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Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor BOOK DECORATIONS
New York The Grolier Club 1931 4to. parchment spine, boards. (82) pages.
First edition, limited to 400 copies (Asaf 97). Beautifully produced book describing Goodhue's design work including borders, covers, bookplates, printers' marks and seals, printing types, initials and miscellaneous decorations. Consists of mostly reproductions of his work with some text.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 293

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Gorey, Edward THE GILDED BAT.
New York Dodd, Mead & Company (1979) small square 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards, matching dust jacket not paginated
Reissued 1979/first printing on the copyright page as called for. New edition subsequent to the promontion edition issued at the American Booksellers Association. (Toledano A21f.) Gorey has crossed out his name on the title page and signed this copy. Book and dust jacket have a little wear at the extremites.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 108320

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(Goulding, Frederick) Hardie, Martin FREDERICK GOULDING: MASTER PRINTER OF COPPER PLATES.
Stirling Eneas MacKay 1910 small 4to. quarter parchment with paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. 167 pages and 7 plates.
First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. Goulding (1842-1909) was an important figure in his day. A well-produced book printed on fine paper. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers rubbed and abraded along bottom of front cover. Parchment soiled.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 98143

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(Grant, Duncan) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.
(Edinburgh R. & R. Clark, Ltd.) 1945 8vo full blue leather, front board stamped with gilt design, top edge gilt, other edges uncut 35 pages
Limited edition of 700. Coleridge's famed poem. Frontispiece and color illustrations (five total) by Duncan Grant, (1885-1978), a painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group. The marginal notes are printed in red alongside text of poem. The plates were made and printed by the Raynard Press on Arnold hand-made paper. The binding was executed by Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh; and the medallion and lettering on the binding were designed by Percy Metcalfe, C.V.O. Spine faded; faint stain along bottom of back cover.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 107097

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GRAPHIS, GRAPHIC AND APPLIED ART.
23 issues of the superb periodical devoted to the graphic arts. Zurich Graphis Press 1946 to 1951 4to stiff paper wrappers
The run starts with issue 14 (lacks covers) and goes through issue 37 lacking only issue 18. Some covers detached and spine coverings worn. Filled with graphic art illustrations in color. Price is for the run.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 104990

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Greenwood, James THE HATCHET THROWERS.
London John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly 1866 8vo. later quarter leather, cloth, edges gilt, title, author and decorations gilt-stamped on spine, marbled slipcase 164 pages
First edition. Greenwood (1831-1926) was an English social critic, concerned about the plight of those in London's workhouses and the working poor. Frontispiece and thirty-six illustrations, tinted and drawn on wood by Ernest Griset, Edward Hodnett notes his "good animal and insect illustrations for each of the three far-fetched and sometimes offensive narratives by James Greenwood." See Hodnett, Five Centuries of English Book Illustration (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1988), 155-7. Marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. List of illustrations. Some scuffing at edges. Slipcase worn at edges.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109401

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(Greyweathers Press) Thompson, L. F. (foreword) GRAVEN IMAGES: A PORTFOLIO OF NINETEENTH CENTURY WOOD ENGRAVINGS PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOCKS
With a Foreword by L.F. Thompson. Merrickville Greyweathers Press 2010 4to cloth-backed paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. 6, 13 wood cuts, (2) pages
First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Wood engravers toiling away at their trade during the last quarter of the nineteenth century could be forgiven for feeling a touch of despair. Since the early 1800s, they had practiced a viable trade, with graver in hand over an endgrain block, cutting illustrations for a healthy proportion of books, newspapers and periodicals. In the 1880s, they witnessed the advent of photomechanical printing plates and, in direct competition, felt the ominous rising tide of obsolescence. As this new technology became more efficient, less expensive and generally accepted over the next twenty years, commercial wood engravers would begin to pack up their blocks, wrap up their tools and seek other employment. It could well be this very occurrence that lay behind the discovery, 130 years on, of a collection of nineteenth century engraved boxwood blocks and, ultimately, the creation of this portfolio.
Beautiful privately printed book featuring thirteen wood engravings from Samuel Smith Kilburn, Boston, George Matthews, Boston & Montreal F. Archibald.
Price: $ 160.00 other currencies Order nr. 105925

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(Gromme, Owen) Mentzer, Michael and Judith Redline Coopey. THE WORLD OF OWEN GROMME.
Madison, Wisconsin Stanton & Lee 1983 4to. quarter leather with cloth, slipcase 240 pages
First edition, one of 250 numbered and signed copies constituting the "Artist Proof" edition (of 2500 deluxe copies). Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. Biography of noted nature artist Owen Gromme is followed by 122 full color reproductions of his work, each with personal commentary. Index.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 90868

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Guilmard, Désiré LES MAÎTRES ORNEMANISTES, DESSINATEURS, PEINTRES, ARCHITECTES, SCULPTEURS ET GRAVEURS; ÉCOLES FRANÇAISE,--ITALIENNE,--ALLEMANDE,--ET DES PAYS-BAS (FLAMANDE & HOLLANDAISE)
2 volumes. Paris E. Plon 1880-1881 4to. contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands and gilt detailing on spine xvi,560 pages; (vi),180 plates.
A bibliography of ornamental artists of France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands from the 16th through 18th centuries. Facsimiles of book illustrations, along with illustrated examples of other decorative arts. Includes a list of works to consult from the Bibliothèque de Paris, and an alphabetical index of artists. 180 plates of diverse examples of ornamentation, such as designs for furniture, jewelry, books, and vases. Both volumes loose in boards, with the lower portion of spine of Volume 2 almost detatched. Bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this book came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak Knoll Books at auction.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 75866

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(Harsimus Press) Ward, Lynd LYND WARD'S LAST UNFINISHED WORDLESS NOVEL.
N.P. New Jersey Book Arts Syposium, Rutgers University Libraries 2001 8vo. cloth (x) pages, 44 leaves of plates, (8) pages.
Printed in an edition of 100 numbered copies (this being #5) by Barbara Henry of the Harsimus Press of Jersey City, New Jersey. Introduction by Michael McCurdy and a description of the unfinished blocks by Michael Joseph. Illustrations printed from the original blocks. Prospectus loosely inserted as is a T.L.s. from Barbara Henry to Michael McCurdy thanking him for his introduction and meant to accompany this copy of the book. She comments on her dislike of lettering and numbering copies.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 72619

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(Haybarn Editions) VOICES TO SHARE
2011 small 4to cloth portfolio binding, loose sheets 32 pages
First edition and limited to 100 copies. In a companion piece, following Gathering, the 50th anniversary edition with poetry in 2010, Voices to Share is a portfolio of works of nine texts from French, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Yiddish, and Native American poets. Works by Char, Celan, Gaspar, Jabes, Neruda, Pane, Hyon-Jong, Sutzkever, and Wintu. This piece is offered as an expression of esteem and appreciation for the international poets and the artist's writer friends who have inspired the journey of a half-century. Four loose illustrations inserted.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 106755

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(Hendriksen, F.) Krogh-Jensen, G. XYLOGRAF F. HENDRIKSEN BIBLIOGRAFI, MED EN INLEDNING OM F. HENDRIKSEN SOM SKRIBENT [THE WOOD ENGRAVER F. H... WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON F. HENDRIKSEN AS A WRITER].
Copenhagen Forening for boghaandvaerk 1944 small 8vo. patterned paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. 36 pages.
Besterman 2839. Brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen as a writer, with four illustrations, followed by a bibliography of 109 numbered entries for his written works, or for works to which he contributed, plus seven unnumbered entries for works in which he was editorially involved.
Price: $ 210.00 other currencies Order nr. 51841

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(Hesterberg Press) THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 2008 large 8vo cloth (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii)
The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and a desire to document them for their safe keeping. It is hoped this five-year investigation will begin to provide answers, as over 700 of the 1,350 blocks that came to Chicago are documented here in 35 collections.

The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered measures 6.5 x 10 inches and contains eighty pages which include fourteen original blocks printed on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. The remaining thirty-five Bewick illustrations were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition. The text, set in a digital version of Bulmer, was also printed from metal engravings. Color photographs of Bewick's portrait and his toolbox are included as tip-ins, along with a photograph of a group of blocks at the Hesterberg Press.

A numbered edition of ninety copies was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, in a dark green cloth with contrasting green end papers. The spine is gold stamped and the front cover features an inset of a vignette printed from one of Bewick's blocks at the press.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 101433

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Hirschman, Jack YOD
London Trigram Press (1966) small 4to. cloth-backed gold foil paper-covered boards covers with original stiff paper wrappered book (in glassine wrapper) loosely inserted in cardboard slipcase Not paginated
First edition, limited to 200 copies of which this is one of the first 60 copies that were also signed by Hirschman. Printed silk-screen and letterpress on Evensyde white offset paper. Ink calligraphy and drawings throughout.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 78045

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Hirth, Georg and Richard Muther MEISTER HOLZSCHNITTE AUS VIER JAHRHUNDERTEN
Munich (Knorr & Hirth) 1893 4to. half vellum, leather spine label, cloth boards. (ii), xliii pages followed by 200 plates.
First edition. Features woodblock prints from artists such as Albrect Dürer, Hans Holbein, Hieronymus Bosch and other well-known masters. A compilation of facsimiles of woodcuts scenes of hunts and festivals, dances, games, processions, costume plates and other scenes of daily life, as well as works of allegory, religion and the occult. Reproducing the works of over 350 artists, this is a work of immense historical and artistic value. Contains a list and brief essay on each plate. Chiaroscuro prints are reproduced in color. Bookplate with family seal of Lord Archibald Campbell of Scotland on first page. Minor foxing on end pages of the book.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 70540

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Homer (as translated by Alexander Pope) THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN SHANKMAN AND 52 ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWINGS BY AVERY LAWRENCE .
2 volumes. Chestertown Chester River Press 2009 12.5 x 14.5 inches cloth, dust jackets, slipcase 550; 434 pages
Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature.

The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this famous translation and offers both the Greek and English translations for the general reader and scholar alike. More than 50 color drawings in Greek vase styles by Avery Lawrence were commissioned by the Press. Each drawing portrays a specific scene from each of the 48 books making up the Iliad and Odyssey with smaller medallions adorning pages throughout.

An original two-part Introduction by the esteemed Pope scholar, Steven Shankman, reflects on and investigates Pope's majestic poems through a scholarly lens focused on the timless Homeric themes of war and peace. Professor Shankman also elaborates on "How To Read Homer," an aid to understanding the philosophical and historical context of the Homeric epics.

The Iliad and Odyssey are presented as a companion, slipcased set and bound in black Dutch cloth with dust jackets.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 104249

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(Inky Parrot Press) Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de CANDIDE
Oxford The Inky Parrot Press 1985 small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards, slipcase (x), 141+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 360 numbered copies. Translated by Richard Aldington. Signed by the illustrator, Wilton Priestner. Profusely illustrated with slightly disturbing, almost surreal line drawings that push the satirical tone of the story itself to a new level. The modern, edgy drawings are evidence of the relevancy and adaptability of the work of the eighteenth-century French writer, Voltaire. The imagery does not exactly match up with the moment of the story it illustrates, but rather offers a highly interpretive version of the events as told by Voltaire. For example, whereas the text reads "...she observed Doctor Pangloss in the bushes, giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting maid, a ver pretty and docile brunette," the illustration shows a couple copulating in the garden. Paper covered boards and the slipcase also with drawings by Priestner. With shoulder notes.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 79477

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(INSEL-VERLAG) Brinks, John Dieter VOM ORNAMENT ZUR LINIE, DER FRÜHE INSEL-VERLAG 1899 BIS 1924.
2 volumes. Berlin Triton 2000 4to. linen-covered boards, both volumes enclosed in a linen slipcase. 391,(3) pages; 20 inserts in portfolio.
Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Volume I of a series of three installments, not yet completed. Praised as "a masterpiece of book production" and "a product of enthusiasts" by critic Wilfried F. Schoeller, the book traces the early 20th-century history of the Insel publishing house. Insel earned its renown by turning book production into an art form as it printed the works of classic authors and gave a new generation of writers, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, their start. The editor, Brinks, reveals Insel's high aesthetic standards through sumptuous illustrations of its work. In all, there are 240 illustrations, seven of which are foldouts, many polychrome with three and four colors, and many with stunning gold print. One splendid example of the high-quality illustrations is the foldout of a series of classics, The Thousand and One Nights and the Decameron, the bindings designed by Marcus Behmer. The colors are so rich and the detail so striking that the reader almost feels he can touch and leaf through the deckled pages of the books shown. Another example depicted is that of Henry van de Velde's designs for the covers of Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, as well as sample pages from the edition, both finely detailed with gold print. Text edited by Brinks with seventeen essays contributed by him and twelve other specialists such as Juergen Suess, Marcus Haucke, and Suzanne Buchinger. Essays beautifully printed with wide margins and double-spaced on Gardapat paper in cursive Borgis White Antiqua. Outstanding documentation for the essays at the back of the book, as well as detailed indices for artwork and literary sources. Accompanying the book is a slim briefcase volume containing twelve facsimile resolution papers and eight folder reproductions in their original format. Distributed for Triton in North America by Oak Knoll Press. In German.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 63454

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(Italy) Essling, Victor Masséna Prince d' LES LIVRES A FIGURES VENITIENS: ÉTUDES SUR L’ART DE LA GRAVURE SUR BOIS A VENISE... DE LA FIN DU XV SIECLE ET DU COMMENCEMENT DU XVI.
3 volumes in six. Mansfield, CT Maurizio Martino Publisher n.d. (1994) 4to. cloth. 504; 256; (ii),257-500; 344; (iv),345-680; 372,(2),10 pages.
Reprint of the very scarce and expensive first edition. Besterman 3017. This monumental work covers the illustrated book in Venice over the period 1469 to 1525 and contains descriptions of 500 books. Filled with illustrations throughout.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 52725

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(Jackson, John) Chatto, W.A. TREATISE ON WOOD ENGRAVING, HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL. WITH UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY JOHN JACKSON.
The historical portion by W.A. Chatto. London Henry G. Bohn 1861 tall 8vo. original patterned brown cloth. xvi, 664 pages.
Second edition, "with a new chapter on the artists of the present day by Henry G. Bohn and 145 additional wood engravings." (Bigmore & Wyman I,131). With a preface by W.A. Chatto. "This and Ottley's book may be taken as the standard works in English on wood-engraving." Covers the history of engraving, wood-engraving, invention of typography, wood-engraving connected with the press, wood-engraving in the time of Albert Dürer and the further progress and decline of wood-engraving. Also gives practical instruction. Original cloth split in places along hinges and some wear at spine ends. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Inside hinges cracked.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 32009

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Jamieson, Alexander A DICTIONARY OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE, ARTS, MANUFACTURERS AND MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE. COMPRISING THE PURE SCIENCES OF MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, ARITHMETIC, ALGEBRA, & THE MIXED SCIENCES OF MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, OPTICS AND ASTRONOMY; EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY; THE FINE ARTS, AGRICULTURE AND ITS IMPLEMENTS; MANUFACTURERS AND THEIR VARIOUS PROCESSES; COMMERCE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY; NATURAL HISTORY; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT MEN, WHO HAVE ADORNED SCIENCE BY THEIR INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.
London Henry Fisher, Son & Co. 1830 small 4to. contemporary half calf. iv, 1066 pages
Seventh edition. Over 70 plates. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Bridson has inserted a printed slip describing the sections of this book which concern the important topics of aquatint, engraving, etching, ink making, mezzotint, bank note printing, printing, tereotype and wood engraving. Binding very worn, front joint repaired with cloth, title page and two other preliminary leaves repaired with yellowed cellulose adhesive tape, some plates foxed or spotted, textblock otherwise sound and generally clean. Old leather bookplate of J. Dove, 1831 on front pastedown.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 98271

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(Janus Press) Heaney, Seamus HEDGE SCHOOL SONNETS FROM GLANMORE
Newark, VT Charles Seluzicki/Janus Press 1979 4to. stiff paper wrappers not paginated (16 unnumbered pages)
First Edition. Seven woodcut illustrations by Claire Van Vliet. Book was designed, set, and printed by CVV; bound by Kaja McGowan and Ursula Hofer. Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Number 260 of 285 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist. The text is handset in 18 and 30 pt. Monotype Spectrum and printed on Barcham Green DeWint. Title, dedication and colophon pages printed in brown with title and name of dedicatee (Ann Saddlemeyer) in black; text printed in black with numerals in brown. There is a card laid-in with current information on the title. The title is blind stamped on the front.
Price: $ 1,700.00 other currencies Order nr. 91649

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(Jones, Owen) Lockhart, J. G. (translator) ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS; HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC.
London John Murray 1859 4to full contemporary leather, gilt title and ornamentation on spine, raised bands, gilt ornamentation on boards, all edges gilt. unpaginated
Revised edition (Lewis p. 62 A reprint, "This may fairly be called the first of the illuminated books"; McLean for many mentions; Ray no.225). Collection of Spanish ballads translated into English, with notes, by John Gibson Lockhart. Frontispiece. Color printed borders and ornamental letters and vignettes by Owen Jones. Scuffed at joints and rubbed at corners. Foxing. Inscription by previous owner on front endpaper.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107251

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Kandinsky, Wassily and Franz Marc DER BLAUE REITER.
München R. Piper & Co. 1914 4to. later quarter vellum with paper covered boards, original paper wrappers bound-in. (x), 140 pages with numerous extra plates.
Second edition (one of 1000 copies). The second edition differs from the 1922 first edition in that it includes a Marc color reproduction, "Pferde." Four tipped-in color plates, illustrations. An important and key work in the history of German expressionism (The Artist and the Book, 139 - "although illustrated with photomechanical reproductions, Der Blaue Reiter is one of the most important German books of modern art."). Includes plates done in pochoir by Marc and Kandinsky, music by Schönberg, Berg and Webern, initials by Jean Arp (his first book illustrations, etc.). Bookplate and name in ink on front pastedown. The tissue guards have text at the bottom and are foxed. Some foxing in text. Well preserved copy of an important book.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107175

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(Kent, Rockwell) Voltaire, Jean François Marie Arouet De CANDIDE
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York Random House 1928 small 4to. polished cloth stamped in gilt. 111+(1) pages.
Limited to 1470 numbered copies printed on all rag French paper. Signed by Rockwell Kent in the colophon. Printed by the Pynson Printers and with designs and illustrations throughout by Kent. Spine slightly age darkened. Rubbed at spine ends. Lacks slipcase.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 31257

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