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This offering consists of a collection of books, primarily hardcovers, encompassing a diverse range of genres including classical and contemporary literature, social history, medical reference, law, and children’s fiction. Notable titles and authors identified from the spines include The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press), Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway, The Other Victorians by Steven Marcus, Peoples of the Sea by Immanuel Velikovsky, and several volumes by Hugh Walpole in Macmillan green cloth bindings. Other visible works include Moriarty’s Police Law (Seventeenth Edition, 1963), Treasure Island, English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan, Chaucer’s Works (Oxford), and Moore’s Family Medicine and Hygiene for India. The volumes feature a variety of binding types, including publisher’s cloth-bound boards and paper boards, with several examples retaining their original dust jackets. The formats are predominantly octavo with some larger quarto-sized reference books.
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