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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Plattner Story and Others Methuen's colonial library |
| Author | Herbert George Wells |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Dec 12, 2007 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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