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Alexander legend and which surfaces again in grimms fairy tales. The fairy bible is the important information to the world of fairies. A leaf from the first edition first printing of the first thing ever printed in history. Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry spot, when suddenly mansor stood still. The project gutenberg etext of the blue fairy book a large collection of. Leaf from gutenberg bible on auction block posted on march 1, 2010 inbook news, rare books for sale as part of the march 18 sale of the library of roger wagner, a very rare leaf from am original gutenberg bible is up for sale by pacific book auctions. Oh, i dont think this book would have been worth anything close to that much, replied the man. All works by authors who died after 31 december, 1954 are still under. Youve thrown away one of the first books ever printed. Hesiods theogony is a largescale synthesis of a vast variety of local narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos.
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