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| Book | Publisher | Year | Binding | ISBN | Value |
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| Nineteen Eighty-Four First George Orwell¶ Jacket: Red or green background; both were issued with the first impression |
Secker & Warburg | 1949 | Hardback | £405 to £4,000 Sold £650, Sep 2026 |
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| Animal Farm First George Orwell¶ Imprint: Dated May 1945, three months before actual publication |
Secker & Warburg | 1945 | Hardback | Coming soon Sold £7,000, Sep 2026 |
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| Five on a Treasure Island First Enid Blyton¶ Jacket: Pictorial design by Eileen Soper |
Hodder & Stoughton | 1942 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Thomas the Tank Engine First Rev. W. Awdry¶ Illustrations: Drawn by Reginald Payne and uncredited; C. Reginald Dalby's redrawn pictures appear from … |
Edmund Ward | 1946 | Pictorial boards | Coming soon | |
| 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 | Coming soon Sold £700, Jul 2026 |
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| The Children of Willow Farm First Enid Blyton |
Country Life | 1942 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Dark Carnival First Ray Bradbury |
Arkham House | 1947 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Networks, Lines, and Fields First John Douglas Ryder |
Prentice-Hall | 1949 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Perelandra First C. S. Lewis · The Space Trilogy 2 |
Bodley Head | 1943 | Hardback | Coming soon Sold £500, Sep 2026 |
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| Sad Cypress First Agatha Christie · canon of Hercule Poirot |
Collins | 1940 | Hardback | Coming soon Sold £800, Jun 2025 |
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| The Disappearing Floor First Leslie McFarlane · The Hardy Boys |
Grosset & Dunlap | 1940 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| The Inquisitive Harvest Mouse First Noel Barr · Ladybird Series 497: Animal Tales 1 |
Wills & Hepworth | 1949 | Pictorial boards | Coming soon | |
| The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage First Enid Blyton · The Five Find-Outers |
Methuen | 1943 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| The Naughtiest Girl Again First Enid Blyton · The Naughtiest Girl |
George Newness | 1942 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| The O'Sullivan Twins First Enid Blyton · St. Clare's |
Methuen | 1942 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| The Road to Serfdom First Friedrich Hayek |
Routledge | 1944 | Hardback | Coming soon Sold £900, May 2023 |
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| The Sign of the Crooked Arrow First Leslie McFarlane · The Hardy Boys |
Grosset & Dunlap | 1949 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten First Noel Barr · Ladybird Series 497: Animal Tales 2 |
Wills & Hepworth | 1949 | Pictorial boards | Coming soon | |
| A Mathematician's Apology First G.H. Hardy |
Cambridge University Press | 1940 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| All the King's Men First Robert Penn Warren |
Harcourt, Brace | 1946 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists First Fritz Schider |
Dover Publications | 1948 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| An Inspector Calls First J. B. Priestley |
Heinemann | 1947 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Betsy-Tacy and Tib First Maud Hart Lovelace |
Thomas Y. Crowell | 1941 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Discourse on the Origin of Inequality First Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Cambridge University Press | 1941 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Engineering Sciences Data First Engineering Sciences Data Unit. |
Self-published | 1944 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Five Go Off to Camp First Enid Blyton · The Famous Five 7 |
Hodder & Stoughton | 1948 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Five Go to Smuggler's Top First Enid Blyton · The Famous Five 4 |
Hodder & Stoughton | 1945 | Hardback | Coming soon Sold £380, Aug 2023 |
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| Go Down, Moses First William Faulkner |
Random House | 1940 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Guard of Honor First James Gould Cozzens |
Harcourt, Brace | 1948 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Instrumental Methods of Analysis First Hobart Hurd Willard |
Van Nostrand | 1948 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Lest Darkness Fall First L. Sprague de Camp |
H. Holt | 1941 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Listening with the Third Ear First Theodor Reik |
Grove Press | 1948 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Mathematics and the Imagination First Edward Kasner, James R. Newman |
Simon & Schuster | 1940 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic First Betty MacDonald |
Lippincott | 1949 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Nine Stories First J. D. Salinger |
New American Library | 1948 | Hardback | Coming soon | |
| Our Inner Conflicts First Karen Horney |
Norton | 1945 | Hardback | Coming soon |