This assortment consists of a large collection of books across three cardboard flats, with a primary focus on 20th-century history, biography, and literary criticism. Significant works within the lot include The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History (Volumes 1 and 2) by C.W. Previté-Orton, Charles II by Ronald Hutton, The Last Emperor by Edward Behr, and Richard the Lionheart by John Gillingham. Biographies of literary figures are well represented, featuring Quentin Bell’s two-volume life of Virginia Woolf and Michael Holroyd’s Lytton Strachey. The collection includes titles from prominent publishers such as Penguin Books, featuring several classic orange-spined paperbacks, as well as Faber and Faber, Oxford University Press, Abacus, and Jonathan Cape. The volumes are a combination of hardback editions, many retaining their original dust jackets, and trade paperbacks.
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