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Welcome to the Special Book Room

The Special Book Room on our website houses our most collectable, rare or fragile items. Prices of Special Book Room items generally start at £90.00.

If you wish to view our special books in person, please contact us and we will let you know whether the items are located at Stella Books (Tintern) or Rose's Books (Hay-on-Wye).

Special Book Room at Stella Books, Tintern

A selection of our special Dog books...

JACK AND JILL
Byron, May. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Stock no. 379298
Hodder & Stoughton & Henry Frowde. Very good condition with no wrapper. Large format (29 x 25.5cm). Brown cloth spine, blue pictorial boards - front shows black silhouettes of Jack and Jill (dog and cat) in front of full white moon. Cream pictorial endpapers. 24 short chapters each with a colour plate. Spine slightly bumped. Light rubbing to cover edges. Some foxing and discolouration to front board and light scuffing to rear board. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint just starting to crack. Foxing to contents but plates beautifully bright and contents generally clean.
Price: £380.00
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FARM YARD PUPPIES
Aldin, Cecil. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Stock no. 595720
Humphrey Milford. 1st ed1911. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth spine, buff paper boards with red title and two black/white/tan puppies running and looking at you to front. B/w white pictorial title page with red title. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Pale green endpapers. Chappie the puppy takes his chum on a mischievous tour of the farmyard. Edges rubbed, corner worn, covers nice and bright. Joints are weak with exposed mull but binding still tight. A few scattered foxspots and margin marks to contents but generally a nice clean copy.
Price: £150.00
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FIELD BABIES
Aldin, Cecil. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Stock no. 595727
Humphrey Milford & Oxford University Press. Circa1910. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Creen cloth, red title and picture of lamb and puppy to front. Green pictorial endpapers. Red title to title page and buff/white/black/red illustration. 24 colour illustrations. Pup gets turned out of doors where he meets all kinds of field babies. 10.25" x 7.5". Covers unevenly faded to rear, cloth spine split along front edge. Front joint starting to crack. A few scattered foxspots else contents clean and tight.
Price: £250.00
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THE BULL TERRIER AND ALL ABOUT IT
Hollander, V.C.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 627621
Watmoughs Limited. Circa1930. Very good condition. Orange pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. Printed with authors initials as 'D.C.' with correction label to title page stating that the initials should be 'V.C.'. For the Bull Terrier enthusiast. Covers a little grubby. A few fingermarks to contents and handling creases to margins. A nice copy of a scarce title.
Price: £90.00
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GUN-DOGS
Chalmers, Patrick R.. Illustrated by Binks, R. Ward. Stock no. 627714
Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st ed1931. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Shooting with gun-dogs. Facts and fancies of Retrievers, Spaniels and Setters. Large format, beige cloth with gilt title to spine. 12 colour plates. x and 99 pages. Corners lightly rubbed. Front cover has faint damp mottling at edges. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to first blank page. All plates present. Some foxing throughout. Pictorial wrapper is edge-worn and torn at corners with loss.
Price: £95.00
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