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Stella Ivy Vintage
A carefully hand chosen selection of beautiful true vintage clothing, accessories and homewares specialising in pieces from the 1920s-1950s. Stella Ivy Vintage also makes handmade, completely natural and pure bath and body care that takes you back to the past when living was simple.
A carefully hand chosen selection of beautiful true vintage clothing, accessories and homewares specialising in pieces from the 1920s-1950s. Stella Ivy Vintage also makes handmade, completely natural and pure bath and body care that takes you back to the past when living was simple.
A Century Of Thrillers – From Poe to Arlen – Vintage Book 1937
A lovely, thick book containing a collection of thrillers, including The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, The Murders in The Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Birthday of Infanta by Oscar Wilde. All in all, there are 47 separate stories. There are also beautiful illustrations.
£5.10Emily Climbs – by L. M. Montgomery – Vintage Book – 1941
A sweet little version of Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery – published 1941.
The spine is fraying, but it makes it all the more appealing to the vintage lover 🙂
This book is a fantastic shade of green.
£4.25Anne of Ingleside – L. M. Montgomery – Vintage Book – 1953
Lovely little version of Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery. Published 1953.
I have other Anne books, all of which are shades of green which look lovely displayed in your home.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
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£4.25In Search of Scotland – by H. V. Morton – Vintage Book – 1933
An intriguing book of In Search of Scotland, written by H. V. Morton.
Published in 1933 – there is a handwritten inscription reading “From Helen, Mabel & Vera, 30.4.1939”.
There are many wonderful black and white photo illustrations throughout the book.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
£4.25Our Nation’s Heritage – Edited by J. B. Priestley – Vintage Book – 1945
This is such an unusual little book – it contains excerpts/short stories and poems written by various authors, all written about aspects of life on the British Isles.
The introduction by J. B. Priestley describes “When we think of romantic and beautiful islands, we think of places like Tahiti in the South Seas and Trinidad in the Caribbean Sea. And certainly these are romantic and beautiful islands, as I know quite well, for I have stayed on them. What we forget, however, is that we live on a romantic and beautiful island too, the isle of Britain”.
The subjects of the pieces in this book are farming, nature, trees, roads, places, village sketches, the Vandals and nostalgia. There are wonderful black and white photos too.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
£4.25East Lynne – Vintage book by Mrs Henry Wood – Book plate dated 1940
A charming vintage novel by Mrs Henry Wood (I love how she is called “Mrs” Henry Wood!).
There is no publisher date, but there is a little book plate stuck to the inside cover which reads “Presented to Mrs Hodges for full attendance during 1940 completing 12 full years”.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
£3.40Myths and Legends – Vintage Book – The Golden Pathway Series – 1958
A superb book of stories and poetry of Myths & Legends, published in 1958.
“Folk tales from many lands with a special appeal to children. Concluded by a separate section of stories from the Bible”.
This book is so lovely – it’s a great size with a really good sized text for older children, together with beautiful colour plates throughout and black and white illustrations. It does not appear to have been read.
Some of the stories and poems included in this lovely book are…
The Winged Horse
The Wonderful Adventures of Perseus
The Wooden Horse
Connla of the Golden Hair and the Fairy Maiden
A Legend of King Arthur
Robin Hood (by John Keats)
William Tell
Rip Van Winkle and the Goblins
Christmas Eve (by Thomas Hardy)
The King of the Golden River (by John Ruskin)
plus many more!The book is in great condition, with a bright blue cover.
£6.80My Amazon Adventure – Sebastian Snow – Vintage Book – 1956
A really interesting little book telling the stories of Sebastian Snow’s adventures in the Amazon.
It starts off with Mr Snow telling us how he saw an advert in The Times asking for “Extra gun may be wanted for sporting and exploring expedition western Amazonia. Highest references offered and expected..”. Can you imagine seeing that advert and applying, simply because you had always had a desire for “travel and adventure”? Now that’s a way to start a fresh new life I’d say!
This is a lovely small book with a pretty yellow cover, and contains some really great black and white photos of the adventures.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
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£4.25The Houses in Between – Howard Spring – Vintage Book – Novel – 1954
A sweet little book with lovely thin pages, in a dark green cover.
This is a novel first published in 1951 – this version is 1954.
What appealed to me was this opening to the author’s foreword; “I see from some old letters that as long ago as 1940 I wrote to my agents asking them to obtain for me a copy of the music hall song containing the words: ‘You could see the Crystal Palace if it wasn’t for the houses in between’. The pathetic significance of the Crystal Palace had for long appealed to my imagination, and I wanted to make a novel out of the contrast between that fragile promise of peace and the dreadful realities of the years that followed”. What an image of the war years we get from that little opening paragraph.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
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£4.25The East Wind of Love – Compton Mackenzie – Vintage Book – 1937
A lovely vintage book published in 1937.
This book says it is “book one of ‘The Four Winds of Love’.
The opening chapter starts…. “At twenty-three minutes to five on a cold Friday afternoon of encroaching fog in the month of March, 1900, Mr Askew, the Latin Master of the Upper and Lower Sixth forms at St James’s School, tugged at a grizzled red beard, twitched a rapid eyelid several times over each bright blue eye, swung a leonine head slowly from side to side as if it were weighing the pros and cons of a delicate decision, and at last, with a rusty sigh, announced that he supposed they must have some light on the situation”.
I just love the language used… a rusty sigh… and a grizzled red beard 🙂
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
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£4.25Charles Dickens – by Una Pope-Hennessy – Vintage Book – 1947
A sweet little book of the life of Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870.
Published in 1947.
Contains a few lovely illustrations of paintings of Charles Dickens at various ages.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
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£4.25So Many Loves – Leo Walmsley – Autobiography – Vintage Book – 1945
A lovely little book called So Many Loves by Leo Walmsley. This is his autobiography, and this version was published in 1945.
Included inside the book was (and is) a page from “Broadsheet” dated September 1945, which contains an article on Leo Walmsley called “A Real Writer”.
There is no additional postage charge for multiple books.
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