Stella & Rose's Books

MAY CORRY BE DAMNED
Written by George S. Pearson.
Stock no. 1829213
Published by Blaisdon Publishing. 2014. Slightly better than very good condition.

From official records, personal letters and ships' logs, the lives of two Royal Navy officers are traced through their service, only crossing at one stage whilst serving in HMS Hood. Instead of the close personal relationship between Captain Corry and his Navigating Officer, Lieutenant Lockyer, necessary for sailing an efficient ship, there appeared to be antagonism and animosity. Following this, Lieutenant Lockyer mischievously saw an opportunity to get his own back whilst conducting a hydrographic survey of the Greek island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea some years later. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w & colour photos. 133 pages. ISBN: 9781902838519. Reprint. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to front endpaper.

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BLUE NOSE ISLAND: BOKOBIKES
Written by Mick Inkpen. Illustrated by Mick Inkpen.
Stock no. 1328998
Published by Hodder Children's Books. 1st thus 2005. Fine condition.

When Ploo bumps into a bokonut tree, two bokonuts fall out of the tree, a little honk owl falls out of its nest, Ploo falls off his bike, etc etc... Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0340703806.

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BLUE NOSE ISLAND: BEACHMOLES AND BELLVINE
Written by Mick Inkpen. Illustrated by Mick Inkpen.
Stock no. 1328997
Published by Hodder Children's Books. 1st 2004. Fine condition.

While Dig looks for beachmoles Ploo plants a little beehive from the junglywood outside his front door.... Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0340878657.

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PUGWASH ALOFT
Written by John Ryan. Illustrated by John Ryan.
Stock no. 1328995
Published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. 1st thus 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Peach pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations. ISBN: 9781845078225. Top edge of textblock is partially dust marked. Wrapper spine is slightly faded.

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MEN WHO RULED KENYA: THE KENYA ADMINISTRATION 1892-1963
Written by Charles Chevenix Trench.
Stock no. 1829209
Published by The Radcliffe Press. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A study of the Kenya Administrative Service from its beginning in 1892 until Kenyan independence. An unusual story in British colonial history in that much of Kenya was long regarded as a 'white man's country' and attracted a mixed bag of settlers, mainly hardworking farmers but a few playboys. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 316 pages including index. ISBN: 1850435715. Small date written in ink to front pastedown. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, rubbed at corners, small dampstain to base of spine, publisher's price label to front flap.

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HANDBOOK FOR THE DAIMLER 3.8 LITRE MAJESTIC SALOON WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND DISC BRAKES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1829208
Published by The Daimler Company Limited. 2nd 1960. Good condition.

Second Edition. A handbook prepared to provide the essential information required for the satisfactory running of the Daimler 3.8 Litre "Majestic" Saloon. Tan cloth boards, gilt title to front board. B/w photos and illustrations. 83 pages. Boards marked and grubby. Damp staining to top and bottom of boards and contents (pages crinkled). Hinge between pages 16 and 17 pulled wide exposing webbing but binding is tight. A good working copy only.

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LADYBIRDS (NN 81)
Written by Michael E.N. Majerus.
Stock no. 1829206
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1994. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 81. 16 colour plates and over 150 b/w photos and drawings. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 369 pages including index. ISBN: 0002199343. Top & tail of spine very lightly bumped from shelf wear else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is bright and clean.

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WILD & GARDEN PLANTS (NN 80)
Written by Max Walters.
Stock no. 1829205
Published by Collins. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 80. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 16 colour plates and over 60 b/w photos and drawings. 200 pages including index. ISBN: 0002193760. Minor bump to top of spine. Minor crease to vertical edge of front endpaper (cannot capture on camera). Else a lovely, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded at spine (as is normal) else fine.

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CAVES AND CAVE LIFE (NN 79)
Written by Philip Chapman.
Stock no. 1829204
Published by Collins. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 79 An outstanding and cohesive account of what is now known of this extraordinary world. Covering the fascination of caves, the cave habitat, limestone caves in Britain and Ireland, cave fauna and flora, cave communities, caves through the Pleistocene and the future of caves. B/w photos. ISBN: 0002199076. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed, spine is bright.

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PLUGGED
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Stock no. 1328979
Published by Headline. 1st 2011. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A brilliant crime debut. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 277 pages. ISBN: 9780755379989. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Spine slightly bumped.

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THE MACWHIRTER SKETCH BOOK
Written by Edwin Bale. Illustrated by John MacWhirter.
Stock no. 1328978
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1906. Very good condition.

Being reproductions of sketches in colour and pencil. Pale blue/green cloth with dark titles and vignette of a flower to front cover. 24 examples (tipped-in plates) in colour and many b/w pencil sketches. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine browned. Some pale page edge browning and endpapers lightly browned. Front joint is partially cracked.

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SKETCHES FROM NATURE
Written by Katharine Macwhirter. Illustrated by John MacWhirter; Hubert Von Herkomer.
Stock no. 1328977
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Green cloth, black titles. 24 mounted colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Heavy foxing to contents but plates not affected. Corner crease to frontis (the portrait by Von Herkomer).

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