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A collection of multiple books, pamphlets, and reference volumes covering maritime interests, household management, and children’s literature. Prominent titles include Coastal Adventure by J. Wentworth Day (hardcover with dust jacket), Bristow’s ’70 Book of Yachts & Motor Cruisers (softcover), and a large-format Great World Atlas. The lot features a set of children’s classics in illustrated cloth-bound spines, housed in a damaged cardboard slipcase, with titles including Iron Pirate, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Magic Walking Stick & Arabian Nights, and Little Women. Other volumes include The Home Medical Book published by Harrap, The Observer’s Book of Fly Fishing by Peter Wheat, and a pocket-sized Diccionario Universal Ingles published by Herder. Visible spine transcriptions include: THE HOME MEDICAL BOOK [caduceus logo] H HARRAP and SMALLHOLDER ENCYCLOPÆDIA EDITED BY S. A. MAYCOCK F.R.H.S. AND JOHN HAYHURST PEARSON. Bindings consist of a mix of cloth-covered hardboards and softcover wrappers. The children’s volumes feature thematic pictorial spine illustrations including an archer for Robin Hood and a parrot for Robinson Crusoe.
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