A collection of volumes comprising various genres including children’s literature, military history, and travel guides. Notable works by Arthur Ransome are present, including The Picts and the Martyrs published by Jonathan Cape, and Vintage editions of Peter Duck and Swallows and Amazons. The collection features several Bradshaw’s guides, such as the Handbook 1863 in a brown leather-effect binding, Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales in teal cloth with gilt-stamped spine, and a Collins reprint of the Continental Railway Guide. Other significant titles include Appleton’s General Guide to the United States and Canada (1879), Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Collection 1 and Five Fall Into Adventure, and military history works such as Tobruk: The Great Siege Reassessed by Frank Harrison and A Tale of Ten Spitfires by Andrew Critchell. The volumes are primarily octavo and quarto in size, bound in publisher’s cloth, pictorial boards, and softcover wrappers. Many of the hardcovers retain their original dust jackets. Publishers represented include Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Collins, Hodder and Stoughton, and WH Smith.
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