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First Edition, First State of Charles Dickens' best known and most widely-read work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eNotes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In its tightly organized and highly romantic melodrama and the near-absence of typical 'Dickensian' humour and humorous characters, \u003cem\u003eA Tale of Two Cities\u003c\/em\u003e certainly stands apart from all his other novels\" (ODNB).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was also issued in monthly parts from April to November 1859 and serialized in Dickens's weekly journal All the Year Round in the same period, before publication in book form in November that year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is indeed the first ever edition of Charles' Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities in book form, attractively bound in half-leather, likely many decades ago. This wonderful copy has all internal flaws present in the earliest states (Smith, p.98), as listed below:p. (vii), Contents - Chapter VII of Book the Second is titled \"Monsieur the Marquis in Town\" here, but \"Monseigneur in Town\" in the text.\u003cbr\u003ep. (vii), Contents - Chapter VIII of Book the Second is titled \"Monsieur the Marquis in the Country\" here, but \"Monseigneur in the Country\" in the text.\u003cbr\u003ep. (ix), Entry 8 - \"Stryver\" spelled \"Striver\" in caption.\u003cbr\u003ep. 98 - appears to be comma rather than the usual period after the chapter number.\u003cbr\u003ep. 134, line 12 - \"affectionately\" spelled \"affetcionately\".\u003cbr\u003ep. 166, 5 lines up - \"l\" and \"f\" missing or not fully printed in \"himself\".\u003cbr\u003ep. 213 - numbered \"113\" (corrected in later copies).\u003cbr\u003ep. 238, line 14 - triple end quotes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDickens's great historical romance, set during the French Revolution, remains one of his best known and most widely-read works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHalf-bound in dark, olive green leather with marbled boards. Four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Leather and boards worn, especially around extremities. Corners significantly bumped. Marbled edges now slightly rubbed and faded.\u003cbr\u003eMarbled endpapers with ex-library sticker to front. Pencil inscriptions to front, which could be easily erased. Minor amount of foxing within the book, which is rather impressive considering its age. Some spotting and marking throughout, with minimal signs of previous use. Pages are tightly bound with none of them loose.\u003cbr\u003eCollated as complete with all plates present, including the frontispiece protected by a tissue guard (only present in some copies).\u003cbr\u003eAll content is clean and legible with only light fading to the title page, due to the acidity of the protective leaf. \u003cbr\u003eSporadically, some very small page tears in places, likely from handling, however with minimal, if any, loss (and no loss from text or illustration). Some earmarks and creases to be expected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48118577365331,"sku":"","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/s-l1600-Photoroom_46f0638c-d38f-41e1-b08c-487a291dead2.webp?v=1715005214"},{"product_id":"a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens-folio-society-2003-sealed","title":"A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: The Folio Society, [2003]. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. 252 × 192 × 31 mm. Pp. [1–12] 13–173 [174–176]: [8] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [3], 24, 41, 73, 88, 120, 137 and 156). Type: Caslon. Printed and bound by Cambridge University Press. 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In addition to seven illustrations in the text, three ornamental spreads are included. One is repeated seven times in red, one thrice in red and the remainder twice in black. The Italian text is printed alongside a facing-page English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall bump to lower front corner of an otherwise near-fine book with pages clean, bright and tightly bound. 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Pale brown slipcase with colour pictorial front. 30x22.5cm. 69pp. Condition Report The book is in fine condition. No signs of wear or rubbing to the edges of the binding. The binding is tight. The book could not have been read (carefully) more than once. The slipcase is in near-fine condition and with the exception of a shallow scratch at its back, has no faults or other notable flaws. 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The two volumes are as follows: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[1] The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, Laurence Sterne, edited by Melvyn New and Joan New, illustrated by Tom Phillips. 263 × 195 × 45 mm. Pp. [1–2], [i–x], [1–5] 6–504 [505–508]: [10] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [v], [5], [63], [119], [187], [265], [317], [369], [419] and [467]). Type: Caslon. Bound in full white cloth printed in red and blocked in gold with a titling design by Phillips. Gilded top edge. Dark purple endleaves. The tipped-in edition statement, printed letterpress by Hand and Eye, reads in part ‘limited to 750 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, and 25 lettered copies hors de commerce’. Tipped-in pieces of marbled paper for page 173 have been provided by Jemma Lewis. Phillips has produced collages for the frontispiece and each chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[2] A commentary to accompany the life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, by Laurence Sterne. 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Ownership was later, in January 1776, passed on to the Patient family (John Patient and then William Patient Carrington in 1831), as per previous owners' names penned to front FEP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discover'd the Manner of his Setting out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. The Nine and Twentieth Edition, with Additions of New Cuts. [London: Printed by A. W. for W. Johnston, at the Golden-Ball, in St. Paul's-Church-Yard. 1755]. Title page to Part I, 205 numbered pages and an advert leaf on verso of final page,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebound with\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. Deliver'd under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is set forth The Manner of the Setting out of Christian's Wife and Children; their Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. The Twenty-First Edition, with the Addition of Five Cuts. Note, the Third Part, suggested to be J. Bunyan, is an Imposter. [Printed by A. W. for W. Johnston, at the Golden-Ball, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1755]. Part II contains 179 numbered pages and advert leaf and final blank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebound with\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: The Third Part. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream; Shewing the Several Difficulties and Dangers he met with, and the many Victories he obtained over the World, the Flesh, and the Devil. Together with His happy Arrival at the Celestial City, and the Glory and Joy he found to his Eternal Comfort. To which is added, The Life and Death of John Bunyan, Author of [The First and Second Parts; Compleating the Whole Progress.] . The Sixteenth Edition. [London. Printed for C. Hitch, and L. Hawes, at the Red-Lion, in Pater-noster-Row. 1755]. 119 + 30pp. Part III contains 119 numbered pages + 30 numbered pages + 2 unnumbered pages + 4 pages of publishers' adverts. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in full, brown calf and showing, throughout, restoration work. Respined on original leather with four raised bands, detailed motifs, black morocco label lettered in gilt (Pilgrim's Progress) and publishing year to foot of spine (1755). Shows overall wear to binding. Significant bumping and wear to corners. Very light cracking to hinges, but binding nice and tight. New endpapers to front, originals to rear. Pages significantly tanned, a little marking throughout and some skilled repairs with paper repair tape to a handful of pages, in most cases allowing for full text legibility (please see one of the photo for the worst example of repair). A few penciled highlights throughout which could be erased, but we preferred not to interfere with the authenticity and history of this rather special book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeriod ownership inscriptions to verso frontispiece, \"William Patient His Book Jan 17th 1776\" and \"John Patient Carrington 1831\", and same to original rear paste-down, \"Henry Ingram His Book \/ Thomas Ingram His Book \/ Edward Ingram His\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very rare and unique collection of early printings of this significant work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49036807962963,"sku":"","price":525.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/s-l1600_aadddef6-3ffa-42cc-a701-5614fa846334.jpg?v=1720813977"},{"product_id":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-william-shakespeare-first-trade-edition-1908","title":"A Midsummer Night's Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, first impression. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Sized 19 x 25.7 cm. Pp. 134. Bound in tan cloth with pictorial stamping on the cover and gold lettering on the cover and spine; coloured top. Lavishly illustrated with forty full-page illustrations in colour mounted on brown paper and thirty drawings in black and white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExternally in good condition. Spine quite darkened. Boards a little grubby and marked. Bumping to spine tips and corners with a little wear to joints. Foxing to edges and prelims, with a bit of offsetting to the latter. A little wear to gilt work. Front hinge broken with netting exposed (not completely detached, but a little loose). Small bookclub label to rear paste-down and a little staining to front. Otherwise clean and uninscribed, with all colour plates in excellent condition with protective tissue guards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49036830605651,"sku":"","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/s-l1600_5b2de0eb-dc3a-4fc0-a8ee-fcbcb96635c4.jpg?v=1720696279"},{"product_id":"the-pilgrims-progress-nonesuch-press-john-bunyan-1928-limited-edition","title":"The Pilgrim's Progress and the Life and Death of Mr. Badman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pilgrim's Progress and the Life and Death of Mr. Badman \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Bunyan (1628 - 1688). Published by The Nonesuch Press 1928. With eight woodcuts by Karl Michel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful, rather special edition, consisting of 1,600 copies in total, out of which this is number 1295. The text has been printed on Arches paper by The Kynoch Press in Caslon monotype and Deutsche Zierschrift. The illustrations have been printed from the original woodblocks and colour stencilled by The Curwen Press: all under the case of Francis Meynell. Gilded top edge with rough-cut edges. Sized 13.5 x 20.3cm. Pp. 22, viii, 450. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher's original cloth binding with decorative marbling throughout and label with gilt lettering to spine. Slight edgewear and bumping to one corner and spine tips, and perhaps the very lightest of fading to spine. Edges clean and unmarked. Joints and hinges secure with pages very tightly bound. Tanned patches due to acidic transfer to FFEP and RFEP. Clean and unmarked throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful example in even better than very good condition overall, soon approaching its one hundred year anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49036839190867,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/s-l1600_8a39d5da-a457-4187-99f4-0225bd7d364a.jpg?v=1720814222"},{"product_id":"jude-the-obscure-thomas-hardy-folio-society-2018","title":"Jude the Obscure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: The Folio Society, [2018]. Wood engravings by Peter Reddick. 228 × 152 × 33 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii–xi [xii], [1–2] 3–402 [403–404]. Type: Baskerville. Printed and bound by C \u0026amp; C Offset in full dark green cloth with single corn dolly blocked in pale green; cream endleaves with map of Wessex printed in green. Grey-green slip case printed with repeat corn dolly design in gold. Fine book in fine slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49043975995731,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/JudeTheObscureTHOMASHARDYEngravingsFOLIOSOCIETY2018NewEdition_2.webp?v=1734099487"},{"product_id":"macbeth-william-shakespeare-folio-society-1951","title":"Macbeth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: The Folio Society, [1951]. Introduction by Sir Lewis Casson, designs by British artist Michael Ayrton. 8 leaves of colour plates. Bound in red cloth with a quill design in red and black. White dust-jacket printed in grey, black and red. 111pp. 22.6x17cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition thus. Discolouration to spine and extremities, bumping to spine tips and two corners, slight bowing and foxing to edges and prelims.  Offsetting to FFEP and RFEP, inscription in pen to front paste-down. Otherwise a clean example.  In a good, unclipped dust wrapper, with a closed 1.5 inch tear to front panel, foxing, darkening to spine and chipping to extremities.  Now placed in a sleeve of archival quality that can be removed if desired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49051256947027,"sku":"","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/s-l1600_7186ebdb-091b-482b-a578-d340405a09d0.jpg?v=1720823044"},{"product_id":"romeo-and-juliet-william-shakespeare-oliver-messel-first-edition-1936-batsford","title":"Romeo and Juliet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRomeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon. B. T. Batsford Ltd., [1936]. First edition thus. Decorated, purple cloth-bound hardback, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages. 32 hors-texte black-and-white collotype plates and 8 mounted colour plates, reproducing Messel's original drawings. 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1936, English artist and stage designer Oliver Messel designed the set and costumes for the film of Romeo and Juliet produced by MGM in Hollywood, starring Norma Shearer (to whom the book is dedicated) and Leslie Howard. This charming edition of the play was published as a souvenir of Messel's work on the film, and the text is accompanied by high-quality reproductions of the original set and costume drawings created by Messel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'To preserve the quality of the work, only a small edition of the book is being printed, and this is likely to soon by exhausted, forming as it does an ideal Christmas gift to any lover of the stage and Shakespeare and to anyone interested in a sympathetic interpretation by one of England's most brilliant designers.' (from the publisher's prospectus on the front flap of the dust wrapper).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood book in like dust wrapper. Wear to lettering on spine, with discolouration and a little fraying to tips and corners, a few spots of foxing to prelims and edges, boards a little uneven. Strong joints and hinges with pages tightly bound. A small inscription to FFEP, reading \"Jean Harvey\"; upon further research, this could be English actress Jean Harvey, known for her roles in Jane Eyre and Ben Travers' Farces, who passed away in 2014, but this is in no way a proven connection. There is light offsetting to prelims and tanning to page extremities. All plates present in good order, if ever-so-slightly crinkled. The dust wrapper is worn and unevenly tanned and marked, with a couple of stains to spine, significant nibbling to extremities, tears to spine and several areas of small loss; not price-clipped, and shows price 21s. net to front flap. The wrapper is now placed in a removable, protective sleeve of archival quality and holds together nicely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49117878419795,"sku":"","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/PXL_20240725_111502126-Photoroom.webp?v=1721911641"},{"product_id":"the-mayor-of-casterbridge-thomas-hardy-folio-society-2018","title":"The Mayor of Casterbridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge, The Story of a Man of Character, by Thomas Hardy. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: The Folio Society, [2018]. Wood engravings by Peter Reddick. 228 × 152 × 31 mm. Pp. i–vi, 1–324 [325–330]. Type: Baskerville. Printed and bound by C \u0026amp; C Offset in full dark red cloth with single corn dolly blocked in brown; cream endleaves with map of Wessex printed in dark red. Red slip case printed with repeat corn dolly design in gold. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFine book in near-fine slipcase with a quarter-centimetre nick to one extremity (hardly noticeable).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49118033641811,"sku":"","price":37.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/PXL_20240725_110731992-Photoroom.webp?v=1721913438"},{"product_id":"the-transformation-of-lucius-the-golden-ass-apuleius-folio-society-limited-edition-1960","title":"The Transformation of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Transformation of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: The Folio Society, [1960]. Limited edition #64 out of 75, signed by illustrator Michael Ayrton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the five rare limited edition special bindings from 1960 that include Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (49 copies), Robert Bage's Hermsprong or Man As He Is Not (25 copies), Memoirs of Louis-Philippe, Comte de Ségur (41 copies) Henry Mürger's Vie de Boheme (46 copies).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Robert Graves, lithographs by Michael Ayrton. 254 × 158 × 22 mm. Pp. [1–4] 5–208: [9] leaves of two-colour plates (facing pp. [1], 49, 64, 76, 97, 112, 141, 180 and 195). Type: Ehrhardt with Columna for display. Printed by Western Printing Services, the lithographs by the Curwen Press. Bound by Evans of Croydon in full brown morocco leather with decoration blind embossed to covers, blind-embossed labels, gilt lettering and decoration to spine; endleaves with a design in black and brown by Ayrton. Not issued with a slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccordingly to Folio's most recent bibliography, during the 1950s, a number of members had expressed an interest in having the option to buy Folio books in specially bound and signed limited editions. This book was the first of Founder Charles Ede’s experiments in this direction, and an extra colophon leaf was printed, stating that 250 copies were specially bound in full brown morocco and numbered and signed by Ayrton. However, it appears that the response was disappointing, and only 75 copies were actually bound up and issued in this form. Four other ‘limited editions’ were published during 1960, but the response was equally poor and the experiment was repeated only intermittently before 1990, although a number of titles were offered in special bindings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good book with a little wear to the leather binding in places, mostly to extremities and joints, and a few small, faded marks to lower edge. The book has the give of a read example, particularly between frontispiece and title page, but pages are well bound, clean and free of any inscriptions. This limited edition was not issued in a slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49189381898579,"sku":"","price":695.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/PXL_20240809_185818528-Photoroom.webp?v=1723234828"},{"product_id":"the-three-musketeers-alexandre-dumas-folio-society-signed-limited-edition-2021","title":"The Three Musketeers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: The Folio Society, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited edition number #298 out 750 numbered copies, signed and numbered by illustrator Roman Pisarev.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by George MacDonald Fraser, illustrated by Roman Pisarev. 252 × 180 × 51 mm. Pp. [1–2], [i–iv] v–xviii, 1–568 [569–574]: [11] leaves of plates. Based on Folio’s first edition (item 1067). Now printed by Memminger MedienCentrum and bound by Josef Spinner in full dark red leather with a new design blocked in gold and black. Gilded top edge; dark grey endleaves. Dark red slip case. A limitation spread containing a tipped-in etching signed and numbered by Pisarev is sewn into the front. Edition statement reads in part ‘limited to seven hundred and fifty copies with twenty lettered copies hors de commerce’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a fine copy in like slipcase. 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