VALERY, PAUL & FOLLIOT, DENISE (Trans) & MATHEWS, JACKSON (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press / Bollingen 1989

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HART, Sir BASIL LIDDELL (Prepared by) & HART, ADRIAN LIDDELL (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1976

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TEMPLETON, MALCOLM

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BAXTER, JAMES K. & WEIR, JOHN (Ed & Essay by)

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TURNER, STEVE

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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1997

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TRUBRIDGE, DAVID

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HOMER & RIEU, E. V. (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1952

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NABOKOV, VLADIMIR & WILSON, EDMUND & KARLINSKY, SIMON (Ed, Annotated & Intro. Essay by)

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PUBLISHER: Harper & Row, Publishers 1979

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CHERRYH, C. J.

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PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1997

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BOYD, BRIAN

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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1990

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McBAIN, ED

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PUBLISHER: T. V. Boardman & Company 1963

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McBAIN, ED

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McBAIN, ED

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PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1976

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McBAIN, ED

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PUBLISHER: T. V. Boardman & Company 1961

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FOUCAULT, MICHEL & MORRIS, MEAGHAN (Ed) & PATTON, PAUL (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Feral Publications 1979

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GENETTE, GERARD & SHERIDAN, ALAN (Trans) & LOGAN, MARIE-ROSE (Intro)

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PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1982

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MONCRIEFF, AGNES & FRANCIS, BARBARA (Ed)

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REED, DOUGLAS

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PUBLISHER: Dolphin Press 1978

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FINLAY, IAN HAMILTON & ABRIOUX, YVES & BANN, STEPHEN (Intro, Notes & Commentary)

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PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 1985

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STUMP, SARAIN

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PUBLISHER: Gray's Publishing Ltd 1970

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