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NEWS
And Now For Something Completely Old11 November 2004 During the past few months, Books at Star Dot Star has been expanding its range of antiquarian and Victorian titles. Many are in Leather or Elaborately Decorated Cloth bindings and will make truly wonderful additions to your collection. Titles include authors such as Verne, Boswell, Johnson, Wordsworth, and Beeton... Further information on this story is here
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New Last Scott Novel Published23 April, 2004 -
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More Bus Books19 April, 2004 - We've added about another hundred of the bus books from the collection of the late Graham Humphreys. Humphreys died in February. An employee of the West Midlands Metro at the time, he'd spent his entire working life working in public transport. He loved his work and his thirst for knowledge about it was un-quenchable. When he died in his early 50s, he left a collection of several hundred volumes about buses, coaches, bus companies and everything else bus-related. The books include series from Ian Allan, The Transportation Publishing Company, The P. S. V. Circle's Fleet Histories and others. Authors include such luminaries as Alan Townsin, Gavin Booth, Malcolm Keeley and Michael Eyre, to name a very few. With another 200 or so books yet to list, the first lot of volumes is now online and can be browsed here.
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Bus Books Galore12 April, 2004 - The man had been a busman for his entire working life. He loved his work and his thirst for knowledge about it was un-quenchable. When he died in February in his early 50s, he left a collection of several hundred volumes about buses, coaches, bus companies and everything else bus-related. He had no wife or children, only a few distant relatives, one of whom took over as executrix of his estate. She contacted Books at Star Dot Star and offered us the entire collection. We accepted and are now in process of listing the material. The first lot of about 50 volumes is now online and can be browsed here.
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Amberleigh House wins The Grand National3 April, 2004 - With Amberleigh House winning The Grand National and thus Red Rum trainer Ginger McCain attaining a fourth victory in the world's most famous steeplechase, what more appropriate book for the equestrian lover than this biography of the three-time winner, Red Rum. 1974 first editions of both The Story of Red Rum and Brian Fletcher and Red Rum, the Full and Extraordinary Story of a Horse of Courage are available from Books at Star Dot Star for only £19.95 each. To order The Story of Red Rum and Brian Fletcher go here. Or to order Red Rum, the Full and Extraordinary Story of a Horse of Courage go here.
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Alistair Cooke, 95, Dead30 March, 2004 - Alistair Cooke died ovenight. He was 95 years old. He had spent 50 years (2869 broadcasts) writing and broadcasting his weekly Letter from America for the BBC to some 22 million listeners. He wrote and hosted a 13-part TV series, America a Personal History. And he was host of Omnibus, the first important cultural US television program, from 1952 to 1961, and of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS from 1971 to 1992. He retired just a fortnight ago A 1973 first edition of Alistair Cooke's America (based on the America, a Personal History series) is available from Books at Star Dot Star for only £16.95 here.
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Lovers of Rudyard Kipling Await Publication of Newly-Found Story23 March, 2004 - A newly-discovered, 6,000-word tale by Rudyard Kipling will greet some 600 members of the Kipling Society when they receive the society's journal at a meeting in London on April 7. The story is one more adventure of Stalky & Co, one of the author's most popular children's books. Further details here. A 1934 edition of Selected Stories By Rudyard Kipling, is available from Books at Star Dot Star for only £25.95 here. |
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