Stella & Rose's Books

SPARKLER ANNUAL 1938
No author listed.
Stock no. 1406353
Published by The Fleetway House. 1938. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing a party scene featuring a clown. Advert to rear board. Colour frontis plus 2 other colour plates and 2 picture stories with colour illustrations. B/w and two tone illustrations. 108 pages. First story is Monk's Clue. Spine bumped and browned. Cloth is frayed at edges and there is a small split on rear spine. Corners bumped and darkened. Board edges rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Some erased writing from front pastedown and endpaper. Rear joint beginning to crack. Name and address to belongs to box. Pages browned.

AUNT LOUISA'S WELCOME VISITOR
Written by Aunt Louisa.
Stock no. 1315542
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1870. Almost very good condition.

Comprising: The Birthday Party; Children's Lullabies; The Courtship, marriage, death, and burial of Cock Robin; The King, Queen and Knave of Hearts. Large format. Purple pictorial cloth with gilt. Easy to read text. Full-page colour (chromolithograph) illustrations, some double-spread. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine faded. Embossed booksellers stamp to top corner of front free-endpaper, lower corner of same page creased. Some light foxing but the contents are very clean.

FATHER TUCK'S ANNUAL
Written by Edric Vredenburg; Ethel Talbot; Norman Gale; Christine Chaundler; et al. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham; G.H. Thompson; Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1404897
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. circa 1922. Slightly better than good condition.

Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial paper board to front shows two young girls under a red umbrella with shopping in their arms and small dog next to them, other young ladies in background. Plain endpapers. B/w and two tone illustrations throughout. Wain illustrations are on page 36 and 37 'Pussy's Birthday Party', 128 'Catching the Train and 129 'An Exciting Gallop'. 144 pages. Six colour plates. Spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges scuffed. Covers grubby with some scratches to rear board. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Both joints beginning to crack. Some hinges pulled. Pages browned. One plate detached, the bottom edge of which is grubby. One other plate is partially detached. Margins and verso of plates are marked.

GRANNY WUMPUS
Written by Lawson Wood. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1404888
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1920. Very good condition.

And How She Cleans Up For The Party. Pictorial card wraps. 4.25 x 3.5". Colour and two-tone illustrations. Corners slightly rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Staples rusty. Contents clean.

THE GOLDEN PLAYBOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Alfred J. Johnson.
Stock no. 1505197
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1890. Good condition.

Comprising The Golden Alphabet, Dorothy's Dolls, Red Riding Hood's Party. Grey and blue pictorial cloth. Full-page pictures printed in colour by Edmund Evans. All edges gilt. A delightful Victorian book. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers are grubby and marked. Both joints cracked. Some damp damage to contents, two pages have been stuck together on bottom margin, now torn apart causing surface paper damage to last line of text and a few other pages have surface paper damage or tears to bottom edge. Large 5.5" tear to one illustration. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Numerous pencil marks to contents. mostly short lines to blank pages. Grubby marks to contents.

NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1890
Written by Robert Ellice Mack; L. Haskell; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Edith Scannell; et al..
Stock no. 1404721
Published by Ernest Nister. 1890. Slightly better than good condition.

Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles and flower vignette to spine and gilt titles and vignette of a girl skipping to front. 6 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 1st item is a poem - Goodbye. One b/w plate by Wain entitled 'The Cats Party.' Spine bumped, worn and faded. Corners bumped and worn. Cover edges darkened and covers a little marked. Front and rear joints badly cracked showing webbing beneath. Some hinges cracked. One plate is loose and has ragged edges. Foxing and browning especially to prelims. A few light marks otherwise contents generally clean.

BILLY BUNTER'S WEMBLEY PARTY
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1504818
Published by Howard Baker Press. 1st thus 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. The Howard Baker Magnet Volume No. 88. Issues 856, 857, 861, 870, 871, 872, 878. Includes: Drummed Out of Greyfriars, The Schoolboy Domestics, True Blue, Billy Bunter's Wembley Party, Sir Hilton's Nephew, The Mystery Wreck, The Schoolboy Financier. ISBN: 0703002511. Top of spine bumped. A couple of white marks to covers. A few fox spots to text bock and light page browning. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with a faded spine.

JOHNNY CROW'S PARTY
Written by L. Leslie Brooke. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 2116785
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

White cloth spine with green title. Green boards, white title and oval pictorial onlay to front. Endpapers are maps of the Maze in Johnny Crow's Garden. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Cover edges are unevenly faded. Grubby marks to spine. Browning to outer page edges. A few grubby margin marks.

A DISCOURSE UTTER'D IN PART AT AMMAUSKEEG-FALLS IN THE FISHING-SEASON 1739
Written by Joseph Seccombe. Illustrated by Michael McCurdy.
Stock no. 1503753
Published by Barre Publishers. 1st 1971. Very good condition.

The annual fishing party at Amoskeag to which the gay and gorgeous aristocrats flocked was only, through geographical accident, the most famous of this type of gathering. And the man who reported it for us had the worst case of social inferiority in his generation, which gives this tract an odd slant. Brown leather spine, patterned boards. 43 numbered pages. Illustrated with wood engravings. Signed Limited Edition. ISBN: 0827171033. Wear to spine, most at base. An odd grubby mark to contents. Limited edition page has been signed by Illustrator but not numbered. Contained in original slipcase which is edge worn with a few marks. Surface paper damage to spine part of label.

MR. PINK-WHISTLE'S PARTY
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler.
Stock no. 1314078
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Beige boards with blue titles. B/w illustrations. 152 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Small mark to edge of front cover. Light foxing to endpapers, prelims and textblock. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn and creased with slight loss at corners, some disguised loss to top and tail of spine (1").

PUSSYCATS AND BOW-WOWS
No author listed. Illustrated by Gilbert Haldane Dodd.
Stock no. 1313583
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. circa 1915. Good condition.

Untearable pages, mounted on cotton cloth. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title and pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour illustrations plus multi-colour text and text illustrations. Includes the rhyme "Three Little Kittens" and a story "The Dog's Party". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers replaced. Inscription in ink to title-page. Title-page and first text page separated at lower corner, some page creases and grubby marks to contents.

MIXED PICKLES
Written by Mildred Dennis Burton. Illustrated by Doris Burton.
Stock no. 1502737
Published by Roffey And Clark Ltd.. 1st 1929. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial front board shows white elf holding jar in circle surrounded by elves, animals, fairies etc., blue cloth spine, multi-coloured title. 5 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 83 pages. First story is Dulcie's Party. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Light browning to endpapers. One hinge a little cracked. Contents generally clean.