An assortment of books housed in three boxes, comprising a wide range of fiction, non-fiction, and reference works. Featured is a three-volume set of Virtue’s Household Physician: A Twentieth Century Medica, published by Virtue and Co., bound in decorative green cloth with ornate gilt-tooled spines. Also present are Volumes I and II of Winston Churchill’s The Second World War, published by Cassell, in black cloth with gilt lettering. The collection includes several volumes from The New Educational Library series in uniform maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spines, covering subjects such as French, Biology, History, and Law and Government. Multiple volumes from the Reader’s Digest World’s Best Reading series are included in decorative hardcovers. General fiction is extensively represented by authors including Catherine Cookson, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Agatha Christie, Jack Higgins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Monica Ali. Other titles include Captain F.S. Brereton’s A Gallant Grenadier and the First Aid Annual. The lot contains both hardcovers, many with original dust jackets, and paperbacks. Formats consist primarily of octavo and duodecimo volumes.
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