Stella & Rose's Books

THE PURPLE VALLEY
Written by Malcolm Saville.
Stock no. 1826327
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The second in a series of Secret Service novels. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 215 pages. Boards clean and bright. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, grubby to rear panel, and has surface paper loss to base of spine.

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CHILD OF FIRE
Written by Elizabeth Webster.
Stock no. 1826322
Published by Judy Piatkus (publishers) Limited. 1st thus 1983. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of a Vietnamese boat-child and her family. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Originally serialised in My Weekly magazine under the title Bright Phoenix. ISBN: 0861882849. Text block browned, page browning throughout. A few pale foxspots to margins. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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A WAGGON-LOAD OF MONKEYS (DOMINION LIBRARY)
Written by D.M. Percy Smith.
Stock no. 1826321
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st thus 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Not many children, intent on raising money for the Missionary Fair, end by setting the next-door house thoroughly on fire... Green boards, dark title to spine. Part of the Dominion Library series. Colour frontis. Endpapers and text block browned. A few pale foxspots to prelims. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly worn at edges with minor chips to corners, grubby to rear panel and a few small closed tears.

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THE BOOK OF DEVIZES: THE LIFE STORY OF AN ANCIENT BOROUGH
Written by Edward Bradby.
Stock no. 1826319
Published by Barracuda Books. 1st 1985. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the town's past in words and pictures. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Limited Edition. Original subscribers list to rear. ISBN: 0860231968. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. This is copy number 368. Text block slightly grubby, a few light creases. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned.

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LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH (SUPER PROFILE)
Written by Paul Clark.
Stock no. 1826316
Published by Haynes Publishing Group. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. 56 pages. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0854295534. Boards lightly browned. Some foxing present, particularly rear endpapers.

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THE BUILDING OF LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
Written by Peter Kennerley.
Stock no. 1826306
Published by Carnegie Publishing Ltd.. 1st thus 2004. Nearly fine condition.

Centenary Edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Red cloth boards, gilt titles, red page marker ribbon. B/w photos and illustrations. All edges gilt. ISBN: 1859361080. SIGNED by the author to title page, this is copy 241 of 500 limited copies. A lovely copy.

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EAST SUSSEX: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by W.S. Mitchell.
Stock no. 1826293
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards, dark blue title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571107516. Light rubbing to lower board edges, minor pale marks to rear board. Foxing to prelims. Half-title page has a grease stripe (pale) about 2" wide from top to bottom at gutter edge. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is lightly marked on front flap (again, very minor) and lightly scuffed.

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THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Stephen Bone.
Stock no. 1826292
Published by Faber & Faber. 2nd 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Skye to Oban. Green cloth. B/w photos. Colour maps to rear. Second edition - no mention of this within the book but carries the later dustwrapper, being a b/w photo with green and blue title background, blue rear panel with list of Shell Guides ending with South-West Wales. Boards nice and bright, light rubbing to lower edges. Name in ink to verso of free front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears which have been repaired to verso with clear tape (no loss), top & tail of spine rubbbed with loss of surface paper and minor chipping. Slight musty odour present.

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ON YOUR TOES, SUSIE!
Written by Lee Wyndham. Illustrated by Gwyneth Mamlok.
Stock no. 1826291
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

After four years of hard training Susie is to dance on her points. A book for all ballet lovers; for little girls who see themselves as great ballerinas but who do not quite understand how hard they must work. Green boards, blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. Minor foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block. Name in ink to front endpaper. One or two margin marks to contents. Pink pictorial dustwrapper is edge-creased with a few small closed tears and is a little grubby.

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SANDI, THE KING-MAKER
Written by Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 1826289
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

No. 26 in the Target Series. "Sanders of the River," who with a handful of Houssas, and a steam launch, kept order in a Central African territory larger than Great Britain. As soon as native Chiefs realised that "Sandi" had gone the fat was in the fire. This story stells of his recall and how he restored peace to the land. Red cloth boards, black title to spine. Endpapers and text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at top & tail of spine, lightly edge-worn and is scuffed and grubby to rear panel.

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THE ARMOURER'S HOUSE
Written by Rosemary Sutcliff. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
Stock no. 1826287
Published by Oxford University Press. 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oxford Children's Library series. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. A story of Tudor London. ISBN: 0192770276. Reprint. Pale horizontal glue mark to lower end of boards (caused by the glue on the dustwrapper laminate). Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is clean but creased to rear panel where the publisher's laminate has been attached.

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THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO 1918-1956: AN EXPERIMENT IN LITERARY INVESTIGATION
Written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Brian W. Aldiss.
Stock no. 1826285
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2005. Nearly fine condition.

The author's experiences in the Soviet Gulag system. Edited from the original three volume edition by Edward E. Ericson. Translated from the Russian by Thomas Whitney and Harry Willetts. Introduced by Aldiss. Pictorial boards. B/w photos. Couple of tiny minor marks to rear last page but one. Else a lovely copy, appears unread, contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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