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Hutchings, R. S.
The Western Heritage of Type Design
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny rub to upper rear corner, traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with irregular sunning to all surfaces. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 127pp. A treasury of currently available typefaces demonstrating the historical development and diversification of form of printed letters selected and arranged with an introduction, commentaries and reference appendices.
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Halliday & Dickins (editors)
Yorkshire Dialect Prose : Second Series
No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease across whole booklet. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. 28pp. Twelve entirely dialect pieces by Yorkshire writers. Scarce second series.
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Cogan, Jenny & Flecker, Mary
Dyslexia in Secondary School: A Practical Handbook for Teachers, Parents and Students
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to lower corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Appears hardly to have been read. 339pp. A study of dyslexia in secondary schools, why dyslexic students frequently underachieve and how adjustments in teaching and learning methods can make a big difference.
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Agard, John
The Calypso Alphabet
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Unpaginated. Now protected in a fully-removable transprent sleeve. 28pp. An alphabet book written in rhyme which captures the feeling of the Caribbean islands using both words and the brightly coloured paintings which accompany every page.
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Glover, A. J.
Enrich Your English
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 102pp. A sel-help manual of exercises designed to build one's vocabulary in a variety of ways,
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Nesfield, J. C.
Oral Exercises in English Composition
Very neat name/address to front end paper. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with very slightly marked/foxed boards, dusty page edges, minor loss of text to spine and no bumping to corners. 216pp. An in-depth manual of oral exercises to provide a better understanding and knowledge of the English language. Scarce in the UK.
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Sutherland, Jmes (editor)
The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to some edges. 382pp. A collection of almost 500 worthwhile anecdotes from over 1000 years of memoirs.
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Hamm, Josef
Das Glagolitische Missale von Kiew (Schriften der Balkankommission, Linguistische Abteilung) (German Edition) (Signed By Author)
Appears unread. Inscribed by the author to Professor John S Dumbreck on the title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovel clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 156pp. The Glagolitic Missal was transliterated into Latin script since knowledge of Glagolitic script was already in great decline by 1927. Glagolitic script was only used for the Ordinary of the Mass and in parallel to the same in Latinized script. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. Scarce. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Forsyth, J.
A Grammar of Aspect : Usage and Meaning in the Russian Verb
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards, very slight sunning to extreme ends of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 386pp. The Extra Volume in the series Studies in the Modern Russian Language. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Benson, Morton (compiler)
Dictionary of Russian Personal Names
Signed 'J C Dumbreck' to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked turquoise cloth boards, slight softening of spine ends and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket clipped but not marked with a little sunning and nicks, chips and small tears to edges. 175pp. This work describes the tendencies in the accentuation of Russian surnames and with a guide to stress and morphology, it covers approximately 23,000 selected surnames. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Patrick, George Z.
Roots of the Russian Language
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 239pp. A standard reference work with 450 of the most fruitful roots of the Russian Language. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Bloomfield, Leonard
Language (Unwin University Books)
Signed J C Dumbreck 1972 to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 566pp. A classic work on Language, across an international field and an invaluable aid to all students of or those with an interest in comparative philology. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Morison, W. A.
Studies in Russian Forms and Uses : The Present Gerund and Active Principle
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked anthracite cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket clipped but not price clipped and not marked or torn or creased. 75pp. Based on sentence gathered from Russian literature and illustrating the Present Gerund and Active Participle, the author provides a translation, word-stress, pronunciation and sentence-stress. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : Autumn 1962 - No 41
Damp mark to upper edge of a number of pages and of rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, tiny nick to front edge and no bumping to corners. 152pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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Verderber, Rudolph; Verderber, Kathleen
Communicate!: With CD-Rom and Infotrac
Shrink-wrapped mint book with enclosed CD-ROM. pp. Learn the skills of human communication - in the interpersonal group and public communication - speech builder, ethics and comparison with experts. Scarce in this condition in the UK.
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Baker, Louis
C. Tools for Scientists and Engineers (Computing that works)
Name crossed out inside front cover, on bottom of page edges and less obviously, on front cover. No inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of rear cover, none to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright (otherwise) unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 324pp. A guide to writing and to using the supplied easily modified programmes in the C language.
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Stott, Rebecca & Snaith, Anna & Rylance, Rick
Making Your Case: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 158pp. A valuable opportunity for the reader to investigate and learn about the processes of academic writing including chapters on collecting information, identifying an argument, designing a plan and editing, proof reading and referencing.
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Purdum, Jack J.
C. Programming Guide
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to rear, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 250pp. An excellent learning tool for the C software language.
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Hancock, Leslie; Krieger, Morris
The C Primer
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 235pp. An excellent learning tool for C, the software language. Scarce in the UK.
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Purdum, Jack J.; Etc.
C. Programmer's Library
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower front corner and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower front corner pages. 366pp. A tool to help you develop more advanced, generalized library functions with C programming. Very scarce in the UK.
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Jamsa, Kris
The C. Library
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 294pp. With over 125 carefully structured routines ranging from macros to UNIX utilities.
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Lunder, Siri Sverdrup
The Trondheim Russian-German MS Vocabulary: Contribution to 17th Century Russian Lexicography
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Original manuscript printed on about 150 pages plus 347pp. A 17th century Russian-German MS vocabulary is reproduced in this book in facsimile. The remainder of the book is explanation, discussion, translation, bibliography and an attempt to trace the manuscript's provenance and history. Very scarce in the UK.
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Forbes, Nevill & Dumbreck, J. C.
Forbes' Russian Grammar : Third Edition Revised and Enlarged by J. C. Dumbreck
Book and jacket in mint condition. 438pp. Third edition of the classic Russian language study revised and enlarged by J. C. Dumbreck From the new book 'store' of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Axtell, Roger E.
Do's and Taboos of Public Speaking
The word 'this' written small in ink on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 201pp. A self-help guide to Public Speaking or 'How to get those butterflies flying in formation'.
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Bentley, Carol A. E
I Want to Buy Your Product... Have You Sent Me a Letter Yet?:
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 158pp. .'How to create powerful sales letters, advertisements, ffyers, brochures, web pages and newsletters that persuade hundreds or even thousands of customers and clients to buy from you!'.
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Kermode, Frank
Shakespeare's Language
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and bumps to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing/creasing to upper and lower edges. 324pp. A study by England's leading literary critic of the language of the early 17th century and in particular that used by Shakespeare. Tucked in is a newspaper review of this book
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Ansari, Khizar Humayun & Jackson, June
Managing Cultural Diversity at Work (Better Management Skills S.)
Appears unread. Trace of label removal inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 127pp. a study of the factors which affect an organisation's efficiency as a multicultural entity. Covers recial discrimination, language barriers, preferential promotion, different behavioural norms and religious customs.
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Newell, Leonard
Headhunters' Encounter With God: An Ifugao Adventure
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, single crease down spine. A very clean very tight copy with scratch/rub to rear spine edge, otherwise unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 165pp. The author's account of meeting the completely non-Christian tribal group the Ifugao people of the mountains of the Philippine Cordillera as they embrace the Christian faith. Illustrated.
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Adams John & Wells Sydney & Jenkins E S.
Teach Yourself German
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges, sunning to spine and no bumping to corners. 195pp. How to learn the German language.
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Cousins, Donald
Teach Yourself Book-keeping
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 266pp. How to learn all about book-keeping and doing the accounts.
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Stroustrup, Bjarne
The C++ Programming Language
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 327pp. A definitive reference and guide to the C++ programming language by its designer.
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Bennett, H S
English Books & Readers 1603 to 1640: Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or creased with tiny piece missing from spine foot. 253pp. A study of the book trade in the reigns of James I and Charles I.
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Wood, Stanley (editor)
The Oxford and Cambridge Edition : Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or What You Will with Intro, Notes Etc
Ink underlining to two pages and two names to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with lightly marked boards and with rubbing to all corners and to spine. 176pp. Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' with added Notes, Characters, Elizabethan English and Grammar.
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Calvert, C.(editor)
The French Newspaper : Its Character, Style and Contents
Easily removable pencil translation of some words in Chapter 1 only. Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with gilt embossed front, unmarked boards, dusty page edges and minor rubbing to corners. 251pp. A study giving British readers a general idea of the French Press including a section of extracts that reveal the normal French opinion of the British. Thirteen page intro in English, the remaining text in French.
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Chew, Shirley and Stead, Alistair (editors)
Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (Liverpool English Texts and Studies)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor fading to spine. 421pp. Eighteen substantial essays from critics, translators and eminent persons of British theatre which explore the idea and practice of translation.
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John Grisewood
Englisch Kinderleicht
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 41pp. German to and from English for children by words and pictures.
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Bernstein, Theodore M.
The Careful Writer; a Modern Guide to English Usage
Name/date to both inside covers in bold felt tip. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges, minor bumping to a few adjacent lower page corners and no bumping to cover corners. 487pp. A concise yet thorough handbook, covering more than 2,000 alphabetical entries the problems that give (or should give) a writer pause for thought before he sets words to paper - questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and colour.
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Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack
Figments of Reality : The Evolution of the Curious Mind
No evidence that the book has been read. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight soiling to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 325pp. This book seeks to explain the evolution of mankind's consciousness, arguing that the mind evolved in the context of culture and language, aiding survival in a complex and competitive world.
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Pinker, Steven
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Book in as new unread condition. 499pp. Stephen Pinker ezplains how we use language to inform, persuade, entertain or manipulate and from it we can glimpse the very essence of what makes us human.
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Pinker, Steven
How the Mind Works
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight soiling to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage and very slight sunning to spine. 660pp. The author explains what the mind is, how it evolved and how it allows us to see, think, feel and follow human callings in the arts, religion and philosophy. This is a very comprehensive study.
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Posner, Rebecca
The Romance Languages
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 376pp. A comprehensive survey which examines the languages considered Romance Languages from a wide variety of perspectives, combining philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic.
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Dalby, Andrew
Dictionary of Languages : The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly arched, sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 734pp. The essential resource for anyone interested in language.
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Wilson, H. L. & Clayton Jones, H.
Mountain Skylines and Place Names in Llandudno and District
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean tight booklet with slightly foxed boards, mark to rear (ink ?), rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 24pp. In three parts - 'Guide to the Welsh pronunciation', 'Mountains in the vicinity of Llandudno' and 'Welsh Place Names in Llandudno and District'. Undated ca 1900.
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Hawthorn, Jeremy
Joseph Conrad : Language and Fictional Self-Consciousness
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing/rubbing to upper edge 138pp. A detailed discussion of five of Conrad's major novels, seeking to demonstrate that a self-conscious concern with language and fiction is present as a crucial element within these works.
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Vickers, Brian
Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose
Book plate to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with a little sunning. 316pp. A full study of Bacon as a writer, both analyitical and historical, covering the whole of his work, in Latin as well as in English.
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Jeffares, A. Norman (editor)
Scott's Mind and Art
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly scratched otherwise unmarked boards and very minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with nicks and small chips to edges and sunning to spine. 266pp. A collection of ten essays, old and new, as an introduction of to one of the 19th century's most prolific writers. Tucked in is a copy of four pages of official notes of an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott.
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Beck, Von Angelika G.
Deutsch in 30 Tagen : German in 30 Days
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 321pp. A German-English language course for beginners.
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Griffin, Dr William
Alpha Teach Yourself French in 24 Hours
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 460pp. Includes grammar basics and usage, reading and translation exercises and an extensive vocabulary for business, school or leisure.
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Snow, Wynter
TEX for the Beginner
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 400pp. An early typesetting system used by writers and typists in mathematics, science and engineering.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : February 1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, a most critical time - Philadelphia in 1793, the Turkish Language Reform - Ataturk in 1924-5, Matthew Arnold's school inspections pt 2 1862-86, the Religious Toleration of James I, the Dogs of Yesteryear, the maps of Waterloo 1815 plus book reviews and letters.
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