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Juniper books twilight saga custom dust jackets only books not included for your fivevolume hardcover book set. Here you will find reproduction dust jackets for your alcoholics anonymous big books. The third printing featured a misprint on the dust jacket that states that the book is a third edition, which was incorrect. This collection is truly the holy grail of aa books containing all 16 first edition printings in various colors, each in their original dust jackets for a total of 19 books. Alcoholics anonymous 3rd edition hardcover w dust jacket 1976. However, the techniques i use when creating our facsimiles help in producing jackets that are as close to the originals as possible. Rare collection of nineteen alcoholics anonymous books. To my friends the ovshinskys junior to you all my affection and my confidence that you will grow up in the likeness of your clear mother and father.
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Accessibly app is following the best guidelines and is partially conformant with wcag. The dust jackets themselves were worthless and the plain paper was discarded when the books were unwrapped for display in bookstores. Always keep an extra inch on all sides of the book. Alcoholics anonymous by bill, first edition abebooks. Dust jackets, dust covers, book jackets and book wrappers. How did we end up with a piece of paper wrapped around every book cover. Elevate yours with foil accents, textured paper, and fullcolor photography or illustrations.
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