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Tales Of Fear And Fantasy (Hugh Lamb's copy)..

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 43329

ISBN: 0006146783

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Fontana 4678. Collects seven horror/supernatural stories. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. A very uncommon UK paperback, and not reprinted since.
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The Awakening (film-tie-in + Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Magnum: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 46691

ISBN: 0417065906

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edsges browning, a VG copy.

Novelisation by Chetwynd-Hayes from a screenplay by Allan Scott, Chris Bryant and Clive Exton of an EMI British film starring Charlton Heston and Susannah York, a version of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel THE JEWEL OF THE SEVEN STARS. With eight pages of b/w stills. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. The only publication of this title.

''a 1980 British horror film directed by Mike Newell and starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist. It is the theatrical debut film of Newell. The Awakening is the thi...
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The Night Ghouls And Other Grisly Tales (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 46700

ISBN: 0006137180

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, spine scuffed, a VG+ copy.

Fontana 3718. Collects ten stories. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. You wouldn't know there were ten stories as the paperback was printed without a contents page (which is unforgivable on the part of the publisher), but Hugh Lamb has admirably - and neatly - listed all ten titles (with a page number to each) opposite the title page. A rare UK paperback and not reprinted since.
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Dominique (film-tie-in).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Universal/W. H. Allen: London: 1978.

Seller ID: 48414

ISBN: 0426187539

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Novelisation of the screenplay by Edward Abraham and Valerie Abraham from the 1948 short story ''What Beckoning Ghost'' by Harold Lawlor, made into a 1978 British horror film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter and Ron Moody. The Belmont 1979 paperback is relatively common, but this 1978 UK paperback is rare.
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Time Rangers 2: A Blast From The Past.

By: Childs, Rob

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Scholastic: London.: 1997.

Seller ID: 18094

ISBN: 0590191179

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Slim juvenile football sf novel.
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The Red Planet.

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 47407

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Great Pan G274. SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1956 and the second of three novelisations of the author's 1953-1956 radio sf series JOURNEY INTO SPACE, following the title novel and followed by THE WORLD IN PERIL.

''(1917-2013) UK Radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, Journey Into Space (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through rebroadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are Journey Into Space (1954), novelizing the first story (broad...
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The World In Peril.

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1962.

Seller ID: 47408

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

Great Pan G579. SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1960, and the third of three novelisations of the author's 1953-1956 radio sf series JOURNEY INTO SPACE, following the title novel and THE WORLD IN PERIL.

''(1917-2013) UK Radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, Journey Into Space (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through rebroadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are Journey Into Space (1954), novelizing the first story (broadcast 21 Sept...
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Journey Into Space (radio series tie-in).

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1958.

Seller ID: 48093

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, light wear to spine edges, price showing (faintly) on front cover, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Pan 437. SF novel, first in the trilogy, based on the radio series. First published in hardcover in 1955.

''(1917-2013) UK radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, JOURNEY INTO SPACE (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through re-broadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are JOURNEY INTO SPACE (1954), novelizing the first story (broadcast 21 September 1952 to 19 January 1954); The Red Planet (1956), novelizing the second series (broadcast 6 Septembe...
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A Fall of Moondust.

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1964.

Seller ID: 47251

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, a near fine (NF) copy.

Pan X280. SF novel, First published in hardcover in 1961.
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Tales Of Ten Worlds.

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1965.

Seller ID: 47387

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, a near fine (NF) copy.

Pan X424. SF stories, first published in hardcover in 1962.
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The Puffin Science Fiction Galaxy: five paperbacks slipcased

By: Clarke, Arthur C./Andre Norton/Sylvia Engdahl & Nicholas Fisk)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Puffin/Penguin Books: London.: Nd (1976).

Seller ID: 48662

Binding: Paperback originals.

Condition: Fine copies in a fine pictorial card slipcase.

Five children's sf paperbacks - Catseye by Andre Norton, Grinny by Nicholas Fisk, Heritage of the Star by Sylvia Engdahl, and Islands In The Sky & Of Time And Stars, both by Arthur C. Clarke - all reprints (except for the Engdahl which is the first paperback printing): all five slipcased (and sold) together.
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Blue Magic.

By: Clayton, Jo

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1988.

Seller ID: 48561

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Edges of inner covers browning, else a fine (unread) copy.

Daw 743. Fantasy novel, book two of the Drinker of Souls trilogy, following DEINKER OF SOULS. ''First printing, May 1988'' on copyright page. Cover art by Jody Lee.
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Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, With An Introduction By J. H. Plumb.

By: Cleland, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 36756

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

''First printing, November 1965'' on the copyright page. New edition with an eight page introduction by J. H. Plumb.
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Needle.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 47472

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Corgi YS1383. SF novel, the author's irst book, published by Doubleday in 1950, and later reissued as FROM OUTER SPACE (Avon, 1957).
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From Outer Space.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Avon Books: NY.: 1957.

Seller ID: 48317

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browning, a little spine lean, a VG+ copy.

Avon T-175. SF novel. Title change, first published as NEEDLE by Doubleday in 1950.
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The Best of Hal Clement.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine/Del Rey: NY.: 1979.

Seller ID: 48373

ISBN: 0345276892

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ballantine 27689. 380 pages: edited with an introduction by Lester del Rey. ''First edition: June 1979'' on the copyright page.
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The Forever Machine.

By: Clifton, Mark (& Frank Riley).

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Galaxy Publishing Co.: NY.: 1958.

Seller ID: 48777

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Galaxy Novel no 35. SF novel, published by Gnome Press in hardcover in 1957 as THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT. Wallace Wood cover art.

''The Bossy sequence - ''Crazy Joey'' (1953) with Alex Apostolides), ''Hide! Hide! Witch!'' (1953) with Apostolides, and THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT (1954 ASF; edited version 1957; vt The Forever Machine 1958) with Frank Riley - concerns an advanced computer named Bossy who is almost made ineffective by the fears of mankind about her, even though she is capable of conferring immortality. Despite a slightly awkward prose style and an occasionally heavy wit, Clifton...
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Call It Experience.

By: Clos, Charles

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd.: London.: 1959.

Seller ID: 46985

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A VG+ copy.

Thriller: ''the raw and bitter hurt of a broken marriage''. A rare UK paperback, and not reprinted since.
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How To Make And Use Magic Mirrors.

By: Clough, Nigel R.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, Northants.: 1977.

Seller ID: 32212

ISBN: 0850301297

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little age-darkened, else a fine (as new) copy.

64 pages.
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The Erotic Spectacles.

By: Cohen, Genghis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Olympia Press: London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 10848

ISBN: 0700414703

Binding: Paperback.

Condition: Page edges browned, a near fine (NF) copy.

Erotic fantasy involving ''magic spectacles''.
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The Dream Lords 3: Bane Of Nightmares.

By: Cole, Adrian

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Zebra Books: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 27611

ISBN: 0890832242

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Zebra 224. Heroic fantasy: third in the Dreamlords trilogy. ''First printing: December 1976'' on the copyright page. Cover art by Tom Barber.

''UK writer who began publishing with ''Wired Tales'' for Dark Horizons in 1973, and who has tended to create worlds - generally with a Planetary Romance structure - in which a fantasy tone and fantasy trappings cohabit with sf underpinnings, sometimes rather uneasily. His first sequence of fantasy stories, the tales about an accursed wanderer named The Voidal, peaked with The Coming of the Voidal (1977 chap); they were not serious. His first f...
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Doctor Who: More Short Trips: A Collection Of Short Stories.

By: Cole, Stephen (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 1999.

Seller ID: 25671

ISBN: 0563555653

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for some browning along page edges.

Doctor Who: Short Trips, A Collection of Short Stories.

By: Cole, Stephen (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 1998.

Seller ID: 45504

ISBN: 0563405600

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

Frontier Worlds.

By: Collins, Paul (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cory & Collins: Victoria, Australia.: 1983.

Seller ID: 48701

ISBN: 0909117179

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Jus a little browning along page edges, else a fine (unread) copy.

Original sf anthology by Australian authors, introduction by A. Bertram Chandler.
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The Mirror Of Dionysos.

By: Comer, Ralph

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Universal-Tandem: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 43457

ISBN: 0426031997

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Tandem 3199. Supernatural/occult novel: ''the elemental powers of white magic contend with a more terrifying form of evil''. Published the same year in the US as TO DREAM OF EVIL.. Very uncommon UK paperback.
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The Quality Of Mercy.

By: Compton, D. G.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 48550

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace 69540. The author's first sf novel: published by Hodder in hardcover in 1965, this Ace paperback has revised text.

''His first sf novel was THE QUALITY OF MERCY (1965; rev 1970), in which conspirators conceive it will be appropriate to commit genocide, using a biological weapon, to combat overpopulation'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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The Dissentizens.

By: Condray, Bruno G. (aka Leslie Humphrys)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: C. A. Pearson/Tit-Bits SF Library: London.: 1954.

Seller ID: 48781

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Pages browning, a VG+ copy.

SF novel, one of several written by Humphrys writing as ''Bruno G. Condray''. Published October, 1954. Cover art by Ron Turner. 19 volumes were published in the Tit-Bits SF series 1953-1955. In: Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magazines 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide, A276, pp. 86.
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By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1973.

Seller ID: 37796

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. Published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz one year later, in 1974. Daw #86. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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A Matter Of Time.

By: Cook, Glen

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1985.

Seller ID: 48518

ISBN: 0441522130

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Time travel novel. ''Ace original/April 1985'' on copyright page.
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The Heirs Of Babylon.

By: Cook, Glen

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1972.

Seller ID: 48729

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Browning along edges of inner covers, else a fine (unread) copy.

Signet Q5299. SF novel, by an author better known for his (later) fantasy. ''First printing, December 1972'' on copyright page.

''US author who began his sf career with orthodox stories like his first, ''Song from a Forgotten Hill'' for Clarion (anthology 1971), and with the sf novel THE HEIRS OF BABYLON (1972), in which an authoritarian religious government takes over in the Post-Holocaust era. However, he soon became best known for his high Fantasy, especially the Dread Empire series, beginning with A Shadow of All Night Falling (1979), which was notable for its concerted military ...
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Bad Dreams (Horror Stories).

By: Cooling, Wendy (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Dolphin/Orion: London.: 1997.

Seller ID: 48741

ISBN: 1858814529

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Young adult original horror anthology, a slim paperback (but priced at only 1) with stories from Angela Bull, John Gatehouse, Colin Pearce, Jean Richardson, Sebastian Vince and Gwyneth Jones (writing as ''Ann Halam''). A very uncommon British paperback.
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Deadly Image.

By: Cooper, Edmund

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1959.

Seller ID: 47473

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, spine a little faded, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Panther 988. SF novel, first published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1958, then retitled for Hutchinson UK hardcover publication as THE UNCERTAIN MIDNIGHT later the same year.
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By: Counselman, Mary Elizabeth

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Consul/World Distributors: London.: 1964.

Seller ID: 48426

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a touch of fade to the spine edge, a NF/Fine copy.

The Arkham House hardcover was published in 1978 (and William Kimber issued a 1980 British hardcover), but this 1964 Consul paperback was the first publication of these 14 supernatural stories. A rare British paperback.
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The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization (film tie-in)..

By: Cox, Greg

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Titan Books: London.: 2012.

Seller ID: 44679

ISBN: 1781161062

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Film tie-in.
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Crime Time #37.

By: CRIME TIME, (ed. Barry Forshaw)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: CT Publishing: Birmingham.: 2004.

Seller ID: 35713

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue no 37: The Journal Of Crime Fiction. Articles and reviews: 96 pages
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Stories From The Other Passenger.

By: Cross, John Keir

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1961.

Seller ID: 47246

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Ballantine 480K. Abridged: first published in the UK in 1944 as THE OTHER PASSENGER: 18 STRANGE STORIES, this first paperback edition collects only nine of those stories.
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Tama Of The Light Country.

By: Cummings, Ray

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 33587

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace F-363. SF novel: ''kidnapped by a spaceship!''. Cover art by Jerome Podwil.

''Cummings was fundamentally a pulp magazines writer and - in contrast to colleagues only a little younger, like Murray Leinster and Edmond Hamilton - he was never capable of adapting himself to the changing times, either scientifically or stylistically. His later works could be interchanged with his earliest with very little adjustment. In the 1960s, some of his work was nostalgically reprinted in book form, but this revival did not affect the critical consensus. Typical of his rather roughshod prose and ...
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Brigands Of The Moon.

By: Cummings, Ray

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1958.

Seller ID: 48315

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Ace D-324. SF novel, first serialised in the March - June 1930 issues of Astounding, and published in hardcover in 1931. Incidentally the first paperback printing (by a Canadian publisher Duchess) in the 1940s wrongly attributed the author as John W Campbell Jr.

''Cummings was fundamentally a Pulp Magazine writer and - in contrast to colleagues only a little younger, like Murray Leinster and Edmond Hamilton - he was never capable of adapting himself to the changing times, either scientifically or stylistically. Typical of his rather roughshod prose and routine conceptualizing are the...
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The Shadow Girl.

By: Cummings, Ray

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1962.

Seller ID: 22832

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace D-535. Originally published as a serial in ARGOSY-ALL-STORY magazine (22nd June - 13th July 1929) then published as an (unauthorised) hardcover by Gerald G. Swan in the UK in 1946. This is the first paperback edition and first American edition of this title. Ed Emshwiller cover art.
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The Witches (film tie-in).

By: Curtis, Peter (aka Norah Lofts)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 43849

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Spine lean, a little tear along bottom of spine, page edges browning, a VG copy. Pan X591.

Title change: supernatural novel (written by Norah Lofts using her ''Peter Curtis'' pseudonym), first published in hardcover as THE DEVIL'S OWN in 1960. Made into a Hammer film in 1966 as THE WITCHES. This is the paperback film tie-in. Confusingly, also published subsequently as The Little Wax Doll and Catch as Catch Can. Very uncommon UK paperback. Pan X591.
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Doctor Who: Parallel 59.

By: Dallaire, Natalie (& Stephen Cole)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 25700

ISBN: 0563555904

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (as new) copy.

The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (Hugh Lamb's copy)..

By: Danby, Mary (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1971.

Seller ID: 28636

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, a G/VG copy.

Part reprint, part original horror anthology. 17 volumes published in total between 1966-1984 of THE FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT HORROR STORIES, the first four edited by Christine Bernard, and the rest by Mary Danby. ''First published by Fontana Books, 1971'' stated on the copyright page. Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover.
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