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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
Story of a Secret State First
Jan Karski		 Houghton Mifflin1944Hardback
Story of a Secret State
Jan Karski		 Hodder & Stoughton1945Hardback
Strait Is the Gate
André Gide		 Secker & Warburg1948Hardback
Strange Fruit First
Lillian Smith		 Reynal & Hitchcock1944Hardback
Strange Fruit
Lillian Smith		 Cresset Press1945Hardback
Strawberry Girl First
Lois Lenski		 Lippincott1945Hardback
Street Corner Society First
William Foote Whyte		 University of Chicago Press1943Hardback
Structural Geology First
Marland Pratt Billings		 Prentice-Hall1942Hardback
Stuart Little First
E. B. White		 Harper & Row1945Hardback Sold £43, Sep 2026
Stuart Little
E. B. White		 Harper & Brothers1945Hardback
Sudden Outlawed First
Oliver Strange		 George Newnes1946Hardback
Sumerian Mythology First
Samuel Noah Kramer		 American Philosophical Society1944Hardback
Summer Term at St. Clare's First
Enid Blyton · St. Clare's 		Methuen1943Hardback
Summer and Smoke First
Tennessee Williams		 New Directions1948Hardback
Superman First
George Francis Lowther		 Random House1942Hardback
Surprise Island First
Gertrude Chandler Warner		 Scott, Foresman1949Hardback
Survival in Auschwitz First
Primo Levi		 Francesco De Silva1947Other
Dead and Dumb First
Edmund Crispin		 Lippincott1947Hardback
Swastika Night
Katharine Burdekin		 Gollancz1940Hardback
Synthetic Men of Mars First
Edgar Rice Burroughs · Barsoom 		E. R. Burroughs1940Hardback
Systematic Theology First
Louis Berkhof		 Eerdmans1941Hardback
There Is a Tide ...
Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 23		 Collins1948Hardback
Taken at the Flood First
Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 23		 Dodd, Mead and Company1948Hardback
Taken at the Flood
Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 23		 Collins (The Crime Club)1948Hardback £270 to £380
Sold £440, Sep 2026
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural First
Arthur Machen		 Knopf1948Hardback
Tales of the South Pacific First
James A. Michener		 Macmillan1947Hardback Sold £51, Oct 2026
Tank Engine Thomas Again First
Wilbert Awdry · The Railway Series 4		 Ward1949Hardback
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald		 Grey Walls Press1948Hardback
Tetrabiblos
Ptolemy		 Heinemann1940Hardback
That Hideous Strength First
C. S. Lewis · The Space Trilogy 3		 Bodley Head1945Hardback
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Dr. Seuss		 Oxford University Press1940Hardback
The Abolition of Man; Or, Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools First
C. S. Lewis		 Oxford University Press1943Hardback Sold £100, Dec 2025
The Absolute at Large
Karel Čapek		 W.H. Allen1944Hardback
The Absorbent Mind First
Maria Montessori		 Theosophical Pub. House1949Hardback
The Advanced Theory of Statistics First
Maurice Kendall, Maurice Kendall, J. Keith Ord, Alan Stuart		 C. Griffin1943Hardback
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 7		 Baker Street Irregulars1948Hardback