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    Sadakichi Hartmann’s Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895)
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    Sadakichi Hartmann’s Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895)

    Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853)
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    The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849)
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    Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)
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    Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
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    Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1784)
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    Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass
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    Queen Victoria’s Teenage Diaries (1912)
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    The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (1765)
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    The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled - including that of the Learned Pig (1805)
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    The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)
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    Twelve Years a Slave (1859)
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    Letters to My Sister of our Experiences on Our First Trip to Europe, 1913
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    Letters to My Sister of our Experiences on Our First Trip to Europe, 1913

    A Pamphlet on Verdi (1901)
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    The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell, the Tattooed Man (1845)
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    The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell, the Tattooed Man (1845)

    The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)
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    The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)

    Conversations with Lord Byron (1824)
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    The Hasheesh Eater (1857)
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    Extracts from the Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks (1769)
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    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)
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