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758:. Jan Morris (introduction). Prentice Hall Press.
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489:. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Little, Brown.
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713:Mister White Eyes: A Novel
548:My Last Two Thousand Years
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881:The Age of Happy Problems
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968:"Herbert Gold Biography"
864:Essays and short stories
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994:"THE IMMORTAL MR. GOLD"
1484:Writers from Cleveland
1271:"Waiting For Cordelia"
972:Ohio Reading Road Trip
888:Gold, Herbert (1971).
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821:(memoir). Arcade Pub.
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