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New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1960. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 191. Inscribed, dated (1960) and signed on the front free endpaper by the author. Light mauve cloth boardsover off-white spine. Gilt signature to front; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to board edges. Very light rubbing to rear of dustjacket; crease to bottom of front dustjacket flap. Protected in mylar. "All I really want in this book is for you to sit down with me for a couple of hours so we can talk over together the dreams that are worth having and worth fighting for - and make our world, yours and mine, a happier place for ourselves." (from the dustjacket flap).
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ONCE UPON A DREAM : A PERSONAL CHAT WITH ALL TEENAGERS (SIGNED)
by Page, Patti
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AN ORIGINAL LEAF FOM FRANCISCO PALOU'S LIFE OF THE VENERABLE FATHER JUNIPER SERRA. 1787. A KEEPSAKE PRESENTED BY THE ROXBURGHE CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR VISIT TO THE ZAMORANO CLUB OF LOS ANGELES, SEPTEMBER 20-21, 1958
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San Francisco: Roxburghe Club, 1958. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Printed for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by Grabhorn Press and limited to 177 copies. [3], 8, [3] pages. Facsimile of the original 1787 title page and original leaf in Spanish from the 1787 edition [page 310-311] tipped in. Leaf is approximately 6x8 inches. Introductory text by David McGee. Folio in wraps with red label and title in gilt on front wrap. Folio. Leaf is near fine with original glassine protective overlay. Interior is near fine. Front wrap has two light [possibly coffee] stains, some foxing and light discolortion. Red paper label is near fine. Francisco Palou [1723-1789] was a Franciscn Priest, who, like his mentor Junipero Serra, was born in Majorca Spain. When Junipero Serra left the Baja Missions to head north to establish missions in Alta California, Palou suceeded him as head of the Baja California missions. In 1773 when the Domincans took over the Baja missions, he moved north travelling to San…
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HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF JAPAN WITH 300 ILLUSTRATIONS, 18 APPENDIXES, AND SEVERAL MAPS
by Papinot, E. [Edmond]
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Tokyo, Japan: Librairie Sansaisha, 1909. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 9.1 in. x 6.3 in., pp. 842, [45]. Illustrated with eleven double-page color maps of Japan and one monochrome map to the rear. Deep burgundy cloth boards with black title stamped to front. GIlt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities; scuffing to rear board. Blue pictorial title page. Ink stamp from UC Berkeley's Japanese Student Club to verso of front free endpaper. Light age-toning to pages. Arranged alphabetically, this dictionary provides a copious amount of historical and geographical information regariding Japan, with eighteen appendices, including a list of emperors, Shogun, and Nengo. Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot (1860-1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary, an architect, an historian, and a Japanologist.
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THE JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA IN THE YEAR 1805. TOGETHER WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE, RELATING TO THE SAME MISSION. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR. PARK
by Park, Mungo
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Philadelphia: Edward Earle, 1815. Leather-bound. Fair Only. Old half leather with marbled paper sides (well worn). Hinges cracked. 8vo. 9 in. Considerable foxing throughout, but quite readable. Lacks Map. With Isaaco and Amadi Fatouma's journals as appendices. The journal of Park's second expedition during which his party was attacked and murdered, which may or may not have had something to do with Park's purported propensity to shoot first. NO map. Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa, who made several important journeys of discovery, in fact was the European "UR" explorer for this region: "His dispassionate â if not scientific or objective â descriptions set a standard for future travel writers to follow and gave Europeans a glimpse of Africa's humanity and complexity. Park introduced them to a vast continent unexplored by Europeans. ...Mungo Park was its first successful explorer, he set a standard for all who followed. After his death, European public and political interest in…
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JOURNAL OF AN EXPLORING TOUR BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE A.B.C.F.M. IN THE YEARS 1835, '36, AND '37; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, AND THE NUMBERS, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE NATIVES: WITH A MAP OF THE OREGON TERRITORY
by Parker, (Rev.) Samuel
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Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, and Woodruff, 1842. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. WITH MAP OF OREGON TERRITORY. Octavo, 7.9 in. x 5 in., pp. 498. Brown cloth boards with elaborate frame stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt title and bandlines in blind to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners nudged and showing. Previous owner's name in pencil, dated 1843, to front free endpaper. Spotting to endpapers and to title page. Text block bright and supple with very occasional light spotting.. With folding "Map of Oregon Territory" (1838) by Samuel Parker. 34.5 x 57 cm. Between 1840 and 1846, Parker's book appeared in four more American editions and three other editions published in Dublin, Dresden, and Edinburgh. (Wagner-Camp 70:3). Includes a 14-page appendix featuring a "Vocabulary of Indian Languages" consisting of Nez Perce, Klicitat; Callipooa (Kalipuya); Chenook (as spoke about Fort Vancouver) Samuel Parker (1779-1866) was an American missionary in the Pacific Northwest, He was the first…
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PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE; OR, THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL and THE STATES AND TERRITORIES OF OUR WESTERN EMPIRE: EMBRACING THE HISTORY STATISTICS AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE TERRITORIAL REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES AND CHIEF CITIES OF THE WEAST: THEIR CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, MANUFACTURES, COMMERCE, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, POPULATION, ECT. ETC. COMPILED FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES
by Parkman, Francis, Jr.
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Columbus, Ohio: J. Miller, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 8.9 in. x 6 in., pp. 1-448, 449-640 (continuous pagination). Illustrated with engraved frontis to half title, engraving to half title, and eleven additional engravings. Burgundy-brown boards with gilt title and four double-bandlines to spine. Marbled edges. Shelfwear to edges. Several speckles of soiling to spine. Decorative green endpapers. Double-frame to text on pp.1-448. Six pages of "Table of Distances." Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Light, occasional spotting throughout. Spine and hinges tight. Note: Second title page on p. 449 includes the mispelling of "ECT." for ETC. ncludes "Preface to the Third Edition", which was originally published in 1852. This 1857 edition was published and sold exclusively by subscription.
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THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST: AN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
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London, England: John Murray, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in., pp. xxi + 425, Illustrated with engraved map of LaSalle's Colony on the Illinois River. Burgundy half-calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and design to spine. Five raised bands on spine. Marbled endpapers. Owner bookplate on front pastedown printed with heraldic emblem and name. Spine is tight. Rubbing to extremities. Front hinge shows light wear; free front endpaper has one and two inch closed tears at top and bottom of hinge.
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JOURNEY TO ARARAT
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original cloth. Bright gilt lettering and illus, front cover. Clean, copy. Folding map. Frontis. Scientific papers. Editors appendix. 389. Publishers catalog at end. Recommended source by the Encylopedia Brittanica. An early and noteworthy visit to a fabled mountain. Translated by W.D. Cooley. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's name to front pastedown, and top of title page.
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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819-20, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS HECLA AND GRIPER, UNDER THE ORDERS OF WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, R.N., F.R.S., AND COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION; WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
by Parry, Capt. William E.
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London, England: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Leather-bound. Good. Quarto. Full speckled calf with gilt floral chain border to both boards, Rebacked in sympathetic calf. Four raised bands (five compartments) contrasting red spine label, and gilt floral designs within compartments. Penciled note reads "First Edition", but to be safe, assuming second edition, since count of plates EXCEEDS those listed in Hill. All 20 illustrations present: six charts, four of them folding, nine engravings (some with original tissues, some detached but present) by W. Westfall from sketches by Lieuts. Frederick William Beechey, Henry Parkyns Hoppner, and several other pages of strip surveys of coastlines encountered while sailing past. A number of in-text illustrations present, as well. Indigo blue and grey stone marbled endpapers. Bookplate residue to front pastedown. Some toning, light foxing and offset throughout, but overall, tight, clean and bright. Nice copy. Important early arctic expedition. Published…
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JOURNAL OF A SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC; PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1821-22-23 IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS FURY AND HECLA, UNDER THE ORDERS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, R.N., F.R.S., AND COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION
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London, England: John Murray (Publisher to The Admiralty, and Board of Longitude), 1824. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. 4to. Contemporary Rebinding. Quarter-bound grey and gold marbled cloth, over suede. 35 plates, of which 4 folding. 4 folding maps at end, as well as fold-out Views. All called-for plates and maps present. Cancellation stamp from Admiralty Library, the impression of which slightly bled over to frontis engraving. Includes vocabulary of Esquimaux words. The Admiralty copy, possibly the original presentation. "Parry's (second) voyage, which had taken him through the Parry Channel three quarters of the way across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was probably the single most productive voyage in the quest for the Northwest Passage..." That voyage, described in this narrative, commenced in April 1821. On this second voyage Parry "again left for the Arctic commanding HMS Fury accompanied by HMS Hecla under George Francis Lyon. ...the goal this time was to find a passage near the…
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THE LOVE POEMS OF KENNETH PATCHEN (POCKET POETS SERIES NO. 13); (with original pen and ink sketches by previous owner)
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San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mary Hamilton. NOTE: 9 original ink drawings penned in this book by previous owner, a Mary Hamilton, (8 below the text of poems, one to to the rear endpaper). A few stray ink markings to bottom edge. One of only 300 copies of this "Gift Edition" were printed, having been simultaneously issued in hardcover along with first paperback edition in January, 1961, Sewn signatures bound in red cloth and boards, lettered in blue on front cover and spine, with cream endpapers. Issued without dustjacket. 48 pp. (Cook, 29; Morgan A31) 6 1/2" x 5 1/4". Title printed in red. No printing notice. Advertised by City Lights as a 'Gift Edition'. A wee bit of rubbing to corners. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. NOTE: 9 original ink drawings penned in this book by previous owner, a Mary Hamilton, (8 below the text of poems, one to to the rear endpaper). Ralph T. and Lori A. Cook's City Lights Books: A Descriptive Bibliography…
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A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS IN ENGLAND AND WALES ; CONTAINING: I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns and remarkable Villages; with their Market-Days, and the Counties in which they are situated. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port, Towns; shewing the Distance from each City, Town, or Village, to the next on the same Road; with their Distance from London, and an Account of the Remarkable Seats that are near the Road. III. The Cross Roads of England and Wales. IV. The Circuits of the Judges in England. V. An Index to the Country Seats. VI. A Post-Table, in French and English, showing instantly, without the Trouble of calculating, the Expence of travelling any Stage, with Post-Chaises and Saddle-Horses. The Whole on a Plan entirely New, and far preferable to any Work of the Kind extant
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LONDON: T.N. Longman, 1794. Tenth Edition. Leather-bound. Near Fine. Later binding of full crushed levant morocco (goatskin), of rich, dark blue. Four raised bands, decorated gilt, compartments decorated blind. Boards double-ruled and decorated in blind. Archival restoration to last leaf, at corner. Very occasional, light foxing to text. Tight, bright pages; "E. Houlditch, Marsh Gibbons, Bucks." inked on second fep. One two-page map, entitled: "A General View of the Roads of England and Wales". Better known as PATERSON'S ROADS. Daniel Paterson was the Assistant to George Morrison (to which the book is dedicated), the Quarter-Master-General of his Majesty's Forces. This Tenth Edition represented nearly Ninety Pages additional text from the previous, "including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads, many new Cross Roads, and a great Number of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats.". Part of an important chapter in the history of coaching, this slim little volume was was carried by all coachmen to…
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PATERSON'S ROADS: A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. (Bound With) A TRAVELING DICTIONARY ; Bound With A TRAVELLING DICTIONARY, or, Alphabetical Tables of the Distance of All the Principal Cities, Borough, Market and Sea-Port Towns in Great Britain, From Each Other
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LONDON: T.N. Longman, 1796. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Two separate books in one binding. The first book of this is the Eleventh Edition of what is commonly called PATERSON'S ROADS and was an indispensable resource which all coachmen carried to find their way through the towns, hills, dales and shires. 406 pp. includes index to County Seats. Later binding of rich vermilion calf, with raised bands, contrasting black spine label with gilt-stamped title and date. Marbled endpapers.Tight, bright copy. Bound together with the Seventh Edition of THE TRAVELLER'S DICTIONARY, consisting of 215 pp., and published in 1797. Eighteenth-Century editions are quite scarce. In the preface, the publishers thusly describe the companion volume to this single-bound volume, called The Traveling Dictionary: "Having thus, to the best of our Abilities, supplied the Traveller with a full and accurate Description of a much greater Collection of Roads than was ever before attempted; yet, as the different Routs which Travellers…
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THE STAGE AND ITS STARS PAST A PRESENT: A GALLERY OF DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATION AND CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES OF DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ACTORS FROM THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE TILL TO-DAY (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE)
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Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Co. Publishers, 1895. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Two massive folios, half-bound in smooth leather and burgundy pebbled cloth, triple ruled in gilt. Five raised bands to spines, also triple-ruled-and lettered in gilt. A few minor scratches and rubs to both leather and cloth, but all in all, very clean, tight and presentable. Heavy (23 lbs before packaging and boxing). Loaded with biographies, anecdotes, tissue-guarded full-page images - many photographs, Cyanotypes and gravures of great classical actors in character, throughout. International shipping will easily be as much as the book itself costs.
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WITCHES' POTIONS AND SPELLS; WIth Decorations by Maggie Jarvis
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Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Maggie Jarvis. 12mo, 7.4 n. x 4.5 in. pp. 61. Illustrated with engravings in blue, red and black by Maggie Jarvis. Pictorial paper boards with white title to front and spine. Very light rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to top/bottom of dustjacket spine; light sunning to dustjacket spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. "For centuries witches have brewed potions and cast spells to work their magic: enchanting lovers, curing disease, harming enemies, even becoming invisible and flying. Here is a wide selection of their recipes drawn from the lore of witches throughout the world. Only experienced witches should attempt to perform any of these enchantments... " (from the Preface).
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BEZRUCUV HLAS : PAMITNIK PEVCE SLEZSKYCH PISNI (MEMORIAL TO THE SINGER OF SILESIAN SONGS)
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Praha: Cin, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Written in Czech. Quarto, 10.8 in. x 8.5 in., pp. 238. Illustrated with woodcuts, drawings, and photographs. Black textured cloth boards; red cloth oval to center of front board with initials "P.B." and a smoking gecko to the front. Black title on red cloth to spine. Very light shelfwear to board edges. Light age-toning to interior pages. Previous owner's address sticker to rear pastedown. Light rubbing to edges of dustjacket, with a couple closed tears to dustjacket edges and a chip to top of dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. The title translates: "Bezru uv Hlas: Memorial to the Singer of Silesian Songs." Text contains lyrics and musical notation. Contains intaglio photographs and reproductions of works of art by Josef Kubà ek, Ferdiš Duša, Vilém Wünsche, Jan Zrzavý, and others.
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THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND ART DISPLAYED, IN A TOUR THROUGH THE WORLD (Vols. I & II, in Single Binding) ; Containing A General Account of all the Countries i the World...; A particular Account of the most curious natural Productions of each Country, in the Animal, Vegetable, and Fossil Kingdoms...; An Historical Account of the most remarkable Earthquakes, Inundations, Fires, Epidemic Diseases, and other public Calamities...; Extraordinary Instances of Longevity, Fertility &c. among the Inhabitants; together with an Account of their most celebraated Inventions, Discoveries, &c; Particular Descriptions of the most remarkable Public Buildings, and other singular Productions of Art; Curious Remains of Antiquity; remarkable Laws, Customs and Traditions of the Inhabitants..."
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London, England: J. Pane, at the Feathers in Pater-Noster-Row, 1763. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Later tan buckram over older non-pareil marbled boards, with paper title-label to spine, lettered and bordered in red.Two volumes in a single binding, separately paginated. Lacking the two maps, scheduled to be bound-in, at the beginnings of each of the two volumes, respectively. 16 copperplate engravings (one foldout) in these, the first two volumes of a planned XIV-volume undertaking (an advertisement on the verso of the final leaf reads: "In the third volume of this work, which will be published on the first day of August..."). A lovely little pocket-sized compendium of fascinating sundry knowledge, written in a chatty, informational style -- sort of the Rick Steve's pocket guides of their day -- but 250 years ago! The copperplate engravings are sharp and feature such places as Stonehenge, and a cavern called "The Devil's Arse"
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A YEAR OF LIBERTY; OR, SALMON ANGLING IN IRELAND FROM FEBRUARY 1 TO NOVEMBER 1
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London, England: Horace Cox, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. xii, 300. Green half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title to red and black panels on spine. Gilt decoration and five raised bands to spine. Publisher's gilt top-edge. Sunning to spine, turning green to brown. Rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Errata slip tipped-in at rear. Green cloth tape repair to front and rear hinges. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Peard visited Ireland in 1865 "pausing for a time at the first class salmon rivers and lakes, arriving at each when in the highest order for angling."
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MAP OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH GRANTS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN
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Albany, New York: Engraved, colored and printed by Richard H. Pease, 1851. Map. Very Good. Date: Approximately 1849-1851 Approximate dimensions: 65 cm. x 43 cm. (25.6 in. x 17 in.).
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Engraved, colored and printed by Richard H. Pease in Albany, New York Date: Approximately 1849-1851 Approximate dimensions: 65 cm. x 43 cm. (25.6 in. x 17 in.).
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