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Book	Publisher	Year	Binding	Value
Odd John First Olaf Stapledon	Methuen & Co. London, 36 Essex Street Strand W.C.2	1935	Hardback
Of Mice and Men First John Steinbeck¶ Page 9, near the foot: sentence about the hands ends with the word "pendula"	Covici-Friede	1937	Hardback
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	Heinemann	1937	Hardback	Sold £45, Sep 2026
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats First T. S. Eliot¶ Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 3s. 6d. net	Faber & Faber	1939	Hardback	Sold £550, Jan 2026
On the Banks of Plum Creek First Laura Ingalls Wilder · Little House on the Prairie 4	Harper & Brothers	1937	Hardback	Sold £161, Aug 2026
On the Soul First Aristotle	Harvard University Press	1935	Hardback
One Pair of Hands First Monica Dickens	Joseph	1939	Hardback
Only Yesterday First Frederick Lewis Allen	Harper	1931	Hardback
Only Yesterday Frederick Lewis Allen	Penguin Books	1938	Paperback
Operas and Plays First Gertrude Stein	Plain Edition	1932	Hardback
Opium First Jean Cocteau	Longmans, Green	1932	Hardback
Our Oriental Heritage First Will Durant	Simon & Schuster	1935	Hardback
Our Town First Thornton Wilder	Coward-McCann	1938	Hardback	Sold £262, Sep 2026
Out of Africa First Isak Dinesen	G.P. Putnam's Sons	1937	Hardback
Out of My Life and Thought First Albert Schweitzer	H. Holt	1933	Hardback
Out of the Silent Planet First C. S. Lewis · The Space Trilogy 1¶ Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 7s. 6d.	Bodley Head	1938	Hardback	Sold £2,500, Oct 2026
Outrageous Fortune First Patricia Wentworth	Lippincott	1933	Hardback
Overture to Death Ngaio Marsh · Roderick Alleyn	L. Furman	1939	Hardback
Overture to Death Ngaio Marsh · Roderick Alleyn	Pub. for the Crime club by Collins	1939	Hardback
P. G. Wodehouse First P. G. Wodehouse	Methuen	1934	Hardback
Pablo Picasso First William S. Lieberman	Cahiers d'art	1932	Hardback
Painting As a Pastime Winston Churchill	cornerstone library	1932	Hardback
Pale Horse, Pale Rider First Katherine Anne Porter	Harcourt, Brace	1939	Hardback
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective First Agatha Christie	Dell	1933	Hardback
Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie	Collins	1936	Hardback
Password to Larkspur Lane First Carolyn Keene	Grosset & Dunlap	1933	Hardback
Pat of Silver Bush First Lucy Maud Montgomery	Grosset & Dunlap	1933	Hardback
Patterns of Culture First Ruth Benedict	Houghton Mifflin	1934	Hardback
Patterns of Culture Ruth Benedict	Routledge	1935	Hardback
Pepita First Vita Sackville-West	L. and Virginia Woolf	1937	Hardback
Peril at End House Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 6	Berkley	1932	Hardback
Peril at End House First Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 6	Dodd, Mead and Company	1932	Hardback	Sold £25, Sep 2026
Peril at End House Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 6	Collins (The Crime Club)	1932	Hardback
Personality Gordon Allport	H. Holt	1937	Hardback
Personality Gordon Allport	Constable	1937	Hardback
Peter in Blueberry Land Elsa Beskow	Harper & Brothers	1931	Hardback