Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.0005 3 - A Short History of the World

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First published 1922 Published in Penguin Books 1936 New and revised edition 1946 Reprinted 1949, 195ł, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962 This edition, with revisions by Raymond Postgate and G. P. Wells, first published 1965 Reprinted 1967, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982 __
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