Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Miscellaneous Books

A Collection of Miscellaneous Books and Ephemera including Illustrated Literature and a Norton Motorcycle Technical Manual - This collection comprises an assortment of books and ephemera covering literature, technical reference, and collecting guides. Featured is a hardcover edition of The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, featuring colour illustrations by Frank Reynolds. The volume is bound in the publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped decorative lettering and a circular portrait vignette on the front board. Also present is a hardcover edition of The Teddy Bear Lover's Companion: Being a Book of Their Life and Times by Ted Menten, complete with its original pictorial dust jacket. For motoring enthusiasts, the lot includes a stapled softcover technical manual titled The First Knocker Norton Scene (All Years SOHC & DOHC), which is a Main-Smith Publication bearing the BMS mark. Additional items include a vintage hardcover titled The Dark Drive book and miscellaneous other volumes including one marked Wright.