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Washington Jitters
by Trumbo, Dalton
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1936
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$125.00
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 287, [2] pp. Blue cloth, stamped in black on spine and front panel. First edition of author's second novel, his first to be published in the United States. Trumbo was the subject of the 2015 film based on his life. Trumbo wrote the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Down the Styx
by Durrell, Lawrence
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Limited/Numbered
- Published
- 1971
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- Decorative Hardback Cover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$75.00
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Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. Limited/Numbered . Decorative Hardback Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dore, Gustav. No. 49 of 200 copies handbound by Earle Gray in Los Angeles and signed by Durrell. The text is set upon color illustrations of Gustave Dore. Near Fine
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$75.00
Soundings - East. Volume 2, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1979. Kerouac Issue
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1979
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$30.00
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Salem (MA): Salem State College, 1979. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 96 pp. Softcover. Transcription of a symposium on Jack Kerouac held in 1973 at Salem State College. Participants included Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg. With photographs. VG
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Insurrections
by Stephens, James
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- Used - Very Good
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- G-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1909
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$250.00
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Dublin: Maunsel & Co, 1909. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/G-. Author's first book, a collection of poetry. Brown paper covered boards, brown linen spine. Wear at head & tail of spine, corners bumped else a Very Good copy. There is a period inscription above the title on the title page. In the scarce,… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Potato Face
by Sandburg, Carl
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- Used - VG+
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- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1930
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$150.00
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Yellow and green cloth. viii, 96 pp. First edition stated on copyright page. A collection of short stories. VG+ in VG+ dust jacket, clean and bright. The jacket inside flaps are clipped at the corners, possibly by the publisher
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Dierdre
by Stephens, James
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$35.00
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Spine faded, head of spine bumped else VG, with attractive period book-plate on front paste-down. In creased and soiled dust jacket; the jacket has been internally repaired in a few places with linen tape.
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Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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- Used - GVG
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- GVG
- Edition
- First edition Thus
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$45.00
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. First edition Thus . Hardcover. GVG/GVG. A-1.60 [H] on the copyright page. The Second American edition, with a revised collection of stories. With introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan, Fitzgerald's daughter, which includes a facsimile of monthly expenditures of Fitzgerald's: "House liquor $80.... wild parties $100... " Stories include The Curious… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
The Private Life: The Wheel of Time. Lord Beaupre. The Visits. Collaboration. Owen Wingrave
by James, Henry
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1893
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$250.00
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London: James R. Osgood., McIlvaine & Co, 1893. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth, title gilt on spine and front panel, which has a floral decoration in gilt. vi, 331, [publisher's device] pp. A collection of short stories. From the library of Beatrix Farrand, with her bookplate on the the front pastedown and… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories
by Thomas, Dylan.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1955
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$25.00
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Norfolk, CT,: New Directions, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. The title story is the opening fragment of an unfinished novel. This and seven other stories appear here in book form for the first time. Rolph B27. The American edition precedes the first English edition. Near Fine in VG dust jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Fireside Conversation in the Time of Queen Elizabeth or "1601" A Fragment By Mark Twain
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1920
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$50.00
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n.p.: Privately Printed, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good+. [ vi], 26, [4] pp. Excerpt from Mark Twain A Biography, by Albert Bigelow Paine. Paine became Twain's literary executor, and lived with Twain in Redding, Connecticut. In 1906, Twain began dictating his autobiography to him; during the process,Twain acknowledged authorship of this fragment which he titled… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 2: American Novelists Since World War II
by Helterman, Jeffrey and Layman, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1978
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780810309142
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$40.00
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Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale / Cengage Learning, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 557 pp. Biographical sketches of 80 writers who began writing after 1945, or whose most significant work was done after that date. Each entry has a complete (through 1978) bibliography. Corners bumped, and spine slightly slanted.
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$40.00
Tales of Hearsay
by Conrad, Joseph
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First American Edition
- Published
- 1925
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$18.00
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Garden City, New Jersey: Doubleday Page & Company, 1925. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. xv, 120 pp. With a preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Four short stories: The Black Mate, Conrad's earliest short story, circa 1884; Prince Roman, c1911, the only story Conrad set in Poland; The Tale, and his last short story, The… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Catch-22
by Heller, Joseph
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First English Edition
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$200.00
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First English Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 443,[1] pp. In second issue dustjacket, with kudos from Nelson Algren, James Jones, Irwin Shaw, Kenneth Tynan and the New York Times on back panel. Red cloth, spine title gilt. Green dye on top edge faded near spine, and faint spot on… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
by Ouspensky, P. D
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- Used - Very Good
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- GVG
- Edition
- 1st Trade Edition
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$30.00
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London: Faber & Faber, 1948. 1st Trade Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. 204 pp. First English trade edition. Stourton Press had previously published a limited edition of 356 copies in October 1947, the same month Ouspensky died in England. This is his only novel, set in Russia and Paris during the years 1890-1902. VG in… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
The God of His Fathers & Other Stories
by London, Jack
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1902
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$100.00
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. 299, [1] pp. Navy blue cloth, decoration on spine and front panel stamped in gold, title gilt. Second edition of author's second book, a compilation of Klondike stories which had previously appeared in McClure's, Ainslee's, the Overland Monthly, the Wave, the National and the… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Complete in 5 Volumes
by Wilkinson, Marguerite (compiler)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good to Very Good
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- 1965
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$250.00
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Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Volumes 1- 3 with corrections from the 1963 edition. Volumes 4 - 5 are first editions. This is the first comprehensive edition of Swift's correspondence since the Ball edition of 1910-1914, adding a number of letters not found in Ball and reproducing the spelling and… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Twilight in Italy
by Lawrence, D. H
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- Used - Good
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- First American Edition
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- 1916
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- Hardcover
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$100.00
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New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good. vii, 310, [3] pp. First American edition, with English sheets. The author's first travel book. In March 1912 Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen Weekley fell in love. Frieda was married to a former professor of Lawrence's, and the mother of three children. The ensuing scandal… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
As You Like It. An Annotated Bibliography, 1940-1980
by [Shakespeare, William] Halio, Jay L. and Barbara C. Millard
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1985
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780824090715
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine. x, 744 pp, with indices. Green cloth, spine title gilt. "Each bibliography would be as comprehensive as possible, fully annotated, cross-referenced, and thoroughly indexed...complete surveys of current knowledge and critical opinion presented in such a way that the reader could retrieve that information rapidly and easily.
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Hermann Hesse and His Critics: the Criticism and Bibliography of Half a Century
by Mileck, Joseph
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1958
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- Paper Wrappers
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- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$25.00
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. 1st Edition . Paper Wrappers. Very Good. xvi, 329, [1] pp. University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literature, No. 21. Includes bibliographies, notes, and index. Saddle-stapled textblock in blue wrappers. Study in 3 sections: (I) deals with Hesse, (II) his… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Sweet Beast, I Have Gone Prowling: A Novel of Dallas
by Nye, Hermes
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition. Limited/ Signed
- Published
- 1972
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hampden, Maine, USA
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$30.00
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Dallas, TX: Cross-Timbers Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited/ Signed . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Ed Bearden. 354 pp. Privately printed, numbered, and signed edition of 1500. In addition to writing novels, Nye was a folksinger, working with Ossie Davis among others, and recording five albums for Folkways Records. He was an active leader in… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
