An extensive collection of approximately 150-200 books, primarily comprising 20th-century literature, fiction, biographies, and non-fiction, contained within two suitcases and two cardboard boxes. The collection features a significant selection of vintage Penguin and Puffin paperbacks, including titles such as The Moonstone and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, and several works by Colette including Earthly Paradise, The Captive, and The Last of Chéri. Also included is a group of distinctive Victor Gollancz Ltd editions in yellow-spine and grey-cloth hardcovers, featuring multiple titles by I. Compton-Burnett including Manservant and Maidservant, A Heritage and Its History, Parents and Children, A House and Its Head, and Pastors and Masters, alongside Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham. Biographical and memoir works include The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie, The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Volumes 1, 2, and 3), and biographies of John Maynard Keynes by Robert Skidelsky, Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers, and W.B. Yeats by Richard Ellmann. Modern fiction and non-fiction titles include a hardcover edition of Life of Pi by Yann Martel, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin, and Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, with further works by Ben Elton, Jeremy Clarkson, and Desmond Morris. Vintage children’s literature is represented by The Otterbury Incident by C. Day Lewis (Puffin Books). Publishers represented include Penguin Books, Victor Gollancz Ltd, Picador, Paladin, Collins, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and Jonathan Cape. The lot consists of trade paperbacks, hardcovers with dust jackets, and cloth-bound boards.
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