Stella & Rose's Books

MY ROD MY COMFORT
Written by Robert Bruce Lockhart. Illustrated by John Gaastra.
Stock no. 1329468
Published by Putnam & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 78 pages. Illustrated with b/w wood engravings. Spine slightly bumped. Neat biro writing to front free-endpaper. Pale page browning. Textblock is foxed at top edge. Dustwrapper is browned and edge chipped.

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JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
Written by . Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1829637
Published by Studio Vista. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A major study of the illustrator and her work with 100 b/w and 64 full colour reproductions of Smith's most delightful pictures covering the whole range of her work. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 224 pages. ISBN: 0289708052. A nice copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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SOMETHING IN THE CELLAR
Written by Ronald Searle. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1829624
Published by Souvenir Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ronald Searle's Wonderful World of Wine. Large format. Black boards with silver title to spine, orange endpapers. Humorous full page b/w and colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0285627651. Light foxing to text block. Very pale browning to page edges else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly browned and a little grubby.

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THE BLACKBIRD IN THE LILAC
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1829552
Published by Oxford University Press. 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poems for Children. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. B/w line drawings. xi and 95 pages. Reprint. Text block browned, some foxing. Endpapers browned. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing to gutter edges and a few light grubby marks to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned and has some foxing especially to verso. Musty odour present.

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JUST DOGS
Written by K.F. Barker. Illustrated by K.F. Barker.
Stock no. 1829506
Published by Country Life Ltd.. 1947. Very good condition.

Popular edition. Beautiful, gently humourous sketches in pen and pencil of all kinds of our doggy friends. Large format. Brown cloth, white titles. B/w drawings. 151 pages. Corners bumped. Boards a little grubby, spine lightly faded. Some discolouration to lower edge of boards. A few small knocks to top edge of boards. Heavy bump to top corner means the top corner of contents is lightly creased. Some scattered foxing and a few marks to contents.

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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Written by John Bunyan. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1829501
Published by Faber & Faber. 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream. Red cloth, Black title to spine and vignette to front cover. 320 pages. B/w text illustrations. Third impression. Boards clean and bright. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Vertical crease to prelims. A few minor foxspots to endpapers. Red pictorial dustwrapper is browned, worn at edges with slight loss, old tape marks have bled through and are visible to spine.

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THE PEREGRINE'S SAGA AND OTHER WILD TALES
Written by Henry Williamson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1329231
Published by Putnam & Co. Ltd.. 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 265 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Spotting to covers (damp?). Light page browning and foxing else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is grubby, browned to spine and has some loss to spine and corners.

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THE ILLUSTRATED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN
Written by John Betjeman. Illustrated by David Gentleman.
Stock no. 1329225
Published by John Murray. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 143 numbered pages. Watercolours by Gentleman. ISBN: 0719552486. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Top edge of textblock is slightly dusty/foxed. Dustwrapper is price-cut and faded to spine.

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SOUTHERN HARVEST
Written by Clare Leighton. Illustrated by Clare Leighton.
Stock no. 1329224
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. Dramatic wood-engravings, some full-pgage. Spine faded at top and tail. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxspots to endpapers and textblock. White dustwrapper is worn with loss (mainly to top and tail of spine.

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NATURE ABOUNDING
Written by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1329183
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

New Edition. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 384 pages. B/w illustrations. Endpapers lightly browned, foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is heavily foxed with slight edge chipping. Tiny hold to spine which is also browned.

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THE WHITE FOXES OF GORFENLETCH
Written by Henry Tegner. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1329038
Published by Hollis & Carter. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green Boards with gilt title to spine. Full page b/w wood engraving illustrations plus chapter headers and footers. 149 pages. 8.5 x 5.5". Minimal bumping to spine. Endpapers partly browned. Top edge of textblock foxed. Dustwrapper is edge worn, rear panel is grubby.

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OUR NEIGHBORS
No author listed. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
Stock no. 1829247
Published by James Henderson. 1st 1905. Poor condition.

The tenth book in the regular series of Mr. Gibson's published drawings. Mr. Gibson's best cartoons from Life Publishing Company 1904 & 1905, and Collier's Weekly 1904 & 1905. Very large oblong format. White cloth spine, white paper boards with illustration by the artist to front. Boards have bevelled edges. B/w cartoons throughout. Unpaginated. Boards marked and stained. Spine browned, cloth fraying to rear edge. Edges of boards worn with surface paper loss. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint pulled wide exposing webbing between front endpaper and half-title page, also rear hinge pulled with some surface paper damage to gutter. Binding is generally tight. Endpapers are grubby and marked. A few marks to contents. Some page edges worn.

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