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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The big New Yorker book of dogs / foreword by Malcolm Gladwell.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-64476-7
1. Dogs—Anecdotes. I. New Yorker (New York, N.Y.: 1925)
II. Title: New Yorker book of dogs. III. Title: Book of dogs.
SF426.2.B56 2012
636.7—dc23 2012033699
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