An assortment of mid-20th-century British publications featuring large-format pictorial hardboard annuals and mass-market paperbacks. The lot includes Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual, The Wizard Book for Boys published by D.C. Thomson and Co. Ltd., and The FA Book for Boys 1963/64 published by Heinemann. Softcover titles comprise various Penguin and Pelican Books, notably the classic orange-banded series including D.H. Lawrences The Rainbow, Monica Dickens Thursday Afternoons, Anthony Carsons A Rose by Any Other Name, and Frances Gray Pattons Good Morning, Miss Dove. Other paperbacks include Emma by Jane Austen (Penguin English Library), The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier, and The Millstone by Margaret Drabble. The collection also features Children of the Vikings by Jonathan Rumbold, I Cant Stay Long by Laurie Lee, Biggles and Co by Captain W.E. Johns, and Tricia Murrays biography of Margaret Thatcher.
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