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Book Title: Modernist Archaist : Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam
Item Length: 7.5in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 4.5in
Author: Osip Mandelstam
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
Publisher: Whale & Star Press
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
