Stella & Rose's Books

THE WAR IN THE AIR VOL. I
Written by Walter Raleigh.
Stock no. 2109071
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1939. Almost very good condition.

Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Underlining throughout.

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AMERICA'S FIRST AIR WAR
Written by Terry C. Treadwell.
Stock no. 2109060
Published by Airlife. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The United States Army, Naval and Marine Air Services in the First World War. B/w photos. ISBN: 1840371137. Light wear along cover edges. Small label/plate to front endpaper. Wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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CHEPSTOW MISCELLANY
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1707131
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. 118 pages. 6 x8.5 inches. Excellent black and white drawings and photos throughout. Wrapper torn and repaired with tape. Small hole in side of spine.

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HOW TOM BEAT CAPTAIN NAJORK & HIS HIRED SPORTSMEN
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1401245
Published by Random House. 1st thus 1993. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Green endpapers. Colour illustrations. Little Greats Series. ISBN: 1856817342. Spine and corners bumped. Spine is faded. School stamp to front free endpaper. A little browning to top of some pages, else contents are very good.

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AERONAUTICAL GLOSSARY GERMAN - ENGLISH - FRENCH
No author listed.
Stock no. 1707118
Circa 1944. Very good condition.

Small format. Blue cloth, gilt title to front cover. Covers creased and scuffed.

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SILLY SILLY
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1501108
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Mouse and Duck are arguing about which of them is the sillier... ISBN: 0862647401. Spine slightly bumped with small nick at bottom. Very pale page edge browning otherwise contents excellent.

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THE HISTORY OF THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY (PRINCE ALBERT'S) 1914-1919
Written by Everard Wyrall.
Stock no. 2109024
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Good condition.

Leather spine and corners. Cloth covers. With 29 portraits, 7 other illustrations and 21 maps. Large format. Heavy wear to top of spine. Damp marks/browning to covers. Front joint is cracked and therefore prelims detached. Some foxing. A little pen annotation to a couple of pages; damp to some page edges. Creasing, browning and a few tears to fold-out plans. All illustrations and plans are present.

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ELEMENTARY BOTANICAL PLATES
Written by Robert John Thornton.
Stock no. 2109001
1810. Very good condition.

Very large format. Modern binding; green cloth spine; grey covers with printed title label stuck to front. Illustrative of the science of botany....but more particularly intended to illustrate botanical extracts; or the philosophy of botany. Made up from sections of the author's work: A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus. Contains 44 engraved plates; mostly showing specimens viewed under the microscope. Some light wear to cover edges; a bit of damage to home made title label. First 2/3rds of pages have been trimmed, especially to bottom edge; others are uncut; some pages look longer internally than others. Foxing and some grubby margin marks spread to page throughout the book. Damp staining to corners and a couple of edges of pages.

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CHEPSTOW PACKETS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 2108995
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1983. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Limited to 195 copies. 140pp inc.index. Numerous b/w illus. throughout. Pull out map of Chepstow as it was. 9 x 5.75". ISBN: 0906134218. A little fading/foxing to wrapper spine with light edge-creasing.

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MR NOAH AND THE SECOND FLOOD
Written by Sheila Burnford. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 2108969
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

"Mr and Mrs Noah, true descendants of the original Noah, live on an isolated mountain-top. They are visited once a year by their Bank Manager who brings them a gold bar, a years supply of The Farmers Monthly, and a cake from Mrs Bank Manager wrapped up in an old Sunday Newspaper". Oblong format. Burgundy boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0575015667. Browning to page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with closed tear to front panel; repaired to verso with tape.

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THE YOUNG MAN OF CURY AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Charles Causley. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1501092
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0333538129. Spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Odd fox spot to contents. Wrapper is foxed on verso and a little edge creased with tiny split near top of spine.

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NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin.
Stock no. 2108896
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index). ISBN: 0434299022. Some browning to cover edges. Binding is starting to become a little weak. Wrapper has large closed tear to base of spine; creased with nicks to corners.

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