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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 Reaktion Books. Paperback. New. 'As new' condition. Whether loved, hated, or feared, whether worshiped as a god, valued as a hunting companion, or used as a corporate or heraldic symbol, falcons have fascinated humans for millennia. This book sheds compelling new light on this extraordinary bird, and on cultures through which it has flown. Cardwraps. Still in original shrinkwrap.

Published by Folio Society, 2001. Hardback. Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Edited and introduced by Lyn MacDonald. Green pictorial cloth. B/w photos. Printed on pale green paper. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly faded at edges and a couple of marks.

Published by A.C. Fifield, 1911. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Hughes, Arthur. Very good condition with no wrapper. A Fairy Story. Green cloth, white titles. B/w illustrations. 273 pages + 2 page booklist. Top edge gilt. Free endpapers lightly browned. A few scattered foxspots but contents generally clean and bright. Top and tail of spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed.

Published by Folio Society, 2003. Hardback. Very Good. Very good condition with no wrapper. Edited and introduced by Lyn MacDonald. Green pictorial cloth. B/w photos. Printed on pale green paper. Third printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little grubby and slightly faded at edges.

Published by Oxford University Press, 2015. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Focusing on the tensions that arise between people and wildlife on agricultural land. Glazed pictorial boards. 324 pages. B/w photos and diagrams. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, dent to top edge of rear cover. Contents fine.

Published by Chatham Publishing, 2004. 1st edition.. Hardback. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The true story of food at sea in the Georgian Era. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. 224 pages. B/w plates. Spine slightly bumped. Small, yellow address label to front free-endpaper. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little edge creased and slightly faded to spine.

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.