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title: 'National Book Recovery and Salvage Appeal: Take your unwanted Books to the Receiving Depot'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-national-book-recovery-take-unwanted-books-1939/
description: A narrow banner poster shows a uniformed serviceman sitting on stacks of books, reading, beside a headline in white on blue.
section: Collection
---

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# National Book Recovery and Salvage Appeal: Take your unwanted Books to the Receiving Depot

A narrow banner poster shows a uniformed serviceman sitting on stacks of books, reading, beside a headline in white on blue. The soldier figure attaches the armed forces to the donation of books, while the text gives the plain instruction to take unwanted books to a receiving depot.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NATIONAL BOOK RECOVERY
AND SALVAGE APPEAL
Take your unwanted Books to the Receiving Depot

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY W. R. ROYLE & SON LTD., LONDON, E.C.4. 51-3118
M.O.S. S&R 103
```

[← The Nation Needs Your Books for the Services and for Salvage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-nation-needs-your-books-services-salvage-1939/) ['National Day of Prayer: Put your trust in God, as I do' (His Majesty the King) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-national-day-of-prayer-put-your-trust-in-god-1939/)

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