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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
The Adventurous Four Again First
Enid Blyton		 Armada Paperbacks1947Paperback
The Age of Anxiety First
W. H. Auden		 Random House1947Hardback
The Age of Anxiety
W. H. Auden		 Faber & Faber1948Hardback
The Age of Reason First
Jean-Paul Sartre · The Roads to Freedom 1		 Gallimard1945Other
The Age of Reason
Jean-Paul Sartre · The Roads to Freedom 1		 Modern Library1947Hardback
The Age of Reason
Jean-Paul Sartre · The Roads to Freedom 1		 Hamish Hamilton1947Hardback
The Age of Reason
Jean-Paul Sartre · The Roads to Freedom 1		 Knopf1947Hardback
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller		 New Directions1945Hardback
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller		 Secker & Warburg1945Hardback
The Art of Color and Design First
Maitland Graves, Maitland E. Graves		 McGraw-Hill1941Hardback
The Art of Courtly Love First
Andreas Capellanus		 Columbia University Press1941Hardback
The Art of Dramatic Writing First
Lajos Egri		 Simon & Schuster1942Hardback
The Art of Seeing First
Aldous Huxley		 Harper1942Hardback
The Art of Seeing
Aldous Huxley		 Chatto & Windus1943Hardback
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques First
Ralph Mayer		 Viking1940Hardback
The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl First
Reşat Nuri Güntekin		 Allen & Unwin1949Hardback
The Bayonet First
United States Army		 Ledger-Enquirer Co1942Hardback
The Berlin Stories First
Christopher Isherwood		 J. Laughlin1945Hardback
The Best Christmas First
Lee Kingman		 Doubleday1949Hardback
The Big Clock First
Kenneth Fearing		 Harcourt, Brace1946Hardback
The Big Clock
Kenneth Fearing		 Penguin Books1949Paperback
The Big Rock Candy Mountain First
Wallace Stegner		 Duell, Sloan & Pearce1943Hardback
The Big Sea First
Langston Hughes		 Knopf1940Hardback
The Big Sky First
A. B. Guthrie Jr.		 William Sloane Associates1947Hardback
The Big Sky
A. B. Guthrie Jr.		 T.V. Boardman1947Hardback
The Big Snow First
Berta Hader		 Macmillan1948Hardback
The Big Wave First
Pearl S. Buck		 John Day1947Hardback
The Bird in the Tree First
Elizabeth Goudge		 Duckworth1940Hardback
The Black Stallion First
Walter Farley		 Random House1941Hardback
The Black Stallion Returns First
Walter Farley		 Random House1945Hardback
The Blood of Others
Simone de Beauvoir		 Secker & Warburg1948Hardback
The Body in the Library First
Agatha Christie · Miss Marple 2		 Dodd, Mead1942Hardback
The Book of Thoth First
Aleister Crowley		 Ordo Templi Orientis1944Hardback
The Bottle Imp
Robert Louis Stevenson		 Paravia1949Hardback
The Traveling Musicians First
Brothers Grimm		 Harcourt, Brace & World1944Hardback
The Bride Wore Black First
Cornell Woolrich		 Simon & Schuster1940Hardback