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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

By: Alexie, Sherman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Harper: 1994

Seller ID: 2287729

ISBN: 0060976241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Faint crease. 1994 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping th...
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Anthony Adverse

By: Allen, Hervey

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket toned. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National Guard serving on the Mexican Border, Hervey...
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Anthony Adverse

By: Allen, Hervey

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Jacket toned, minimal loss from jacket spine head, a few closed 1/2 inch tears along edges. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National ...
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Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Touchstone: 2001

Seller ID: 2292426

ISBN: 0743216458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2001 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 333 pp. A look at the men of E Company describes how they parachuted into France early D-Day morning, parachuted into Holland in the Arnhem campaign, and captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost.
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The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 1998

Seller ID: 2308398

ISBN: 038549081X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Bottom corner of front wrapper lightly creased. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xix, 311 pp. With a new introduction. Now a Hulu Original series. In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, ...
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National Velvet

By: Bagnold, Enid

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1972

Seller ID: 2306604

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Owner bookplate and ink gift note on front endpapers. 1972 Hard Cover. 306, [1] pp. Illustrations by Paul Brown. The story of 14-year-old Velvet, who rides a horse in the steeplechase in the Grand National. Adapted for film in 1944 and 1978 (sequel), and TV in the early 1960s. Ranks among classic horse stories such as Black Beauty and Black Stallion.
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The Little Minister

By: Barrie, J.M. [James Matthew]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, American Publishers Corporation: 1897

Seller ID: 2077493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First thus. An exceptional copy. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 375, [6] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles & elaborate gilt decorations, top edge gilt. A new edition revised by the author, with a literary and biographical portrait preceding text, photographic frontispiece, and several engraved plates. A novel by the creator of Peter Pan, and inspiration for the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film, originally 'published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a Scottish weaving village based on Barries birthplace, and concerns Gavin ...
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The Little Minister, in Two Volumes (The Kirriemuir Edition)

By: Barrie, J.M. [James Matthew]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York / Boston, H.M. Caldwell Company: 1898

Seller ID: 2287165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Pencil name on front endpaper of each volume. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in two volumes. xliv, [2], 290, [2]; vi, [4], 326, [2] pp. 8vo. The Kirriemuir Edition, named after the author's birthplace. Red cloth, elaborate gilt decorations, gilt titles and top edge, etchings by G.W.H. Ritchie. This edition also features a literary and biographical portrait of J.M. Barrie. A novel by the creator of Peter Pan, and inspiration for the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film, originally published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a S...
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The Wizard of Oz

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Michael Neugebauer / North South Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2199320

ISBN: 1558586385

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. Signed by illustrator on bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Includes 3D glasses and large color poster. 1996 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 103 pp. For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard...
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The Wizard of Oz (Illustrated Junior Library)

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 2306277

ISBN: 0448060264

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Board edges very lightly rubbed. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 206 pp. Colored and black-and-white illustrations by Evelyn Copelman. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since been reprinted on numerous occasions, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical as well as the iconic 1939 musical film adaptation. The story chron...
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The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island, and how he was rescued and brought back to Oz by Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion (The Oz Series Book 15)

By: Baum, L. Frank; Thompson, Ruth Plumly

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Co.: 1921

Seller ID: 2272904

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1934-1950s printing: no color plates, semi-script publisher's spine imprint (Bienvenue p. 102). A bit musty, page ridge lightly foxed. 1921 Hard Cover. 312 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, black titles, vignette on spine, illustrated endpapers, black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill. The first of the many Oz books written by Baum's first successor, Ruth Plumly Thompson, though it was credited by the publisher to Baum on the spine and cover to ease the transition to the new Royal Historian.
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The House of Dr. Edwardes

By: Beeding, Francis [Palmer, John; Saunders, Hilary]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: 1928

Seller ID: 2272711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss from top marginal corner of first few pages (biopredation?), name crossed out with black marker on front endpaper, minimal loss from jacket edges, faint stain to crease of rear jacket flap. 1928 Hard Cover. 312, [2] pp. 8vo. A thriller that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film Spellbound, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. It was written pseudonymously by John Palmer and Hilary Saunders, who used the pen name Francis Beeding (as they did with several other novels). The setting is an insane asylum, in which the psychiatrist in residence begins to suspect that the man who rece...
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The Beast Must Die

By: Blake, Nicholas (Lewis, Cecil Day)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1938

Seller ID: 2202720

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Lacks jacket. Portion of front jacket flap mounted on front endpaper beneath dealer bookplate. Cover lightly smudged. 1938 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. A novel written pseudonymously by Irish author and British Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, father of actor Daniel Day Lewis. The book was adapted into an Argentinian film entitled La Bestia debe morir in 1952.
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Planet of the Apes

By: Boulle, Pierre; Fielding, Xan (Translator)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 2010

Seller ID: 2268790

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date (6/8/2010) in black ink on front flyleaf. 248, [4] pp. 8vo. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece by Dennis Lyall. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Boulle's classic 1963 novel differs in several ways from the 1968 movie and its various spinoffs. While the bare-bones story is familiarastronaut travels to a planet populated by intelligent apes, is captured, fights to prove that he is a thinking creaturethe novel...
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Flags of our Fathers (Movie Tie-in Edition)

By: Bradley, James; Powers, Ron

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2306387

ISBN: 0553384155

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing of movie tie-in edition. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 382 pp. Several photographs. In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jimaand into history. Through a hail of machine...
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Sonny: The Story of a Dog's Love for a Man

By: Brightman, Virginia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1923

Seller ID: 2194844

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note dated 1931 on front endpaper. A few light stains on jacket spine, tear along spine edge of rear jacket panel with amateur repair attempt. 1923 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 8vo.Color frontispiece and matching jacket art by George W. Gage.A western focusing on an Airedale named Sonny and the man who adopted him after finding him in the desert. Inspiration for the screenplay entitled 'Teeth', which Fox Films produced in 1924.
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Jane Eyre

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, State Street Press: 1996

Seller ID: 2306059

ISBN: 0681219025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First printing of this edition. Boards and jacket lightly rubbed, sticker remnant on rear jacket panel, ink name on front endpaper. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 494 pp. Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the worlds most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work of great genius. Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Bronts masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of...
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Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

By: Brown, Dan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Washington Square Press: 2009

Seller ID: 2262195

ISBN: 1416580824

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. Article on book laid in. An exceptional copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuriesold underground organizationthe Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark ...
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Kings Go Forth (Cardinal C-315)

By: Brown, Joe David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1958

Seller ID: 2305716

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

3rd printing. Movie tie-in edition. Photos of Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis on front cover. Pages toned, light edge wear. 1958 Mass Market Paperback. Two WWII soldiers fall for the same girl while stationed in Italy.
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The Butterfly

By: Cain, James M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage: 1974

Seller ID: 2286798

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Movie tie-in edition. Pages faintly toned. 1974 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Set during the 1920's, tells the story of a woman leaving an abusive family to try her luck in the big world.
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1965

Seller ID: 2263973

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound include...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage International / Random House, Inc.: 1993

Seller ID: 2307842

ISBN: 0679745653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A few light spots on fore edge, otherwise excellent. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 178, [2] pp. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naivete continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, 'House of Flowers,' 'A Diamond Guitar,' and 'A Christmas Memory,' which the Saturday Review called 'one of the...
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Oscar and Lucinda

By: Carey, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1988

Seller ID: 2274026

ISBN: 0571148123

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Pages toned, light stain along margin, jacket price clipped but with clipped portion retained and laid in. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. A novel which tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and for Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1865. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives are changed for ever.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2286093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus (Lovett 204, WMGC 392). Recto of frontispiece and flyleaf opposite lightly foxed, bookplate remnant on front endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, [1]-247, [5] pp. 8vo. Grey cloth, illustrated spines and front boards. Includes color plates by Maria Louise Kirk and 42 illustrations from the originals by John Tenniel. This edition is notable as the first work in color by Kirk, who went on to become a prominent figure in book illustration (though this remains her most celebrated work). It is also noteworthy that Kirk depicts Alice with dark hair ...
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1905

Seller ID: 2286094

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus (Lovett 205, WMGC 557). Lightly rubbed, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1905 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [1], 271, [1] pp. 8vo. Grey cloth, illustrated spines and front boards. Includes color plates by Maria Louise Kirk and 50 illustrations from the originals by John Tenniel. A follow-up volume to the Kirk edition of 'Alice', which is notable as the first work in color by Kirk, who went on to become a prominent figure in book illustration (though this remains her most celebrated work). It is also noteworthy that Kirk depicts Alice with dark hai...
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

By: Carroll, Lewis [Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Lee and Shepard, Boston / Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham: 1872

Seller ID: 2200523

ISBN: 0394532287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition ('wade' for 'wabe' on p. 21). Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down (some loss from edges), new end sheets. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, pencil name and year ('R.P. Blake 1880') on front flyleaf, a number of illustrations colored with pencil by a young reader, some quite nicely done. 1872 Hard Cover. x, [1]-224 pp. 8vo. The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. This first American edition was released with both red and green cloth (no priority) in the same year as the Macmillan edition printed in Lo...
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

By: Carroll, Lewis [Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2306527

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Boards soiled, binding shaken, title/copyright page absent, a few stains to margins. 1896 Hard Cover. 209, [3], 16 pp. 8vo. The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with illustrations by John Tenniel, including a color frontispiece and three color plates. Carroll's books about Alice are among the most collected works in modern literature, and have both inspired a number of animated and live actions films (most recently those directed by Tim Burton and featuring Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and MiaWasikowska as Alice), as well as other adaptations...
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games No. 3)

By: Collins, Suzanne

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press: 2010

Seller ID: 2296820

ISBN: 0316519103

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

6th printing. Light edge wear. 2010 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 390 pp. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio (Looking Glass Library)

By: Collodi, Carlo; Goulden, Shirley

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1983

Seller ID: 2305395

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faint edge wear. 1983 Large Hardcover. The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. The first half was originally a serial in 1881 and 1882, published as La storia di un burattino (literally The tale of a puppet), and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays,...
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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner: 1955

Seller ID: 2306072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. Front hinge starting. 1955 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 370 pp. Color plates by N. C. Wyeth. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences.[1] The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.[2] The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American...
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