Stella & Rose's Books

THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
Written by A.S. Pushkin; Hannah Waller.
Stock no. 2119295
Published by The Golden Cockerel Press. 1936. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Red cloth, black title to spine. 22 pages. Translated by Waller. Foxing to covers. Wrapper is unevenly faded with a bit of foxing and some edge-creasing.

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BMW Z CARS
Written by James Taylor.
Stock no. 2119289
Published by Veloce Publishing. 1st 2001. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Here is the full story of all the Z prototypes and concept cars, and particularly the production models - Z1, Z3 (M-Roadster and M-Coupe) and Z8 - which have done so much to change the public's concept of the BMW marque. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 1901295796. A few spots to covers. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Pale foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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FINITE GENERALIZED QUADRANGLES
Written by S.E. Payne; J.A. Thas.
Stock no. 1811359
Published by Pitman. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Research Notes in Mathematics 110. Representing a complete treatment of finite generalized quadrangles from a combinatorial and geometric point of view. Red cardwraps. 312 pages including index. ISBN: 0273086553. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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MERRY GAMES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1315271
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. circa 1903. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows boy and girl playing badminton. Blue decorated endpapers. Mounted colour frontis. B/w and two-tone text illustrations. First story is "Vera's Visit To Dollyland". Spine bumped. Corners worn. Light scuffing to rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Tiny booksellers ink stamp to rear endpaper. Some foxing and fingering and light page browning to contents.

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SEASIDE PICTURES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1315268
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. circa 1912. Good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows children putting flag into top of a sand castle. Mounted colour frontis. B/w text illustrations. First story is "The New Yacht". Spine worn and split at top and tail. Corners worn. Scuff marks to rear cover and a few light scratch marks to front. Prize inscription in ink to front endpaper. Hinges are pulled causing contents to be loose, one gather is almost detached but just holding on. Some grubby fingermarks to contents.

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BABY'S DIARY
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh.
Stock no. 2119204
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. Circa 1912. Slightly better than very good condition.

Dean's 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2, no. 114. 10 pages featuring colour illustrations with accompanying rhymes below. Foxing, otherwise would be fine.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1315250
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Large format. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and front cover. 30 stunning tipped-in tissue-guarded colour plates, mounted on card with green decorative borders. Numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some very light rubbing to covers. A few foxspots/fingermarks else contents clean. All plates present, 2 have corner creases.

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THE FABER BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE
Written by Janet Adam Smith.
Stock no. 2119193
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Designed for those aged 8-14. A collection of poems that show a wide range of mood and sentiment. Pictorial boards. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges; a few page corner creases. Wrapper is badly torn and chipped; with some loss and browned.

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A STEPMOTHER FOR SUSAN OF ST. BRIDE'S
Written by Ruth Adam.
Stock no. 2119177
Published by Hulton Press. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Yellow boards, blue title to spine. B/w frontis. Wrapper is faded to spine, with edge-creasing and chipping; small piece of loss to top edge of front panel.

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SUNDAY READING FOR THE YOUNG 1904
Written by E.W. Grierson; S.L. Heward; Bessie Marchant; et al. Illustrated by Gordon Browne; A.G. Walker; Helen Miles; et al..
Stock no. 1315246
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. 1904. Very good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows boy and girl on steps of a house talking to a man with a wooden leg. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. First story is "How The King Escaped". Spine bumped, corners and cover edges lightly rubbed. A few scuff marks to front cover. Prize inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Some foxing to textblock.

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DOOMED FLIGHT
Written by J. Railton Holden.
Stock no. 2119169
Published by Newnes. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with black title to spine. This thriller-of-the-air is set around the Suez Canal zone, with heroes 'Spider' Stockwell and 'Nugget' Willis, members of the Air Intelligence branch of the Australian Expeditionary Force. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Front joint a bit cracked. Some foxing. Contained in a colour PHOTOCOPY wrapper.

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MOTHER GOOSE
No author listed. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1315243
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1922. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with black titles and colour vignettes to front cover and spine, colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 12 colour plates mounted onto plain captioned paper. B/w text illustrations throughout. 159 pages. Spine bumped, some fading and browned at base. A few tiny nicks to cover edges. Name plate and small sticker (J.6.) to front pastedown. 1st colour plate (frontis) is missing, 11 remaining. Light foxing and fingering else contents clean. Closed tears to the bottom of a couple of pages.

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