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Love, again : a novel
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The love token
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Maude Granger : her second love
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Mapp & Lucia : a novel
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Bosworth, Mrs Hobart
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4 items: 2-pp. - "Info. about Mrs. Hobart Bosworth" (1990), apparently typed up by an aide to Editor James Boswell, in which it is noted she was the widow of a pioneer L.A. actor / filmmaker, in L.A. from 1908 on, Hobart Bosworth ; excerpt from Los Angeles - a City Apart, (1981), featuring Bosworth ; excerpt from El Pueblo Grande (1973) on Bosworth ; excerpt from History of the American Film Industry (1970) featuring Bosworth.
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Frankenburg, Charis. 9 letters (1941-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Lymm, England
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