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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Wheat Princess |
| Author | Jean Webster |
| Contributor | Decorative Designers |
| Publisher | Century Company, 1905 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 6, 2007 |
| Length | 340 pages |
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