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A collection of vintage mass-market paperback books, predominantly comprised of mid-to-late 20th-century Penguin and Pelican editions. The volumes are presented in two rows within a cardboard tray. Visible imprints include Penguin (distinguishable by orange fiction and green crime spines), Pelican (blue non-fiction), Puffin, Armada, and Corgi. Notable authors represented in the collection include Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë, Stella Gibbons, Albert Camus, John Wyndham, David Lodge, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Mann, Spike Milligan, and Edward de Bono. Titles include The Return of the Native, Jane Eyre, Cold Comfort Farm, The Plague, The Midwich Cuckoos, Small World, The Great Gatsby, The Magic Mountain, Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall, and Lateral Thinking. The subject matter encompasses classic literature, social history, psychology, and popular fiction, including volumes such as British Society 1914-45 and A Dictionary of Psychology. The books are in their original softcover bindings, generally in octavo or duodecimo formats.
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