An extensive assortment of books primarily focused on 20th-century literature, poetry, and social history, housed across three cardboard trays. The collection includes a significant quantity of paperback editions from publishers such as Penguin (encompassing the orange-spine series, Penguin Classics, and Penguin Poets), Pelican, and Faber and Faber. Notable titles and authors visible include Modern Cookery by Eliza Acton in a decorative 19th-century cloth binding with a gilt-ornamented spine, Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot, and Collected Shorter Poems and Selected Poems by W.H. Auden. Other represented authors include Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass), John Betjeman, Raymond Carver, Rudyard Kipling, and Fitzroy Maclean (Eastern Approaches). The lot features several volumes of Georgian Poetry and works by Byron, Keats, and Dryden. The formats are predominantly octavo and pocket-sized, with a mix of publisher’s cloth hardcovers, many retaining their original dust jackets, and softcover wrappers.
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