Bidspirit auction | Various Authors. A Collection of

Various Authors. A Collection of Vintage Children's Classics and Adventure Novels. - A collection of vintage hardbound books, primarily comprising children's classics and adventure stories. The lot features a uniform series of volumes bound in blue and green cloth with gilt-lettered spines, including titles such as Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight, Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. Also included is a large-format green cloth-bound volume titled Animal Life of the World with gilt cover lettering. Other notable titles in the collection include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (The Children's Press), Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson (Peal Press), The Black Bog Mystery by Lane Mitchell (Peal Press), The Lodger by Lowndes (Oxford University Press), and Biggles in Spain by Capt. W.E. Johns. The volumes are predominantly octavo in size and are housed within a rectangular handwoven wicker picnic hamper featuring leather straps and metal buckle closures.