A collection of books encompassing anthropology, social history, literature, and biography, comprising multiple volumes in both hardcover and softcover bindings. Key academic titles include A Portuguese Rural Society by Jose Cutileiro (Oxford Monographs on Social Anthropology, Oxford University Press), Human Types by Raymond Firth, and various works by Clifford Geertz. Historical and reference works are represented by The London Encyclopaedia edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (Papermac), Haile Selassie’s War by Anthony Mockler, and The Black Death by Philip Ziegler (Pelican). The collection features a strong selection of literary biographies and correspondence, including Paul Bowles’s autobiography Without Stopping, Millicent Dillon’s A Little Original: The Life and Jane Bowles, and Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945 to 1959 (Picador). Works related to the Bloomsbury Group are also included, notably Carrington by Gretchen Gerzina and Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries. Other titles of interest include The Politics of Austrian Literature from Empire to Anschluss by C.E. Williams, Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, and Volume II of Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan by Irwin Porges. Represented publishers include Oxford University Press, Pelican/Penguin, Picador, Gollancz, and George Allen & Unwin. The lot is contained within three black suitcases.
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