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Book Title: Daddy-Long-Legs
Item Length: 9.7in.
Item Height: 0.3in.
Item Width: 7.4in.
Author: Jean Webster
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: General, Ancient & Classical
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Literary Collections, Fiction
Item Weight: 10.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 116 Pages