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The Analects of Confucius

By: Confucius; Giles, Lionel

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Limited Editions Club / Plantin Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2304381

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's box, with monthly letter and prospectus sheet laid in. Onion skin jacket included. #753 of 1500, signed by illustrator Tseng Yu-Ho on limitation page. Laid in is a bookseller's slip, owner bookplate of Walter Norwood Thompson on front paste-down endpaper, seams of box corners along spine split but box still sturdy and square. 1970 Hard Cover. xxvii, [5], 131 pp. Decorative cloth boards, paper spine label mirrored on box. Illustrated with twelve double-spread paintings by Tseng Yu-Ho. A distillation of Confucius's thought, presented in a series of aphorisms, translated with...
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The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts

By: Congreve, William; Kronenberger, Louis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2261913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Special Publication: S26 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edge faded. 1959 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 108 pp. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger, illustrations by T.M. Cleland. With piercing accuracy William Congreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of society where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversationand moneyeased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisationLady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and MillamantCongreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and suggested that ...
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Lord Jim: A Tale (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 2307062

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine slightly faded. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. 8vo. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Conrad's moving tale of a sailor who is accused of abandoning ship. A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him-and he may be able to find redemption...
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2307080

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal loss of gilt from top edge. 1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 445, [1] pp. Full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Joseph Ciardiello. Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South American republic, spins a colorful tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men corrup...
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Lord Jim: A Tale

By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2261262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number IX: 24 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edges toned. 1959 Hard Cover. x, [1], 407 pp. 8vo. Conrad's moving tale of a sailor who is accused of abandoning ship. Introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat, color lithographs by Lynd Ward. Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. The novel is in two main parts, firstly Jim's lapse aboard the Patna and his consequent fall, and secondly an adventure story about Jim's rise and the tale's denouement amongst the people of Patusan - set in t...
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Lord Jim: A Tale

By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2205690

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Edges of endpapers slightly faded. 1977 Full-Leather. x, [4], 407 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Conrad's moving tale of a sailor who is accused of abandoning ship.
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Cooper's Novels, in Thirty-Three Volumes (New Edition)

By: Cooper, J. Fenimore

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: New York, Stringer & Townsend: 1854

Seller ID: 1797797

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Corners & spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, front & end matter of a few volumes lightly foxed. Interiors exceptionally well preserved. Spine labels professionally replaced in emulation of original style. An excellent set. 1854 Half-Leather. Complete in thirty-three volumes. 12mo. 65 volumes in 33. Sewn bindings. Butterscotch leather spines & corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. An apparent variant of the set referenced in Spiller & Blackburn's bibliography (slightly different ordering of volumes, half-leather instead of cloth). The third American publication of Cooper's collected...
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Cooper's Sea Tales, Comprising: The Pilot; The Red Rover; The Waterwitch; The Sea Lions; The Two Admirals

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 2302640

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1880s printing. Corners rubbed, spine and pages lightly toned, rear board lightly foxed. We have more books available by this author!. 166, 186, 184, iv, 185, iv, 192 pp. 8vo. Blue-green cloth, gilt titles, gold, silver, and black stamped decorations, floral decorated endpapers. An engraved frontispiece precedes three stories. A collection of nautical stories for juvenile readers, reprinted from five of Cooper's earlier works. Cooper is best known for his five-volume Leatherstocking Saga (historical fiction featuring Natty Bumpo), but he also wrote a two-volume history of the United States Nav...
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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (The Collector's Library of The World's Best-Loved Books)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2307055

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 377, [5] pp. 8vo. Full blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes designs based on bead-work of the Eastern Woodland Tribes. The second, and most well-known, installment in Cooper's five-volume Leatherstocking Saga. Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian war to vivid life. Featuring the classic character Natty Bumppo, it is a moving, memorable depiction of courage, passion, and forbearance,...
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The Last of the Mohicans (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2205673

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge faintly spotted. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 377 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, introduction by Edward Everett Hale. The second, and most well-known, installment in Cooper's five-volume Leatherstocking Saga.
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The Last of the Mohicans (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2278043

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Page ridges faintly spotted, otherwise an excellent copy. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 377, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, introduction by Edward Everett Hale. The second, and most well-known, installment in Cooper's five-volume Leatherstocking Saga.
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The Pathfinder (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Spiller, Robert E.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2207940

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Two minor scuffs to spine bands, gilt page ridges lightly rubbed. 1981 Full-Leather. xvi, 474 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers, introduction by Robert E. Spiller. The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales.
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The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Winterich, John T.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2278044

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss of gilt from top edge of front board, a couple minor scuffs along edges. 1963 Full-Leather. xv, [3], 406 pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, introduction by John T. Winterich. The action takes place during the American Revolution. The share of historical fact in the story is not large, but the action takes place so near to great events that the characters are all invested with something of the dusky light of heroes, while George Washington moves among them like an unsuspec...
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Guard of Honor (Pulitzer Prize 1949)

By: Cozzens, James Gould

Price: $35.00

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

Seller ID: 2307071

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 575 pp. Full grey leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Charles McVickers. Guard of Honor is a neglected masterpiece that stands comparison with the greatest novels of the Second World War--essayist Noel Perrin deemed it 'probably the best war novel of the twentieth century.' James Gould Cozzens's Guard of Honor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the ...
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2286131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Top edge and fore edge faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 200 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, gilt titles & decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with color plates from paintings by, and illustrations from sketches by, Winslow Homer.
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2307052

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, [32], 144 pp. 8vo. Full orange-brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
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The Red Badge of Courage (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Crane, Stephen; Van Doren, Carl

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2294856

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A few small spots on top edge, a few minor scuffs, endpaper edges slightly faded. 1980 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 170 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
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James Monroe (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Cresson, W.P.; Howe, M.A. De Wolfe

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2268777

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert laid in. From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date ('86) in black ink on front endpaper. 1986 Full-Leather. xiv, 577, [3] pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, with an introduction by M.A. De Wolfe Howe.
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Sandy

By: Crockett, S.R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2205715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Light smudge on front board. 1922 Hard Cover. vi, 353 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Frontispiece by R. Pearson Lawrence. A novel set in Scotland.
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De Gaulle (The Library of Great Lives) [DeGaulle]

By: Crozier, Brian; Nixon, Richard

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2274207

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1990 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 726 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of De Gaulle. A biography which discusses De Gaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon De Gaulle's successes and failures.
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The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders: Clinical States Produced by Disorders of the Hypophysis Cerebri - An Amplification of the Harvey Lecture for December, 1910

By: Cushing, Harvey

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Birmingham, The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions, Ltd.: 1979

Seller ID: 2303539

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. x, 341 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece, 319 black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout, including a large fold-out. A reissue of the work originally published in 1912 by the first exclusive neurosurgeon, who also wrote a multi-volume biography of William Osler.
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Following the Guidon

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1890

Seller ID: 2303671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Exterior in fantastic condition. Tiny smudge on fore edge, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1890 Hard Cover. xx, 341, [3] pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece George Armstrong Custer with his scouts, music tablature for Garryowen and other short pieces, 12 engraved plates, and two cuts. Two of the illustrations depict buffalo 'hunting' (one showing them being shot from the windows of train cars). The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting ...
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Boots and Saddles; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1885

Seller ID: 2305732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, second issue (Howes C-980). Front hinge weakening with first gathering slightly sprung, small circular discoloration on rear board edge, ink owner stamp dated 1899 on front flyleaf, margins of a few pages lightly soiled. 1885 Hard Cover. 312 pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, and single-page 'Outline Map of Portions of Montana & Dakota'. The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future ...
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Two Years Before The Mast [A Personal Narrative of Life At Sea] (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2307034

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1977 Full-Leather. xv, 554, [1] pp. 8vo. Printed on laid paper. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Ronald Keller. Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946....Two Years Before the Mast is a 1946 adventure film based on Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s travel book of the same name. It starred Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, ...
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The Cooper Vignettes. From Drawings By F. O. C. Darley. India Proofs Before Letter.

By: Darley, F.O.C.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, James G. Gregory: 1862

Seller ID: 2267734

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Printed on flyleaf is the following text: 'Presented to Chas. Knickerbocker, by the Steel Plate Engravers of the Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 'as a mark of esteem' and dated 1872, which seems to indicate this volume was custom-bound for Mr. Knickerbocker in that year. Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down, reinforcement to edges of first and last few pages. Two photographs and two engravings laid in. Foxed throughout, boards a bit rubbed with some drying along edges, later pencil gift note on front flyleaf dated 1903 presenting the book to J.H. Wilcox from his mother. ...
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Honey in the Horn (Pulitzer Prize 1936)

By: Davis, Harold L.

Price: $35.00

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

Seller ID: 2307073

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Top edge very faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1977 Full-Leather. 416 pp. 8vo. Full light brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, two-page color frontispiece and color plates by Uldis Klavins. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1936. Set in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Daviss Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as they attempted to settle down and eke out subsistence from a still-wild land. With sly humor and keenly observed detail, Davis pays h...
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2292774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes fold-out map following text of second volume. Crayon scribbles on endpapers and one text page of volume 2, hinges just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco.
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2303705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note on front endpaper of first volume and rear endpaper of last volume. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco.
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The Tales of Guy de Maupassant (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: De Maupassant, Guy; Hearn, Lafcadio; Artinian, Artine; O'Brien, Justin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2205669

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal cosmetic wear to corners. 1977 Full-Leather. xii, 472 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Over four dozen short stories (including his famous The Necklace) translated from the original French by Lafcadio Hearn and Artine Artinian, with an introduction by Justin O'Brien and illustrations from watercolors by Gunter Bohmer.
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Essays [of Michel de Montaigne], Book One [1] (The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: De Montaigne, Michel; Frame, Donald M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2306876

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 387 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Donald M. Frame. This edition was produced as the first of three volumes for The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. Essays is the title of a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a l...
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Category: Decorative Binding

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