Stella & Rose's Books

THE ROAD TO RANNOCH AND THE SUMMER ISLES
Written by T. Ratcliffe Barnett.
Stock no. 1829370
Published by Robert Grant & Son, Ltd.. 1930. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards with black titles. Map illustrations to endpapers. With 15 b/w photos. xv and 200 pages. Reprint. Text block browned with some foxing. Lower edge uncut. A few foxspots to contents. Price-cut dustwrapper (torn from lower part of front flap) is a little browned, faded to spine, grubby, worn at edges with some loss.

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PAGES AND PICTURES FROM FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Written by Andrew W. Tuer.
Stock no. 1329160
Published by Leadenhall Prefs. Ltd.. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

Title to spine and front cover is 'Forgotten Children's Books'. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. 400 b/w illustrations to text. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 510 pages + booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers partly browned. Hinge between frontis and title-page is cracked/pulled but binding still tight. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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"CARROTS:" JUST A LITTLE BOY
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1829369
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1957. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth with red titles and borders. 7 b/w illustrations including frontis. 241 pages. Reprint. Mark to top of spine (horizontally) and light fading to base of spine. Boards otherwise clean. Foxing mainly to text block, endpapers and some margins. Small name in ink to front endpaper. Top corner of page 195 and 197 is mis-cut as too large and therefore folded over (binding error). Pictorial dustwrapper has loss to base of spine (in line with the fading to spine), top of spine and corners lightly worn and chipped, overall is grubby with green marks to rear panel and foxing.

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LONDON: PORTRAIT OF A CITY
Written by Roger Hudson.
Stock no. 1829366
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Compiled by Roger Hudson. From Romans through to the Nineties. Brown cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 272 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with a minor bump to one corner.

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JULIANA HORATIA EWING AND HER BOOKS
Written by Juliana Horatia Ewing; Horatia K.F. Gatty.
Stock no. 1329158
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1887. Good condition.

Grey pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 88 pages. Covers are edge worn, foxed and grubby. Spine is browned and slightly chipped. Contents are browned. Hinges cracked.

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ENGLISH JOURNEY
Written by J.B. Priestley; Margaret Drabble.
Stock no. 1829363
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Being a Rambling but Truthful Account of What One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933. Introduced by Margaret Drabble. Black cloth, b/w photos to front cover and contents. 348 pages includes index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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THE MONSTER GARDEN
Written by Vivien Alcock.
Stock no. 1329156
Published by Methuen. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Frances Stein - Frankie for short accquires some living tissue from the genetic engineering laboratory...she never imagined that her experiment would be so successful. ISBN: 041609192X. Spine slightly bumped. Contents browned but clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and faded to spine.

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EGYPT REVEALED: ARTIST-TRAVELLERS IN AN ANTIQUE LAND
Written by T.G.H. James.
Stock no. 1829362
Published by Folio Society. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Elaborate blue pictorial cloth in Egyptian design. Colour & b/w illustrations. 224 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly rubbed at lower edge.

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SKALLAGRIGG
Written by William Horwood.
Stock no. 1329152
Published by Viking. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A quest to find the truth of Skallagrigg, whoever or whatever it is. Blue boards with silver titles to spine. 572 pages. ISBN: 0670801321. Spine slightly bumped. Address and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Page browning throughout else contents clean. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed.

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THE 13 CLOCKS
Written by James Thurber. Illustrated by Marc Simont.
Stock no. 1329151
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

"How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, fairy tale or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three"! Burgandy boards, silver title to spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Large colour text illustrations. 124 pages. 8.5" x 5.5". Spine slightly bumped. Some foxspots and light page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped and a little grubby to rear panel.

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ITALIAN CITIES (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Christopher Hibbert.
Stock no. 1829357
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Very good condition.

Three volume set: Venice; Florence; and Rome. Bound in full moire silk with gilt titles to spine and vignettes to front. Colour & b/w photos. Spines are very lightly browned else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is split to either side of top but still firm, also worn to top & tail of spine, a few scuff marks (VG-).

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HEATHER HILL
Written by Elleston Trevor. Illustrated by David Williams.
Stock no. 1329150
Published by Gerald G. Swann Ltd.. 1st 1946. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

A story of the animals who live in the Deep Wood. Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w text illustrations. 176 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fading (damp?) to cover edges. Damp staining to endpapers. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with some loss. Name in ink to top edge of front panel. Large tear to rear panel which is also slightly grubby.

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