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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
The Folk of the Faraway Tree First
Enid Blyton · The Faraway Tree 		George Newnes1946Other
The Foundling
Georgette Heyer		 G.P. Putnam's Sons1948Hardback
The Foundling First
Georgette Heyer		 Heinemann1948Hardback
The Fountainhead First
Ayn Rand		 Bobbs-Merrill1943Hardback Sold £360, Sep 2024
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand		 Cassell1947Hardback Sold £500, Feb 2022
The Four Graces First
D. E. Stevenson		 Rinehart & Company, incorporated1946Hardback
The Four Million
O. Henry		 Pan Books1947Paperback
The Four-Story Mistake First
Elizabeth Enright		 Farrar & Rinehart1942Hardback
The Franchise Affair First
Josephine Tey		 Peter Davies1948Hardback Sold £500, May 2024
The Friendly Persuasion First
Jessamyn West		 Harcourt, Brace1945Hardback
The Friendly Young Ladies First
Mary Renault		 Longmans, Green1944Hardback
The Function of the Orgasm First
Wilhelm Reich		 Orgone Institute Press1948Hardback
The Second World War First
Winston Churchill		 Cassell1948Hardback
The Geography of the Peace First
Nicholas John Spykman		 Harcourt, Brace1944Hardback
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir First
R. A. Dick		 Ziff-Davis Press1945Hardback
The Glass Menagerie First
Tennessee Williams		 Random House1945Hardback
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams		 John Lehmann1948Hardback
The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943 First
Joseph Goebbels		 Doubleday1948Hardback
The Golden Apples First
Eudora Welty		 Harcourt, Brace1947Hardback
The Golden Egg Book First
Margaret Wise Brown		 Simon & Schuster1947Hardback
The Golden Hawk
Frank Yerby		 Dial Press1948Hardback
The Golden Hawk First
Frank Yerby		 Mayflower1948Paperback
The Great Divorce First
C. S. Lewis		 G. Bles1945Hardback Sold £47, Oct 2026
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald		 Grey Walls Press1948Hardback
The Great Mistake First
Mary Roberts Rinehart		 Farrar & Rinehart1940Hardback
The Great Transformation First
Karl Polanyi		 Farrar & Rinehart1944Hardback
Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi		 Gollancz1945Hardback
The Gremlins First
Roald Dahl		 Random House1943Other Sold £149, Oct 2026
The Gremlins
Roald Dahl		 Collins1944Other Sold £320, Dec 2021
The Hamlet
William Faulkner · Snopes trilogy 		Random House1940Hardback
The Hamlet
William Faulkner · Snopes trilogy 		Chatto & Windus1940Hardback Sold £110, Sep 2024
The Haunting of Toby Jug First
Dennis Wheatley		 Hutchinson1948Hardback
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter First
Carson McCullers		 Houghton Mifflin1940Hardback Sold £1,300, Jul 2021
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers		 Cresset Press1943Hardback
The Heart of the Matter First
Graham Greene		 Heinemann1948Hardback Sold £260, Dec 2025
The Heat of the Day First
Elizabeth Bowen		 Jonathan Cape1949Hardback