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The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan

By: Urquhart, Jane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ontario, The Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated: 1983

Seller ID: 2200911

ISBN: 0889840490

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Wrappers and pages lightly toned. 1983 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 63 pp. The machine at Marley, and the machinations of court at Versailles. The small manoeuvres of society. Of saints and sinners, kings, and courtesans more than courtiers--from Louis Quatorze, watched dispassionately by Madame de Montespan from the pillow of the king's bed, to the worms that play their final game of love beneath the statues in the graden--The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan is a worthy successor to Jane and Tony Urquhart's earlier collaboration, I Am Wal...
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False Shuffles

By: Urquhart, Jane; Urquhart, Tony

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Victoria/Toronto, Press Porcepic: 1982

Seller ID: 2200910

ISBN: 0888782047

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Wrappers very lightly rubbed. 1982 Trade Paperback. 113 pp. Drawings by Tony Urquhart. Author's first book to be published in a trade edition. ...a life class in the art of illusion. The lives of small town octogenarians, of autistics, of conjurors and Niagara Falls daredevils, of beerhall waitresses and undertaker's brides, of bouncers and cleaning ladies, of beekeepers and skunk charmers are rendered with an instinct for the intimate surreal.
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The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA

By: Valentine, Douglas

Price: $12.00

Publisher: OR, Trine Day: 2009

Seller ID: 2308769

ISBN: 1936296098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. xviii, 538 pp. The Strength of the Pack documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement, from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in 1968 through the early years of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Picking up where The Strength of the Wolf left off, the book shows how successive administrations expanded federal drug law enforcement operations under the pervasive but hidden influence of the CIA. The “wolf pack” is a metaphor for the multitude of agencies and their offsh...
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No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken

By: Van Aken, Norman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Taylor Trade: 2013

Seller ID: 2203705

ISBN: 1589799143

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2013 Hard Cover. No Experience Necessaryis Chef Norman Van Akens joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobsincluding the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with no experience necessary. Long considered a culinary renegade and a pioneering chef, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith.
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Frederick III: German Emperor, 1888

By: Van der Kiste, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Alan Sutton: 1981

Seller ID: 2286434

ISBN: 0904387771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 242 pp. Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia from March to June 1888, was the husband of Victoria, Princess Royal of Britain. Despite the arch-conservative views of his father Prince (later King) William, from youth he was influence by the liberal beliefs of his mother Princess Augusta and later his father-in-law the Prince Consort, and in these he was staunchly supported by his wife. Bismark's appointment as Prussia's Minister-President in 1862 was a profound blow to Frederic...
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Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor

By: Van der Kiste, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: UK, Sutton Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: 2286435

ISBN: 0750919418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 244 pp. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman.
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The Dragon Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story

By: Van Dine, S.S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scriber's Sons: 1933

Seller ID: 2283861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, a few faint stains to top page ridge, ink gift note. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 311 pp. The Dragon Murder Case (first published in 1934) is a novel in a series by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. It was also adapted to a film version in 1934, starring Warren William as Vance. A guest at an estate in northern Manhattan (Inwood Hill Park) dives into the swimming pool and disappears. His murder brings up references to a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent, but Philo Vance uses his knowle...
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The Dragon Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story

By: Van Dine, S.S.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scriber's Sons: 1933

Seller ID: 2305384

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Scribner emblem and 'A' on copyright page, $2.00 jacket price). Very good in fair jacket. Boards lightly rubbed with corners slightly exposed, ink stamps on endpapers, front hinge repaired, chips from top jacket corners, jacket edges rubbed with split along front flap fold. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 311 pp. The Dragon Murder Case is a novel in a series by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. It was also adapted to a film version in 1934, starring Warren William as Vance. A guest at an estate in northern Manhattan (Inwood...
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Amriika: A Novel

By: Vassanji, M.G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart Inc.: 1999

Seller ID: 2200396

ISBN: 0771087233

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Faint odor of smoke, top of pages edges lightly foxed. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 412 pp. Amriikais a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nations history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war demonstrations, revolutionary lifestyles, and spiritual quests. As Ramji finds himself pulled by the tumultuous currents...
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The Assassin's Song: A Novel

By: Vassanji, M.G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Canada, Doubleday Canada: 2007

Seller ID: 2202150

ISBN: 038566351X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. Near fine. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 313 pp. M.G. Vassanjis magnificent new novel provides further proof of his unique, wide ranging and profound genius.The Assassins Songis a shining study of the conflict between ancient loyalties and modern desires, a conflict that creates turmoil the world over and it is at once an intimate portrait of one mans painful struggle to hold the earthly and the spiritual in balance. InThe Assassins Song,Karsan Dargawalla tells the story of the medieval Sufi shr...
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

By: Vassanji, M.G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canada, Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 2281566

ISBN: 0385659903

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Very faint odor of smoke. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 405 pp. The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla war for independence from Britain begins to gain strength. In a land torn apart by idealism, doubt, political upheaval and terrible acts of violence, Vic and his sister Deepa must find their place among a new generation. Neither colonists nor African, neither white nor black, the Indian ...
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Interpretations of Piers Plowman

By: Vasta, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2288776

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Presentation copy with author's card laid in. Light stain on jacket spine, jacket spine lightly toned, small tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1968 Hard Cover. xix, 378 pp. Piers Plowman (written c. 137090) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called passus (Latin for step). Like the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman is considered by many ...
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American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History

By: Vecsey, Christopher; Venables, Robert W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2289132

ISBN: 0815622279

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Minor general wear. 1980 Trade Paperback. xxv, 208 pp. Contributions from Kai T. Erikson, William T. Hagan, Laurence M. Hauptman, Wilbur R. Jacobs, Oren Lyons, Peter MacDonald, Calvin Martin. These essays discuss the historical and contemporary relationships between Native Americans and the natural world. Topics include: environmental religions, Iroquois villages of the 18th century, Navajo natural resources, and subarctic Native Americans and wildlife.
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The Surrogates Volume 2: Flesh & Bone

By: Venditti, Robert; Weldele, Brett

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Top Shelf: 2009

Seller ID: 2009064

ISBN: 1603090185

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2009 Soft Cover. In a dark, downtown alley in Central Georgia Metropolis, a juvenile prank goes too far and a homeless man is killed. When the ensuing investigation reveals that the attackers aren't who they appeared to be, justice depends on the testimony of a single missing witness - a street snitch with a history of providing information to a cop named Harvey Greer. Harvey is placed on special assignment to track down the informant, but others have their own designs, including a wealthy socialite and an ex-con turned religious leader known to his follower...
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The Good Negress: A Novel

By: Verdelle, A.J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1995

Seller ID: 2282564

ISBN: 156512085X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Includes a signed essay. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. 298 pp. Author's first book. The year is 1963, and young Denise Palms has rejoined her family in Detroit where she must work to make a place for herself and prepare for the arrival of her mother's new baby. The baby will mean the end of Denise's afterschool lessons with a stern teacher who insists that Denise learn to speak proper English to make herself heard. Verdelle's intuition and ear allow her to dramatize precise moments of Denise's self-recognition and, in the process, offer...
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The Art of Planting

By: Verey, Rosemary

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1990

Seller ID: 2295130

ISBN: 0316899763

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine base previously mended with tape on rear side. 1990 Large Hardcover. 168 pp. Photographs by Andrew Lang. Discusses the plants that make good neighbors, shows how to work with borders and beds, and gives tips on dealing with special situations such as walls, water, and woodland
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Kalki (The First Edition Society)

By: Vidal, Gore

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2307076

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small blemish to rear board corner. 1978 Full-Leather. 315, [4] pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by George H. Jones. A pre/post-apocalyptic focused on the leader of a religious cult who may cause the downfall of civilization. Vidal discusses over-population, feminism, bisexuality, and birth control in the novel, which takes its title from the Hindu goddess who ushers in the end of the fourth and final era of the life cycle.
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White Hunter, Black Heart

By: Viertel, Peter

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1953

Seller ID: 2308464

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine base taped on jacket reverse, jacket reverse faintly foxed, some edge wear to jacket. Page ridge faintly foxed. 1953 Hard Cover. 344 pp. A novel of big-game hunting in the Belgian Congo, and one man's obsession with it. Based partly on Viertel's work with director John Huston on the film The African Queen (the story changes the names of the characters).
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How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life: A Novel

By: Viswanathan, Kaavya

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York/Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2006

Seller ID: 2200392

ISBN: 0316059889

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages foxed and toned. Very good. 2006 Hard Cover. 314 pp. A lively and irresistible first novel about an overachieving teenage girl who discovers that, in order to get into the college of her dreams, she needs to have more fun. Since Opal's birth, the Mehtas have raised their only daughter with one goal in mind: to get into Harvard. They even concocted a rigorous game plan they called HOWGIH--How Opal Will Get Into Harvard. There were flowcharts, diagrams, and endless lists to track her progress. At 16, Opal is her high school's valedictorian, president of three honor societies...
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The Ice-Shirt

By: Vollmann, William T.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1990

Seller ID: 2269276

ISBN: 0670832391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark on page base, page ridges a bit foxed, a bit smoky. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 415, [1] pp. 8vo. The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland - and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature. As William T. Vollmann tells the conve...
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Image for Life of John Calvin: Theologian, Preacher, Educator, Statesman, Presented to the Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System, on the 400th Anniversary of the Reformer's Birth

Life of John Calvin: Theologian, Preacher, Educator, Statesman, Presented to the Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System, on the 400th Anniversary of the Reformer's Birth

By: Vollmer, Philip; Good, J.I.; Roberts, Wm. H.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Heidelberg Press: 1909

Seller ID: 2201102

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1909 Hard Cover. x, 218 pp. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4. 8vo. Black & white illustrations, including a number of photographs from Calvin's Theological School in Geneva. Original green cloth, gilt seal on front cover, gilt titles. A biography of the influential French religious reformer, who was a theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Scarce. Calvinism emerged from the doctrines and practices of the Reformed churches, largely due to John Calvin's role in confessional and ecclesiastical debates throughout the 16th century.
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Pictorial History of the German Navy in World War II

By: Von der Porten, Edward P.; Donitz, Grand Admiral Karl

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell: 1976

Seller ID: 2303282

ISBN: 069001080X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few small tears to jacket edges, a few light smudges to jacket, sticker adhesive on front jacket panel. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1976 Large Hardcover. xiv, 367 pp. Includes more than 300 photographs. This dramatic story of the German Navy, from the calm day in June 1919 when crews of the Kaiser's Imperial High Seas Fleet cheated the Allies of the spoils of war by scuttling their own ships in the British harbor of Scapa Flow to the surrender of the remnants of Hitler's World War II fleet in 1945. It contains vivid accounts--and dramatic photographs--of such actions as the...
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: (Opinions)

By: Vonnegut, Kurt

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence: 1974

Seller ID: 2200991

ISBN: 0440087171

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A bit smoky, jacket flaps lightly toned. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxvii, [3], 285 pp. 8vo. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this is a window not only into Vonneguts mind but also into his heart.
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Galapagos

By: Vonnegut, Kurt

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence: 1985

Seller ID: 2261630

ISBN: 0385294166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition. Ink name on front endpaper. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 295 pp. Leon Trout, the ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder, narrates the humorous, ironic and sometimes carping decline of the human race, as seen through the eyes and minds of the survivors of a doomed cruise to the Galapagos Islands.
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Reuben Fleet and the Story of Consolidated Aircraft

By: Wagner, William

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Fallbrook, CA, Aero Publishers, Inc.: 1976

Seller ID: 2287859

ISBN: 0816879508

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor tear along top edge of front jacket panel. 1976 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 324 pp. Reuben Hollis Fleet (March 6, 1887 October 29, 1975) was an American aviation pioneer, industrialist and army officer. Fleet founded and led several corporations, including Consolidated Aircraft.[1][2] The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, New York, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being...
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The Happening: A Carol for All Seasons

By: Wahtera, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Boston, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company: 1974

Seller ID: 2296701

ISBN: 0316917508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small chip along bottom edge of front jacket panel. 1974 Hard Cover. 117 pp. Digby Bell is a struggling young artist who lives on one floor of a condemned tenement with his pregnant girlfriend Blossom, where they take in strays of all kinds--both animals and people. It is just before Christmas, and as Digby trudges home after having a commissioned portrait rejected, he notices a stray cat shivering in front of the orphanage down the street from his house. He firmly resolves not to take in another stray, but, shamed by the accusing stares of the orphans, he finally picks up the c...
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The Star Lake Archaeological Project: Anthropology of a Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New Mexico

By: Wait, Walter K.; Nelson, Ben A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 2282748

ISBN: 0809309491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket, top corner of front board bumped. 1983 Hard Cover. xxviii, 466 pp. These fifteen essays inventory and evaluate the cultural resources discovered at the Star Lake Archaeological Research Project in northwestern New Mexico. Commissioned by the Peabody Coal Company to evaluate resources in a strip-mining area, the project turned up remains from the preceramic, Anasazi, and historic periods. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which provides background, with essays by Walter Wait and Neal Lopinot. Part two presents chapters by Wait, Joseph K. Anderson, and ...
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Giant Quarterback

By: Waldman, Frank

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2282747

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, edges rubbed. 1950 Hard Cover. 153 pp. Illustrated by Robert Candy. A tale of the New York Giants.
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1997

Seller ID: 2197292

ISBN: 0679455841

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 225 pp. 8vo.America's beloved author of The Color Purple writes here about her life as an activist, in a book rich in belief in the world as savable, if only we will act on our beliefs. Here are a superb writer's thoughts on politics, culture, feminism, race, religion, raising a daughter, writing and living.
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 2196020

ISBN: 0151444056

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. White portions of jacket very faintly toned. 1973 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 138 pp. 8vo. A collection of thirteen short stories exploring the hardships of life as an African American woman in the South. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together.
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