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Six Dramas of Calderon Freely Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

By: Barca, Calderon De La; H. Oelsner (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

Price: $10.03

Publisher: London, UK, Alexander Moring / The De La More Press: 1903

Seller ID: 108288

ISBN: B0010B6L8S

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 497 pages.
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Samtliche Werke

By: Buchner, Georg

Price: $9.07

Publisher: Sigbert Mohn: 1965

Seller ID: 77231

ISBN: B0040GQPSG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In German. Light general wear. 517 pages. Karl Georg Bnchner (17 October 1813 û 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose.
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov

By: Chekhov, Anton

Price: $22.75

Publisher: Doric Books: 1950

Seller ID: 83628

ISBN: B000LOHYPE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 263 pages.
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Reminiscences Of A Drama Critic: With An Essay On The Art Of Henry Irving

By: Clapp, Henry Austin

Price: $27.82

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin: 1902

Seller ID: 80053

ISBN: B00069XSZY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Moderate general wear. 241 pages. Intimate recollections of theater life in the U.S. in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Training for the stage, William Warren, J. L. Toole, Charles James Mathews, Charlotte Cushman, E. A. Southern Sr., Charles Fechter, Edwin Booth, Tommaso Salvini, Adelaine Neilson, Henry Irving.
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Not Wisely But Too Well; Shakespeare's Love Tragedies

By: dickey, franklin

Price: $18.24

Publisher: Huntington Library: 1957

Seller ID: 109149

ISBN: B0007FCHMC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 205 pages.
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Their Majesties' Servants or Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean: Actors, Authors, Audiences

By: Doran, Dr

Price: $70.71

Publisher: London, UK, John C Nimmo: 1897

Seller ID: 116206

ISBN: B0017ROC22

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 459 pages.
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The Lunatic Lover: Plays by French Women of the 17th & 18th Centuries

By: Gethner, Perry (Editor)

Price: $16.96

Publisher: Heinemann Drama: 1994

Seller ID: 125369

ISBN: 0435086375

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 344 pages.
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The Wager: A Poetic Comedy in One Act

By: Giacosa, Giuseppe

Price: $27.84

Publisher: New York, NY, Samuel French Ltd.: 1914

Seller ID: 116752

ISBN: B00FDVOYXU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Has bookplate. 16 pages. The Wager, the original title being A Game of Chess, was Giacosa's first play.
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The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

By: Goethe; Anna Swanwick (Trans); M. Retzsch (Illust)

Price: $246.19

Publisher: London, UK, George Bell: 1893

Seller ID: 94169

ISBN: B001FGWFWE

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Fine

Revised edition, 1st edition with Retzsch's illustrations. Impressive deluxe purple leather spine and board tips, marbled boards and gold filet. 4-ribbed spine with gold decor, top page ends gold gilt. Other page ends rough-cut. Matching marbled endpapers. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 167 pages. Verse translation. 29 Retzsch's illustrations. Goethe liked his work. Revision by Anna Swanwick of her verse translation of 40 years earlier. It corrects the omission of double rhymes, as well as further emendations. Scarce.
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She Stoops To Conquer: A Comedy By Dr. Goldsmith With Drawings By Edwin A. Abbey

By: Goldsmith, Oliver; Edwin A. Abbey (Illust.); Alfred Parsons (Decor); Austin Dobson (Intro.)

Price: $136.75

Publisher: Harper & Brothers New York: 1887

Seller ID: 63885

ISBN: B0012ZAT7Q

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Giant illustrated version of the play. Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Library rebound in rugged maroon cloth with gold spine lettering. 176 pages.
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The Lower Depths: A drama in four acts (The Moscow Art Theatre series of Russian plays)

By: Gorky, Maxim

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Brentanos: 1923

Seller ID: 108287

ISBN: B00085KH9G

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 89 pages.
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The 'Little Women' Play

By: Gould, Elizabeth Lincoln

Price: $27.31

Publisher: Boston, MA, Little, Brown & Company: 1900

Seller ID: 98278

ISBN: B002J4DEV2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1st Printing. Cream cloth boards, brown lettering and pictorialof woman in a long dress. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Boards clean lettering unworn, hinges excellent. Unmarked. An attractive copy. 101 pages.
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Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing

By: Hanqing, Guan; Yang Xianyi + Gladys Yang (Translator)

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Foreign Languages Press: 1979

Seller ID: 106025

ISBN: B000G1JX9W

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 216 pages.
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Plays and Players (Small Oxford Books)

By: Hartnoll, Phyllis (Editor)

Price: $32.35

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 75272

ISBN: 0192141473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Crisp Firm Clean copy ! 120 pages.
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Death and the Fool

By: Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Price: $19.15

Publisher: Poet Lore: 1910

Seller ID: 119308

ISBN: xxxxxxx109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Has bookplate. 13 pages.
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The Albany Depot Illustrated

By: Howells, W.D.

Price: $18.19

Publisher: New York / London, Harper & Brothers: 1891

Seller ID: 125431

ISBN: B0058Z1HIG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 68 pages.
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Theatre Sarah Bernhardt by A.M. Julien; Le Theatre Historique, Cahiers de la Compagnie - Madeleine Renaud et Jean-Louis Barrault

By: Julien, A.M.; Madeleine Renaud; Jean-Louis Barrault

Price: $118.51

Publisher: Paris, France, Julliard: 1957

Seller ID: 85143

ISBN: B004QSMKAK

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

In French. Two works bound together by red ribbon in especially made red/black/white cover for the 1958 Paris Theatre Sarah Bernhardt season. Program is for the play 'Madame Sans-Gene' by Victorien Sardou directed by A.M. Julien, with cast photos and interesting ads. Le Theatre Historique is 126 pages, and has cahier XXI printed on spine. Also inserted is 'Spectacles de Paris September 1958' in pristine condition, a folded one leaf guide to all the contemporary theatre action in Paris.
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The Lute: Kao Ming's P'i - P'a Chi

By: Kao, Ming; Mulligan, Jean (Translator)

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr: 1980

Seller ID: 127661

ISBN: 0231047614

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 317 pages.
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Masks and Marionettes

By: Kennard, Joseph Spencer

Price: $27.36

Publisher: New York, NY, The Macmillan Company: 1935

Seller ID: 120376

ISBN: B000861ME4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. 129 pages.
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A Life of William Shakespeare

By: Lee, Sidney

Price: $14.54

Publisher: MacMillan Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 111132

ISBN: B001G9WEXK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 476 pages.
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William Shakespeare; Poet, Dramatist, and Man

By: Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Price: $59.28

Publisher: New York / London, Macmillan & Co: 1900

Seller ID: 95466

ISBN: B00085BFQA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Signed by Author on Limited Edition page. 1st Printing. Signed Limited Large Paper Edition, only 150 copies printed. Full white suede leather with gold decorations. White cloth jacket with gold decorations. Deckled page ends. With one hundred illustrations. Moderate general wear. Cloth jacket soiled, frayed at edges. White suede binding has brown foxing. Hinge papers cracked, rear gutter showing mesh. 419 pages.
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Specimens of the Pre-Shakesperean Drama, with an Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, 2 Vols.

By: Manly, John Matthews

Price: $14.54

Publisher: Boston, MA, Ginn & Company: 1897

Seller ID: 115816

ISBN: B000R3C2YM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. 590 pages.
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A Concordance to the Plays of William Congreve (The Cornell Concordances)

By: Mann, David D.

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1973

Seller ID: 90920

ISBN: 0801407672

Condition: Very Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 888 pages.
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The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy

By: Marshall, C. W.

Price: $35.57

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 123715

ISBN: 0521120446

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 320 pages.
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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

By: MOORE, Thomas

Price: $16.27

Publisher: Paris, France, Baudry's European Library: 1835

Seller ID: 98282

ISBN: B001T4OMYG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Deluxe full green leather binding, 5-ribbed spine with gold decorations and maroontitle label, gold ruled boards, floral gold decorated board edges, red and blue marbled swirl endpapers, all page ends marbled. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Moderate general wear. Spine/board borders leather cracking, board edges rubbed, spine and board borders faded to brown. Hinges good. 487 pages. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816) was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to ...
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A Shakespeare Glossary

By: Onions, C. T.

Price: $31.76

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 95816

ISBN: B00AVP9DN4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Endpapers have foxing. 264 pages. Second Edition, Revised, with enlarged addenda.
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Prose e Tragedie Scelte di Silvio Pellico: A cura di Michele Scherillo e con proemio di Francesco d'Ovidio

By: Pellico, Silvio

Price: $18.19

Publisher: Milano, Italy, Ulrico Hoepli: 1910

Seller ID: 83803

ISBN: B004CFWEWQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

In Italian. Nice Firm Clean copy ! White cloth, black lettering, gold portrait medallion, beveled boards, page ends stained red. 416 pages.
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Tragedy of Errors

By: Putnam, Mary Lowell; Mrs. Samuel Putnam

Price: $52.81

Publisher: Ticknor and Fields: 1862

Seller ID: 89406

ISBN: B00069XM5U

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1st Printing. Dark green embossed cloth with an interesting high-relief ripple pattern. Nice Firm Clean copy ! cloth frayed at spine top and 2 lower board tips. text pages unmarked. 249 pages.
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Teatro De Calderon De La Barca Tomo 3 - Comedias

By: Ramon, Garcia

Price: $44.69

Publisher: Casa Editorial Garnier Hermanos: 1882

Seller ID: 71566

ISBN: B0020NTPPQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In Spanish. Light general wear. 5 banded tan kid-leather spine with gold decor, paper covered boards, all page ends faux marbled with crimson, blue-green, beige combed pattern. Light foxing. 588 pages.
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Thomas Dekker

By: Rhys, Ernest

Price: $19.20

Publisher: New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1894

Seller ID: 119318

ISBN: B00144651Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 471 pages. Contents: Thomas Dekker; the Shoemaker's Holiday; The Honest Whore-Part the First; The Honest Whore-Part the Second. Old Fortunatus; The Witch of Edmonton.
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Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

By: Ryder, Arthur W.

Price: $83.70

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd/ Dutton: 1920

Seller ID: 108356

ISBN: B000LZBB7K

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 5-ribbed brown leather spine (gold decorated) and board tips, marbled paper boards with gold lines. Top page ends gold gilt, endpapers marbled. Has bookplate. 216 pages.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare)

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $55.68

Publisher: Easton Press: 1992

Seller ID: 99585

ISBN: B004BIK1WE

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: New

Red leather, elaborate gold decorations. Crisp Firm Clean copy ! In original shrinkwrap!
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Cymbeline (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare)

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $45.89

Publisher: Easton Press: 1992

Seller ID: 99584

ISBN: B000MGR0GO

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: New

Red leather, elaborate gold decorations. Crisp Firm Clean copy ! In original shrinkwrap!
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, F. Bell: 1856

Seller ID: 117209

ISBN: B000857J42

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Blue blindstamped cloth, gold decor. Moderate general wear. Binding worn at spine ends and board tips. 418 pages.
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King Richard III

By: Shakespeare, William; Isadore Seltzer (Illustrator)

Price: $40.12

Publisher: Royal Composing Room Inc.; A. Horowitz: 1987

Seller ID: 99780

ISBN: B00HH04FZ2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. In slipcase.
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The History of Troilus and Cressida

By: Shakespeare, William; Isadore Seltzer (Illustrator)

Price: $36.43

Publisher: New York, NY, Royal Composing Room Inc.; A. Horowitz: 1988

Seller ID: 99776

ISBN: B008PTMK1U

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. In slipcase.
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Timons of Athens

By: Shakespeare, William; Isadore Seltzer (Illustrator)

Price: $30.99

Publisher: Royal Composing Room Inc.; A. Horowitz: 1982

Seller ID: 99774

ISBN: B002U4U3MO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. In slipcase.
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As You Like It

By: Shakespeare, William; Isadore Seltzer (Illustrator)

Price: $40.99

Publisher: New York, NY, Royal Composing Room Inc.; A. Horowitz: 1980

Seller ID: 99773

ISBN: B000N2TXOO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. In slipcase.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus

By: Shakespeare, William; Isadore Seltzer (Illustrator)

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Royal Composing Room Inc.; A. Horowitz: 1985

Seller ID: 99778

ISBN: B000OKWIS8

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. In slipcase. 220 pages.
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare ( Shakespeare ). First American Printing 1795

By: Shakespeare, William; Shakspeare

Price: $5,760.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Bioren & Madan: 1795

Seller ID: 71796

ISBN: B0020NTM54

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

Corrected From the Latest and Best London Editions, With Notes By Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. to Which Are Added, a Glossary and the Life of the Author. First American printing of the works of Shakespeare. Imbellished with a striking Likeness from the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Chandos. 1st American Printing. Volumes 1,3,4,5,6,7 ONLY of 8 volume set. Full leather bound, boards undecorated, spine has deep-red title band and black edition band, with gold lettering, stars and bands. Plain endpapers and page edges. Volume One has frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare. All title pages state 'Fir...
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The Palace of Eternal Youth

By: Sheng, Hong

Price: $47.95

Publisher: Peking, China, Foreign Language Press: 1980

Seller ID: 127673

ISBN: B000NATEO0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 281 pages. The Palace of Eternal Youth was written by Hong Sheng in 1688.
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The Rivals, A Comedy

By: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley; Frank M. Gregory (Illust.)

Price: $31.85

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 106133

ISBN: B000Q60OY0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 184 pages.
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Golden Age of Chinese Drama: Yuan Tsa-Chu

By: Shih, Chung-wen

Price: $47.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1976

Seller ID: 127676

ISBN: 0609062706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 338 pages.
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Italian Actors of the Renaissance

By: Smith, Winifred

Price: $15.46

Publisher: Coward-McCann, inc: 1930

Seller ID: 111175

ISBN: B0006AL3KA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 204 pages.
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The Works of Sir John Suckling

By: Thompson, A H

Price: $38.78

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons, Limited: 1910

Seller ID: 108346

ISBN: B000RW7HZM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Rebound in dark red cloth. Has bookplate. Not ex-library. 424 pages.
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Shakespeare: The last phase

By: Traversi, Derek

Price: $40.15

Publisher: Hollis & Carter: 1965

Seller ID: 108700

ISBN: B0000CMQCU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 272 pages.
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Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire 69 of 70 Volumes

By: Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet; Marquis De Condorcet (Editor); Pierre Beaumarchais

Price: $8,208.00

Publisher: Kehl, Baden, Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique: 1784

Seller ID: 86383

ISBN: B0081EWFU0

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

In French. Famous first posthumous collected edition of Voltaire's [1694-1778] works known as the 'Kehl Voltaire', produced by Beaumarchais, who created a print foundry at Kehl to carry out this great work. Set contains 69 of the 70 Volume 8vo edition (smaller 12mo 90 volume edition was also produced). Volume 23 (Histoire de Charles XII) missing. Volumes 10 and 27 printed 1784, summary volume 70 printed 1789, all other volumes printed 1785. Uniform 18th century calf full brown leather. Spines decorated in gold floral designs, titles, volume numbers, within 6 boxed compartments. Boards have a n...
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