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Bibliographic information
| Title | Phrynette |
| Author | Marthe Troly-Curtin |
| Publisher | J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Sep 10, 2007 |
| Length | 1 pages |
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