Stella & Rose's Books

PIGEON POST
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1328876
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. Green boards with gilt titles to spine and blind titles to front board. Endpapers are maps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224021249. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light foxing to textblock and to dustwrapper. Wrapper is edge rubbed, faded to spine and slightly grubby to rear panel.

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THE MIDLAND RAILWAY: ITS RISE AND PROGRESS
Written by Frederick S. Williams. Illustrated by T. Sulman; E.M. Wimperis; Frederick S. Williams; et al..
Stock no. 1829117
Published by Bemrose & Co.. 3rd 1877. Almost very good condition.

Third Edition. A Narrative of Modern Enterprise. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine and vignettes to spine & boards. B/w engravings. xvi & 681 pages including index plus reviews to rear. Boards darkened, worn at corners and top & tail of spine, top & tail of spine fraying. Text block and endpapers browned. Front joint starting to crack. A few age related marks to contents but generally clean.

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A PECULIAR GIFT
Written by Lance Salway.
Stock no. 1328870
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children. Selected and Introduced by Lance Salway. Beige/olive boards, purple title to spine. B/w illustrations. 572 pages including index. ISBN: 0722651406. Spine bumped. Top edge of textblock is lightly foxed and partially stained. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed.

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THE CLOCK STRUCK TWELVE
Written by Paul Biegel; Patricia Crampton. Illustrated by Tineke Schinkel.
Stock no. 1328869
Published by Glover & Blair Limited. 1st UK 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A fairy story about Ninochka, the fairy with broken wings who feared she would never dance again and her faithful companion Yaaling the frog. Translated from the Dutch into English by Crampton. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 115 pages. ISBN: 0906681006. Spine bumped. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and just a little grubby to rear panel.

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ACE
Written by Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by Liz Graham-Yooll.
Stock no. 1328868
Published by Victor Gollancz. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ace is a young pig that befriends the farmer so that he can't bear to send him to market wtih the other piglets. 'Who ever heard of a pig that can understand the Queen's English! Can you imagine such a thing, Ace...?' Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0575047259. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Erased pencil markings to front free-endpaper. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge creased and slightly faded to spine.

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THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS
Written by Katherine B. Bamfield. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1328866
Published by The Medici Society. 1st 1952. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Covers slightly rubbed and very very slightly grubby. Tiny bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Small, light stain to top margins of pages 3-5.

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NOTTINGHAM TO MANSFIELD: THE MIDLAND & GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY ROUTES TO TODAY (MIDLAND MAIN LINES)
Written by Vic Mitchell; Keith Smith.
Stock no. 1829114
Published by Middleton Press. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition.

Midland Main Lines series. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos and track plans. Unpaginated. ISBN: 9781910356524. A lovely copy.

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THE SPANISH GALLEON
Written by Tudur Watkins. Illustrated by Jack Matthews.
Stock no. 1328863
Published by Peter Lunn (publishers) Ltd. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An unusual adventure story set in the early 19th century and packed with thrills. Yellow cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and some full-page colour plates. Spine and corners bumped. Slight fading to cover edges. Foxing, mainly to textblock but also affecting some pages. Dustwrapper is browned and edge worn with tear to top corner of rear panel.

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EDWARD WESTON: A LEGACY
Written by Susan Danly; Jonathan Spaulding; Jessica Todd Smith; Jennifer A. Watts.
Stock no. 1829112
Published by Merrell Publishers Limited. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Edward Weston was the first photographer ever to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. This book celebrates Huntington Library's extraordinary collection of five hundred Edward Weston photographs, all of them selected and printed for the institution by the artist in the 1940s. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name which ran from June 28-October 5, 2003. Edited and with an introduction by Jennifer A. Watts. Large format. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 288 pages including index. ISBN: 1858942063. Black endpapers have very light scuffing (very minor). Else a beautiful copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed, light fading to top edge of flaps.

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THE CITY CATS
Written by Colin Dann.
Stock no. 1328862
Published by Hutchinson Children's Books. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An exciting follow-up to King of the Vagabonds. Brown boards, silver title to spine. 135 pages. ISBN: 0091763703. Contents are browned and foxed. Erased pencil mark to front free-endpaper. Spine bumped, small indentation to top edge of front cover. Dustwrapper has a small tear to lower corner of front panel.

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PONDER AND WILLIAM AT THE WEEKEND
Written by Barbara Softly. Illustrated by Diana John.
Stock no. 1328860
Published by Longman Young Books. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0582162572. Spine and corners bumped, some slight fading to spine ends. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn at spine and corners and is faded to spine, minimal loss to top of spine.

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AMELIARANNE KEEPS SHOP
Written by Constance Heward. Illustrated by S.B. Pearse.
Stock no. 1328857
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1928. Good condition.

Buff brown boards with pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine covering chipped with loss. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers browned. Some foxing. Grubby fingermarks to pages.

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