A collection of mid to late twentieth-century books, maps and ephemera primarily relating to British military, transport and local history. The lot includes a large format hardcover edition of The Falklands War: Day by Day Record from Invasion to Victory featuring a photographic cover depicting a naval vessel. Also present is a copy of British Railways Diesel Traction: Manual for Enginemen, bound in tan pictorial cloth with the title printed in black, and a Hurricane Annual with a blue pictorial cover showing an aircraft. A green cloth-bound volume titled The Football Who’s Who features silver-gilt lettering to the spine. The collection is further comprised of multiple Geographia A1 Street Plan: Doncaster maps and a Street Map of Rotherham / Maltby / Wath Upon Dearne. A stack of thin booklets is topped by a title from the Classical Mood series, Morning Mists. The covers bear various printed titles including BRITISH RAILWAYS DIESEL TRACTION Manual for Enginemen, THE FALKLANDS WAR day by day record from invasion to victory, Hurricane ANNUAL, and GEOGRAPHIA Doncaster A1 STREET PLAN Index to Streets Places of Interest.
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