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| Title | John Gray: A Kentucky Tale of the Olden Time |
| Author | James Lane Allen |
| Publisher | Lippincott, 1892 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 218 pages |
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