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Lot 463: A Collection of Non-Fiction Books including History, Reference, and Hobbyist Titles
An assortment of non-fiction books, primarily comprising UK-published hardcover and paperback volumes. The collection features a seven-volume series of blue cloth-bound hardcovers published by Reader’s Digest, with gilt-stamped lettering on the spines, including titles such as Bridging a Continent, Jungles, Rivers and Mountain Peaks, The Frozen World, Charting the Vast Pacific, Secrets of the Sea, The Great Age of Exploration, and Beyond the Horizon.
Other reference and topographical works include the Book of British Towns in grey and brown cloth binding, the Reader’s Digest AA Book of the Road in a black textured binding with gilt lettering, and You and Your Rights: An AtoZ Guide to the Law in a pictorial dust jacket. Military and general history titles include World War II published by St Michael, Plymouth Warships 1900-1950 by Goodman and Ballantyne published by Halsgrove, Sea Warfare from Spring Books, Churchill: A Pictorial Biography, and A Concise History of England by F.E. Halliday published by Thames and Hudson.
General reference and lifestyle works include the Family Encyclopedia published by Geddes and Grosset, a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in a red textured binding, Tell Me Why by Arkady Leokum published by Odhams, an Intereurope Workshop Manual for the Vauxhall Viva HB and HC from 1966, Knitting in Vogue from Peerage Books, and The Fat-Free Cookbook by Anne Sheasby. The books feature various publisher logos including the Thames and Hudson dolphin and the St Michael brand mark.
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