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(Stone House Press) Liebaers, Herman BOOKS OVER BOMBS, IFLA IN MOSCOW, AUGUST 1991. A FOOTNOTE.
Roslyn The Stone House Press 1995 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 21 pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author, artist and printer. Biographical introduction by George Wickes and wood engraving by John DePol. Liebaers was President of the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 43748

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Swenson, May A BASIN OF EGGS.
(New Haven, CT) Yale University 1982 broadside (17 x 12 inches)
Limited to 50 numbered copies. A Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside issued by the library. Broadside of the poem A Basin of Eggs by May Swenson printed on hand-made paper for the occasion of the Bollingen Prize Reading which she won in 1981. May Swenson was an American poet and playwright with much of her work being devoted to children.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 99717

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(Sycamore Press) Roberts, Ryan (compiler and editor) JOHN FULLER & THE SYCAMORE PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY.
New Castle, Delaware and Oxford Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library 2010 6 x 9 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 160 pages
Set up in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating from a garage, the press published established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter, as well as promoting young poets, including James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst. The Sycamore Press ceased operations in 1992, but it remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated with the small press movement in England.

In addition to a full descriptive bibliography, the book includes an evocative foreword by John Fuller, who wryly describes the trials and tribulations of 'garage' publishing. In a transcribed interview with the author, John Fuller explains why a pamphlet of poems took almost a year to produce as he experimented with letterpress technology. Personal reflections by Sycamore Press authors, such as Andrew Motion and Thom Gunn, illuminate the publishing process further and show what a powerful role John Fuller played in the lives of young poets lucky enough to be published by him.

While this book is full of entertaining anecdotes about the hazards of small book publishing, it also provides invaluable advice for small press printers.

Ryan Roberts is a Professor and Librarian at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. He also maintains the official websites for Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Hermione Lee, and James Fenton. He is co-editor of a volume of interviews with Julian Barnes and editor of a volume of interviews with Ian McEwan for the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series.

Available outside North and South America from The Bodleian Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 104085

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(Tern Press) Carr, J.L. DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH QUEENS, KING'S WIVES, CELEBRATED PARAMOURS, HANDFAST SPOUSES & ROYAL CHANGELINGS.
(Market Drayton) Tern Press 2003 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, cloth slipcase (40) pages
Printed in an edition of 25 copies in Delphil types and illustrated with original lithographs by Nicholas Parry. The text was first published in 1977.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 75315

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(Tern Press) Griffiths, Bill HISTORIES
N.P. Tern Press 2004 small 4to. quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards and paper title label on spine (30) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 30 numbered copies. The poem by Griffiths explores timeless ideas of what the world was like through time, before art and before difference. His poem is lyric, expressive and dense. Fairly abstract color illustrations punctuate the sparce text. Front board with multicolored patterned paper and the title printed in red. Half title page printed in red. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Some uncut edges.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 78653

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(Tern Press) Griffiths, Bill. THE PHOENIX.
Market Drayton, Shropshire Tern Press 1998 4to. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine and front cover label. (74) pages.
In a limited edition of 95 numbered copies, signed on colophon by the illustrators. The anonymous Anglo-Saxon author of the Old English poem "Phoenix," possibly a monk acquainted with a 4th-century Christian Latin poem on this ancient myth, emphasized the themes of death and resurrection. This modern translation by Bill Griffiths employs "a loose alliterative chaining...to give some idea of the sound structure that unites the Old English poetic form." Well-illustrated with 20 lithographic plates by Mary and Nicholas Parry of the Tern Press. Some two-color text printing.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 53499

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(Tern Press) Grubb, David A COUNTRY ALPHABET.
Market Drayton, England Tern Press 1998 oblong 12mo. quarter cloth, paper spine label, printed paper-covered boards. (32) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to only 95 numbered copies. The latest edition of Mary Parry's lovely hand colored alphabet books. Each letter is on its own page and bears a short passage of text and its own hand colored illustration. Printed in Garamond on Zerkall Antik paper.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 88905

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) WHERE THE CROSSING HAPPENS.
Santa Cruz, CA Peter & Donna Thomas 2008 8vo decorated cloth folder unpaginated
Limited to 38 numbered copies. Where the Crossing Happens. Compiled and edited by Peter and Donna Thomas. A portfolio of 13 broadsides with words or poems from poets in residence at the fourth session of Naropa Universitys Summer Writers Workshop in 2008, printed by Peter and Donna Thomas and their students at the Universitys Press during the Thomass class The Word Made Flesh (well actually paper).

The dowel spine portfolio binding (developed by the Thomases and described in their book More Making Books by Hand) is decorated with a unique acrylic print (made indirectly from metal type) measures 6.75 tall by 5.25 wide. The binding has two pockets holding 15 letterpress printed broadsides (13 signed by poets, one title page, one colophon signed by all printers). 32 letterpress printed in different type faces on a differently colored sheets of Canson Mi Tientes Paper. Six copies on Peter Thomas's handmade paper.

Poets included in collection: Sawako Nakayasu, Ilya Kaminsky, Rikki Ducornet, Forrest Gander, Anna Moschovakis, Bob Holman, Anne Tardos, Dodie Belllamy, Steven Taylor, Brian Evenson, Kevin Killian, Raymond Federman, Pierre Joris.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107370

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Thomas, Peter BIKUPAN, THE STORY OF A TRIP TO VISIT A HAND PAPER MILL IN SWEDEN, WITH A BIT OF HISTORY ADDED IN FOR GOOD MEASURE.
Santa Cruz Peter & Donna Thomas 1992 small 4to. quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. (viii), 13, (3) pages.
Limited to 119 numbered copies printed by hand by Peter and Donna Thomas on paper handmade by Peter using white and black rags with blue pigment. Thomas visited the Lessebo mill in Sweden, a mill which had first started manufacturing paper in 1693. In addition to describing what he found there, Thomas gives a history of papermaking in Sweden. Tipped-in are six samples of paper from Lessebo, one made in 1990 and the rest during various times in the 20th century.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 36707

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(Tideline Press) Fraser, James H. EXLIBRIS DESIGNS FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Tideline Press 2010 8vo cloth covered boards, paper spine, 4 leather cords over spine 53 pages
One of 21 copies. Signed by Leonard Seastone.
Price: $ 800.00 other currencies Order nr. 108202

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(Tideline Press) Seastone, Leonard GOOSEBERRY CREEK.
N.P. Tideline Press 1987 8vo. cloth folding case with ivory ties and pictorial paper-covered inner covers holding the book. The book was produced as a long accordion-shaped book with die cut areas and printing of the text on alternate pages with a background of the scenes along the creek and four mounted Platinotypes by David A. Hanson also showing scenes along the creek.
Limited to 65 numbered copies signed by Hanson and Jack Fitterer who provided the interesting binding and portfolio. Printed by Leonard Seastone at his Tideline Press. An excellent example of combining book printing, illustration, and binding.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 41254

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(Typophiles) THE TYPOPHILES PUBLISHING PROGRAM.
New York The Typophiles 1999 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 17, (5) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Typophile Monograph, New Series - Number 15. Printed at the Woodside Press in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Preface by Theo Rehak giving a history of the publishing program, followed by a tribute to Morris Gelfand. With a wood engraving by John DePol on the title page. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 61926

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(Verdigris) Rouanet, Marie MAGIE BLANCHE
(Octon) Verdigris 2006 folio loose sheets housed in a clamshell box not paginated
Limited to an edition of thirty, of which twenty-five were for sale. Marie Rouanet's text was inspired by ten mezzotints (eleven plates) by Judith Rothchild and the spirit of the restaurant, The Mimosa, created by Bridget and David Pugh. The book is comprised of a suite of prints and text in loose sheets of Hahnemuhle paper. The text was printed letterpress on an Albion press by Mark Lintott. The boxes are covered in Fabriano Ingres screen printed with mimosa leaves. The colophon is signed by the author and artist and the prints are initialed by the artist.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 95958

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(Village Press) Cary, Melbert B. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE VILLAGE PRESS.
Including an Account of the Genesis of the Press by Frederic W. Goudy and a Portion of the 1903 Diary of Will Ransom, Co-Founder. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll et al 1981 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 220 pages.
This bibliography documents the career of the Village Press with meticulous detail and insight. In a short memoir at the beginning of this book, Frederic W. Goudy gives an account of a printer's life that is certain to be familiar to anyone who has experienced the "fun and fury" of a private press. The section from the diary of Will Ransom, co-founder of the press, gives some idea of the magnitude of the initial problems that were encountered. Despite these difficulties, the press still produced books that were an able tribute to William Morris, in many ways Goudy's chief inspiration in book design. However, the press was no mere imitation of the Kelmscott Press - in the years of its operation it forged a style that was distinctly Goudy's. Frederic W. Goudy was one of the most influential type designers of the twentieth century. His influence on advertising art and book design was considerable, and he became an arbiter of typographic taste for an entire generation between the Wars. Part of the reason for this success lay with his practical knowledge of the problems of designer and printer. Much of this expertise was gained through the Village Press. This book was originally published in 1938 in a limited edition of only 260 copies.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 1349

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(Walker, Sir Emery) Briggs, R.C.H. (editor) SIR EMERY WALKER: A MEMOIR
Tampa, FL University of Tampa Press 2011 8vo cloth covered boards, dust jacket 98 pages
Sir Emery Walker helped inspire the revival of fine letterpress printing and typography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A friend and collaborator of William Morris, he facilitated the design and casting of the famous Kelmscott Press types, and later, with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, established the Doves Press and produced its famous types. Walker also founded a photo-engraving company that was renowned for the quality of its work. This illustrated memoir by R.C.H. Briggs is a rich introduction and tribute to the many facets of Walker's life and work. It has been edited with a foreword and notes by Richard Mathews. Royalties from its sales support the Emery Walker Trust.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 116373

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(Warwick Press) Blumenthal, Joseph and Carol J. Blinn DEAR JOE : A BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE
Easthampton MA Warwick Press 2004 12mo. cloth spine, paper-covered boards not paginated
Printed in an edition of seventy-five. This is a selection of Blumenthal's and Blinn's correspondence with Blinn's later notes regarding some of the letters. Included arephotgraphs of some of the lovely Spiral Press Christmas cards sent by the Blumenthals and some of Blin's work as well. Joseph Blumenthal's Spiral Press is perhaps most famous for the fine special editions of poetry by Robert Frost. Signed on the colophon by Blinn.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 89000

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(Whittington Press) Anderson, Andrew A VISION OF ORDER, 32 LINOCUTS BY ANDREW ANDERSON.
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury) Whittington Press 2011 22 x 15 inches quarter buckram and paper covered boards, slipcase 64 pages
Andrew Andersons astonishing linocuts are an arresting mix of image, lettering and symbolism. The images show strong influences of his background as an architect with a particular interest in mediaeval architecture; the lettering brings Eric Gill to mind, but with an added fluency and versatility; and much of the symbolism comes from his involvement with cathedral and church architecture. He has written about his work in MATRIX 28, pp. 9.

He combines these three elements with immense skill and with a rare dedication, and yet his images have an astonishing vibrance and magnetism. Little known or seen over the years, hampered perhaps because of their size and the artists preoccupation with his architectural work, they appear here for the first time in a readily accessible form, each with a note by the artist explaining its content and symbolism.

The large format of A VISION OF ORDER allows most of the prints to be tipped in unfolded. Like our Posters published in 1996, it will be a monumental volume in its own right, set in a large size of the Caslon type for which the Press has become renowned. Tom Mayo, who will be doing much of the printing of this large and unusual project, will be posting a blog giving an illustrated report of its progress.

Available Summer 2011
Price: $ 525.00 other currencies Order nr. 107015

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(Whittington Press) Bishop, Hal. LOST & FOUND
Risbury, Herefordshire Whittington Press, The. 2010 8vo. half-bound in buckram and paper 112
Trade edition, one of 225 copies. Lost and Found will show all sixteen of the blocks for The Mill on the Floss for the first time, as well as reconstructing the larger palimpsest images on the reverse of the blocks. As Hal Bishop remarked in Matrix 26, 'Despite the loss of the short central section of each block, Rachel's compositional whole is easily reconstructed by the eye.'

The book will also include eighteen of her wonderfully energetic earlier engravings, showing how her style developed before she began The Mill on the Floss. Lost and Found tells the story of sixteen powerful illustrations that have remained hidden for nearly sixty years, and the highly unusual images that were sacrificed unneccessarily in the process. It brings to light the work of one of the century's most original engravers, whose work is little known partly because her financial independence made her relatively unconcerned about publicising her work.

Limited to 185 trade editions which are bound in buckram and decorated paper sides.
Price: $ 216.00 other currencies Order nr. 105220

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(Whittington Press) Gerry, Leslie and Robin Llywelyn PORTMEIRION
DELUXE EDITION (Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2008 4to. paper covered boards, clamshell box
This deluxe edition contains a 23" x 33" foldout illustration, 8 loose 12" x 16" illustrations, and a custom clamshell box.

Portmeirion is the extraordinary Italianate village created by the architect and town-planner Clough Williams-Ellis on a remote peninsula in North Wales.

The double-spread images in Portmeirion brilliantly capture its architectural eccentricities in a pageant of colour created by the artist in the form of a series of seven original prints drawn on an electronic tablet, a technique he has exploited that is in many ways the successor to the Jean Berte and pochoir processes in that it achieves its effects by superimposing layers of flat colour on top of one another.

Clough's grandson, Robin Llywelyn, who spent much of his childhood at Portmeirion, provides a vivid and concise commentary on each scene, tracing the development of the village from its beginnings in 1925 and describes how Clough put 'fallen buildings', rescued from demolition before and after the war, to brilliantly creative use in his uniquely bizarre concept of Portmeirion.

The images are printed by the artist on Somerset mould-made paper, and the text, on alternate openings, is set in 24-point Caslon and printed on a heavyweight Zerkall chamois geglattet mould-made paper in a threadless zig-zag binding.
Price: $ 440.00 other currencies Order nr. 103752

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(Whittington Press) Henry, Barbara VISITING THE WHITTINGTON PRESS.
(Risbury) The Whittington Press 2010 oblong 8vo. pictorial paper covered boards, dust jacket, slipcase (with added handprinted label by the Whittington Press)
Limited to 65 numbered copies. A book produced by Apple in the new method of producing small numbers of well illustrated books by computer. Loosely inserted is a hand-printed four page brochure with text describing the project on the first page, signatures of all involved on the second page, a color photograph of Patrick Randle and Barbara Henry on the third page and a woodcut by Miriam Macgregor and the limitation notice on the fourth page. This picture book records Barbara's week of printing at the press in May 2010.
Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 105211

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(Whittington Press) Macgregor, Miriam MIDWINTER
Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2012 large 8vo decorated paper covered boards, slipcase 32 pages
One of 185 numbered trade copies. In February 2009 the north Cotswolds were covered by a brief but deep fall of snow. A fairytale landscape of changing shapes and patterns appeared overnight. Beside the predictable snowman on the village green, there was even a habitable igloo. Miriam Macgregor at once ventured out into this unfamiliar snowscape with sketchbook and camera, and these engravings, mostly full-page, are the ideal medium for their subject. This is the third book of Miriam's engravings in which all the subjects are within walking distance of her cottage.

Hand-set in 16 point Centaur and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, with 24 wood-engravings, in an edition of 255 copies.
Price: $ 216.00 other currencies Order nr. 115190

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 21 WINTER 2001.
A review for printers and bibliophiles. Herefordshire Whittington Press 2001 small 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket with two color wood engraving (vi), 238 pages, with additional pages of plates and other materials
Printed in an edition limited to 825 copies, this being one of 745 copies which are bound in stiff paper wrappers. This issue of Matrix contains thirty articles including "Memories of an Apprentice Typefounder," by James Mosley, "Engraving a Dead Man," by Gaylord Schanilec, "Cockerel's Forgotten Partner, and Eric Gill's Last Commission," by Roderick Cave, "Frederic Prokosch: a Passion for Self-Publishing," by James Lorson, "Book-jackets," by Michael Harvey, "Earth Pigments in Plant Papers," by Maureen and Brian Richardson, "., ; : ' ( ) ! ?" by John Grice, "Private Press Books 2000: a Review," by David Chambers and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs, wood engravings, and sample papers as well as an extensive variety of tipped-in specimens printed on special papers. The two-color wood-engraving on the dust jacket is "Blacksmiths II," by Rachel Reckitt. Prospectus for the Matrix index scheduled for publication in 2002 is loosely laid-in.
Price: $ 202.50 other currencies Order nr. 69493

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 28
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2009) 4to. half leather, slipcase (vi), 180, (2) pages plus portfolio of photographs
One of 70 copies of the deluxe version bound thus. The separately issued portfolio contains a suite of photographs by Janet Stone of Myfanwy Piper, Lord David Cecil, Geoffrey Keynes, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Julian Huxley, Doublas Cleverdon, L.P. Hartley & Laurence Whistler. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains essays by Alan Powers on The Curwen Story, Andrew Anderson on Eric Gill, Humphrey Stone on the photographers, Janet Stone, David Hughes on the Baynard Press, James Fergusson on The Amate Press, Michael Harvey on Janet the Typeface, Hal Bishop on Ronald Salmond, John Randle on The Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Jerry Cinamon on Leipzig rambling, Andrew Dolinski on Poltawski, Barbara Henry on producing the Vandercook Book, Katherine McCanless-Ruffin on The Shinola Vandercook, and many more. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates, etc. Card regarding Matrix 29 loosely laid-in.
Price: $ 605.00 other currencies Order nr. 103108

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 29
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2010 4to. stiff paper wrappers 200 pages
One of 725 copies. MATRIX 29 is already overflowing with plans for topics that include the Hunt type designed by Hermann Zapf (with a specimen of the type in its three sizes on mould-made paper); wood-engravings from a pilgrimage to the south of France; the Firefly Press in Massachusetts; the Architectural Review; Monotype at the Bixlers; wood-type in America; David Godine, the Letterpress Years; Stinehour Press; Tirzah Ravilious; letterpress in Brazil; Robert Harling; Scotch Roman; the Occasional Print Club; Italian Futurist types; the creative possibilities of ad hoc letterpress printing; the golden age of 1960s publishing; and an item currently being vetted by MI5. A particular feature of MATRIX 29 will be the many letterpress inserts from around the world (Italy, USA, Canada, Brazil, UK).
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 105545

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 30
Herefordshire Whittington Press 2012 small 4to stiff paper wrappers 109 pages
Trade edition. Matrix 30, which celebrates the fourth decade of the series. Its customary diverse range of topics includes Kenneth Tynan, the diaries of Tirzah Ravilious, letters from Edward Gordon Craig to his grandson, the Septentrio Press, wood type from the Hamilton Type Museum, printers obituaries, Brazilian favela printing, the Art and Technics series, Klingspor Typefoundry, engraving on the Mississippi, Rowley Atterbury and the Westerham Press, the wood-engravings of Geoffrey Miller, and much else besides, including a rich and varied mixture of broadsides, engravings and prints.

Matrix...a clear and spacious attic, whose dormer windows overlook fields and trees, and in which one comes across new or forgotten, sometimes exotic, treasures.
LINDSAY NEWMAN

...that annual miracle. THE BOOK COLLECTOR

Matrix describes doings by people with great skill. But the real, and enduring strength and greatness is there is not a whisper of greed or commercialism. WILLIAM MASLAND, ARIZONA

Hello again Rosalind, ... I woke up tonight and panicked...I thought Matrix 29 should have been out already and that I missed it!! What a nightmare ... Anyway, I look forward to it, now that I have calmed down...
ULF ENGLEHARDT, STOCKHOLM
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109175

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