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L’Automa first published in Italy 1963 This translation published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg 1964 Published in Penguin Books 1967 Copyright © Casa Editrice Valentino Bompiani, 1963 Translation copyright © Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1964
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