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Book	Publisher	Year	Binding	Value
Mythology First Edith Hamilton	Little, Brown	1942	Hardback
Mythology Edith Hamilton	New American Library	1942	Paperback
N or M? First Agatha Christie	Dodd, Mead	1941	Hardback
N or M? Agatha Christie¶ Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 7s. 6d. net	Collins	1941	Hardback	£600 to £950 Sold £178, Sep 2026
Nada First Carmen Laforet	Ediciones Destino	1945	Hardback
Native Son First Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated	Harper & Brothers	1940	Hardback
Native Son Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated	Gollancz	1940	Hardback
Navaho Witchcraft First Clyde Kluckhohn	Peabody Museum	1944	Hardback
Networks, Lines, and Fields First John Douglas Ryder	Prentice-Hall	1949	Hardback
Never Come Morning First Nelson Algren	Harper & Brothers	1942	Hardback
Nightfall First David Goodis	J. Messner	1947	Hardback
Nightmare Alley First William Lindsay Gresham	Rinehart	1946	Hardback
Nine Stories First J. D. Salinger	New American Library	1948	Hardback
Nineteen Eighty-Four First George Orwell¶ Jacket: Red or green background; both were issued with the first impression	Secker & Warburg	1949	Hardback	£405 to £4,000 Sold £650, Sep 2026
No Exit First Jean-Paul Sartre	Knopf	1947	Hardback
No Highway First Nevil Shute	Heinemann	1948	Hardback	Sold £130, Feb 2023
No Longer Human First Osamu Dazai	Chikuma Shobō	1948	Other
No Man Knows My History First Fawn M. Brodie	Knopf	1945	Hardback
Noddy Goes to Toyland First Enid Blyton · Noddy	Sampson Low, Marston	1949	Hardback
Non-Euclidean Geometry Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter	University of Toronto Press	1942	Hardback
Non-Euclidean Geometry Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter	University of Toronto Press	1947	Hardback
Not Quite Dead Enough First Rex Stout · Nero Wolfe	Farrar & Rinehart	1944	Hardback
Nothing Can Rescue Me First Elizabeth Daly	Farrar & Rinehart	1943	Hardback
Nothing Can Rescue Me Elizabeth Daly	Hammond, Hammond	1946	Hardback
A. B. C. Of Anarchism Alexander Berkman	Freedom Press	1942	Hardback
The Magic of Numbers Eric Temple Bell	McGraw-Hill	1946	Hardback
Nuremberg Diary First G. M. Gilbert	Farrar, Straus	1947	Hardback
O, the Brave Music First Dorothy Evelyn Smith	Andrew Dakers	1943	Hardback
Two-in-one First John Steinbeck	Reprint Society	1947	Hardback
Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row John Steinbeck	Penguin Books	1949	Hardback
Old New Land (Altneuland) Theodor Herzl	Bloch publishing co	1941	Hardback
Oliver Wiswell First Kenneth Roberts	Doubleday, Doran & company	1940	Hardback
Olivia Dorothy Bussy	Sloane	1949	Hardback
Olivia First Dorothy Bussy	Hogarth Press	1949	Hardback	Sold £110, Jun 2023
On Tyranny, an Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero First Leo Strauss	Political Science Classics	1948	Hardback
One Man's Meat First E. B. White	Harper & Brothers	1942	Hardback