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Crazy Ladies

By: West, Michael Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, Longstreet Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2282575

ISBN: 092926438X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 337 pp. Author's first novel. From the author of Mad Girls in Love comes this lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women -- a novel of love and laughter, pain and redemption. Though she was born in Tennessee, Miss Gussie is no country fool. A woman who can handle any situation, she has her hands full with two headstrong daughters who happen to be complete opposites -- dour Dorothy and sweet Clancy Jane. Hoping money will heal chi...
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Mad Girls in Love

By: West, Michael Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2005

Seller ID: 2282576

ISBN: 006018406X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine base very lightly bumped. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 528 pp. In her colorful first novel, Crazy Ladies, Michael Lee West brought to life three generations of unforgettable G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised In The South), creating a world the Washington Post Book World called sharp, wry, and utterly convincing. In Mad Girls in Love she's brought some of the Ladies back and also added a whole new wacky and lovable cast. You'll want to join them for a glass of sweet tea or punch spiked with pure grain alc...
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She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

By: West, Michael Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1994

Seller ID: 2282577

ISBN: 0060183489

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Two very minor spots on top page ridge. Pages very faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 390 pp. The two main occupations in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles. And in this early spring of 1952, there is ample opportunity for both with sixteen-year-old and pregnant (by the Baptist minister) Olive Nepper, currently languishing in a coma after drinking pop laced with rose poison. But the plight of Olive and her family is h...
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Faces of the Dead

By: Weyn, Suzanne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Scholastic: 2014

Seller ID: 2204080

ISBN: 054542531X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. When Marie-Therese, daughter of Marie Antoinette, slips into the streets of Paris at the height of the French Revolution, she finds a world much darker than what she's ever known. When Marie-Thrse Charlotte of France learns of the powerful rebellion sweeping her country, the sheltered princess is determined to see the revolution for herself. Switching places with a chambermaid, the princess sneaks out of the safety of the royal palace and into the heart of a city in strife. Soon the princess is brushing shoulders with revolutionaries and act...
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Buccaneers

By: Wharton, Edith; Mainwaring, Marion

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2199854

ISBN: 0670852198

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1993 Hard Cover. 406 pp. 8vo.Aided by the gifted Mainwaring, Wharton delivers a posthumous gift to both the high and the low of brow with this novel, which was left unfinished at her death in 1937 and published in its incomplete state a year later. While filled with glamorous, class-obsessed characters and plot lines that Krantz and Sheldon might envy, it is a work of beauty--a grandly executed, full-scale counterpart to Wharton's classic story Roman Fever. Here, a Mrs. St. George, a matron of the 1870s whose husband has means but no social standing, schemes to advance her daugh...
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Birdy

By: Wharton, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1978

Seller ID: 2199136

ISBN: 0394425693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Edges slightly faded, jacket flaps lightly toned. 1978 Hard Cover. 309, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first book.Hailed upon its publication as a classic for readers not yet born (Philadelphia Inquirer),Birdyis an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, birdness. It tells the story of Al, a bold, hot-tempered boy whose goals in life are to life weights and pick up girls, and his strange friend Birdy, the skinny, tongue-tied perhaps genius who only wants to raise canaries and to fly. While fighting i...
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They Found Atlantis: A Novel

By: Wheatley, Dennis

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1936

Seller ID: 1965252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Includes original jacket. Jacket edges rubbed, ink name & date on half-title page. Very Good. 1936 Hard Cover. 325 pp. 8vo. A novel detailing a voyage by bathysphere to the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis. Includes a map of Atlantis on the endpapers, and a dedication to William Beebe, which incorrectly names him as the inventor of the bathysphere (Beebe was among the first passengers, but it was designed and built by Otis Barton).
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Not Where I Started From: Stories

By: Wheeler, Kate

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1993

Seller ID: 2282578

ISBN: 0395665159

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Light stain to jacket inside along spine base. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 239 pp. Author's first book. A debut collection of short stories evokes the theme of Americans struggling to cope in the midst of strange cultures, including a teenager in Central America, a New Yorker in Miami's Little Cuba, and a novitiate in a Burmese monastery.
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When Mountains Walked: A Novel

By: Wheeler, Kate

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 2000

Seller ID: 2282579

ISBN: 0395859913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Very faint smudge on page ridge. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 375 pp. Author's first novel. Named a Best Young American Novelist by GRANTA, Kate Wheeler received numerous awards and the highest critical acclaim for her story collection, NOT WHERE I STARTED FROM. Francine Prose wrote, This is a book you mention to your friends . . . Wheeler is a writer to follow, wherever she chooses to travel. In her much anticipated first novel, Wheeler takes readers to opposite ends of the earth in a story of passions that...
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Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy (Cultural Memory in the Present)

By: Wheeler, Samuel C., III

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, Stanford University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2309483

ISBN: 0804737533

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Rear wrapper creased. 2000 Trade Paperback. viii, 294 pp. In this collection of essays Samuel Wheeler discusses Derrida and other deconstructive thinkers from the perspective of an analytic philosopher willing to treat deconstruction as philosophy, taking it seriously enough to look for and analyze its arguments. The essays focus on the theory of meaning, truth, interpretation, metaphor, and the relationship of language to the world. Wheeler links the thought of Derrida to that of Davidson and argues for close affinities among Derrida, Quine, de Man, and Wittgenstein. He also de...
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The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann: Edited with a History of the Case [Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping]

By: Whipple, Sidney B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: ., Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1937

Seller ID: 2123456

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Hinges starting, split down fold of front jacket flap, jacket spine faded Good. 1937 Hard Cover. vii, 565 pp. 8vo. An account of the trial of the man accused of kidnapping the baby of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Buff [Rogers E.M. Whitaker]

By: Whitaker, Rogers E.M. [Frimbo, E.M.]; Hiss, Anthony; Vroom, Barbara; Gill, Brendon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grossman: 1974

Seller ID: 2307555

ISBN: 0670112941

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. A little musty. 1974 Hard Cover. xi, 235 pp. For more than five decades, the spirit of E. M. Frimbo chugged through the pages of The New Yorker, chronicling adventures on rails broad and narrow around the world. This greatly expanded edition of All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo combines all thirty-three of the Frimbo pieces published to great acclaim in 1974 with twenty-one previously uncollected articles, chosen by the intrepid traveler's friend and amanuensis, Tony Hiss. Here, for the first time in book form, are The Old Curmudgeon's search for lo...
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The Money Trap

By: White, Lionel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.: 1963

Seller ID: 2080284

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good in good jacket. Front & end matter faintly foxed, jacket rubbed & lightly toned with minor tears along edges, small portion of front jacket flap corner clipped ($3.50 list price still present). 1963 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 189 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the 1965 Burt Kennedy film starring Glenn Ford (Joe Baron) and Elke Sommer (Lisa Baron), which also featured Ricardo Montalban (as Joe's partner Pete Delanos). The story follows two cops who collaborate to steal money from a drug-dealing doctor, and combines the classic heist plot with el...
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The Ransomed Madonna

By: White, Lionel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 2080287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Faint mottled discoloration to boards, sticker remnant on front endpaper, jacket rubbed, soiled, & lightly stained. 1964 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 187 pp. 8vo. A novel focusing on the theft of Botticelli's Madonna and Infant, the subsequent cover-up, and the insurance company's detective Clifford Johns's attempts to recover the painting without paying the hefty ransom, or causing an embarrassment of the United States to the rest of the world. Combines elements of the classic heist story and noir.
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Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey

By: White, Morton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 2304749

ISBN: 0195015193

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket rubbed. 1972 Hard Cover. viii, 358 pp. ...examines several different views of science espoused by major American thinkers and shows how these views affected their attitudes toward the central institutions of civilization. ... shows how different ideas of the nature and scope of science led to different ideas of religion, law, and morality. ...deals with the impact made on American philosophy by foreign thinkers like Locke, Coleridge, and Herbert Spencer...
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The Mountains

By: White, Stewart Edward

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 2304584

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine and boards lightly toned. 1904 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 282 pp. Front board depicts an illustration of a character on horseback overlooking mountains in cream and white. Illustrated by Fernand Lungren. A trip through California on horseback. The author has followed a true sequence of events practically in all particulars save in respect to the character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious; in another sense real. He is real in that he is the apotheosis of many tenderfeet, and that everything he does in this narrative ...
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Australia Street

By: Whitehead, Ann

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 1942968

ISBN: 067007148X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Minimal wear to corners. 2008 Trade Paperback. 368, [1] pp. This novel commences on Friday the 13th of February 1948 and chronicles a year in the life of the Gordon family who live in Australia Street in inner city Sydney. This particular day is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday, and her daughter Allie's sixteenth. It's a full moon as well, and Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning about bad luck.
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In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature

By: Whitfield, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Joseph Henry Press: 2006

Seller ID: 2203077

ISBN: 0309096812

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An excellent copy. 2006 Hard Cover. vii, 270 pp. For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations for both the dazzling diversity and striking similarities seen in the living world. Life is complicated. It is truly the entangled bank that Charles Darwin described. But scientists are now discovering that energy is the unifying force that joins all life on Earth. Visionary biologists have advanced a new theory that explains how the natural world--from the tiniest amoeba to the greatest rain forest--are con...
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Paper Toys of the World

By: Whitton, Blair

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cumberland, Hobby House Press, Inc.: 1986

Seller ID: 2194884

ISBN: 0875882897

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed to a toy collector and signed by author on front endpaper ('Dear Cy: Your contribution of the illustration of the construction plane is a fine example of that type of paper toy + I thank you of the use of it. Blair Whitton'). Light crease down front jacket flap. 1986 Large Hardcover. 236, [4] pp. Oblong. A collector's reference to paper toys, which also includes a history of paper making and printing, and background information introducing chapters on various types of paper toys. Bibliography and index follow text. A 'detailed coverage of paper toys from the earliest t...
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Wolfe and North America

By: Whitton, F.E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Limited: 1929

Seller ID: 2204508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, spine toned, front hinge starting, ink name redacted. 1929 Hard Cover. 420 pp. CONTENTS: I. France and England in North America Up to the Time of Wolfe's Birth. II. The Early Military Career of James Wolfe. III. The Situation in North America After the Treaty of Utrecht. The Fall of Louisburg in 1745 and the French Efforts to Recapture It. IV. Wolfe's Early Manhood. The Beginning of the Final Struggle for North America in 1755. V. The Seven Years' War. French Successes in North America. The Turn of the Tide. Siedge and Capture of Louisburg in 1758. VI. The Capture of ...
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You Can't Get Lost In Cape Town

By: Wicomb, Zoe

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Pantheon: 1987

Seller ID: 2201531

ISBN: 0394560302

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1987 Hard Cover. You Can't Get Lost in Cape Townis among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of Coloured citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, in the racial crucible of their country. Frieda Shenton, the daughter of Coloured parents in rural South Africa, is taught as a child to emulate whites: she is encouraged to learn correct English, to straighten her hair, and to do more than, as her father says, peg out the madams washing.
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The Evolution of the Calusa: A Nonagricultural Chiefdom on the Southwest Florida Coast

By: Widmer, Randolph J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2305777

ISBN: 0817303588

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Spine lightly toned. 1988 Trade Paperback. xv, 334 pp. The aims of this study are twofold: compile, for the first time, all the archaeological, environmental, and geological data pertinent to the evolution of the aboriginal inhabitants of southwest Florida; and, using this basis, develop a specific, integrated, and dynamic model of cultural adaptation that will serve as a stimulus for hypotheses that go beyond simple culture-historical concerns for future archaeological research in this region.
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Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce

By: Wiener, Philip P.; Young, Frederic H.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1952

Seller ID: 2304618

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Stain to top edge of jacket, rear jacket panel creased. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1952 Hard Cover. x, 396 pp. Charles Sanders Peirce (September 10, 1839 April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as the father of pragmatism. He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. An innovator in mathematics, statistics, philosop...
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The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600

By: Wild, Antony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 1999

Seller ID: 2303554

ISBN: 1585740594

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An excellent copy. 1999 Large Hardcover. 191 pp. Here is a historical chronicle of the most powerful corporation in world history, beautifully illustrated with full-color paintings, photographs, and maps. Established by Royal Charter in 1600, the East India Company was, and remains to this day, the largest and most powerful multinational business the world has ever seen. It controlled over half the world's trade and a quarter of its population. It singlehandedly ruled India, raised its own army and navy, minted its own currency, and traded with every corner of the globe. It also...
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The Alcestiad, or, A Life in the Sun; with a Satyr Play, The Drunken Sisters (The First Edition Society)

By: Wilder, Thornton; Atkinson, Brooks

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2306878

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. xxvii, 170 pp. Full forest green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Daniel Maffia. Two plays in one volume, by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright best known for Our Town, and also for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
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Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel

By: Wiley, Richard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2274251

ISBN: 0871130467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author on half-title page without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. Light smudge on top page ridge, very faint odor of smoke. 1986 Hard Cover. 199 pp. Author's first novel. Thirty years after World War II, Japanese-American jazz musician Teddy Maki is still haunted by his friend Jimmy Yamamoto's wartime death and his own failure to disobey a commanding officer's order to shoot an American prisoner.
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Eternal Lawyer: A Legal Biography of Cicero

By: Wilkin, Robert N.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1947

Seller ID: 2303142

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flaps clipped. 1947 Hard Cover. xvi, 264 pp. ...it was during Cicero's lifetime that the foundations were laid for Roman jurisprudence, which has profoundly influenced the legal systems of all civilized countries. Cicero has been called the epitome of all the vanities and virtues, aspirations and failures, contrasts, compromises, and accomplishments of the legal profession generally. Much has been written about him as an orator, writer, statesman, and politician--but here for the first time he is presented as a great lawyer.
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Grab Their Belts to Fight Them: The Viet Cong's Big-Unit War Against the U.S., 1965-1966

By: Wilkins, Warren

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press: 2011

Seller ID: 2287364

ISBN: 1591149614

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top corners of jacket bumped. 2011 Hard Cover. xvi, 283 pp. During 1965 and 1966, wrote Dale Andrade, a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the Communists fought the Americans toe to toe, making little effort to act like guerillas. Indeed, despite pronounced disadvantages in firepower and mobility, the Communist Vietnamese endeavored to crush South Vietnam and expel the American military with a strategy predicated on big unit war. Orchestrated by a militant clique in Hanoi, the big unit war was designed to yield a quick and decisive victory over South Vietnam....
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Illustrated Dictionary of Religions: Figures, Festivals, and Beliefs of the World's Religions (DK)

By: Wilkinson, Philip

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, DK: 1999

Seller ID: 2308547

ISBN: 0789455390

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Wrappers creased, minor stain on page ridge. 1999 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. 128 pp. In an easy to follow, accessible reference format, Illustrated Dictionary of Religions uses over 700 full-color illustrations and clear text to explain, identify, and compare the major religions of the world from Zoroastrianism and ancient Egyptian rituals to Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The dictionary contains more than 1,000 entries and features double-page spreads on major figures and key events. Also, related entries are cross-refer...
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In the Salt Marsh: Poems

By: Willard, Nancy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: 2282581

ISBN: 1400042291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 52 pp. In this strong, appealing collection, Nancy Willard shares her passion for observing the mysteries of the natural world, particularly the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, where many of these poems are set. We see, through her eyes, the coming of darkness to an empty orchard, the retreat of deer at dusk, and the breakup of a river with the onset of spring. Willard is also deeply engaged with the living creatures that populate her world. Her poems record her encounter with a m...
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