| 1952 | |
|---|---|
| Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
| James Hilton | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1953 |
| Franz Kafka | Das Schloss |
| Franz Kafka | Der Prozess |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes |
| Micky Spillane | The Big Kill |
| Micky Spillane | Vengeance is Mine | 1954 |
| Agatha Christie | A Pocketful of Rye |
| Eric Ambler | Journey into Fear |
| Eric Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Vagabond Virgin |
| Ellery Queen | Cat of Many Tales |
| Marjorie Flack | Ask Mr. Bear | 1955 |
| Erich Maria Remarque | Im Westen Nichts Neues |
| Erich Maria Remarque | Arc de Triomphe |
| Norman Mailer | The Deer Park |
| Georges Simenon | La Neige etait Sale |
| John Steinbeck | East of Eden |
| William Irish | Phantom Lady |
| Pamela Lyndon Travers | Mary Poppins |
| Virginia Lee Burton | The Little House | 1956 |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Ross Macdonald | Find a Victim |
| Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep |
| A.A. Milne | Winne the Pooh |
| Francoise Seignobosc | Jeanne-Marie counts her Sheep and Spring Time for Jeanne-Marie | 1957 |
| Agatha Christie | Death on the Nile |
| Agatha Christie | Taken at the Flood |
| Freeman Wills Crofts | Death of a Train |
| Georges Simenon | Maigret et L'Inspecteur Malgraieux |
| Ian Fleming | Live and Let Die |
| Roald Dahl | Someone Like You |
| Andrew Garve | No Tears for Hilda |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie |
| Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 |
| L.M. Montgomery | Anne of Windy Willows |
| Raymond Chandler | the Long Goodbye |
| William Irish | I Married a Dead Man |
| Ross Macdonald | The Moving Target |
| Erich Fromm | Escape from Freedom |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Ten Novels and their Authors | 1959 |
| Boris Pasternak | Il Dottor Zivago |
| Andrew Garve | A Press of Suspects |
| William Irish | Strangler's Serenade |
| Raymond Chandler | Playback |
| Raymond Chandler | The Lady in the Lake |
| Erich Fromm | The Art of Loving |
| Isaac Asimov | The Caves of Steel |
| Ed McBain | Cop Hater |
| Graham Green | The End of the Affair e |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
| Jack Kerouac | On the Road |
Major titles in the agency's history
This is a list of some of the books whose rights we have handled in the fifty some years of our history. In order to compile the list, we have queried our database for those works which have sold over a certain number of copies in Japan, and used the list generated by this query as a starting point.
However, the importance of a book surely does not rest on sales figures alone, and we have also elected to include a number of titles here which were not originally in the computer generated list.
A different criteria for inclusion has been applied to certain exceptional authors such as Agatha Christie, and for illustrated works, and works honored by literary awards. With regard to continuing series of books such as Anne of Green Gables, Tales of Peter Rabbit, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Moomin, James Bond, Elmer, Tales of Narnia, Doctor Dolittle, Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot, and Darren Shan, we have included here only the representative early works of each series.