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Lot 461: An Assortment of Non-Fiction and Reference Volumes Including Reader's Digest and History Titles
An assortment of various non-fiction, reference, and historical volumes in various formats. The collection includes a multi-volume series published by Reader’s Digest in uniform blue cloth bindings with gilt lettering, with 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. Other visible titles include A Concise History of England by F.E. Halliday (Thames and Hudson), Plymouth Warships 1900-1950 by Goodman and Ballantyne (Halsgrove), Tell Me Why by Arkady Leokum (Odhams), World War II (St Michael), Sea Warfare (Spring Books), and British Heritage in Malta. The lot also features the AA Book of British Towns, You and Your Rights (Reader’s Digest), and the AA Book of the Road. A Family Encyclopedia (Geddes and Grosset), The Fat-Free Cookbook (Healthy Eating Library), and a pictorial biography of Churchill are present. The collection includes a red-cased set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which bears a Liskeard Auction Rooms lot sticker for lot 461. Bindings consist of publisher’s cloth, pictorial boards, and paper-wrapped boards, with several volumes retaining original dust jackets.
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