An assortment of mid-to-late 20th-century books housed in two cardboard boxes, comprising a diverse range of paperbacks and several hardcovers. The collection prominently features numerous vintage Penguin, Puffin, and Pelican editions, alongside titles from publishers such as Pan, Grafton, and Macmillan. Notable literature and non-fiction titles visible include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Spike Milligan’s Peace Work, Margaret Mead’s Male and Female, and John le Carre’s A Small Town in Germany. The collection spans various genres including sociology, with The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann; biography, including Matthew Parris’s Chance Witness and Eric Braun’s Doris Day; and specialist non-fiction such as The Runner’s Handbook, The Inland Navigator, and The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose. Also present are reference works including multiple volumes of Bird Recognition and educational texts like Teach Yourself GCSE Mathematics. The paperbacks predominantly feature standard publisher’s wrappers, while several hardcovers retain their original dust jackets. The volumes are primarily in octavo and duodecimo formats.
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