A collection of books primarily focused on the local history of Plymouth, United Kingdom, featuring a significant number of works by author Chris Robinson. Published works include titles such as Plymouth in the Fifties & Sixties, Plymouth in the Forties & Fifties, Plymouth in the Twenties & Thirties, Victorian Plymouth, The Story of Plymouth Hoe, Barbican & City Centre, Plymouth As Time Draws On, and Plymouth’s Great War: Towns United in Conflict, primarily under the Pen & Ink Publishing imprint. Additional local history titles include Sutton Harbour by Crispin Gill, It Came to Our Door by H.P. Twyford and Chris Robinson, Plymouth – A New History by Crispin Gill (Devon Books), and Plymouth in War & Peace by Guy Fleming (Bossiney Books). Also included are Ark Royal by Paul Beaver, Plymouth At War by Keith Scrivener, and The Devonport Dockyard Story. The lot contains several older hardcover reference and literary works: The New Gresham English Dictionary, Healthy Minds and Bodies published by Waverley, a multi-volume set of The Works of Shakespeare in green cloth with gilt-decorated spines, and The History of the Great War in red cloth. Physical features include pictorial covers, original cloth bindings, and several volumes with dust jackets.
Condition report:
The modern volumes generally appear in good condition with minor shelf wear and occasional price stickers. The older reference and literary volumes exhibit age-related wear including rubbed edges, bumped corners, and fading or darkening to the cloth spines, particularly evident on the dictionary and the Shakespeare set.
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