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Colorful Favorites Goody Two-Shoes (details | read it) Publisher's chromolithographed pictorial wrappers c1888 Caw caw; or, the chronicle of crows (details | read it) The house that Jack built, a game of forfeits : to which is added, The entertaining fable of "The Magpie" (details |...
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Books of Interest Alice Underground: being a facimile of the original book later developed into Alice in Wonderland (1882) (details | read it) The Dance (by An Antiquary): Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. (details | read it) Gulliver's Travels (details |...
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