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BookPublisherYearBindingISBNValue
The Pilgrim's Regress First
C. S. Lewis		 Dent1933Hardback
The Rescue First
Joseph Conrad		 Dent1920Hardback Sold £220, Jun 2023
17 Kings and 42 Elephants First
Margaret Mahy		 Dent1972Hardback 9780460058582
Ballet Shoes First
Noel Streatfeild		 Dent1936Hardback
Collected Poems, 1934-1952 First
Dylan Thomas		 Dent1952Hardback
The Shockwave Rider First
John Brunner		 Dent1975Hardback 9780460042376
There's an Alligator Under My Bed First
Mercer Mayer		 Dent1987Hardback 9780460062657
Arthurian Romances First
Chrétien de Troyes		 Dent1913Hardback
I, Houdini First
Lynne Reid Banks		 Dent1978Hardback 9780460068734
Poor Stainless First
Mary Norton · The Borrowers 		Dent1971Hardback 9780460058162
Practical Mysticism First
Evelyn Underhill		 Dent1914Hardback
The Defendant First
G. K. Chesterton		 Dent1901Hardback
The Great White Man-Eating Shark First
Margaret Mahy		 Dent1989Hardback 9780460070386
The Ramayana First
Manmatha Nath Dutt, Ramesh Menon, Valmiki		 Dent1961Hardback
The Witch in the Cherry Tree First
Margaret Mahy		 Dent1974Hardback 9780460058841
Twenty-Five Nudes First
Eric Gill		 Dent1938Hardback
A Lion in the Meadow First
Margaret Mahy		 Dent1969Hardback 9780460057813
Far Away and Long Ago First
William Henry Hudson		 Dent1918Hardback
Modes and Manners First
Max von Boehn		 Dent1929Hardback
Return of the Indian First
Lynne Reid Banks · The Indian in the Cupboard 2		 Dent1986Hardback 9780460062398
The Borrowers First
Mary Norton · The Borrowers 1		 Dent1952Hardback
The Borrowers Afield First
Mary Norton · The Borrowers 2		 Dent1955Hardback
The Borrowers Aloft First
Mary Norton · The Borrowers 4		 Dent1961Hardback
The Indian in the Cupboard First
Lynne Reid Banks · The Indian in the Cupboard 1		 Dent1980Hardback 9780460069922
The Shadow-Line First
Joseph Conrad		 Dent1917Hardback
The Social Contract and Discourses First
Jean-Jacques Rousseau		 Dent1920Hardback
Are All the Giants Dead? First
Mary Norton		 Dent1975Hardback 9780460066716
Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies First
James Scarth Gale, Pang Im, Yuk Yi		 Dent1913Hardback
The Fairy Rebel First
Lynne Reid Banks		 Dent1985Hardback 9780460061780
Conversations with Goethe First
Johann Peter Eckermann		 Dent1930Hardback
Music in Transition First
Jim Samson		 Dent1977Hardback 9780460042451
The Moonlight Man
Paula Fox		 Dent1986Hardback 9780460062435
A Harlot's Progress
Honoré de Balzac · The Human Comedy 		Dent1896Hardback
At the Sign of the Cat and the Racket
Honoré de Balzac · Scenes from Private Life 		Dent1908Hardback
One Monster After Another
Mercer Mayer		 Dent1976Hardback 9780460067348
One-Eyed Cat
Paula Fox		 Dent1985Hardback 9780460061865