Search Results: Authors starting with M from Stella & Rose's Books

Published by Addey & Co., 1853. 1st edition.. Hardback. Fair/Poor. Illustrated by Boyle, Eleanor Vere. Fair condition with no wrapper. Large, oblong format (11.25 x 14.5"). Burgundy leather spine, blue cloth with gilt title to front. Cream endpapers. Eleven etchings on steel with paper guards accompanied by prose and rhyme. Spine and corners are very worn. Covers are grubby and marked. Front joint (between free-endpaper and frontis) is cracked. Heavy foxing to contents (affecting plates). Some of the guards are creased. Contents generally clean.

1898 (Circa.). Hardback. Good. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Cream boards with gilt titles and borders. Two-tone illustrations. 53 pages. Covers are very grubby and foxed; small split to top of spine and worn corners. Some foxing. Inscribed by author 'For Queenie, with love from the author, Christmas 1898'.

Published by Blackie, 1983. 1st edition.. Paperback. Nearly Fine. Nearly fine condition. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos.

Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., 1941. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Maben, . Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Jimmy Linnet is a most charming character, and always seems to turn up at the right time to help his many woodland friends when they are in trouble. White pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 48 pages. Corners bumped. Spine bumped and rubbed with small split at top. Bottom 2cm of backstrip missing. Covers are grubby with marks to rear cover. Inscription in ink plus small crossing out in ink to front endpaper. Some browning mainly to endpapers. A few foxspots.

Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., 1941. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Maben, . Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Jimmy Linnet is a most charming character, and always seems to turn up at the right time to help his many woodland friends when they are in trouble. White pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 48 pages. A few brown marks to rear board (rust?). Contents beautifully bright and clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and is marked to rear panel (rust spots?).

Published by Profile Books, 2015 (Circa.). Hardback. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Ranging widely across science, art and cultural history, poetry and personal experience, Mabey puts plants centre stage, and reveals a true botanical cabaret, a world of tricksters, shape-shifters and inspired problem-solvers, as well as an enthralled audience of romantics, eccentric amateur scientists, transgressive artists and grass roots botanophiles. This book celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings, worthy of respect. Navy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers and colour illustrations. Second printing. Pictorial dustwraper is a little grubby to rear panel.

Published by Collins, 1974. 3rd edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. New Naturalist series. Green cloth covers. 6 x 8.5". 320 pages. An authoritative work of outstanding interest. Many attractive colour plates - also black and white photo illustrations. 3rd edition. A little fading to spine. Wrapper has faded spine, with original clear film stuck along edges to verso.

Published by Collins, 1968. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Good/Good. Almost very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Second Edition. New Naturalist series. Green cloth covers. 6 x 8.5". 272 pages. An authoritative work of outstanding interest. 45 colour photos, 68 photos in b/w and 20 maps and diagrams. Cloth boards mottled but clean. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper has some wear to surface paper and browned to rear panel. Still an attractive copy.

Published by Collins, 1959. Hardback. Good/Very Good. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. New Naturalist series. Green cloth covers. 6 x 8.5". 272 pages. An authoritative work of outstanding interest. Many attractive colour plates - also black and white photo illustrations. Some mottling / fading marks to boards. Owner's name stamp to front endpaper and textblock. Some foxing. Wrapper is a little grubby and foxed to verso.

Published by Bloomsbury Books, 1990. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. New Naturalist series. Cream cloth covers. An authoritative work of outstanding interest. B/w illustrations. Foxing / marks to outer page edges. Some page browning. Wrapper is faded to spine and a little grubby with some wear to edges.

Published by Sherratt & Hughes, 1927. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Very good condition with no wrapper. Second edition, Enlarged. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Light bumping to corners and spine. A few marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown of Baronet Sir Reginald Wingate - founder and governor-general of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Inscription in ink to front endpaper 'From the Author' (no Signature). Compliments slip also clipped to front endpaper - a few rust marks from paperclip. A little foxing and page browning.

Published by Cassell & Co., 1952. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. A journey down the Welsh river. B/w photos. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Dustwrapper: corners rubbed.

Published by Folio Society, 1980. 1st thus edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Edited and supplemented by Rowland. Red cloth, gilt title and decorations. B/w illustrations. 318 pages includes index. Spine very slightly sunned. Tiny spot to rear cover. Corners slightly rubbed. Contained in cream slipcase which has a few small marks.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Kataoka, G.. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Second Edition. Blue cloth with oval onlay to front and gilt titles. 143 numbered pages. Colour plates. Spine browned and cocked. Lower edge of text block is uncut. Browning to endpapers. Remains of bookplate to front endpaper and diagonal pocket created to rear pastedown. Inscription in ink to half-title page and front endpaper part stuck down to half-title page. Foxing throughout - heavy in places.

Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Henry, Thomas & Eyles, D.C. & et al., . Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Front cover shows boy sat on a camel. First story is 'Silver Water and Swift Foot' by Macdonald. Colour and b/w plates. Corners worn, covers edge rubbed and slightly scuffed. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed. Frontis and title-page are detached but still present. Foxing to textblock.

Published by Blackie And Son Limited, 1925 (Circa.). Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Rainey, William. Good condition with no wrapper. A story of the early days of Klondike. Green pictorial cloth. 8 b/w plates plus a b/w map of the Klondike Goldfields. 392 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn with small split to base of spine. Name plate to front pastedown. Prize inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Page 303 is detatached but still present with slightly ragged edges and a grubby margin at top.

Published by Oxford University Press, 1927 (Circa.). Hardback. Good. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Oxford Books for Children. Matt pictorial boards. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Top & tail of backstrip split. Faded inscription in ink to front pastedown. A few pale foxspots mainly to prelims.

Published by The Falcon Press, 1948. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Yellow cloth, green title to spine. Wrapper a little edge-worn with minimal loss to spine.

Published by Greystone Books, 2014. 1st edition.. Paperback. Very Good. Very good condition. Gathering the thoughts of twelve of North America's leading writers - novelists and memoirists, journalists and sports writers - on the fishing life. Tales of memorable quests and elusive catches, of the men and women who fish, of the fish themselves and the waters they live in. Pictorial cardwraps. Covers a little grubby. Slight musty odour present.

Published by Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2001. 1st edition.. Hardback. Fine. Illustrated by Molan, Chris & Hook, Christian & et al., . Fine condition with no wrapper. A lively, informative volume takes a close look at prehistoric food, art, crafts, cloth, community life and more. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations.