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Book	Publisher	Year	Binding	Value
The Rockingdown Mystery First Enid Blyton	Collins	1949	Hardback	Sold £21, Aug 2026
The Rooster Crows First Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham	Macmillan	1945	Hardback
The Rose and the Yew Tree First Agatha Christie	Rinehart	1948	Hardback
The Royal Road to Card Magic First Jean Hugard	Faber & Faber	1949	Hardback
The Runaway Bunny First Margaret Wise Brown	Harper & Brothers	1942	Hardback
The Saggy Baggy Elephant First Byron Jackson, Kathryn Jackson	Simon & Schuster	1947	Hardback
The Saint in New York Leslie Charteris · The Saint	Hodder & Stoughton	1941	Hardback
The Saturdays First Elizabeth Enright	Farrar & Rinehart	1941	Hardback
The School for Wives First Molière	Hodges, Figgis	1948	Hardback
The Screwtape Letters First C. S. Lewis	Geoffrey Bles	1942	Hardback	Sold £899, Aug 2026
The Sea of Adventure Enid Blyton	Macmillan	1948	Hardback	Sold £21, Sep 2026
The Second Confession First Rex Stout · Nero Wolfe	Viking	1949	Hardback
The Second Sex First Simone de Beauvoir	Gallimard	1949	Hardback
The Second World War Winston Churchill¶ Volume I, preliminaries and p. 610: a separate Author's Note is tipped or bound in among the preliminaries, directing the rea…	Cassell	1948	Hardback	Sold £50, Oct 2026
The Second World War First Winston Churchill	Houghton Mifflin	1948	Hardback
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali First Salvador Dalí	Dial Press	1942	Hardback
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali Salvador Dalí	Vision	1948	Hardback
The Secret Panel First Franklin W. Dixon · The Hardy Boys 25	Grosset & Dunlap	1946	Hardback
The Secret Seven First Enid Blyton	Brockhampton Press	1949	Other	Sold £53, Sep 2026
The Secret Valley First Clyde Robert Bulla	Crowell	1949	Hardback
The Secret in the Old Attic First Carolyn Keene · Nancy Drew Mystery Stories	Grosset & Dunlap	1944	Hardback
The Secret of Chimneys Agatha Christie	John Lane The Bodley Head	1941	Hardback
The Secret of Skull Mountain First Franklin W. Dixon · The Hardy Boys 27	Grosset & Dunlap	1948	Hardback
The Secret of Spiggy Holes First Enid Blyton	Basil Blackwell	1949	Hardback
The Secret of the Golden Flower Dongbin Lü, Richard Wilhelm	K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co	1945	Hardback
The Setting Sun First Osamu Dazai	Shinchosha	1947	Other
The Seven Storey Mountain First Thomas Merton	Harcourt, Brace	1948	Hardback
The Sexual Revolution Wilhelm Reich	Orgone Institute Press	1945	Hardback
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles	New Directions	1949	Hardback
The Sheltering Sky First Paul Bowles	John Lehmann	1949	Hardback	Sold £550, Jan 2023
The Short-Wave Mystery First Franklin W. Dixon · The Hardy Boys 24	Grosset & Dunlap	1945	Hardback
The Show of Violence Fredric Wertham	Doubleday	1949	Hardback
The Show of Violence Fredric Wertham	Gollancz	1949	Hardback
The Sickness Unto Death Søren Kierkegaard	Princeton University Press	1941	Hardback
The Sickness Unto Death Søren Kierkegaard	Oxford University Press, H. Milford	1941	Hardback
The Sign of the Crooked Arrow First Franklin W. Dixon · The Hardy Boys 28	Grosset & Dunlap	1949	Hardback