. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed.

THE SLY OLD CAT
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1329868
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An intriguing tale of an unusual tea party, where the hostess is a sly old cat and the guest an unassuming rat. Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated this story in 1906 and now for the first time it appears as a book. Foreword by Leslie Linder. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 34 pages. ISBN: 0723214204. Foxing to covers and dustwrapper and also to some page margins. White dustwrapper is slightly browned.