Stella & Rose's Books

EGYPT
Written by R. Talbot Kelly. Illustrated by R. Talbot Kelly.
Stock no. 1825638
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1902. Almost very good condition.

De Luxe Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. Bevelled boards. Heavy duty cloth boards with gilt titles and colour pattern. Top edge gilt. 75 tissue-guarded colour plates. xiii and 239 numbered pages. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) and numbered 238 (of 500). Boards grubby and stained, rear edge of spine has a small patch of cloth fraying.Joints cracked, rear endpaper missing. Binding of first few pages weak and will possibly disintegrate further so that the pages are loose. Binding glue drying out and thus a few weak spots. A few foxspots throughout. All plates present and clean.

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BRITISH RAILWAYS PAST AND PRESENT No. 26 SOUTH WALES PART 1: GWENT AND ROUTES TO DOWLAIS AND MERTHYR
Written by Don Gatehouse; Geoff Dowling.
Stock no. 1325324
Published by Past and Present Publishing Ltd.. 1996. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Over 260 photographs in colour and b/w. ISBN: 1858950821. Some slight rubbing to cover edges. Pale page edge browning else contents clean.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART I OF VOLUME IV)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1825630
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

Very large format. Cloth spine. Paper boards with black titles. Part I of Volume IV. From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Containing the following parishes and hamlets in the hundred of Caldicot: Chepstow, St. Arvans, Penterry, Mounton, Mathern, St. Pierre, Runstone, Portskewet, Sudbrook, Caldicot, Ifton, Caerwent, The Chace or Forest of Wentwood. Boards rubbed and worn at corners, boards marked, spine grubby. Name in ink to front pastedown. Front joint starting to crack but binding is tight. Scattered foxspots (pale) throughout and a few instances of grubby fingermarks to margins. Newspaper cutting pasted to rear pastedown. Some pencil annotation.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART III OF VOLUME IV)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1825629
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1933. Very good condition.

Very large format. Cloth spine. Paper boards with black titles. Part III of Volume IV. From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Containing Title, Indices of Names and Places, Addenda and Corrigenda (Together with 5 plates to be intserted in Parts I and II). Colour folding map frontis showing the Hundred of Caldicot. Boards waterstained, marked and browned. Score mark to rear board and slight surface paper damage to top rear corner. Boards slightly bowed. A few fingermarks and foxspots to contents. Frontis map is beautifully clean and bright.

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KILVERT'S DIARY 1870-1879
Written by Francis Kilvert; William Plomer.
Stock no. 1325314
Published by Century Hutchinson Ltd.. 1st thus 1986. Very good condition.

Life in the English Countryside in Mid-Victorian Times. An Illustrated Selection Edited and Introduced by William Plomer. Red cloth, gilt title to spine and elaborate onlay to front. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0712693978. Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean.

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BRADSHAW'S GUIDE TO THE RAILWAYS OF WALES VOLUME SEVEN
Written by John Christopher; Campbell McCutcheon.
Stock no. 1325313
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2015. Fine condition.

Covering the South Wales Railway, the Great Western Railway, the Cambrian lines and the Chester & Holyhead Railway as well as the many branch lines. Cardwraps. 96 pages. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781445638515.

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SWIFT (FROM THE COCKPIT 14)
Written by Nigel Walpole.
Stock no. 1825607
Published by Ad Hoc Publications. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Cardwraps. B/w photos, colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780946958757. Tiny nick to top of spine. Else a fine copy.

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MILES AIRCRAFT - THE POST-WAR YEARS 1945 TO 1948
Written by Peter Amos.
Stock no. 1325311
Published by Air-Britain. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Reading, Berkshire, England and Newtownards, Northern Ireland. The third volume of the history of Miles Aircraft and takes the story through to the end of the company. Large, heavy format. Green glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9780851304809. Top front corner of wrapper and cover slightly bumped else a fine copy.

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THE WORLD'S GREATEST AIR DEPOT
Written by Harry Holmes.
Stock no. 1325307
Published by Airlife. 1st 1998. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The US 8th Air Force at Warton 1942-1945. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 185310969X. Dustwrapper is price-cut and ever so slightly edge creased.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING TRAINING AND SUPPORT UNITS SINCE 1912
Written by Ray Sturtivant; John Hamlin.
Stock no. 1325304
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition.

Details of all RAF support flying units from the formation in May 1912 of the Central Flying School until the present day, including those of its Royal Flying Corps predecessor. 8000 separate entries. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. 336 pages including index. ISBN: 9780851303659. Minimal bumping to spine and rubbing to corners. Contents fine.

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THE ESTATE AND HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF SIR DANIEL FLEMING OF RYDAL HALL, WESTMORLAND FROM 1688-1701
Written by Blake Tyson.
Stock no. 1325302
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A complete edition of the text of the second account book covering the last period of Sir Daniel's life before his death on 25 March 1701. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1873124333. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.

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MILES AIRCRAFT: THE WARTIME YEARS 1939-1945
Written by Peter Amos.
Stock no. 1325300
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition.

The Appendices - containing individual aircraft histories of 1939-1945 production of Magister, Master, Martinet, Monitor and Messenger I types together with additional activities and background information. Large, heavy format. Cardwraps. B/w photos. 400 pages. ISBN: 9780851304304. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners.

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