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The Redbridge Book Co.
A Fictitious Bookstore in Delaware County
Membership(s): ABA
Walter Reed and Yellow Fever
$900.00
Kelly, Howard A.
Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1923. Third Edition Revised.
Likely a Christmas gift to a close colleague with a full page inscription from Kelly.
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
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