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Lot 495: A mid-20th-century H. Frost and Co. Ltd. electric desk fan
This lot comprises an assortment of hardback and softback volumes covering subjects such as military history, reference, geography, and topography. Identifiable titles include Arkady Leokum, Tell Me Why (Odhams); Goodman and Ballantyne, Plymouth Warships 1900-1950 (Halsgrove); F.E. Halliday, A Concise History of England (Thames and Hudson); and World War II in Vogue (St Michael). Reference works include The Reader’s Digest AA Book of the Road, The AA Book of British Towns, and The Reader’s Digest You and Your Rights. There is a series of blue cloth-bound Reader’s Digest volumes with gilt titles, including Bridging a Continent, Beyond the Horizon, The Great Age of Exploration, Secrets of the Sea, Charting the Vast Pacific, The Frozen World, and Jungles, Rivers and Mountain Peaks. A red-bound volume of Encyclopedia Britannica is present, bearing a paper lot sticker numbered 496. Publishers represented include Reader’s Digest, AA, Odhams, Thames and Hudson, and St Michael. Bindings are mixed, including publisher’s cloth, pictorial boards, and volumes with original dust jackets.
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