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First Perennial edition published 2000.
First Harper Perennial edition published 2008.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows: Mattison, Alice
The book borrower : a novel / Alice Mattison.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-688-16824-8
I. Title.
PS3563.A8598B66 1999
813’.54–dc21
99-21961
ISBN 978-0-06-115302-0 (P.S. edition)
Epub Edition © AUGUST 2012 ISBN: 9780062232014
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