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  • THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - The fourth collection of poetry by this award-winning author, an enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian. SIGNED on the title page. 139 pp. ISBN: 1-882413-342.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 51937
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  • HANGING LOOSE 74. by [Alexie, Sherman, signed] Robert Hershon and Dick Lourie, Editors.
    [Alexie, Sherman, signed] Robert Hershon and Dick Lourie, Editors.
    HANGING LOOSE 74.

    Edition: First printing.

    Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A journal of poetry and short fiction published three times a year. Notable for the fact that every issue includes works by writers still in high school. SIGNED by Alexie at his poem 'TheTheory of Cockroaches.' Also includes contributions from Ha Jin, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Stephen Beal, Eula Biss, Lee Briccetti, Hayan Charara, Julie Cox, Susan Firer, Cliff Fyman, Ariel Greene, Linda Healey, Carmen Hoover, Daniel Kane, Richard Lehnert, Morton Marcus, Norman MacAfee, Maggie Nelson, Ron Overton, Tim Robbins, Barry Seiler, Harvey Shapiro, Angel Varga, Janine Pommy Vega, Paul Violi, Chuck Wachtel, Wang Ping, Bill Zavatsky, and more. Section of 8 photographs by Nancy Miller Elliott, who also provided…

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    Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A journal of poetry and short fiction published three times a year. Notable for the fact that every issue includes works by writers still in high school. SIGNED by Alexie at his poem 'TheTheory of Cockroaches.' Also includes contributions from Ha Jin, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Stephen Beal, Eula Biss, Lee Briccetti, Hayan Charara, Julie Cox, Susan Firer, Cliff Fyman, Ariel Greene, Linda Healey, Carmen Hoover, Daniel Kane, Richard Lehnert, Morton Marcus, Norman MacAfee, Maggie Nelson, Ron Overton, Tim Robbins, Barry Seiler, Harvey Shapiro, Angel Varga, Janine Pommy Vega, Paul Violi, Chuck Wachtel, Wang Ping, Bill Zavatsky, and more. Section of 8 photographs by Nancy Miller Elliott, who also provided the cover photographs of Miles Davis (on the front) and a man in a snowstorm (on the back.) 139 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0440-2316.

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    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 46160
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  • PLOUGHSHARES. VOLUME 20, NO 1, Spring 1994. by [Alexie, Sherman, signed] Welch, James, editor.
    [Alexie, Sherman, signed] Welch, James, editor.
    PLOUGHSHARES. VOLUME 20, NO 1, Spring 1994.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Emerson College, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories on poems on the theme of "tribe" edited ad with an introduction by James Welch. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Sherman Alexie at his short story "Flight" and by Alberto Alvaro Rios at his story "Outside Magdalena, Sonora." Also includes contributions from Diane Glancy, Simon Oritz, Scott Momaday, Debra Earling, Charles H. Webb, Thylias Moss, Ophelia Navarro and many others. A profile of James Welch by Don Lee. Book reviews. 220 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 54978
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  • Allardt, Linda.
    SEEING FOR YOU.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: State Street Press, 1981. SIGNED first edition - One of 400 copies, signed on title page by the poet.

    Condition: Near fine in cream colored wrappers, with a very good, somewhat faded, outer blue illustrated wrapper.

    Book ID: 4688
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • OVERNIGHT IN THE GUEST HOUSE OF THE MYSTIC: Poems. by Allen, Dick.
    Allen, Dick.
    OVERNIGHT IN THE GUEST HOUSE OF THE MYSTIC: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - His rather hard-to-find third collection of poems, including some which reflect his interest in comtemporary physics and cosmology (Allen was also the editor of "Science Fiction: The Future" ) 51 pp. ISBN: 0-807111651.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76507
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • FLIGHT AND PURSUIT: Poems. by Allen, Dick.
    Allen, Dick.
    FLIGHT AND PURSUIT: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth collection of poems, with several which reflect his interest in comtemporary physics and cosmology (Allen was also the editor of "Science Fiction: The Future" and he begins this book with a quote from Ursula Le Guin's "Left Hand of Darkness." 53 pp. ISBN: 0-807114278.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75883
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • FOUR POETS ON POETRY. by Allen, Don Cameron, editor. (Moore,Marianne; R.P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters, and Mark Van Doren,contributors.)
    Allen, Don Cameron, editor. (Moore,Marianne; R.P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters, and Mark Van Doren,contributors.)
    FOUR POETS ON POETRY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Percy Graeme Turnbull Lectures originally presented as part of The John Hopkins Poetry Festival in November 1958, edited and with an introduction by Allen. Essays include R.P. Blackmur on Edwin Muir, Yvor Winter on "Poetic Styles, Old and New", Marianne Moore on Dame Edith Sitwell, and Mark Van Doren on Thomas Hardy. Index, 111 pages.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (previous owner's name - that of poet Elizabeth Harrod, some edgewear to dj, short tear to back coverj.)

    Book ID: 78428
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  • WALT WHITMAN HANDBOOK. by Allen, Gay Wilson.
    Allen, Gay Wilson.
    WALT WHITMAN HANDBOOK.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    Chicago: Packard and Company, (1946). Hardcover first edition - A guide to critical studies, biographies, essays and other works about Walt Whitman Preface, chronology table, index. Sticker showing 'Hendricks House, New York, as the publisher affixed to the title page. xvii, 560 pp.

    Condition: Very good in beige cloth (a few pencilled brackets and underlining and writing on pages), lacking the dust jacket .

    Book ID: 54653
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  • CLIO'S CHILDREN: Dosteevsky at Semyonov Square and Other Poems. by Allman, John.
    Allman, John.
    CLIO'S CHILDREN: Dosteevsky at Semyonov Square and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: New Directions, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of poetry, narrative poems which portray scenes from the lives of historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, Marie Curie, Ezra Pound, Georgia O'Keefe, Emma Goldman and others, arranged chronologically. Among the poems are Crazy Horse In A Little Flat Place At The Edge, D.W. Griffith Filming The Birth Of A Nation, Bruno Bettelheim At Dachau and others. Notes. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-811209350.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79582
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  • Alonso, Ricardo
    CIMARRON

    Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. First edition - Afro-Cuban writer's first book of poems, written in the traditions ofboth Caribbean and African American poetry. Cimarron means runaway slave - the descendants of the cimarrones live in the barrios - ghettos of the US now.

    Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (rubbing to the covers.)

    Book ID: 7534
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • THE GIRL WITH THE OCELOT and Other Poems. by Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972).
    Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972).
    THE GIRL WITH THE OCELOT and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Bruce Humphries, (1964.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes a long dramatic monologue, 'Black Boat,' on the death of 200 African American seamen in the Port Chicago disaster during World War II. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper - "For a long-standing much admired friend, Fred Carpenter, in the hope that he may be interested in the chiaroscura of the last poem in this book." 150 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (tanning to spine of dj and to back cover,.)

    Book ID: 76084
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  • THE GIRL WITH THE OCELOT and Other Poems. by Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972).
    Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972).
    THE GIRL WITH THE OCELOT and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Bruce Humphries, (1964.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a long dramatic monologue, 'Black Boat,' on the death of 200 African American seamen in the Port Chicago disaster during World War II. 150 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (tear to upper edge of back cover of dj,.)

    Book ID: 51788
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  • HOMECOMING. by Alvarez, Julia.
    Alvarez, Julia.
    HOMECOMING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Very uncommon hardcover edition of the first book by this writer (who spent her earliest years in her parents' native Dominican Republic) to be published by a major press. Since this was issued simultaneously in both soft and hardcover, the hardcover printing was very small. The central section of these poems is called 'housekeeping; and reconstruct her experiences as her mother teaches her housewifery skills, there is the underlying irony that 'at 33' Alvarez is not the 'heroine of her mother's stories' for she has neither a house, husband nor children. A title in the Grove Press Poetry Series edited by Robert Pack. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-394-538552.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed edgetears , sunning to the edges of the back cover of the dj, as is common with this dustjacket.) Still a lovely copy of a very hard to find book.

    Book ID: 30635
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  • MORE OF ME DISAPPEARS. by Amen, John,
    Amen, John,
    MORE OF ME DISAPPEARS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2005. First edition - His second collection of poetry, illustrated by several black and white photographs by the author (who is also a songwriter and musician). Cover praise from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ai and others. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-893048887.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 70199
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • GARBAGE. by Ammons, A. R.
    Ammons, A. R.
    GARBAGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem on garbage - sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful - inspired by the author's drive past a burning mountain of the stuff in Florida on I95. Winner of the National Book Award. and considered one of his best books. 121 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035425.

    Condition: Fine in fine first issue dust jacket without the award sticker on the cover.

    Book ID: 74390
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  • TAPE FOR THE TURN OF THE YEAR: A Poem. by Ammons, A. R.
    Ammons, A. R.
    TAPE FOR THE TURN OF THE YEAR: A Poem.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York: Norton, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hardcover reissue of an unusual long poem originally published in 1965. Written on a roll of adding machine tape, the width and length of the paper determined the shape of the poem. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035530.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 83595
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • SPHERE: The Form of a Motion. by Ammons, A. R.
    Ammons, A. R.
    SPHERE: The Form of a Motion.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A single long poem by this award-winning writer. This book was the winner of Bollingen Prize for poetry for 1973-1974. Uncommon in the hardcover first edition. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-393043886.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped,gold award sticker on front cover of dj)

    Book ID: 75087
    Keywords: bollingen award, Poetry
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  • BRINK ROAD: Poems. by Ammons, A. R.
    Ammons, A. R.
    BRINK ROAD: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of more than 150 poems dating from 1973 to 1996 - none of the poems had previously appeared in book form. Ends with the long poem "Summer Place." The title refers to a road in upstate New York. 230 pp. plus final illustration. ISBN: 0-393039587.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 74392
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • THE SNOW POEMS. by Ammons, A. R.
    Ammons, A. R.
    THE SNOW POEMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - the twelfth collection of poetry by this writer who has won both the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-393034467x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75086
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • WORLDLY HOPES: Poems. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    WORLDLY HOPES: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter lyric poems, most using nature as a motif - although one poem - the slightly longer, and angrier, "The Role of Society in the Artist" stands in contrast to those. It begins "Society sent me this invitation to go to / hell and / delighted not to be overlooked. . " and ends with society "said it liked my unconventional / verses best & I invited society to go to hell." 51 pp. ISBN: 0-393015181.

    Condition: Fine in charcoal gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86890
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • THE REALLY SHORT POEMS OF A. R. AMMONS. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    THE REALLY SHORT POEMS OF A. R. AMMONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 160 very short poems, spanning his entire career and proving that "brevity is the soul of wit." One seems especially appropriate to today "The burdens of the world / on my back / lighten the world / not a whit while / removing them greatly / decreases my specific / gravity." 79 pp. ISBN: 0-393028704.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75088
    Keywords: bollingen award, Poetry
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  • Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    DIVERSIFICATIONS: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eleventh collection - of new, mostly shorter poems - by this award-winning poet (winner of the National Book Award twice and the Bollingen Prize, among others) 98 pp,. ISBN: 0-393044149.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89949
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • SUMERIAN VISTAS. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    SUMERIAN VISTAS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which contains examples both of Ammons' longer poems and his shorter ones. "The Ridge Farm," which begins the book, and "Tombstones," at its center, are fine longer meditations, while "Motion's Holdings," the concluding section, contains a number of his best new shorter poems. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-393024687.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75090
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • OMMATEUM WITH DOXOLOGY. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    OMMATEUM WITH DOXOLOGY.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A reissue of Ammon's first book, originally published in very limited numbers in1955 by Dorrance, a "vanity" publisher. This edition includes a long new introduction by Roger Gilbert. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-393064468.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust mostly white jacket.

    Book ID: 75089
    Keywords: first book, Poetry
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  • SELECTED LONGER POEMS. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    SELECTED LONGER POEMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five of his best longer poems by this award winning writer. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-393012972.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76784
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • A COAST OF TREES. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    A COAST OF TREES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of new, mostly shorter poems in the lyric mode by this award winning poet. The brevity and the economy of words add to the power of the images created - the poem "Parting" begins "She was already lean / when a stroke or two slapped / her face like drawn / claw prints: akilter she / ate less and / sat too much on the edge of beds...." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-393014479.

    Condition: Fine in gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86886
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  • GLARE. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    GLARE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long poem in two sections - "Strip" and "Scat Scan" - by this contemporary master of the form. This is Ammons at his "most original and unrestrained - it leaps from shock to shock, and from radiant epiphany to yet more radiance." (Harold Bloom) 294 pp. ISBN: 0-393040968.

    Condition: Fine in gray boards with black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket (a bit of rubbing to the folds of the dj flaps).

    Book ID: 86891
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • BOSH AND FLAPDOODLE. by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
    BOSH AND FLAPDOODLE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The final collection by this award-winning poet. "Begun in 1996 and clearly intended as a unified book, this posthumous gathering splits the difference between Ammons's short and long modes, and retains the virtues of both. Individual poems (each two pages in length) in unrhymed couplets address individual topics . . then add up to a sadder-but-wiser, resigned-yet-cheerful sequence about old age." (Publisher's Weekly) 159 pp,. ISBN: 0-393059529.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 86892
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • BLUE MESA REVIEW: Number Four (4): Spring 1992. by Anaya, Rudolfo A., editor; Luis Urrea Dashiell and Floyd Salas, signed.
    Anaya, Rudolfo A., editor; Luis Urrea Dashiell and Floyd Salas, signed.
    BLUE MESA REVIEW: Number Four (4): Spring 1992.

    Edition: First printing.

    Albuquerque: Creative Writing Center at the University of New Mexico, 1992. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors - Luis Urrea at "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses" (an early publication, preceding his first book) and by Floyd Salas as his poem "Wedo." Also includes works by Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Peter Wild, Gerald Burns, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Ray Gonzalez, Reuben Sanchez, Rebecca Seiferle, Joy Harjo. Leslie Marmon Silko and many others. Notes on contributors. 221 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 70188
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  • POETS OF TODAY III (3): THE FLOATING WORLD and Other Poems, MY FATHER'S BUSINESS and Other Poems, THE GREEN TOWN: Poems. by Anderson, Lee; Spencer Brown and Joseph Langland. John Hall Wheelock, editor.
    Anderson, Lee; Spencer Brown and Joseph Langland. John Hall Wheelock, editor.
    POETS OF TODAY III (3): THE FLOATING WORLD and Other Poems, MY FATHER'S BUSINESS and Other Poems, THE GREEN TOWN: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1956.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in this important series which presents the first book publication of significant collections by young poets, edited and selected and with an introductory essay ("The Poem in the Atomic Age") by John Hall Wheelock. 197 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some light toning to the dj and pages).

    Book ID: 73514
    Keywords: first books, Poetry
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