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| Title | Number Seventeen: A Novel, Volume 1 Number Seventeen: A Novel, Henry Kingsley Volume 1 of Number seventeen, Henry Kingsley |
| Author | Henry Kingsley |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 23, 2007 |
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