Stella & Rose's Books

THE SILENT HUNTER
Written by Phyllis Briggs. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard.
Stock no. 1501551
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1939. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The story of a Lynx whose hunting ground is in the forests of Sweden. Captured by a boy who loves the wild creatures of the wood it is at last released to live its own happy life. Beige cloth, brown titles & borders with vignette of lynx to front cover. 222 pages. Top edge brown. B/W illustrations. A little bumping to spine and corners. Spine and some cover edges slightly browned. Endpapers browned. A few light fox spots otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears, creasing and some loss especially at top of spine.

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OLD FRENCH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1401869
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with white titles and borders. Cheap edition. B/w illustrations to song headings. Music by Horace Mansion. Songs in French. Spine and corners a little bumped. A little browning to endpapers else contents are clean and bright. Price cut dustwrapper is edge creased with a small closed tear to spine. Front panel has a vertical crease. A little grubby at spine and folds.

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THE DISINHERITED LITTLE PRINCE
Written by Chieton Chalmers.
Stock no. 1501548
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Blue cloth covers with black title to spine. Lined border and title to front cover. 123 pages with 4 page publication list to rear. 3 colour plates. B/w chapter headers and tailpieces. Approx, 6.5" x 5.25". Spine, corners and cover edges worn. Some bumping to spine and corners. Browning to front cover and spine. Front joint cracked. Star stamp and pencil numbers to front endpaper. Last plate is slightly off register. Odd margin mark and fox spot but contents generally clean.

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THE SPIRIT OF THE LETTER IN PAINTING
Written by Jean Leymarie.
Stock no. 2111950
Published by Hallmark. 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Yellow mottled boards. Colour plates. Wrapper is grubby and foxed with closed tears and chips; a little loss.

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BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON 1786-1846
Written by David Blayney Brown; Robert Woof; Stephen Hebron.
Stock no. 2111947
Published by The Wordsworth Trust. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Painter and Writer, Friend of Wordsworth and Keats. Includes a catalogue to rear. ISBN: 1870787250. Some light wear and small nicks along cover edges. Uneven fading to rear cover.

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THROUGH THE FRENCH CANALS
Written by Philip Bristow.
Stock no. 2111938
Published by Navigator Publishing Ltd.. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A detailed 'how-to-do-it' book. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Fold-out map tipped in to front. B/w maps and photos. 200 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little fading to spine. Page browning and a few foxspots to pages. Wrapper is grubby with some edge-creasing and browning.

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THE AVENUE
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.
Stock no. 2111935
Published by Collins. 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. 221 pages. B/w illustrations. Light bumping to cover edges. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Some page browning and foxing; mostly to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-creasing and chipping; a little loss.

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BOUCHER & CHARDIN: MASTERS OF MODERN MANNERS
Written by Anne Dulau; Christoph Martin Vogtherr; Ann Eatwell.
Stock no. 2111900
Published by University Of Glasgow. 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. This book accompanies an exhibition examining the relationships between two works; Lady Taking Tea (1735), by Jean-Simeon Chardin and Woman on a Day Bed (1743) by Francois Boucher. ISBN: 9781903470756. Light wear to corners.

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THE PANORAMA OF EUROPE; OR, A NEW GAME OF GEOGRAPHY
Written by Barbara Hofland.
Stock no. 1310973
Published by A.K. Newman and Co.. 1st 1813. Good condition.

Printed at the Minerva Press. Plain brown boards. 240 pages, edges untrimmed. Pull-out b/w frontis of The Empress of Russia's Travelling Equipage. Covers are worn with some chipping of surface paper. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Name in ink to top margin of title-page. Preliminary pages are grubby, there is some foxing to the contents. Considering the age of the book the contents are reasonably clean. This is a decent copy of a very scarce item.

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THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
Written by W.H.D. Rouse; W. Crooke. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1310971
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Collected by W. Crooke and retold by Rouse. Indian folk-tales. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers grubby and marked, red ink marks to front cover. Child's red ink writing to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, foxing to page edges. Front joint cracked. Lower corner of rear free-endpaper torn off (only a small piece).

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ROMNEY A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY WITH A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF HIS WORKS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Humphrey Ward; W. Roberts.
Stock no. 2111890
Published by Thos. Agnew & Sons. 1st 1904. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue leather spines with gilt titles and intricate decorations. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles. Captioned, tissue-guard plates. Limited edition to 350 copies. These volumes are copy no. 20. Spines are faded; now look green. Some bumping and wear to cover edges and corners. A little brown spotting to covers. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Names in ink to front endpapers. Page browning; some foxing. The books appear to have been restitched at one time - bindings are nice and tight.

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READING THE PORTRAITS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I
Written by Elizabeth W. Pomeroy.
Stock no. 2111887
Published by Archon Books; The Shoe String Press. 1st 1989. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour plates. Using 10 works of art, 9 in colour Pomeroy explores the border-lines between disciplines to shed new light on the portraits of Elizabeth I. She combines ideas from cultural anthropology, semiotics, literary theory, social history and the psychology of perception to create a web of meanings and harmonies, centering the paintings of the Queen in a new, complex environment. ISBN: 0208021892. Wrapper is a little browned, with a few marks.

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