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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
Along This Way
James Weldon Johnson		 Penguin Books1941Paperback Coming soon
An Outline of European Architecture First
Nikolaus Pevsner		 Penguin Books1945Paperback Coming soon
Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 		Penguin Books1948Paperback Coming soon
Before Philosophy
Henri Frankfort, Henriette Groenewegen-Frankfort, Thorkild Jacobsen		 Penguin Books1949Paperback Coming soon
Cabbages and Kings
O. Henry		 Pan Books1949Paperback Coming soon
Coolie
Mulk Raj Anand		 Penguin Books1945Paperback Coming soon
Death and the Dancing Footman
Ngaio Marsh		 Penguin Books1949Paperback Coming soon
Death in a White Tie
Ngaio Marsh		 Penguin Books1944Paperback Coming soon
Death of a Ghost
Margery Allingham · Albert Campion 		Penguin Books1942Paperback Coming soon
Easy Reading Selections In English First
Robert James Dixson		 Regents Publishing Company1948Paperback Coming soon
Evil Under the Sun First
Agatha Christie		 Pocket Books1941Paperback Coming soon
Five Acres and Independence First
Maurice Grenville Kains		 Pocket Books1948Paperback Coming soon
Five Run Away Together
Enid Blyton · The Famous Five 3		 Hodder & Stoughton1942Paperback Coming soon
Frenchman's Creek First
Daphne du Maurier		 Penguin Books1941Paperback Coming soon
Gods, Graves, and Scholars First
C. W. Ceram		 Bantam Books1949Paperback Coming soon
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe First
Edgar Allan Poe		 Pocket Books1948Paperback Coming soon
Hag's Nook
John Dickson Carr		 Penguin Books1940Paperback Coming soon
Hiroshima First
John Hersey		 Penguin Books1946Paperback Coming soon
I, the Jury
Mickey Spillane		 New American Library of World Literature1948Paperback Coming soon
Laura First
Vera Caspary		 Popular Library1941Paperback Coming soon
Miss Hickory First
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey		 Puffin1946Paperback Coming soon
My Journey to Lhasa
Alexandra David-Néel		 Penguin Books1940Paperback Coming soon
Mythology
Edith Hamilton		 New American Library1942Paperback Coming soon
The Adventurous Four Again First
Enid Blyton		 Armada Paperbacks1947Paperback Coming soon
The Big Clock
Kenneth Fearing		 Penguin Books1949Paperback Coming soon
The Family from One End Street, and Some of Their Adventures
Eve Garnett		 Puffin1942Paperback Coming soon
The Four Million
O. Henry		 Pan Books1947Paperback Coming soon
The Horizontal Man
Helen Eustis		 Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton1949Paperback Coming soon
The Nutmeg Tree
Margery Sharp		 Pan Books1947Paperback Coming soon
The Theban Plays First
Sophocles		 Penguin Books1947Paperback Coming soon
The Valley of Adventure First
Enid Blyton · The Adventure Series 		Armada1947Paperback Coming soon
They Speak with Other Tongues First
John Sherrill		 Pyramid Books1946Paperback Coming soon
Those Dreadful Children First
Enid Blyton		 Armada1949Paperback Coming soon
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories First
Agatha Christie		 Dell1948Paperback Coming soon
Verdict of Twelve
Raymond Postgate		 Penguin Books in Association with Michael Joseph1949Paperback Coming soon
What Happened in History First
Vere Gordon Childe		 Penguin Books1942Paperback Coming soon

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