A Collection of Vintage Paperbacks. Various Publishers, c. 1940-1970.

A collection of vintage mass-market paperback volumes, predominantly dating from the mid-20th century. The assembly features a diverse range of titles from prominent publishers including Penguin Books, Pan Books, Fontana, Hodder, Bantam, and Corgi. Notable works included in the collection are Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean, The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Other represented authors include Agatha Christie, Nevil Shute, Erle Stanley Gardner, John O’Hara, and Gerald Durrell. The volumes are primarily duodecimo in size and are bound in their original pictorial or typographic paper wrappers. The collection is housed in a vintage dark-textured suitcase featuring metal corner reinforcements and a lot tag numbered 269.