A collection of vintage mass-market paperback books, primarily mid-20th-century editions published by Penguin Books Ltd, alongside titles from Puffin, Pan, and Armada. The assortment includes a significant quantity of Penguin Classics featuring the characteristic orange and white striped spines, such as Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The lot features a three-volume trilogy by Mary O’Hara comprising My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming, housed in a coordinating blue card slipcase. Other notable authors represented include Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Brontë, and Charles Dickens. The books are constructed with glued paper bindings and wood-pulp paper blocks. Visible publisher marks and codes include ISBN 0 14 00.1397 0 on Hilaire Belloc’s Selected Cautionary Verses, 0 416 86600 X on My Friend Flicka, and ISBN 0 14 02.0520 9 on Culture and Society by Raymond Williams. Several spines bear the printed Penguin device and the Pan Books logo.
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