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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Atlantic Books: 2006

Seller ID: 020501

ISBN: 1903809754

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 474pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, maps. Black boards, a few marks to page edges otherwise a VG copy in (slight edge sunning) dustwrapper. Personalised gift inscription from the author to title page.
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The Medieval Menagerie: Animals in the Art of the Middle Ages

By: Benton, Janetta Rebold

Price: £12.00

Publisher: New York, Abbeville Press: 1992

Seller ID: 031387

ISBN: 1558591338

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

191pp, index, 150 illustrations, some colour. Blue cloth boards, gilt design and titling, very slight spine twist, slight bump to upper rear corner and near pages, overall a VG copy in (spine colour faded) dustwrapper.
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Hunting Weapons (The Arms & Armour Series)

By: Blackmore, Howard L.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Barrie & Jenkins: 1971

Seller ID: 032645

ISBN: 0257656405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxix + 401pp, index, bibliography, notes, 137 illustrations, 151 plates. Brown boards, slight foxing mainly to endpapers and top edge of pages, overall a VG copy in a near VG (closed edge tear to front) dustwrapper.
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Knights in History and Legend

By: Bouchard, Constance Brittain (Chief Consultant)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Australia, Global Book Publishing: 2009

Seller ID: 032037

ISBN: 1740480287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

304pp, index, glossary, bibliography, illustrated throughout with over 400 full-colour artworks, photographs and illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, large format, general light wear, a VG copy. UK at standard rate, overseas may require extra shipping.
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Boutell's Manual of Heraldry

By: Boutell, Charles / Revised and Illustrated By V Wheeler-Holohan

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co: 1931

Seller ID: 032804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

xx + 332pp, index, bibliography, 32 colour plates, illustrations in text. Red boards, colour fading to spine and edges, gilt design to front, top edge of pages gilt, owner's signature to front endpaper, foxing mainly to edges and endpapers, overall a Good copy, no dustwrapper.
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The Local Historian's Glossary of Words and Terms

By: Bristow, Joy

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Newbury, Countryside Books: 2001

Seller ID: 032699

ISBN: 1853067075

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

255pp, bibliography, 25 illustrations. Softback, slight colour fading to spine, a VG copy.
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The Ascent of Man

By: Bronowski, Jacob / with a New Foreword By Melvyn Bragg

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2012

Seller ID: 032588

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvii + 302pp, index, illustrations, bibliography. Quarter-bound in buckram with paper sides, blocked with a design by Neil Gower, slightest marking to front board otherwise a Fine copy in slipcase. This edition based on the 2011 edition by BBC books.
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Image for Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland, Being an Account of Many Remarkable Persons and Places; and Likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders and Other Considerable...

Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland, Being an Account of Many Remarkable Persons and Places; and Likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders and Other Considerable...

By: Burton, Richard (pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch)

Price: £175.00

Publisher: Westminster, Machell Stace: 1811

Seller ID: 031368

Binding: Quarter-Leather

Condition: Good+

'Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland, Being an Account of Many Remarkable Persons and Places; and Likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders and Other Considerable Occurrences and Accidents, for Several Hundred Years Past. With the Natural and Artificial Rarities in Every County, and Many Other Observable Passages; As They are Recorded by Credible Historians of Former and Latter Ages. A New Edition, With Additional Wood-cut Portraits, and a Copious Index'. 168pp, two indexes, illustrations in text plus 17...
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Armorial Bearings of British Schools

By: Christie-Murray, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: David Christie-Murray:

Seller ID: 032698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Full-page colour plates in colour of the arms, for a selection of schools. Blue cloth, gilt titling, no dustwrapper, a VG copy. Undated, post 1966, presumed first edition.
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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

By: Clayton, Ewan

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Atlantic Books: 2013

Seller ID: 032418

ISBN: 184887362X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

408pp, index, 64 illustrations, bibliography, notes. Black boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Image for Where the Cut Knife Waters Flow: A History of the Districts of Cloan; Cut Knife; Gallivan; Ovenstown; Riding Hill; Rockhaven; Rose Mound; Stringer; Triple Lake; Weewona; Willowview

Where the Cut Knife Waters Flow: A History of the Districts of Cloan; Cut Knife; Gallivan; Ovenstown; Riding Hill; Rockhaven; Rose Mound; Stringer; Triple Lake; Weewona; Willowview

By: Compiled By East Cut Knife and Districts Historical Society

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Canada, East Cut Knife and Districts Historical Society: 1980

Seller ID: 017700

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

826pp, index, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. Detailed history of the area stretching from the Battle River in the north to the Big Rock in the south. Includes a vast amount of detail about individual families so an excellent reference for genealogists. Blue boards, gilt decoration and titling, a VG clean tight copy. Included is a 4pp supplement. Heavy book, approx 2.5kg packed, extra shipping required to non-UK address.
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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers

By: Crawford, James

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Old Street Publishing Ltd: 2015

Seller ID: 031348

ISBN: 1908699930

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

602pp, further reading, endnotes, 16pp colour plates, illustrations in text, illustrated endpapers. Blue boards, light ageing mainly to top edge of pages, Christmas inscription to title page, overall a VG copy in a near VG (edge rubs, minor marks) dustwrapper.
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The Earth: An Intimate History

By: Fortey, Richard

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society:

Seller ID: 032701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

New copy still shrink-wrapped. Edition unknown.
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Life

By: Fortey, Richard

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society:

Seller ID: 032702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

New copy still shrink-wrapped. Edition unknown.
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Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day

By: Galileo Galilei / Frova, Andrea / Marenzana, Mariapiera / Translated By Jim McManus in Collaboration with the Authors

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Oxford, OUP: 2006

Seller ID: 017756

ISBN: 0198566255

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xx + 493pp, index, main texts and additional reading, illustrations. Black boards, 4 pages uncut otherwise a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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The Web of the Universe: An Occult Theory of Sub-stance, of Man's Origins and the Source of His Creative Powers

By: Gardner, EL

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Theosophical Publishing House: 1938

Seller ID: 021762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

103pp, references, appendix, 25 charts, diagrams and illustrations. Blue boards, gilt design to front, spine dulled, edge rubs, foxing mainly to endpapers and edges, a few marks to front endpaper, owner's details neatly to same, overall a Good tight copy without dustwrapper.
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Japan's 'International Youth': The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren

By: Goodman, Roger

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1990

Seller ID: 030755

ISBN: 0198278411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xv + 283pp, index, references, glossary, notes, map, 14 tables, 10 figures. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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History of the Masonic Province of Worcestershire

By: Hall, Ralph / Preface By Ray Sheppard

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcester, Worcestershire Masonic Study Circle: 1989

Seller ID: 031425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

368pp + subscription list at rear, illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt titling to front, plain spine, slight fading to spine, light ageing, a VG copy, no dustwrapper presumably as issued. This is copy 177/800, with the subscriber's name to title page. Extremely scarce.
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The Parish of Pluckley, Kent: Monumental Inscriptions in the Church, and Churchyard

By: Haslewood, The Rev. Francis

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Ipswich, The Rev. Francis Haslewood: 1899

Seller ID: 022670

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 94pp + 2pp adverts, index. Maroon boards, blind-stamped borders, gilt spine titling and to front board, a few rubs/bumps, some foxing mainly to endpapers, letter to the author tipped in at rear. Overall a VG copy. Excellent reference for the genealogist.
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Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood

By: Hobson, Barbara (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, CUP: 2002

Seller ID: 018883

ISBN: 0521006120

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 328pp, index, references, notes, charts. Softback, a VG clean tight copy. A collection of 10 essays.
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By: Holmes, Richard

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, HarperPress: 2008

Seller ID: 032042

ISBN: 0007149522

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxi + 554pp, index, references, bibliography, 24pp plates, frontispiece. Blue boards, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author on title page. Includes a ticket for a lecture given by the author at Cheltenham Town Hall in 2008.
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John Arthur Parkin and His Australian Family

By: Ian Stuart Parkin (4th Generation)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Australia, AC Parkin & Co: 2002

Seller ID: 030323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 228pp, family trees and illustrations throughout. Limited edition, this is no.25/300. Black boards, VG in (sunning to spine and adjacent edge) dustwrapper. Invaluable reference for the family historian.
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Social Freedom: The Responsibility View

By: Kristjánsson, Kristján

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, CUP: 1996

Seller ID: R15019

ISBN: 0521560926

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 221pp, index, bibliography. Black boards, VG clean tight copy in (rear panel a little grubby) dustwrapper.
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The Knights Templar: in Britain

By: Lord, Dr Evelyn

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Longman: 2002

Seller ID: 031314

ISBN: 0582472873

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 267pp, index, bibliography, appendix, notes, illustrated. Black boards, VG in dustwrapper.
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Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood and Chivalry: And the Anonymous Ordene De Chevalerie

By: Lull, Ramon / Translated By William Caxton / Rendered Into Modern English By Brian R Price

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Chivalry Bookshelf: 2001

Seller ID: 031044

ISBN: 1891448420

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 124pp. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Written in the latter part of the 13th century, this has become one of the most influential books on what it meant to be a knight. Originally written in Catalan, it was printed as one of the first books in England.
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The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order

By: Maçães, Bruno

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 2018

Seller ID: 030744

ISBN: 0241309255

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 281pp, index, notes, maps, illustrations. Grey boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. 2nd impression of the 1st edition.
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The Illustrated Atlas of the Nineteenth (19th) Century World

By: Martin, Montgomery (Editor) / Introduction By Jonathan Potter

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Bracken Books: 1989

Seller ID: 032072

ISBN: 1851702644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

179pp, colour reproductions of the maps with text opposite. Blue cloth boards, light wear only, a VG copy in (slightly edge creased) dustwrapper. Previously published in 1851. UK at standard rate, overseas may require extra shipping.
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

By: Morland, Paul

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 2019

Seller ID: 031472

ISBN: 1473675138

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 344pp, index, bibliography, notes, 2 appendices, not illustrated. Black boards, VG in dustwrapper.
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The Great Upheaval: An Account of the Enclosure of Wingrave and Rowsham in 1798

By: Morley, Margaret / Morley, Kenneth C.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Wingrave, Kenneth C Morley: 1994

Seller ID: 031806

ISBN: 0951575120

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64pp, references, 4 appendices, colour map of land use, illustrations, photographs, maps. Softback, slight creasing to covers, small mark to title page, a VG copy.
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European Monographs in Social Psychology: The Social Psychology of Minority Influence

By: Mugny, Gabriel / Perez, Juan A. (Translated By Vivian Waltz Lamongie)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, CUP: 1991

Seller ID: R15025

ISBN: 0521390540

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 190pp, index, references, appendices. Laminated boards, VG clean tight copy.
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An Introduction to the History of Duelling

By: Noble, Duncan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Ken Trotman Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 022020

ISBN: 190507400X

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

44pp, illustrations. Booklet, staples rusting otherwise a VG copy. This study covers the history of duelling, weapons in Europe and beyond.
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

By: Paine, Lincoln

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Atlantic Books: 2014

Seller ID: 032416

ISBN: 1782393552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxxvi + 746pp, index, bibliography, notes, 26pp colour plates, illustrations. Brown boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire with an Account of a Descent Into Elden Hole

By: Pennington, Rooke

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1877

Seller ID: 022702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

124pp, 3 appendices, errata slip. Red blind-stamped boards, gilt titling, rough cut edges (closed edge tear to 1 page), general light ageing, spine dulled, a VG copy, no dustwrapper.
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The City of London Livery Companies

By: Pontifex, Bryan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1939

Seller ID: 031303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

94pp. Quarter-bound in green buckram over cloth, black titling and crest to front board, small loss to top edge of front board, foxing mainly to edges and endpapers, fore-edge rough cut, a Good copy in a Poor (major loss to spine and also 2 sections of front panel, now in removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. This book deals with the origin of the London Guilds, their history, duties and romance during the past 800 years. Personalised gift inscription from the author to front endpaper, dated 13th October 1942.
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The Family In Ancient Rome: New Perspectives

By: Rawson, Beryl (Editor)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Routledge: 1992

Seller ID: 031156

ISBN: 0415079969

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

281pp, indexes, bibliography, notes, A collection of 9 essays plus a Conclusion. Softback, light ageing, light reading creases, minor marks, overall a VG copy.
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The Rous Roll

By: Rous, John / with an Historical Introduction on John Rous and the Warwick Roll By Charles Ross

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Gloucester, Alan Sutton Publishing: 1980

Seller ID: 022446

ISBN: 0904387437

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 134pp, illustrated, index, description of the plates. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper. Reprint of the 1859 first edition. Covering the Rolls of the Earls of Warwick, an important reference in the study of history, heraldry and genealogy of the late 15th century.
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Cambridge Studies in Philosophy: The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes

By: Rowlands, Mark

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, CUP: 1999

Seller ID: R15029

ISBN: 052165274X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 270pp, index, references. Blue boards, VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875 - 1945

By: Savage, Jon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Pimlico: 2008

Seller ID: 032468

ISBN: 1845951468

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 549pp, index, notes, illustrations. Thick softback, reading creases, light ageing, a VG copy.
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Occult Chemistry Re-evaluated

By: Smith, Ernest Lester

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, The Theosophical Publishing House: 1982

Seller ID: 021768

ISBN: 0835602303

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 107pp, references, 11 diagrams, 2 tables. Softback, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy. A companion book to 'Occult Chemistry' by Annie Besant and CW Leadbeater.
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It's a PC World: What it Means to Live in a Land Gone Politically Correct

By: Stourton, Edward

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2008

Seller ID: 020899

ISBN: 0340954868

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 262pp, index. Grey boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author to title page, removeable label to front of dustwrapper indicating that it was signed at Waterstone's.
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A Study in Survival: Conan Doyle Solves the Final Problem

By: Straughan, Roger

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Winchester, O Books: 2009

Seller ID: 022263

ISBN: 1846942403

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 176pp, references, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Personalised gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title page.
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Worcestershire Historical Society New Series Volume 27: Court Rolls of Romsley 1279 - 1643

By: Tompkins, Matthew (Editor) / with an Introduction By Christopher Dyer, Assisted By Julian Hunt and Michael Hall

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Worcester, The Worcestershire Historical Society: 2017

Seller ID: 031837

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

360pp, indexes, frontispiece. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The Court Rolls feature the names of over 1000 Romsley men and women and give an insight into life in this community. Of interest to historians and genealogists alike.
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Hume's Theory of Consciousness

By: Waxman, Wayne

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, CUP: 1994

Seller ID: R14964

ISBN: 052145381X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 347pp, index, bibliography, notes. Green boards, VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. This book attempts a comprehensive analysis and re-evaluation of the first book of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.
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Patrick White Speaks

By: White, Patrick

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape Ltd: 1990

Seller ID: 032391

ISBN: 0224027883

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

201pp, notes, 23 illustrations. Brown boards, general ageing, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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