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Lot 560: A Collection of Non-Fiction and Reference Books including Reader's Digest and AA Volumes
This collection consists of approximately twenty non-fiction and reference books, predominantly hardcovers, featuring various subjects including history, geography, law, and local interest. The lot includes a themed set of seven blue-bound volumes from the Reader’s Digest Exploration Series with titles such as 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. Notable individual volumes include Plymouth Warships 1900-1950 by Goodman and Ballantyne, published by Halsgrove, and Churchill: A Pictorial Biography. Reference material is well represented by the AA Book of the Road, AA Book of British Towns, and You and Your Rights: An A to Z Guide to the Law by Reader’s Digest. Other titles in the group include A Concise History of England by F.E. Halliday published by Thames and Hudson, World War II by St Michael, Tell Me Why by Odhams, and a Family Encyclopedia by Geddes and Grosset. Also present are Sea Warfare, The Fat-Free Cookbook by Anne Sheasby, a slim paperback titled British Heritage in Malta, and a volume of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Several books retain their original dust jackets.
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