A collection of various books and reference works comprising multiple volumes across two boxes. The assortment features a multi-volume set of The British Encyclopedia Illustrated bound in blue publisher’s cloth with gilt-lettered spines. Notable hardcover titles include Boys’ and Girls’ Book for 1937, The New Illustrated Universal Reference Book, Wonders of the World, and The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. The collection includes literary classics such as Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. Sports-related literature is represented by Fred Trueman’s The Thoughts of Trueman Now and Ian Botham: The Incredible Tests 1981. Modern non-fiction and fiction titles, many with original dust jackets, include Michael Palin’s New Europe, Tim Graham’s Jubilee, and works by Maeve Binchy and Gervase Phinn. Additional items include Edith Holden’s The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, The Story of the British People in Pictures, and instructional sets such as How Much Do You Know? and The Home Entertainer. Bindings vary from decorative cloth and rexine to pictorial boards and modern wrappers. The volumes range in size from duodecimo to quarto.
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