ONLINE AUCTION OF FURNITURE COLLECTIBLES INCUDING MILITARIA AND STEIFF
Lot 82:
A Collection of Children's Annuals, Literary Classics, and The Children's Encyclopedia Set
Description
An assortment of books across two shelves, featuring a range of 20th-century children’s annuals, literature, and a multi-volume reference set. The collection includes various pictorial board annuals such as My Postman Pat Storytime Book, Photoplay Film Year Book 1979, The Lone Ranger Annual, Twinkle (1984 and 1986), Mates Annual 1979, Top of the Pops Annual 1979 (World Distributors), and Blue Peter Fourteenth Book (BBC tv). Other children’s titles present include The Wizard of Oz by Baum (Purnell), The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book by Pauline Cockrill, My Big Book of Brer Rabbit Stories, and Brer Rabbit Again (Storytime Library). Older cloth-bound volumes include Seventy Years a Showman, The Knot Squirrel Tied, Grey Rabbit and the Circus, and Three Brave Women: Stories of Heroines in Heathen Lands (Partridge). The collection also contains editions of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Alice in Wonderland, Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott, and Newnes Family Health Encyclopaedia. The lower shelf features a multi-volume set of The Children’s Encyclopedia edited by Arthur Mee, bound in maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spines. Small adhesive labels bearing numbers 6182 and 9290 are present on certain items.
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