A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Classical myths retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the masters of American literature--King Midas with his Golden Touch, Pandora's Box, The Adventure of Hercules in quest of the golden apples, Bellerophon and the Chimaera, Baucis and Philomon, Perseus, and Medusa.
First Edition Identification
Hodder & Stoughton published a First Edition in London, 1922. The hardcover is bound in gilt illustrated cloth with illustrated endpapers.
Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press published a Limited Edition in Boston, 1893. Nineteen of the illustrations are detailed full page tipped-in color lithographs mounted within
gilt borders.
George H. Doran published a First US Edition thus in New York, 1922. The hardcover is bound in gilt illustrated red cloth with 24 full page color plates.
Rand McNally published a First Edition, in Chicago-New York , 1913. The hardcover is bound in green cloth with gilt titles on color and spine.
Sears Co. published a First Edition hardcover in 1928.
A.L. Burt Company published a First Edition in New York, 1915. The hardcover is bound in brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine.
Other Collectible or Notable Editions
Rand McNally published a later Edition in Chicago-New York, 1928. The hardcover is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles and applied color illustration of a young girl in a garden on cover.
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A Wonder Book
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- 1922
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Davis, California, USA
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NZ$516.30
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FIRST EDITION (first American edition) of Nathaniel Hawthorne's beloved volume of myths and legends published by Goerge H. Doran Company: New York, 207 pp., 6.75" x 9.75 (Small4to). Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including 24 beautiful tipped-in and full-page color illustrations. Illustrated end papers.
This is the sought-after first Rackham-illustrated edition of… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1895
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- Gray cloth boards with silver titles and colored design on front cover
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San Rafael, California, USA
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NZ$17.21
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Hawthorne relates the stories of the Greek Myths through the storytelling of his main character, Eunice Bright, a Williams College student who tells the stories to the children of Tanglewood. The author's Tanglewood Tales would follow this title. First published in 1852. This 1895 volume is in excellent shape with bumps to corners and edges of spine and some soiling… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - VG++
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- VG+
- Edition
- Edition De Luxe
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- 1893
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- Cream gilt with embossed design
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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NZ$4,087.38
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SPLENDID COPY of the Edition De Luxe w/ the Scarce Dust Wrapper & Custom-Made Box
This Edition Deluxe is #44 of 250 copies with 60 designs by Walter Crane.
Nineteen of these are beautifully detailed full-pg tipped-in color lithographs mounted within
gilt borders.
Small 4to, cream & gilt embossed with blind-stamped design, lovely gilt & cream eps and tissue… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$4,087.38
A Wonder-Book: Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
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- Used - Collectible - VeryGood
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- 1st Edition Thus
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- 1884
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- Hardcover_cloth
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Argillite, Kentucky, USA
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NZ$2,065.20
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood. 5.5"x8". 637 pp. Brown cloth w/gilt letters to spine. Green paste downs. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece in light red ink: Young lady opening Pandora's box w/tissue. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA. Spine slightly slanted, binding tight, pages toned w/light soil spots through out book. Not x-library. PON… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$2,065.20
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A Wonder Book (companion Library)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Gently Loved
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- 9780448054858
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Davenport, Iowa, USA
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NZ$19.79
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A classic retelling of the most famous Greek myths and legends.
Here are the time-honored ;stories which every child should have an opportunity to read. In new Companion Library editions, they are especially desireable because of the handsome illustrations and permanent color covers designed especially for these books by leading artists. Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Very Good
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- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- 1922
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- Decorative Cloth
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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NZ$1,113.48
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London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1922 A very good copy in the original red decorative cloth binding with 16 tipped-in colour plates and 8 tinted full page plates by Arthur Rackham. With fair to good dust wrapper. Undated but 1922 1st edition in this form. The wrapper has a pasted picture and titles to the front… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1922
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- Hardcover
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, GBR
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NZ$3,747.28
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. [2], viii, 206pp, [2], original gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., illustrated endpapers. Slightly rubbed, previous owners gift inscription to ffep, but generally bright and clean. With twenty-four illustrations including sixteen tipped in full colour illustrations with titled tissue guards. Signed by Rackham to limitation leaf, this being number three hundred and ninety-two of six hundred copies.… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1957
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- Hardcover
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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NZ$25.82
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New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. x, 195pp. Price clipped, else a very good hardback in a lightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket.
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A WONDER BOOK
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
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- Used - Close to Fine
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- (1965)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$537.81
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London & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., (1965). Hardcover. Close to Fine. S. Van Abbe. Octavo (5-3/8" x 8-1/4") bound in 3/4 red polished calf leather and red cloth with a gilt-decorated spine and matching black gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with line… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Limited Edition
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Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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NZ$946.55
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London, New York and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 600 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. The present copy is number 419. Beautifully illustrated with 16 tipped in color plates by Arthur Rackham and several other color and black and white plates. Bound in the original pictorial gilt cloth, heavily soiled, and stained with spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - Fair
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- N/A
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- Edition Unstated
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- No date
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- Green Cloth
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GBR
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NZ$7.49
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Henry Frowde (Hodder), London, No date. Edition Unstated. Green Cloth. Fair/N/A. Illustrator: Webster, W.E. a volume in Herbert Strang's Library ("carefully edited for school & home reading") with the 'men on horseback' decoration around the covers & spine in brown & black on green, gilt title panel spine, iIllustrated endpapers, col. frontis &… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, usual library stamps and markings. A few of the plates are foxed.
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- Reprint
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- [1932]
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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NZ$51.63
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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, usual library stamps and markings. . A few of the plates are foxed.. [1932]. Reprint. Hardcover. xi, 207pp. Orange cloth binding with color illustration on front boards. Illustrated endpapers. Seven color plates by Arthur Rackham. Hawthorne's retelling of many classical Greek myths.; Ex-Library; 8vo… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$51.63
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A WONDER BOOK
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st edition.
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- 1922
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- Hardback
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Monmouthshire, Aberdeen, GBR
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NZ$671.51
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Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Rackham, Arthur. Very good condition with no wrapper. Attractive red cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. 24 full page illustrations in colour, 16 of which are tipped-in to cream paper and have captioned tissue guards. 20 b/w drawings.206… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wonder Book (Sears Illustrated Juveniles Series)
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$51.63
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New York: J.H. Sears Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Sears Illustrated Juveniles edition. Illustrated by Anne Chuse. Endpapers illustrated by Christopher Rule. Decorative brown cloth stamped in gilt with color illustrated label mounted on the front board. Quarto. 232pp., [1]pp. Small stain on page edges, light offsetting on endpapers, edges worn, corners bumped, about very good. Greek mythology… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book : Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 2003
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- Paperback
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- 9780486432090
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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NZ$10.57
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Dover Publications, Incorporated, 2003. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
NZ$10.57
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A Wonder Book
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1961
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- Cloth
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BATH, Somerset, GBR
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NZ$117.77
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". S. Van Abbé. A later impression of this popular illustrated retelling of classical myths written for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. An illustrated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorn's retelling of classical Greek myths written for children. With six myths that introduce the classical heroes such as… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Wonder Book; Six Stories For Children
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Good/Acceptable
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- 1947
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- Hardcover
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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NZ$6.49
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Watergate Classics Limited, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1947. First Edition Thus. 182 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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South Pasadena, California, USA
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NZ$206.52
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New York [1922]: George H. Doran Co Gilt-stamped & illustrated orange cloth boards, First Edition, n.d. (1922), no text markings, NOT ex-lib, soil & toning to boards, fraying to ends & corners with small tears to cloth there, both hinges starting but hinges firm, page bright binding tight, all 16 tipped-in full color plates & the 8 two-color plates present… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wonder Book
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Used - Acceptable
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780448054858
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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NZ$12.01
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1967. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
NZ$12.01
A Wonder Book
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780448054858
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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NZ$12.01
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
NZ$12.01
