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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
Uncle Fred in the Springtime First
P. G. Wodehouse · Blandings Castle
H. Jenkins1939Hardback
Uncle Tom's Children, Five Long Stories First
Richard Wright
Harper1938Hardback
Background to Danger First
Eric Ambler
Knopf1937Hardback
Uncommon Law First
A. P. Herbert
Methuen1935Hardback
Understanding Poetry First
Cleanth Brooks
H. Holt1938Hardback
Unfinished Portrait First
Agatha Christie
Doubleday, Doran & Company1934Hardback Sold £1,200, Jun 2025
Unterm Rad
Hermann Hesse
Fischer1930Hardback
The Prodigy
Hermann Hesse
Owen1937Hardback
Untouchable First
Mulk Raj Anand
Kutub-Popular1933Hardback
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
Wishart Books1935Hardback
Very Good, Jeeves First
P. G. Wodehouse
Herbert Jenkins1930Hardback
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh
J. Cape, H. Smith1930Hardback
Vile Bodies First
Evelyn Waugh¶ Dust jacket, rear panel: the list of the publisher's books ends with 'Second Choice' by Jeffery E. Jeffery
Chapman and Hall1930Hardback Sold £136, Aug 2026
Vintage Murder First
Ngaio Marsh · Roderick Alleyn
G. Bles1937Hardback Sold £65, Sep 2026
Vipers' Tangle First
François Mauriac
Gollancz1933Hardback
Voyage in the Dark First
Jean Rhys
Constable1934Hardback Sold £550, Jan 2023
W.H. Auden First
W. H. Auden
Random House1934Hardback
Selected Poems
W. H. Auden
Faber & Faber1938Hardback
Wait Until Spring, Bandini First
John Fante
Stackpole sons1938Hardback
War Is a Racket First
Smedley Butler
Round table press1935Hardback
War in Heaven First
Charles Williams
Gollancz1930Hardback
War with the Newts First
Karel Čapek
Fr. Borový1936Other Sold £260, Dec 2021
War with the Newts
Karel Čapek
G.P. Putnam's Sons1937Hardback
War with the Newts
Karel Čapek
Allen & Unwin1937Hardback Sold £2,400, May 2026
Water Margin First
J. H. Jackson, Shi Nai'an
The Commercial press1937Hardback
Waterless Mountain First
Laura Adams Armer
Longmans, Green1931Hardback
Wayward Youth First
August Aichhorn
Viking1935Hardback
Wayward Youth
August Aichhorn
G.P. Putnam's Sons1936Hardback
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea First
Arthur Ransome · Swallows and Amazons series
Jonathan Cape1937Hardback
We the Living First
Ayn Rand
Macmillan1936Hardback
We the Living
Ayn Rand
Cassell1937Hardback
The Week-End Wodehouse First
P. G. Wodehouse
Doubleday, Doran & company1939Hardback
Wet Magic
Edith Nesbit
Coward-McCann1937Hardback
What Happened at Midnight First
Franklin W. Dixon · The Hardy Boys 10
Grosset & Dunlap1931Hardback
What Happens in Hamlet First
J. Dover Wilson, J. Dover Wilson
Cambridge University Press1935Hardback
What Is Surrealism? First
André Breton
Faber & Faber1936Hardback