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| Title | General Bounce: Or, The Lady and the Locusts, Volume 1 General Bounce: Or, The Lady and the Locusts, George John Whyte-Melville |
| Author | George John Whyte-Melville |
| Publisher | J.W. Parker and Son, 1855 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2006 |
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