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Book	Publisher	Year	Binding	Value
Ego, Hunger, and Aggression Fritz Perls	Allen & Unwin	1947	Hardback
Either/or Søren Kierkegaard	Oxford University Press	1944	Hardback
El Señor Presidente First Miguel Ángel Asturias	Editorial Losady	1948	Hardback
Electric Circuits and Machines First Eugene C. Lister	McGraw-Hill	1945	Hardback
Embers First Sándor Márai	Révai	1942	Other
End of a Berlin Diary William L. Shirer	Knopf	1947	Hardback
End of a Berlin Diary William L. Shirer	Hamish Hamilton	1947	Hardback
Engineering Mechanics Stephen Timoshenko	McGraw-Hill	1940	Hardback
Engineering Mechanics First Ferdinand Leon Singer	Harper & Brothers	1943	Hardback
Engineering Sciences Data First Engineering Sciences Data Unit.	Self-published	1944	Hardback
Envious Casca First Georgette Heyer	Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran	1941	Hardback
Escape from Freedom First Erich Fromm	Rinehart	1941	Hardback	Sold £56, Jul 2026
The Fear of Freedom Erich Fromm	Routledge & Kegan Paul	1942	Hardback
Essays Presented to Charles Williams First Dorothy L. Sayers	Oxford Univ. Press	1947	Hardback
Essays on a Science of Mythology First Carl Jung	Pantheon Books	1949	Hardback
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin	Pushkin Press	1943	Hardback
Eve First James Hadley Chase	Jarrolds Publishers (London)	1945	Hardback
Evidence of Things Seen First Elizabeth Daly	Farrar & Rinehart	1943	Hardback
Evidence of Things Seen Elizabeth Daly	Hammond, Hammond	1946	Hardback
Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot 20	Pocket Books	1941	Paperback
Exercices de Style First Raymond Queneau	Gallimard	1947	Hardback
Fair Stood the Wind for France First H. E. Bates	Joseph	1944	Hardback
Faith Is the Answer First Smiley Blanton, Norman Vincent Peale, smiley blanton norman vincent peale	Abingdon-Cokebury Press	1940	Hardback
Farewell, My Lovely First Raymond Chandler	Knopf	1940	Hardback	Sold £1,100, Nov 2024
Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler	Hamish Hamilton	1940	Other	Sold £440, Oct 2022
Farmer Giles of Ham First J. R. R. Tolkien¶ Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 6s. net	Allen & Unwin	1949	Hardback	Sold £700, Jul 2026
Faro's Daughter First Georgette Heyer	Heinemann	1941	Hardback
Federal Government First Kenneth Wheare	Oxford University Press, H. Milford	1946	Hardback
Ficciones First Jorge Luis Borges	Sur	1944	Other
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth Andrew Loomis	Viking	1943	Hardback	Sold £41, Sep 2026
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth Andrew Loomis	Chapman & Halls	1943	Hardback
Film Technique, and Film Acting First Vsevolod Pudovkin	Lear	1949	Hardback
Final Curtain First Ngaio Marsh · Roderick Alleyn	Pub. for the Crime club by Collins	1947	Hardback
[Comments on claim for payment of long distance telephone charges] First United States. General Accounting Office	The Office	1943	Hardback
First Term at Malory Towers First Enid Blyton	Methuen & Co.	1946	Other	Sold £48, Oct 2026
Five Acres and Independence First Maurice Grenville Kains	Pocket Books	1948	Paperback