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COLLIER] [J.
The Literature relating to New Zealand. A Bibliography.
8vo., cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, a very good copy. Scarce
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OAK KNOLL BOOKS
A. Edward Newton. A Collection of his Works. [Oak Knoll Books. Catalogue 86]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 13 pages of reproductions and facsimiles; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Effectively a proto-bibliography of A. Edward Newton, the catalogue describes 678 items with full index.
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NEWGASS Edgar
An Outline of Anglo-American Bible History.
4to., with a frontispiece and 16 fine plates of facsimiles; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dust-wrpper. A brief yet useful survey including accounts of all the major editions and a short bibliography
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NORWICH CITY LIBRARY.
Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Norvicensi. A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the City of Norwich in the Year MDCCCLXXXIII. Compiled by Frederic Kitton. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., title in red and black; brown cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked with the arms of the City of Norwich in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean copy of an uncommon work. The first catalogue, published in 1706, was followed by Mackerell's compilation of 1732. The present (and last published) edition lists over 1,700 works, the latest of which were published in the early eighteenth century, together with an extensive list of benefactors. Amongst the collection are a number of specimens of early printing by Caxon, De Worde, Julian Notary, Pynson, Grafton and several continental printers. There is also a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean theological tracts relating to the Reformation, and another of Chancery Records. Among the donors to the library were the Rev. Richard Ireland and the Rev. Thomas Nelson, each of whom presented his entire library. The former also donated his copy of the celebrated Wiklif Bible, now in the Norfolk and Norwich Musum. SCARCE. Darroch and Taylor, 5569.
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BROOKS Harold F.
A Bibliography of John Oldham, the Restoration Satirist. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut and largely unopened, covers a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Oxford Bibliographical Society, Proceedings & Papers, Vol. V Part I.
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PARTINGTON Wilfred
Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth. The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 20 plates on12, and 7 facsimiles and an illustration in the text; pictorial buckram gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dust-wprapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip and wanting a small piece from upper margin of lower cover. With the errata slip
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[Sale Catalogue of] The celebrated Library of Boies Penrose. Removed fom Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania. NEAR FINE COPY
2 vols., 4to., with folding coloured frontispiece, 16 plates (2 folding) and very numerous facsimiles (a number full-page and one folding) in the text; original boards, a near fine copy. A highly important collection of works on travel, exploration, navigation and trade.
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PIERRE BERES
Catalogue 53. Livres Romantiques et Modernes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., with frontispiece and 6 other fine plates of splendid bindings, and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 445 notable items, including substantial holdings of Apollinaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Colette, Flaubert, Hugo, Maupassant, Proust, Sand, Stendhal and Verlaine among many others.
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PLOMER Henry
Wynken De Worde and his Contemporaries from the Death of Caxton to 1535. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 13 facsimiles (11 of which are full-page) in the text; minimal spotting on endpapers; boards, holland back, paper label, gilt top, covers very slightly age-marked else a bright, clean, crisp copy.
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GUTMANN Rudolf von
[Sale Catalogue of] Sammlung Rudolf von Gutmann. 2 April 1993. Sale Code: DONAU. FINE COPY WITH PRICE LIST
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. WITH THE PRINTED LIST OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. Comprises 121 outstanding lots, with introduction, list of references and index.
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MICHAEL JOSEPH Ltd
At the Sign of the Mermaid. Fifty Years of Michael Joseph.
Oblonf 4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in original glassine wrapper, the latter a little frayed at edges.
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PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN
Catalogue of a Display of Printing Mechanisms and printed Materials arranged to illustrate the History of Western Civilisation and the Means of the Multiplication of literary Texts since the XVth Century.
8vo., with 49 plates (one in colour); original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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THE TIMES
Past. Present. Future.. To celebrate Two Hundred Years of Publication.
4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations and advertisements; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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LAMBERT J.W.
The Bodley Head 1887 - 1987.
8vo., First Edition, with 31 plates and 16 illustrations on tinted stock; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dust wrapper. With the publisher's presentation bookplate on front free endpaper.
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Oxford Publishing since 1478. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers in red and black, a near fine copy.
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BERNARD QUARITCH LTD
A Catalogue of Important and Rare Books of the Fine Arts. Catalogue 434. FINE COPY IN BUCKRAM
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in green buckram, upper board letterd in gilt, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a fine copy The catalogue lists over 3,164 items.
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HART C.
Charles Earl Stanhope and the Oxford University Press. Reprinted from Collectanea, 111, (1896) of the Oxford Historical Society with Notes by James Mosley.
8vo., with 6 plates on 3 and 6 illustrations (2 full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Printing Historical Society, Publication No. 2
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BERNARD QUARITCH LTD
A Catalogue of Books on the Fine Arts, Music & Dancing (including a few Autographs). Catalogue 561. NEAR FINE COPY IN BUCKRAM
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists over 1,314 items.
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FRANKLIN Colin
Poets of the Daniel Press. [First Paperback Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Includes Bridges, Watson Dixon, Mary Coleridge, Wedgwood, Buckton, Margaret Woods, Herbert Warren, Binyon, Bourdillon and Henry Patmore. Published simultaneously with the limited edition of 45 copies.
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RAYMOND Harold
Publishing and Bookselling. A Survey of Post-War Developments and Present-Day Problems. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. [J.M. Dent Memorial Lecture 1938]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Sole Edition; original marbled boards, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy.
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RAYMOND Harold
Publishing and Bookselling. A Survey of Post-War Developments and Present-Day Problems. [Eighth Dent Memorial Lecture]. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. NEAR FINE COPY IN ROAN
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original half roan, marbled boards, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers lightly age-marked, small label scar on rear paste-down else a very good, clean copy.
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CURLE Richard
The Ray Society. A Bibliographical History.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and a plate; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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ROBERTS W.
Rare Books and their Prices. With Chapters on Pictures, Pottery, Porcelain and Postage Stamps. Second Edition. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers browned; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. The first edition appeared earlier in the same year.
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RINGLER Jr W.A.
Bibliography of English Verse 1501-1558. Prepared and completed by Michael Rudick and Susan J. Ringlerg.
8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, a fine copy. Ringler's sequel to 'Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1550' which appeard in 1988. The work was compiled over four decades and completed from the author's notes following his death in 1988.
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ROBINSON Ltd W. H.
Catalogue 77: A Selection of extremely rare and important Printed Books and ancient Manuscripts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine sepia-toned frontispiece, very numerous sepia-toned facsimiles in the text and 2 splendid folding sepia-toned facsimiles; printed boards, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, crisp copy. Robinson catalogues from the immediate post-war period are acclaimed as much for their intrinsic production values as for their reflection of the last 'golden age' of rarities. No. 77 is no exception containing as it does no fewer than 194 outstanding items, including the first book printed in the English language - Caxton's History of Troy (1485) - a MS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (c. AD 820), a broadside ballad from Virginia (1623) constituting the earliest known American verse and Hariot's Artis Analyticae Praxis (1631) - the fundamental work on algebraic equations. As usual the catalogue is compehensively indexed
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 14. Hospitals, Towns and the Professions. Edited by N.L. Ramsay and J.M.W. Willoughby. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 14.
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NELSON J.G.
Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous illustrations ands facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The work contains a checklist of the Mathews imprint from 1894 to 1922.
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FLETCHER Ifan Kyrle
Edward Gordon Craig. A Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; original printed wrappers, a a near fine copy. A detailed and most useful bibliography.
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[Sale catalogue of] Important Autograph Letters and Manuscripts. The Properties of the Heirs of Grace Phillips Johnson [Containing the Original Autograph Manuscript of the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax'].
4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. With the printed list of estimates bound in at end.The sale comprised 103 lots. Lot 90 is the original autograph manuscript of the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax' (published in book form in 'His Last Bow'). The MS comprises 28 leaves containing approximately 95 minor corrections all in the author's hand. The first page is illustrated in full; the estimate is £12,000-£15,000.
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WALLIS P.
At the Sign of the Ship. Notes on the House of Longman 1724-1974. Foreword by Elizabeth Longman.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 12 plates on 9 and a pedigree in the text; original printed wrappers, a very bright, clean copy
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MCDONALD D.
Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young 1200-1800. [Facsimile reissue].
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; original blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1908. Provides reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in 'The Field' from 1903 to 1907. Includes an extensive bibliography.
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COHEN Ben
The Thames, 1580-1900. A General Bibliography. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
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DARROCH Elizabeth
A Bibliography of Norfolk History. Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Darroch and Barry Taylor.
8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible) else a very good, clean copy. A standard reference
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BLADES William
The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author and a List of his Works, by Talbot R. Reed. LARGE PAPER 'PENTATEUCH'. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED.
4to., First Edition, LARGE PAPER, with a frontispiece, decorative and printed titles, and numerous plates (a number folding) and illustrations in the text; publisher's binding of boards, calf back gilt, gilt top, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Sold from an institution with its stamps and accession data. 'The best brief outline of the history of printing. This was the first comprehensiove primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered invaluable to the student of historical typography. As the title suggests, the history of the chosen art is traced in its various stages as the great Pentateuch traced the origin and wanderings of the chosen people.'. W. Turner Berry, 1924
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JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. [Preface by E. Gordon Duff]. IN THE ORIGINAL SIGNED FAZAKERLEY BINDING
3 vols., roy. to., First Edition; original binding of dark brown full morocco, gilt tops, gilt dentelles BY FAZAKERLEY of Liverpool, a very good, bright, firm copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplates and neat stamps on endpapers and titles. The world-famous John Rylands Library was formed from the collection purchased from Lord Spencer of Althorp. A very nice set of an important and valuable catalogue in publisher's original binding
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WHITBREAD AND CO
Catalogue of the Collection of Items at the Printer's Devil, Fetter Lane London EC4, illustrating the History of Printing. With Essays and a Glossary of Terms. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title, 16plates on 14 and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, presentation inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Catalogue of the collection of printing specimens and artefacts at the famous Fleet Street pub. Lists 140 items together with essays on The Printed Page by A. Lloyd-Taylor and The Printed Illustration by John Lewis.
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HODNETT Edward
English Woodcuts 1480-1535. [Second and Best Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 4to., Second Edition, on laid paper, with 251 facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original series binding of navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Substantially revised, corrected and augmented version of the original edition of 1935. The 82pp of 'Additions & Corrections' (which include 18 new facsimiles) are presented as a separate section under the Society's imprint at the end of the work.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Livres Precieux. [Provenent de la Bibliotheque de Major Adrian McLaughlin]. 7-8 Ocober 1980.
4to., with a folding coloured frontispiece and numerous monochrome facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, covers slightly scuffed else a very good, clean copy. The collection comprised 2071 lots, principally English and Continental books from the 16th-19th centuries, and bindings
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MAGGS BROS. LTD
The House of Maggs. Founded 1855. IN FULL BUCKRAM
4to., First Edition, with q frontispiece and numerous photographs and facsimiles (a number full-page, including 10 fine views of rooms); original pictorial wrappers, blocked and lettered in black, attractively bound in blue full buckram, gilt back, original yapped wrappers preserved, an elegant copy. Issued to mark the removal of the company from its premises at 34-35 Conduit Street to its present location at 50 Berkeley Square.
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WHITAKER Harold
The Harold Whitaker Collection of County Atlases, Road-Books & Maps presented to the University of Leeds. A Catalogue.
4to., SOLE EDITION, with a frontispiece and 9 plates of facsimiles; cloth, covers a little sunned and age-marked, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. This outstanding catalogue (compiled by Whitaker of his own collection) was published by the Brotherton Library as 'Library Publications' No. 2. It was never reprinted and is now increasingly hard to find. Sold from an institution with its small, neat stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title only
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AMERICAN LIBRARY, LONDON.
Walt Whitman. Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the American Lbrary, London: March-April, 1954. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, preface in red and black; original printed wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy of a scarce work. The catalogue lists 118 notable exhibits, based largely on the renowned collection of Charles E. Feinberg. 'This exhibition is in a sense the visit that Walt Whitman had always wanted to make. The letters and presentation copies of his books shown here are intimately connected with his literary friendships in the British Isles. Noteworthy acquaintances through correspondence were Tennyson, Swinburne, Ruskin, Dowden, Symonds and others'. Foreword
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MARTIN E.A.
A Bibliography of Gilbert White. The Naturalist & Antiquarian of Selborne. With a Biography and a descriptive Account of the Village of Selborne.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and 7 plates and 9 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, small age-stain on outer margin of upper board else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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WHEATLEY H.B.
How to make an Index.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. With the bookplate of G.C. Dunning, archaeologist and scholar. Published in the attractive 'Book-Lover's Library' series.
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WARD Gladys A.
Essex Local History. A Short Guide to Books and Manuscripts. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. O'Leary, 498; not recorded [surprisingly] by Powell.
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FOXCROFT Albert Broadbent
A Catalogue of English Books and Fragments from 1477 to 1535 in the Public Library of Victoria. With Preface by Ernst B. Pitt. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 8 other facsimiles; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, backstrip worn else a sound, clean copy. Among the printers represented are Caxton, De Worde, Rastell, Berthelot, Hawkins and Pynson.
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UNWIN Philip
The Book. Number Five: Publishing from Manuscript to Bookshop. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original decorative wrappers, paper label on front wrapper, a near fine copy.
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VAN GENNEP K.
Bibliographie des Oeuvres d'Arnold Van Gennep. Preface de G-H. Riviere. 1255 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with frontispiece; original wrappers, sewed as issued, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1255 COPIES. Arnold Van Gennep (1873-1957) was perhaps the greatest French ethnologist of recent times. This bibliography provides details not only of his books but also of his far more numerous contributions to periodicals. SCARCE.
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UNWIN Stanley
The Truth about Publishing.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured plate and several illustrations in the text; buckram, gilt back, uncut, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy.
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SINKER Robert
Biographical Notes on the Librarians of Trinity College on Sir Edward Stanhope's Foundation. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., First Edition; original wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. 'Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 8vo Publications', No. XXIX.
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TOMLINSON J.T.
The Prayer Book, Articles and Homilies. Some forgotten Facts in their History which may decide their Interpretation.
8vo., with a frontispiece and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very bright, clean copy. Scarce.
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