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Path to the Avant-Garden

acqueline Bond picked up a copy of Jane Austen’s to study its unique cover, contemplating if it belonged in her prized collection of nearly fifty different versions of the title. She asked her mother, who was perusing a nearby library shelf, if she’d ever seen the novel published as a luxury coffee-table book.

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