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LES MAINS DU MANCHOT

By: Andrau, Marianne

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, ditions Denol: 1953

Seller ID: 21113

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Some pages browned. Some pages unopened. Creasing to rear wraps. Else VG. With a note from the author on ffep in pen else unmarked. ; 430pp. ; 430 pages; Signed by Author
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DIE ANTHROPOPHAGIE Eine Ethnographische Studie

By: Andree, Richard

Price: $67.00 USD

Publisher: Leipzig, Von Veit & Comp.: 1887

Seller ID: 21330

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair

Front paper wrap missing. Rear wrap is tattered with some loss. Title page a bit browned. Binding split into two halves. With the ownership signature of John Leslie Garner, 1886 to titlepage in ink. Chipping and creasing. Reading copy only. ; 105pp. A treatise on cannabalism. ; 105 pages
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MIMESIS: THE REPRESENTATION OF REALITY IN WESTERN LITERATURE

By: Auerbach, Erich & (Willard R. Trask, Trans. )

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 25597

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

Wraps browned with light creasing and minor edgewear. ; 563 pages
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COMEDY A Very Short Introduction

By: Bevis, Matthew

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2013

Seller ID: 19487

ISBN: 0199601712

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused) ? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events. Matthew Bevis studies the classics ofcomic drama, prose fiction and poetry, alongside forms of pantomime, comic opera, silent cinema, popular music,...
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FROM VIRGIL TO MILTON

By: Bowra, C. M.

Price: $6.00 USD

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1967

Seller ID: 25462

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

A bit of staining to front wrap. Spine browned. Else VG. ; Study of literary epic in Virgil, Camoes, Tasso and Milton. ; Papermac 24; 248 pages
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HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH To 1835

By: Brewer, Clifton H.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1924

Seller ID: 29001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Pages tanned. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has tears and chipping with some loss to base of spine. ; 362 pages
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CARMINA CARMENTIS

By: Budenz, Julia

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Pivot Press: 2006

Seller ID: 26842

ISBN: 0972658270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Writing in pen indicating change of publishing date to titlepage. Note from author to R. E. Fantham tipped in. ; 46 pages
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A THEORY OF STORY

By: Coolidge, Jr. , Archibald C.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Maecenas Press: 1988

Seller ID: 31908

ISBN: 0944266037

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Light foxing to top of textblock. ; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.4 inches; 104 pages
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DOERR WAYS A Legacy

By: Doerr, Henry

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Doerr Ways: 1989

Seller ID: 33967

ISBN: 0962225401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Letter from author tipped in along with note from author paper-clipped to ffep. Foxing to textblock. ; 249 pages
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BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE

By: Gossman, Lionel

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 21702

ISBN: 0674068157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Slight bow to boards else fine. Faint shelfwear to DJ. ; In our world of sophisticated literary theory and cliometrics, the gap between literature and history, between literary scholars and historians, has at times seemed to be widening. Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Lionel Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In his first chapters Gossman underlines the historicity of the very category of...
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HERCULES, MY SHIPMATE A Novel

By: Graves, Robert

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Creative Age Press, Inc.: 1945

Seller ID: 33521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Former owner's name on ffep. Minor Writing to half-title. DJ is tattered with chipping and tears. ; 464 pages
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THE LAUGHTER OF APHRODITE A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos

By: Green, Peter

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of California Press: 1993

Seller ID: 33513

ISBN: 0520079663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Creasing to rear DJ flap ; Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amph...
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THE STAR OF THE YOUTH'S COMPANION C. A. Stephens

By: Harris, Louise

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Providence, C. A. Stephens Collection, Brown University: 1969

Seller ID: 20218

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine and parts of boards lightly sunned, else a Fine copy. ; 218pp, some illustrations. ; 218 pages
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THE POETICS OF MANHOOD Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

By: Herzfeld, Michael

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1988

Seller ID: 27763

ISBN: 0691102449

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Laminate of wraps is lifting in places with discolored areas. Else VG. ; 336 pages
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POEMS

By: Hope, A. D.

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Viking Press: 1961

Seller ID: 33957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Pages tanned. Former owner's name on ffep. DJ has some chipping and tears with some browning. ; 120 pages
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O ANADROMARES

By: Kampouroglou / Kampouroglous, D. Gr.

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Athens, Bibliopoleion Basileiou: 1970

Seller ID: 21589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Foxing to top edges of boards. Some browning to endpapers. Light tanning to pages. ; n.d. (c. 1970). Reprint of the 1914 ed. 160pp.; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall; 160 pages
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DUNALLAN; OR KNOW WHAT YOU JUDGE

By: Kennedy, Grace

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Perry: 1843

Seller ID: 22070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Binding a bit rubbed, small tears in spine ends and to joint, scattered foxing throughout. Front hinge starting to weaken. With the booklabel of Leary's Book Store, 158 N. 2nd, Philadelphia; Phila. , J. B. Perry, 1843. 371pp. ; 371 pages
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TRAGEDY AND COMEDY

By: Kerr, Walter

Price: $6.00 USD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1966

Seller ID: 31892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Obituary of Kerr tipped in. Front hinge just starting to weaken. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor edgewear to DJ. ; 350 pages
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LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES [DANGEROUS ACQUAINTANCES] Translated with an Introduction

By: Laclos, Choderlos De & (Trans. Richard Aldington)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Folio Society: 1962

Seller ID: 33968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Spine a bit sunned. Slipcase has very minor shelfwear. ; Wood engravings; 398 pages
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SIR JOHN CUNNINGHAM MCLENNAN. A MEMOIR With a Chapter on His Scientific Work

By: Langton, H. H. & E. F. Burton

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1939

Seller ID: 18377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

3 Small tears to spine cloth near top of spine. Else VG. ; 123 pages
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SUBJUGATION AND BONDAGE Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy

By: Lott, Tommy L. (Ed. )

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 20648

ISBN: 0847687783

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

With the ownership name to titlepage, ink notes, and underlining, of Julius Moravcsik (one of the contributors). Else minor shelfwear. ; Xxii, 351pp. This volume addresses a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. By considering the slave's critical appropriation of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced treatment. They address the questio...
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THE LOST MASSEY LECTURES Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

By: Martin Luther King Jr. & John Kenneth Galbraith & Jane Jacobs & Paul Goodman & Eric W. Kierans

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: House of Anansi Press: 2008

Seller ID: 30555

ISBN: 0887842178

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr. , John Kenneth Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Paul Goodman, and Eric Kierans. Each of these lecturers spoke on a subject at the heart of their intellectual and spiritual concerns -- King on race and prejud...
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A TALE OF TROY

By: Masefield, John

Price: $5.00 USD

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: 33519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light wear to base of spine. ; 57 pages
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THE TRUE STORY OF THE SO-CALLED LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI "IN DEFENCE OF AN ELDERLY LADY."

By: Merritt, Percival

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1927

Seller ID: 20252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, binding a bit rubbed at extremities, still VG. ; Number 51 of an edition of 350, bound in 1/4 cloth, decorative boards. ; 85 pages
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STRATEGIES IN TEACHING GREEK AND LATIN: Two Decades of Experimentation

By: Moreland, Floyd L. (Ed. )

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Scholars Press: 1981

Seller ID: 25716

ISBN: 0891305564

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Faint crease to rear wrap. ; American Philological Association Pamphlets 7; 145 pages
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LOGODOSIA TOU DIOIKETIKOU SYMBOULIOU Tou Etous 1961-1962

By: Nautikon Mouseion Tes Hellados

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Athens, Nautikon Mouseion Tes Hellados: 1963

Seller ID: 22549

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light sunning to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; 47pp, a few illustrations.; 47 pages
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HOW TO GRADE YOUR PROFESSORS AND OTHER UNEXPECTED ADVICE.

By: Neusner, Jacob

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press: 1984

Seller ID: 20082

ISBN: 0807031534

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

xvi+159pp.; 159 pages
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ARBITRARY RULE Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

By: Nyquist, Mary

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 2013

Seller ID: 22201

ISBN: 022601553X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Top of spine bumped else book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Xiii, 421pp. Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slaverys discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart. Nyquist proceeds through analyses not only of texts that are canonical in political thoughtby Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, and Lockebut also of literary works by Euripides, Buchanan, Vondel, Montaigne, and Milton, together with a variety of colonialist and political writings, with special emphasis on tracts written during the...
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SERBO-CROATIAN HEROIC SONGS COLLECTED BY MILMAN PARRY VOLUME THREE The Wedding of Smailagic Meho. Avdo Mededovic.

By: Parry, Milman & Albert B. Lord & David E. Bynum & (Avdo Mededovic)

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 28106

ISBN: 0674801636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to ffep (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. ; Publications of the Milman Parry Collection, Texts and Translation Series Number One; Vol. 3; 338 pages
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THE KING MUST DIE

By: Renault, Mary

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Pantheon: 1958

Seller ID: 33520

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

"withdrawn" stamp to rear endpaper but no other markings. A few minor scratches to spine label. ; The King Must Die is an adaption of the early life and adventures of the mythological Greek hero Theseus. ; 339 pages
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REGULUS Qui Liber Le Petit Prince Inscribitur Ab Augusto Haury in Latinum Conversus

By: Saint-Exupry, Antoine De & Augustus Haury

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.: 2001

Seller ID: 30517

ISBN: 0156014041

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very minor shelfwear. ; Latin translation of the "Little Prince". ; Harvest Book; 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.3 inches; 96 pages
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PORTRAIT OF YORKSHIRE

By: Scott, Harry J.

Price: $6.00 USD

Publisher: London, Robert Hale: 1970

Seller ID: 20338

ISBN: 0709118422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Light edgewear to DJ. ; 207pp, illustrated.; 207 pages
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SEA OF SEAS Cruising the Western Mediterranean

By: Shawe, Captain Wilfred H. Scott

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton, Van Nostrand: 1961

Seller ID: 20278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and edgewear with some tears. ; handsomely printed and illustrated. ; 319 pages
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NIL ALIENUM: THE MEMOIRS OF C. B. SISSONS

By: Sissons, C. B.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1964

Seller ID: 25960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

4 pages browned. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and a few tears. ; Memoirs of University of Toronto Victoria College Classics professor, historian and author. ; 260 pages
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MATTHEW ARNOLD AND THE EDUCATION OF THE NEW ORDER

By: Smith, Peter & Geoffrey Summerfield

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 18360

ISBN: 0521073413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. Former owner's name to ffep. DJ is price-clipped with chipping and small tears. ; A selection from Arnold's writing on education, other than Culture and Anarchy. All the pieces stem from his work as Inspector of Schools: they illustrate his concern both with the principles that must be established as a basis for the education of an industrial democracy and his practical concern with the day-to-day running of schools. 'Democracy' was first published as the introduction to The Popular Education of France. It faces the fundamental political problems and outlines the gener...
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THE EDGE OF BEING Poems

By: Spender, Stephen

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Random House: 1949

Seller ID: 33963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 57 pages
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GESTA ROMANORUM: OR, ENTERTAINING MORAL STORIES Invented by the Monks As a Fireside Recreation... Translated from the Latin, with Preliminary Observations and Copious Notes

By: Swan, Charles & (Rev. by Wynnard Hooper).

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: George Bell & Sons: 1891

Seller ID: 27761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Minor fraying and small tear to head of spine. Corner of ffep has been excised. Else VG. ; Lxxvi, 425 pp ; 425 pages
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THE WITCH OF RAMOTH AND OTHER TALES

By: Van Doren, Mark (Selected by)

Price: $24.00 USD

Publisher: York, PA, Maple Press Company: 1950

Seller ID: 20753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Bound in 1/4 cloth, decorative boards, with matching slipcase. Slipcase is VG and is rubbed and a bit browned at extremities with small cracks. Number 455 of an edition of 1700.; Eighth Annual Keepsake Volume; 96 pages
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Z [ZETA] Translated from the Greek

By: Vasilikos, Vasilis & (Trans. by Marilyn Calmann)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: MacDonald & Co: 1969

Seller ID: 33522

ISBN: 0356024695

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Rubbing and abrasion to spine. Lower corner has rubbed area. Former owner's name on ffep. Shelfwear. ; 406 pages
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THE HANDBOOK OF INTERETHNIC COEXISTENCE

By: Weiner, Eugene (Ed. ) & (Foreword by Alan B. Slifka)

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: NY, Continuum Intl Pub Group: 1998

Seller ID: 20132

ISBN: 0826410561

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has very tiny chip and minor shelfwear. ; This wide-ranging and comprehensive handbook written by authorities in conflict resolution, social psychology, and international relations offers both theoretical and practical resources for facilitating interethnic coexistence. ; Large 8vo; 653 pages
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THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO COMEDY

By: Weitz, Eric

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 25351

ISBN: 0521540267

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Faint crease to lower corner of front wrap and first few pages. Light crease to spine. ; 'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text? Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide to reading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance to anything from...
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THE GLADIATORS

By: Whyte-Melville, J. G.

Price: $5.00 USD

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 30481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Boards laminated. ; 423 pages
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STONES A Guide to Some Remarkable Eighteenth Century Scottish Gravestones

By: Willsher, Betty & Doreen Hunter

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Canongate Books: 1978

Seller ID: 26800

ISBN: 0903937360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Signed by Betty Willsher to titlepage. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ with 1 tiny chip to DJ. ; Photographs; 140 pages; Signed by One Author
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Category: Miscellaneous