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Book	Publisher	Year	Binding	Value
The King's General First Daphne du Maurier	Gollancz	1946	Hardback
The King's Stilts Dr. Seuss	Hamish Hamilton	1942	Hardback
The Labors of Hercules, New Adventures in Crime Agatha Christie	Collins	1947	Hardback
The Labours of Hercules First Agatha Christie	Dodd, Mead and Company	1947	Hardback
The Labours of Hercules Agatha Christie	Collins Crime Club	1947	Hardback	Sold £550, Sep 2026
The Lady in the Lake First Raymond Chandler	Knopf	1943	Hardback	Sold £140, May 2024
The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler¶ Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 8s. 6d. net	Hamish Hamilton	1944	Hardback	Sold £500, Mar 2025
The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler	Hamish Hamilton	1949	Hardback
The Last Days of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper	Macmillan	1947	Hardback
The Last Days of Hitler First Hugh Trevor-Roper	Macmillan & Co.	1947	Hardback
The Last Tycoon First F. Scott Fitzgerald	Scribner	1941	Hardback
The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald	Grey Walls Press	1949	Hardback
The Law Frédéric Bastiat	Pamphleteers	1944	Hardback
The Law of Contract First Geoffrey Cheshire	Butterworths	1946	Hardback
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr	Harper	1949	Hardback
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle First John Dickson Carr	Murray	1949	Hardback
The Lion and the Unicorn First George Orwell	Secker & Warburg	1941	Hardback	Sold £90, Aug 2026
The Little Fire Engine First Lois Lenski	Oxford University Press	1946	Hardback
The Little Fire Engine Lois Lenski	O.U.P	1947	Hardback
The Little House First Virginia Lee Burton	Houghton Mifflin	1942	Hardback
The Little House Virginia Lee Burton	Faber & Faber	1946	Hardback
The Little Island First Margaret Wise Brown	Doubleday	1946	Hardback
The Little Match Girl Hans Christian Andersen, Bill Bowler	Grosset & Dunlap	1944	Hardback
The Little Prince First Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	Harcourt, Brace & World	1943	Hardback
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge First Hildegarde Hoyt Swift	Harcourt, Brace	1942	Hardback
The Little Sister Raymond Chandler	Houghton Mifflin	1949	Hardback
The Little Sister Raymond Chandler	Hamish Hamilton	1949	Hardback
The Little Train Lois Lenski	Henry Z. Walck	1940	Hardback
The Little Train Lois Lenski	Oxford University Press	1940	Hardback
The Little White Horse First Elizabeth Goudge	University of London Press	1946	Hardback
The Living and the Dead First Patrick White	Viking Press	1941	Hardback
The Long Ships First Frans G. Bengtsson	Norstedt	1941	Other
Red Orm Frans G. Bengtsson	Scribner	1943	Hardback
The Long Winter First Laura Ingalls Wilder · Little House on the Prairie 6	Harper	1940	Hardback
The Loom of Language First Frederick Bodmer	Allen & Unwin	1943	Hardback
The Lost Weekend First Charles R. Jackson	Farrar & Rinehart	1944	Hardback