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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
The Moon Is Down
John Steinbeck		 Heinemann1942Hardback
The Moon Is Down First
John Steinbeck		 Viking1942Hardback Sold £45, Oct 2026
The Mountain of Adventure First
Enid Blyton		 Macmillan1949Hardback Sold £80, Jul 2022
The Moving Finger First
Agatha Christie · Miss Marple 3		 Dodd, Mead1942Hardback
The Moving Toyshop First
Edmund Crispin		 Gollancz1946Hardback Sold £300, Nov 2020
The Mysterious Rider
Zane Grey		 Hodder & Stoughton1941Hardback
The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion First
Carolyn Keene		 Grosset & Dunlap1941Hardback
The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage First
Enid Blyton		 Egmont Books, 20141949Hardback
The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk First
Carolyn Keene · Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 		Grosset & Dunlap1940Hardback
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage First
Enid Blyton · The Five Find-Outers 1¶ Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 5s. net		 Methuen1943Hardback
The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat First
Enid Blyton · The Five Find-Outers 2		 Methuen & Co.1944Hardback
The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat
Enid Blyton · The Five Find-Outers 2		 W.L. McNaughton1948Hardback
The Mystery of the Flying Express First
Franklin W. Dixon · The Hardy Boys 20		 Grosset & Dunlap1941Hardback
The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat First
Enid Blyton		 Methuen1949Hardback
The Mystery of the Secret Room First
Enid Blyton		 Methuen1945Hardback
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters First
Enid Blyton		 Methuen1949Hardback
The Mystery of the Tolling Bell First
Carolyn Keene		 Grosset & Dunlap1946Hardback
The Myth of Sisyphus First
Albert Camus · The strange writer 2		 Gallimard1942Other
Le Mythe D'e Ternel Retour First
Mircea Eliade		 Gallimard1949Hardback
The Myth of the Negro Past First
Melville J. Herskovitz		 London1941Hardback
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer		 Rinehart1948Hardback
The Naked and the Dead First
Norman Mailer		 New American Library1948Hardback Sold £200, Sep 2024
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer		 Collector's Book Club1949Hardback
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer		 Wingate1949Hardback
The Nature and Destiny of Man
Reinhold Niebuhr		 Scribner1941Hardback
The Nature and Destiny of Man
Reinhold Niebuhr		 Nisbet1941Hardback
The Naughtiest Girl Again First
Enid Blyton · The Naughtiest Girl 		George Newness1942Hardback
The Necessity of Atheism
Percy Bysshe Shelley		 Alicat Book Shop1946Hardback
L' Enracinement First
Simone Weil		 Gallimard1949Hardback
The Negative First
Ansel Adams		 New York Graphic Society1948Hardback
The Norths Meet Murder First
Frances Louise Lockridge, Richard Lockridge		 Frederick A. Stokes Company1940Hardback
The Nuer First
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard		 At the Clarendon Press1940Hardback
The Nutmeg Tree
Margery Sharp		 Pan Books1947Paperback
The O'Sullivan Twins First
Enid Blyton · St. Clare's 		Methuen1942Hardback
The Open Society and Its Enemies First
Karl Popper		 Routledge1945Hardback Sold £1,600, Sep 2016
The Oregon Trail
Francis Parkman		 Oxford University Press1944Hardback