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		<title>The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne</title>
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		<title>Pear&#8217;s Cyclopædia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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	<li><span>Reference:</span> RB-111</li>

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	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 1932</li>

	<li><span>Edition/Date:</span> 47th edition</li>

	<li><span>keywords</span> Reference</li>

	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 960 pages.</strong></li>
	
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		<title>Universal Knowledge A-Z: A New Encyclopædia of General Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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	<li><span>Author:</span> Paul Laity (editor)</li>

	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 2001</li>

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	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 254 pages; Contains 2 copies of the original LBC's sign up leaflets.</strong></li>
	
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		<title>Capitalism, Communism and the Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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	<li><span>Author:</span> Emile Burns</li>

	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 1933</li>

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	<li><span>keywords</span> Communism; Capitalism; Politics</li>

	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 287 pages</strong></li>
	
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		<title>The Mermaid Series Volume 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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	<li><span>Reference:</span> RB-108</li>

	<li><span>Author:</span> Ben Johnson</li>

	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 1904</li>

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	<li><span>keywords</span> Fiction; Theatre; Literature</li>

	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 421 pages</strong></li>
	
	<li><span>Publisher:</span> T. Fisher Unwin</li>
	
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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	<li><span>Author:</span> O. Henry</li>

	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 1916</li>

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	<li><span>keywords</span> Fiction; Short Stories</li>

	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 248 pages</strong></li>
	
	<li><span>Publisher:</span> Hodder and Staughton</li>
	
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		<title>The Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress: From this World to that Which is to Come Delivered under the Similtude of a Dream</title>
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	<li><span>Reference:</span> RB-110</li>

	<li><span>Author:</span> John Bunyan</li>

	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 1942</li>

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	<li><span>keywords</span> Literature</li>

	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 320 pages</strong></li>
	
	<li><span>Publisher:</span> Lutterworth Press</li>
	
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		<title>Thought&#8217;s on the Present Discontents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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	<li><span>Reference:</span> RB-101</li>

	<li><span>Author:</span> Edmund Burke</li>

	<li><span>Publication Date:</span> 1886</li>

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	<li><span>keywords</span> HIstory; Language; Philosophy; Literature</li>

	<li><span>Comments:</span><strong> 192 pages</strong></li>
	
	<li><span>Publisher:</span> Cassell and Co.</li>
	
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	<li><span>Collection:</span> Rare Books</li>
	
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