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    Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle
    Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle
    Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle
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    Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle

    By Douglass Sherley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle

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      Love Instigated - Douglass Sherley

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Instigated, by Douglass Sherley

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      Title: Love Instigated

      The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle

      Author: Douglass Sherley

      Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19122]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED ***

      Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Kentuckiana Digital Library)

      LOVE

      INSTIGATED

      BY

      BELL THE CAT SURLY

      of the PENDENNIS CLUB

      THE STORY

      OF A

      CARVED IVORY UMBRELLA HANDLE.

      The Man that Plants Cabbages Imitates God.—Dobson's Choice.

      Caveat Filed,

      By CURRY & DEARING, Publishers,

      Louisville, Ky.

      LOVE PERPETUATED:——

      ——The Story of a Dagger.

      By Douglass Sherley,

      WHO WROTE

      —THE STORY OF A PICTURE.—

      An Edition de Luxe [special] net, $10.00. Limited number. Ninety-nine copies—signed by the Author. Right reserved to advance price at any time. Subscriptions received now. Popular Edition—a Christmas Card Booklet [in a box], $1.00. Liberal Discount to the Trade.

      Edition de Luxe ready December Fifteenth.

      Popular Edition ready December First.

      John P. Morton and Company.

      Main St., Louisville, Ky.

      Special·Dedication

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