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Noël Hume, Ivor.
All the best rubbish.
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I. Collectors and collecting. II. Title.
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* I can but hope that liberated ladies will forgive my persistent use of the masculine gender. To give both equal emphasis would not speed the movement, it would only slow the book.
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