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Tony Hillerman Thief of TIme FIRST EDITION SIGNED HC
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Joseph Conrad by Albert Guerard Jr. Vintage Directions Focus on the Author 1947
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Anthology of Japanese Literature Two Volume Slipcased Set Compiled by Donald Keene
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Hard Cover with DJ, SIGNED by Tony Hillerman on title page, Stated FIRST Trade EDITION/ FIRST PRINTING, previous owner signed as gift to friend on blank page, light wear to DJ which we have enclosed in a mylar cover, book within in Near Fine condition, clean and crisp.
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An essay on the works of Joseph Conrad, plot summaries and bibliography by Albert Guerade, Jr. of Harvard University. 1947, 92 pages
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Extensive anthology of Japanese Literature, two volume set, over 800 pages, from the ancient period through the modern. Compiled by Donald Keene. 1955
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Shaman A Novel Black Hawk Native American Plains Indians History 1800s by Robert Shea
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Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 1951 Hard Cover Mocking the Media
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Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh 1949 Hard Cover Social Satire UK First Novel
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Set in the Great Plains in the 1800s, this novel tells of the conflict between Native American and White culture from a man destined to live in both. Called to be a Shaman yet born to a white father.
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A polite jab at the media of the 1930s based on the author's time at the Daily Mail. A mistaken identity sends the wrong writer to Africa where he scoops the non-existent civil war in an attempt to please his editors
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The Decline and Fall is Evelyn Waugh's first novel, based in part on his schooldays at Lancing College and his experience as a teacher in Wales.
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 1943 Hard Cover
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The Geography of Lograire by Thomas Merton Poems and Dreams
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Volume The Third Jane Austen Juvenilia Book Hard Cover Rare Uncut Oxford 1st Ed 1951
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C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role in living out Christian faith by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, as seen from the demon/devil's viewpoint
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Merton writes - a poet spends his life attempting to build or to dream the world in which he lives, but more than that he realizes that this world is at once his and everybodys. It grows out of a common participation...
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A rare first edition of Jane Austen's writings from her youth, from the original manuscript held by a family member. Printed in the United Kingdom, Oxford at the Claredon Press. 1951.
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Orlo and Leini Stories by Rafael Alvarez Signed by Author
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Mirror The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya by Ann Sherif - Soft Cover New
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Mirror The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya by Ann Sherif - Hard Cover New
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Trace the entire twentieth century through the clandestine affair of Orlo and Leini - the Junkman of Clinton Street and his Greek lover. Rafael Alvarez returns to food and hope and streets paved with brick on the shores of Patapsco to tell stories of forbidden love stewed in cauldron's of pig's feet.
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A valuable work for anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate the continuity of Confucian aspects of the traditional Japanese artistic and literary heritage, a heritage that nurtures refinement of character, discipline, and the rhetoric of humility and inadequacy
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A valuable work for anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate the continuity of Confucian aspects of the traditional Japanese artistic and literary heritage, a heritage that nurtures refinement of character, discipline, and the rhetoric of humility and inadequacy
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The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Arthur Rackham Weather Vane Books 1976 HC
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Nursery Rhymes for Good Boys and Girls Turn of Century Illustrations by H. W. Herrick
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The Cat Screams Todd Downing Native American Mystery Choctaw Author First Edition 1934
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This charming little book is specially illustrated by famous artist Arthur Rackham. A wonderful collectible in nice condition. Perfect for beginning family memories.
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A collection of turn of the century nursery tales, created to pass on morals, expected behavior and warning to children of the time. Illustrated by H. W. Herrick line drawings.
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In The Cat Screams, Downing creates atmosphere largely through the use of Mexican Indian folklore, including allusions to a possibly supernatural background to the several ghastly murder cases.
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The People's Comic Book Chinese Graphic Novel Red Women's Detachment Revolutionary 1973
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The Anatomy of Satire by Gilbert Highet
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Tall Stories The Rise and Triumph of the Great American Whopper by Lowell Thomas 1931 Tales
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6 graphic novel stories about the brave Chinese people and how they overcome obstacles by working together. Political propaganda cartoons, comics.
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A survey of the genre of satire with definition, examples, types and patterns given.
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First published in 1931, this popular collection of Americana, Tall Tales or Whoppers delighted the American public. This collection of stories were told over the radio by Lowell Thomas, Voice of the Literary Digest in the late 1920s and 30s.
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Starting from Scratch by Raymond Groves Cartoon 1954 Car Racing
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Manifold Pressures Motoring Misadventures of Major Upsett by Russell Brockbank British Cartoon
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The Big Race The Story of Motor Racing by Ernst Rosemann and Carlo Demand 1956
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British Car racing cartoonist, highly collectible 1st printing, 1954
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Major Upsett was the personification of motoring's little man, dodging every hazard of road and track with the glint of battle in his eye and bowler hat firmly clamped upon his unbowed head. Here are 74 of these images.
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Well written with superb drawings showing some of the most spectacular moments in racing history
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Hauser's Memory by Curt Siodmak BCE 1968 HC Medical Cloning Vintage Science Fiction
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The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson Time Travel Vintage Science Fiction 1965 BCE HC
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The Earth Book of Stormgate by Poul Anderson Vintage Science Fiction BCE HC
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A medical mystery science fiction published 1968, where RNA is injected into another in hopes of unleashing cold war secrets. The unanticipated result is closer to cloning and stakes are raised as one side seeks to prevent the leak.
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Once Lockridge shut the door to the present, he became involved with nations and peoples from history books, and bloody battles fought simultaneously with spears and lethal atomic guns. He moves effortlessly through various periods in history.
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These twelve adventures chronicles the expansion of earthmen out into the inhabited galaxy, meetings with alien races, the growth and decay of the first interstellar government (a trading association governed by trader-adventurers), followed by the foundation of the first interstellar empire.
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Man Plus by Frederik Pohl Vintage The Race to MARS Science Fiction BCE HC
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Froomb! by John Lymington Vintage Science Fiction Time Travel HC BCE
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Blind Voices by Tom Reamy Dark Side Carnival Circus Fantasy Vintage Science Fiction BCE HC
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Man Plus is a thrilling race against time -- to land on Mars on schedule, to insure that Roger's system will withstand the stress that killed the previous candidate. And, meanwhile, somewhere, somehow, there has been a breakdown in the computer network...
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Not even John Brunt could have known the implications of such a terrifying journey until he found himself in the world beyond the present.
Through his harrowing adventures Brunt realizes the holocaust the world he has left behind is about to encounter, but would he be able to return to it before it was too late? And would he be able to remember what he had witnessed on the other side of time?
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One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstocks Traveling Curiosus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern town. Haverstock's show is a presentation of mysterious wonders: feats of magic, strange creatures, and frightening powers. Three teenage girls attend the opening performance
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Five to Twelve by Edmund Cooper Vintage Science Fiction Female Dominated Society 1968 BCE HC
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A Specter is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber Vintage Science Fiction HC BCE
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Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy Vintage Science Fiction BCE 1977 HC
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This provocative science-fiction novel tells of the revolt of a lone, implacable male against a future society run entirely by women.
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This is a remarkable novel of satiric imagination. Fritz Leiber, one of America's top writer's of imaginative fiction, has produced a caricature of the future as lively, chilling and ultimately serious of purpose as a Feiffer cartoon.
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On the desolate frostworld of Hraggellon, the inscrutable Onhla tribe - half human, half animal - has flourished for centuries. Then, suddenly, a mysterious plague wipes out the entire Onhla population, leaving only one survivor, a youth named Hult. There is one chance ...
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Arts Quarterly Number Three 1931 Dartmouth College
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Robert Louis Stevenson KIDNAPPED Heritage Press Limited Edition Illustrated 1938
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Ghost Dancing by James Magnuson First Edition
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Sonnets, one act plays, short stories from the students of Dartmouth College, 1931
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This edition is a limited edition from Heritage Press, 1938 with illustrations by Hans Alexander Mueller
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Part thriller, part fable, part ghost story, " Ghost Dancing" is tightly plotted and rich in psychological complexity, a story of the healing of wounds, both personal and historical.
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Fires of Love Waters of Peace Sanskrit Love Poetry by Lee Siegal
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The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor Special Lithographic Limited Editions Press Edward A Wilson illus
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A Beggar at Damascus Gate Yasmin Zahran Palestinian novel Palestine
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fresh translations of two exemplary figures - the court poet Amaru and the philosopher Sankara
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Arab folk tale of a great sailor on the Indian Ocean, his adventures. Special Heritage Press edition, illustrated.
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Iron Earth, Copper Sky by Yashar Kemal Turkish novel Turkey
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Tales of Love and Death by Prosper Merimee Lithograph Illustration by Zaidenberg 1948 Slip Cased
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The Conquest of Don Pedro by Harvey Fergusson New Mexico Historical Fiction 1950
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originally published in 1963, tells the tale of Turkish village life
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Prosper Mérimée is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen
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The Conquest of Don Pedro is the story of Leo Mendes, his successes and his failures, in the days following the Civil War, in New Mexico, as he battles to create a spot for himself in Santa Fe.
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Johnnie Mae Cain WHITE BASTARDS signed 1st Edition Rare Black American Novelist 1973
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COMBAT OF SHADOWS Lusty Novel from Colonial India Romance pulp Malgonkar 1938
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Tamrac Grey Shoulder Camera Bag Padded Used Lightly
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Coming at a time when readers have been inundated by factual and fictional treatments of racist America, WHITE BASTARDS achieves the well-nigh impossible by shedding new light on this oft-investigated situation.
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A tea plantation manager battles with the question of love, in colonial India. Pre WWII, and Indian independence by well respected Indian novelist.
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We recommend second hand camera bags for several reasons: 1. They call less attention to thieves 2. They are generally a super bargain over purchasing the same new!
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Herge Les Aventures de Tintin On a Marche Sur La Lune 1954 French Hard Cover Collectible!
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Karmic Ties A Novel of Modern Asia Thailand Buddhist Bangkok Social Issues
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Paul Horgan The Peach Stone Stories from the Old Southwest HCDJ 1st/1st 1967
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Classic French cartoon from the 1950s, this adventures tells of Tintin's journey to the moon! 62 pages
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In its telling Karmic Ties becomes a graphic fictionalized account of Bangkok's infamous sex industry
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to read the southwestern works of Paul Horgan is to become profoundly alive to that world as an artist, constantly decade after decade, remembers and reworks its ordinary and sublime vistas and solitudes.
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Legacy A Step by Step Guide to Writing Personal History
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Sperry - A Graphic Novel 1973 McClurg
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How to Write Tentpole Movie Screenwriting Screenplay Creative Screenwriting
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Step by step guide to putting your life story on paper. Helpful questions and tips.
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A graphic novel of life and love, ironies and more from the 70s
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Articles and tips on making your good screenplay great, how to sell it, the market and other great ideas!
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The Elsewhere by Lorna D. Saunders Signed First Edition 1st Printing
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The Japanese Film Arts and Industry Expanded edition
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The Woman Who Owned the Shadows Paula Gunn Allen Native American Novel
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Young adult fantasy novel with trips to outer space and grand adventures... Collectible hard cover first edition, first printing, inscribed by author on title page, 2002. 460 pages
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This book remains the unchallenged reference for all who seek a broad understanding of the aesthetic, historical and economic elements of motion pictures from Japan.
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The Women Who Owned The Shadows, is the first novel written by an American Indian woman about an Indian woman published in the last 50 years. The book starts where the rest of the world leaves Indians off: at the brink of death
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Heart of Aztlan Rudolfo A. Anaya
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Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image Japanese Poetry
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Aunt Julia and the Script Writer Mario Vargas Llosa
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A family's move from Guadalupe to Albuquerque New Mexico, Harsh barrio realities coexist with superstition, legend, myth, dreams and unexplained phenomena. Famous hispanic author - recommended!
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Following a concise explanation of the basic rhetoric of Japanese poetry, Mostow examines the Hyakunin Isshu in its varying historical contexts, both at the time of its compilation -- as part of the tradition of exemplary anthologies in Japanese poetry and within the context of Teika's poetics and aesthetic criteria
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Reality emerges with fantasy as Mario Vargas Llosa juggles a madcap cast of characters and carouses through a world of forbidden passion, in a novel the New York Times book review named one of the 12 best of 1982
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John Speirs Limited Edition Color Lithograph – Set of 7
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The Tipsy Witch and other Tairy Fales fairy tales by Lewis Meyer illustrations by Deanne Hollinger
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Dive Bomber Story of U.S. Navy Aviators Life and Training 1939 First Edition
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British children's illustrator John Speirs Color Lithographs - set of 7 - Rome, Hong Kong, New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Vienna
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Halloween eve and Billy is on a plane wishing to see a flying saucer instead a witch appears outside his window and the adventure begins
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Dive Bomber is the first complete account of the training and life of the aviators of the U.S. Navy - the eyes of the fleet. And it is a first hand account, for the author is a commissioned officer, one of the first young men to be taken from civilian life and given the intensive training of a naval aviation cadet.
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Old Goriot Honore de Balzac Heritage Press Edition Illustrated
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Greta Garbo Ninotchka 1939 movie Frame by Frame Book Storyboards
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Indonesian Cinema National Culture on Screen Islamic Asian Anthropology
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