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First edition

Klaus WAGENBACH

Kafka

Pierre Belfond, Paris 1983, 20,5x28cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn great papers.
Iconography.
Nice copy.

 

30 €

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Walter SCOTT

La jolie fille de Perth

Librairie Firmin-Didot & Cie, Paris 1883, 18x27,5cm, relié.

Illustrated edition of many drawings in and inset of Detti, Gosselin, Kurner, Lemaistre, Marie, Pille and Taluet.
Binding in half red shagreen with corners, back with five nerves richly adorned with gilded fleurons and gilded boxes at the center of which was placed a golden thistle, the name of [...]

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First edition

Evelyne POSSEME & COLLECTIF

Van Cleef & Arpels, l'art de la haute joaillerie

Les arts décoratifs, Paris 2012, 16,5x25cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition published under the direction of Evélyne Possémé.
Publisher's binding in full white cardboard, complete copy of his illustrated jacket.
Rich iconography.
Nice copy.

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First edition

Michel de MONTAIGNE & COLLECTIF

Album Montaigne

Gallimard, Paris 2007, 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple.

First edition published in the library of La Pléiade.
Binding publisher full brown grained sheep, smooth back decorated with golden threads, nice complete copy of its rhodoïd and its soft case.
Iconography.

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First edition

Eugène DABIT

L'hôtel du nord

Librairie Les trois magots & Robert Denoël, Paris 1929, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Two small tears glued, not serious, to foot of spine.

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First edition

Louis PAUWELS, Lucien FONTANAROSA

Louange du tabac

Michèle Trinckvel, Paris 1972, 21,5x27,5cm, relié sous étui.

First Edition printed in 3000 numbered copies.
Binding of the publisher in full Havana sheepskin, smooth back, marbled paper plates, carrot of tobacconist struck with gold on the first board, guards and contreplats of paper way wood, case in full ppaier way wood.
Book decorated with [...]

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First edition

André-Edouard MARTY, (Georges DOEUILLET)

Brise du large. Robe du voyage de noces de Doeuillet (pl.16, La Gazette du Bon ton, 1921 n°2)

Lucien Vogel éditeur, Paris 1921, 18x24cm, une feuille.

original print in color, printed on laid paper, unsigned.
Original content produced for the illustration of The Gazette fashionable, one of the finest and most influential twentieth century fashion magazines, celebrating the talent of creators and artists French [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Philippe SOLLERS

L'école du mystère

Gallimard, Paris 2015, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Philippe Sollers to his close friend Georges Raillard.
 

100 €

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First edition

Alexandre DUMAS FILS

Sophie Printems

Baudry, Paris s.d. (1854), 14x23cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Binding in half red percaline, smooth backs adorned with gilded floral motifs, double gilded nets in tails, pieces of title of navy shagreen with scratches, plates of marbled paper, Contemporary binding.
Some small foxing.
Nice copy.
 

120 €

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First edition

Jean-Baptiste Prosper JOLLOIS

DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Thèbes. Bybân el Molouk. Idole et fragments d'antiquités en ...

Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809-1829, 53,5x71cm, une feuille.

Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the [...]

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First edition

Umberto BRUNELLESCHI

Costumes parisiens. Toilette au goût vénitien (pl.122, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1913 n°54)

S.n., Paris 1913, 14x22,5cm, une feuille.

original print finely enhanced color to gold, printed on laid paper, signed upper right of the board.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco [...]

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First edition

Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT

L'amour au dix-huitième siècle

E. Dentu, Paris 1875, In-12 carré (14x18cm), 172pp., relié.

First edition
Binding half navy morocco with corners of time. Back with nerves adorned with richly decorated boxes. Golden title. Double fillet on the boards and corners. Red head.

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Alphonse de LAMARTINE, Louis MARCKL

Jocelyn

chez Charles Gosselin - Furne et Cie, à Paris 1841, 17x26,5cm, relié.

New edition published five years after the original from 1836, decorated with a frontispiece of several boards out texts from Marckl and engraved by Quartley, Dujardin or Piaud, thumbnails and of tailpieces.
 

170 €

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Jean Nicolas BOUILLY

Les adieux du vieux conteur

Louis Janet, Paris 1835, 366pp., relié.

Second edition. Reprint of the first edition at the same publisher, the same year. A frontispiece portrait, 3 engravings on steel representing young girls.
Binding full Havana calvary mosaic era. Smooth back decorated with a large mirrored iron mosaic of green, blue and pink; roulette tail and [...]

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Enrique ATALAYA, Miguel de CERVANTES

Rinconète et Cortadillo

H. Launette & Cie, Paris 1891, 18x28,5cm, relié.

Illustrated edition of 67 original compositions by Enrique Atalaya, one of 500 numbered copies on white vellum.
Binding in full red shagreen, back with four nerves set with golden garlands adorned with gilded typographic motifs, gilded casters on the headdresses, framing of triple golden [...]

180 €

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First edition

CURNONSKY

Souvenirs littéraires et gastronomiques

Albin Michel, Paris 1958, 12,5x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only leading copies.
Pleasant illustrated, frontispiece, a photographic portrait of the author.

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First edition, Signed book

Charles LE QUINTREC

Le château d'amour

Albin Michel, Paris 1977, 14x21,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on vellum Marais, only leading copies.
Very nice complete copy of his trailer.
Exceptional autograph dedication signed and dated by Charles Le Quintrec running on two pages, ending with a manuscript passage and thus beginning with a friend [...]

230 €

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HOMERE & Anne DACIER

L'Iliade d'Homere, traduite en françois, avec des remarques. Par Madame Dacier

Chez G. Martin, etc., à Paris 1756, In-12 (10x17cm), (20) lxx, 41 (1) 352pp. et (4) 519pp. et (4) 598pp. et (4) 602pp. (4), 4 volumes reliés.

New edition.
Bindings in full sheepskin marbled, blonde and iced vintage. Back with ornate nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, golden tomaisons. Headdresses of volumes II and III removed. Rubbed together. 6 blunt corners.

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First edition, Signed book

Louis ANQUETIN

Chiens 3, et études de chiens - Crayon sur papier

Fin XIXème - Début XXème, 45 x 35 cm.

Original pencil drawing, duplex. Signature stamp of the artist's signature in the lower right corner of the work, and signature stamp of the workshop at the back. Traces of central folds, small marginal tears not involving the drawing, otherwise very good condition. Provenance: the artist's studio, [...]

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First edition

Vicesimus KNOX

Extracts, elegant, instructive, & entertaining in prose, &c

Printed for Mess. Rivingtons, Longman..., London 1791, 2 Vol. grd in-8 (15x24cm), xv, (8) 511pp. et 524pp., deux volumes reliés.

First Edition. 2 illustrated vignettes titre.Plein Calf tan marbled time. Smooth spine richly decorated wheels Greek and others. Part of title in red morocco. Parts volume number in black morocco. boards decorated with 3 wheels framing. interior frieze. 2 corners bumped. A serious snag with the [...]

280 €

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Jules VERNE

L'Ecole des Robinsons

Hetzel, Paris 1882-1890, 18x28cm, cartonnage de l'éditeur.

First illustrated edition of 51 drawings by Benett.
Cartonnage editor Hetzel "with initials" full red percaline signed Magnier, second board type "Magnier c 2" as indicated by Jauzac, blue guard pages of origins, all golden slices.
Original blue guards marginally shaded as usual. A slight [...]

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First edition

Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT

Portraits intimes du XVIIIe siècle

E. Dentu, Paris 1857 - 1858, In-18 (11x16,5cm), 271pp. et 287pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of a limited edition of 100 copies on laid.
Bindings in half green morocco signed Dodé on the first sheet of guard. Smooth back decorated with various irons in the romantic taste. Golden title and tomaison. Date in the queue. Green covers on laid vergé. Copy not trimmed. Small [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Louis ANQUETIN

Académie d'homme 9. - Crayon sur papier

Début XXème, 23 x 36 cm.

Original pencil drawing. Signature stamp of the artist's signature in the lower right corner of the work, and signature stamp of the workshop at the back. This drawing is part of a series of ten studies for Bertin to 1920-1925. It includes annotations Artist "Neck - Type Misc." The reverse is also [...]

340 €

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Gustave DORE, Mary LAFON

Les aventures du chevalier Jaufre et de la belle Brunissende

Librairie Nouvelle, Paris 1856, 17,5x27,5cm, relié.

First edition of the numerous vignettes and 20 etchings of Gustave Doré.
Edition translated by Mary Lafon.
Binding half green shagreen corners, back with five nerves set with gilded nets adorned with double gilded boxes decorated with gilt typographic patterns, framing of gilt fillets on [...]

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First edition

Rainer Maria RILKE

Lettres françaises à Merline 1919-1922

Seuil, Paris 1950, 14x19,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper, head print.
Nice copy.

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First edition

Frédéric HILLEMACHER, ANONYME

Galerie historique des portraits des comédiens de la troupe de Molière

Imprimerie de Louis Perrin, Lyon 1858, 13,5x21,5cm, relié.

Rare first edition published anonymously and printed in 100 numbered copies on laid.
Binding full morocco caramel, back with five nerves burnished and set with golden dots, double gilded boxes with the center of which was placed a golden floral pattern, gold friezes at the head and tail, a [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Louis ANQUETIN

Duel : Étude 2

Fin XIXème - Début XXème, 25 x 16,25 cm.

ANQUETIN Louis
Duel : Étude 2 Charcoal on paper, Late 19th - Early 20th century, 25 x 16.25 cm. Original charcoal drawing
Signed with the artist's signature stamp in the lower right corner of the work, and signed with the workshop's stamp on the back. Very good condition.
Provenance: [...]

440 €

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First edition

Albert CAMUS

Les justes

Gallimard, Paris 1950, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, complete of 36 deliveries that were published monthly for three years. More than 300 illustrations (inset boards in black and in colors, and black in-text drawings). Editor's bindings in green-and-grayscale cartonnage, smooth back, flat decorated with illustrated glued papers. [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Jacques PREVERT, Elsa HENRIQUEZ

Contes pour enfants pas sages

Editions du Pré aux clarcs, Paris 1947, 25,5x22cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition printed 1500 copies numbered on "pur-fil" paper.
Binding of the editor in full cardboard back of silent green cloth, illustrated boards.
Signed autograph of Jacques Prévert Max-Philippe Delatte.
Illustrated book of drawings by Elsa Henriquez.
Nice copy.

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First edition

Emmanuel de LAS CASES

Le mémorial de Sainte-Hélène suivi de Napoléon dans l'exil par O'Méara

Lequien Fils, Paris 1835, Grd. in-8 (17x26,5cm), 775pp. et 720pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of 2 frontispieces (portrait of Napoleon and Las Cases on steel), 11 figures on steel inset (views, portraits on steel), 2 facsimiles, all on strong paper.
Binders in full red glossy calf. Smooth backs richly decorated. Titres and golden tomatoes. Fillet of framing on [...]

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François COURBOIN, Alfred de MUSSET

Mademoiselle Mimi Pinson, profil de grisette

Les Cent Bibliophiles, Paris 1899, 16x25cm, relié.

Printed edition of 115 numbered copies on vellum, ours printed specially for Louis Bourdery, and illustrated with 18 colored vignettes etched by François Courboin.
Binding in full blue shagreen, back with three false nerves adorned with gold cartridges richly embellished with floral motifs [...]

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First edition

Miguel de CERVANTES

L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche

Dubochet et Cie, Paris 1836 - 1840, In-8 (17,5x25,5cm), 744pp. et 758pp., relié.

first edition translated by Louis Viardot and illustrated by Tony Johannot First printing. Two headpieces printed on China, two engraved title pages and 800 large thumbnails in-text. As often, the second volume of 1840. This feature is actually quite common in publishing, even if we have difficulty [...]

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First edition

Marcel PAGNOL

Le temps des amours

Julliard, Paris 1977, 15x22cm, broché.

First edition, one of 100 copies on pur fil paper, this copy one of 20 hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies after 25 Hollande paper.
A very nice copy.

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Alfred de MUSSET

Oeuvres complètes

L. HebertEdition Charpentier, Paris 1884, 11 vol grd in 8 (14x21cm), relié.

Carpenters Edition. One of the best editions of complete works, well printed and layout.
Illustrated by Bida of 28 etchings and a portrait by Flameng. In addition to the 9 T's forming the complete works were added a Tome for posthumous works, and a Tome for the biography of Musset by his [...]

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First edition

Gustave FLAUBERT

L'Education sentimentale

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1870, 15x23cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, mention of second edition on the second volume and the covers.
Braid bindings in full green percaline, smooth backs adorned in their center with a typographic gilt fin, double tail fillet, piece of red morocco title, covers and restored back preserved. Posterior binding signed [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Georges PEREC

La boutique obscure. 124 rêves

Denoël /Gonthier, Paris 1973, 12,5x19,5cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Georges Perec to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant full copy of his prayer to insert.

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LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé

S.n., Londres 1779, in-4 (16,5x21,5cm), relié.

Nice edition of the French translation of Jacques Amyot, illustrated with a frontispiece and 28 figures on copper.
Contemporary binding full calf tortoiseshell, smooth back richly adorned with wheels, irons and gilded nets and a title piece of red morocco, triple golden net framing boards, [...]

800 €

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Honoré de BALZAC

La peau de chagrin

Delloye et Lecou, Paris 1838, In 8 (16x26cm), relié.

First illustrated edition, first printing, 100 vignettes on steel Gavarni, Baron, Lange ... The edition contains some good features first draft stipulated by Clouzot: Thumbnail skeletal pulling a man back into title page, thumbnail gardener is in p. By 303 against. Portraits and Pauline Foedora [...]

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First edition

Milan KUNDERA

L'identité

Gallimard, Paris 1997, 14,5x21,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 50 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Very nice copy.

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First edition

SPALLANZANI

Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes. Avec une ...

Chez Barthélémi Chirol, à Genève 1785, in-8 (12,5x20,6cm), (4) XCVI, 413pp., relié.

Original French edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates containing many figures. Full calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Two small restorations on the upper flat. Nice copy. Fundamental work on the theory of generation. The conclusions reached above those [...]

950 €

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STENDHAL

Lucien Leuwen

Honoré Champion, Paris 1927, In-8 (14x22,2cm), 396pp. 462pp. et 438pp. et 501pp., 4 volumes reliés.

Edition established and annotated by Henry Debraye, with a preface by Paul Valéry. One of ten copies on China, first large paper, on a set of 1235. Copy No. 5, containing a double suite of boards including one on Imperial Japan. The boards consist of facsimiles. Title pages in red and [...]

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Jules VERNE

Le Pays des fourrures

Hetzel, Paris 1903-1904, 18x28cm, cartonnage de l'éditeur.

Illustrated edition of 87 drawings by L. Benett and G. Roux.
Cartonnage editor Hetzel "with the fan and the elephant" full red percaline type 4, first flat polychrome signed Engel, second board type "i" as indicated by Jauzac, back to the lighthouse, blue cover pages of origins, all golden [...]

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First edition, Signed book

François TRUFFAUT

Les aventures d'Antoine Doinel. Les quatre cents coups. - Baisers volés. - Domicile conjugal

Mercure de France, Paris 1970, 14x20,5cm, broché.

Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel. Les quatre cents coups. – Baisers volés. – Domicile conjugal [The Adventures of Antoine Doinel]

Mercure de France, Paris 1970, 14 x 20,5 cm, original wrappers
First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies [...]

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MOLIERE

Oeuvres de Molière avec des remarques grammaticales; des avertissemens et des observations sur ...

Par La compagnie des libraires associés, Paris 1773, In 8 (12,5x20cm), (4) viij, 520pp. et (4) 576pp. et (4) 551pp. et

First edition of this very famous edition established by Bret. Illustrated book of the famous portrait of Moliere engraved by Cathelin after Mignaud in frontispiece of the first volume, 6 title jewels as well as 33 very fine figures of Moreau Le Jeune. Without a doubt one of the most beautiful [...]

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First edition

Marc CHAGALL

[Le baton changé en serpent] He cast the rodde on the ground, and it was turned into a serpent, ...

Léon Amiel, Paris, New-York 1966, 36x49.5cm, une feuille.

Original color lithograph, one of 15 proofs on Japon impérial paper reserved for the artist and his collaborators, the only printing with 20 more on Japon and 250 on Arches paper. Unsigned proof, as all proofs in this series, other than the frontispiece.
A superb proof on Japon paper specially [...]

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First edition

Arthur RIMBAUD

Poèmes. Les illuminations. - Une saison en enfer

Léon Vanier, Paris 1892, 12,5x19cm, relié.

First collective edition, partly original, on ordinary paper, it was only drawn in 25 Holland paper in large papers.
Binder in red morocco with corners, back with four nerves set with golden threads and decorated with double golden boxes, plates of marbled paper, guards and counter tops of [...]

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First edition

Roger MARTIN DU GARD

Les Thibault

Nrf, Paris 1922-1940, 12x19cm, 11 volumes brochés.

First edition for each volume whose circulation varies from 297 to 1250 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies with reimposed.
Two backs slightly insolated, rare bites without gravity on four guards, otherwise pleasant together.

2 500 €

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First edition

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE

Recueil des lettres de Madame la marquise de Sévigné a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa fille

Chez Nicolas Semard et chez Rollin (pour les tomes V et VI), à Paris 1734, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), xxxj (1) 452 pp. et (2)

Edition largely original, rare, adorned with a portrait of the Marquise de Sevigne in Volume I and repeated in Volume V. In the copy described by Rochebilliere, Volumes V and VI of 1737 are in a different binding, as well as most of the time, our copy presents them in the same homogeneous binding, [...]

3 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Guy de MAUPASSANT

Notre coeur

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1890, 13x19cm, broché.

Notre coeur [Our Heart]
Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1890, 13x19cm, original wrappers.
First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on Hollande, the only deluxe issue copies after 5 on Japon.
A very fine copy, as issued, with an important manuscript document by Elme-Marie Caro, [...]

3 800 €

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