A collection of vintage paperback and hardcover books, featuring an extensive run of mid-20th-century Penguin Books and Pelican Books. The fiction titles are primarily Penguin “tri-band” editions in orange, including works by Thomas Hardy such as The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, and The Woodlanders, alongside Kingsley Amis, Gerald Durrell, and John Mortimer. The non-fiction component includes blue-covered Pelican Books and Penguin reference titles. A specialized group of natural history books focused on arachnology is present, including multi-volume sets of British Spiders by G.H. Locket and A.F. Millidge, and titles by Theodore Savory such as Arachnida and The Spiders of Biology. The collection also features contemporary paperbacks from publishers including Pan, Corgi, and French editions such as Léo Malet’s Les Rats de Montsouris.
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