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22 cells in Nuremberg
Douglas McGlashan Kelley		 Greenberg1947Hardback Coming soon
22 cells in Nuremberg First
Douglas McGlashan Kelley		 W.H. Allen1947Hardback Coming soon
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary First
Wilfred J. Funk		 W. Funk1942Hardback Coming soon
A Bell for Adano
John Hersey		 Knopf1944Hardback Coming soon
A Bell for Adano First
John Hersey		 Franklin Watts1944Hardback Coming soon
A Child's Good Night Book First
Margaret Wise Brown		 W. R. Scott1943Hardback Coming soon
A Duel of Hearts First
Barbara Cartland		 Rich & Cowan1949Hardback Coming soon
A Girl in Winter First
Philip Larkin		 Faber & Faber1947Hardback Coming soon
A Girl to Come Home to First
Grace Livingston Hill		 J.B. Lippencott Co1945Hardback Coming soon
A Guide to Confident Living First
Norman Vincent Peale		 Prentice-Hall1948Hardback Coming soon
A Guide to Confident Living
Norman Vincent Peale		 World's Work1949Hardback Coming soon
A Guide to Historical Method First
Gilbert J. Garraghan		 Fordham University Press1946Hardback Coming soon
A Handweaver's Pattern Book First
Marguerite Porter Davison		 Printed by Schlechter's1944Hardback Coming soon
A Haunted House, and Other Short Stories First
Virginia Woolf		 Hogarth Press1943Hardback Coming soon
A Hazard of Hearts First
Barbara Cartland		 Rich & Cowan1949Hardback Coming soon
A History of Philosophy First
Frederick Copleston		 Burns Oates & Washbourne1946Hardback Coming soon
A History of Western Philosophy First
Bertrand Russell		 Simon & Schuster1945Hardback Coming soon
A History of the Jews First
Salomon Grayzel		 Jewish Publication Society of America1947Hardback Coming soon
A Kierkegaard Anthology
Søren Kierkegaard		 Oxford University Press1946Hardback Coming soon
A Mathematician's Apology
G.H. Hardy		 University Press1940Hardback Coming soon
A Mathematician's Apology First
G.H. Hardy		 Cambridge University Press1940Hardback Coming soon
A Mencken Chrestomathy
H. L. Mencken		 Knopf1949Hardback Coming soon
A Mencken Chrestomathy First
H. L. Mencken		 Knopf1949Hardback Coming soon
A Pocket History of the United States First
Henry Steele Commager, Allan Nevins		 Clarendon Press1942Hardback Coming soon
A Pocket History of the United States
Henry Steele Commager, Allan Nevins		 Overseas Editions1942Hardback Coming soon
A Potter's Book First
Bernard Leach		 Faber & Faber1940Hardback Coming soon
A Pussycat's Christmas First
Margaret Wise Brown		 Crowell1949Hardback Coming soon
A Russian Journal First
John Steinbeck		 Viking1948Hardback Coming soon
A Russian Journal
John Steinbeck		 Heinemann1949Hardback Coming soon
A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud		 Lehmann1949Hardback Coming soon
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake First
Joseph Campbell		 Harcourt, Brace1944Hardback Coming soon
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Joseph Campbell		 Faber & Faber1947Hardback Coming soon
A Streetcar Named Desire First
Tennessee Williams		 New Directions1947Hardback Coming soon
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams		 John Lehmann1949Hardback Coming soon
A Survey of Indian History
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar		 National Information & Publications1947Hardback Coming soon
A Survey of Indian History First
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar		 Meridian Books1947Hardback Coming soon