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Cover of June 1982's Heresies magazine, featuring marginalia along the top. This issue is the "Women's Pages" issue, which is number 14 of a total of 27 issues.

Cover of the first edition of the second volume of Blast, illustrated and edited by Wyndham Lewis.

The front free-end paper of The Girl’s Own Paper: Supplementary Volume [1911] includes inscriptions by two distinct and unknown hands. These inscriptions elucidate the book’s history of ownership.

Captain Cook's account of his voyage to find the "Northwest Passage" in the North Pacific.
Ownership inscription by the name of Mary Lindsay inside each of the covers.

Front cover of the 1st American edition of J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy, published in 1911, with illustrations by F.D. Bedford.

Portrait of John Donne, painted by an unknown English artist.

Inscriptio of ownership by Annie E. Burmester on the inside cover of book containing the novels, A Marriage in High Life by Lady Charlotte Bury, and Evelina by Miss Burney

This is the front cover of the Penguin Modern Classics version of Camus' The Plague (translation by Stuart Gilbert).

This is the first of three ads for different books published by Penguin Books. This page describes Penguin books as a whole, and gives a description of a service that can be subscribed to (only in the UK).

This ad centers around an add for Camus' Exile and the Kingdom. There is a brief description of the book and some reviews. At the bottom of the page is a blurb that states these other books are "not for sale in the U.S.A."

This page describes another of Camus' works, and identifies it as "one of the vital works of our time." This page also identifies that this particular iteration of The Rebel is "not for sale in the USA or Canada."

This scan is of the copyright page in Camus' The Plague. There are details outlining the different people and organizations who own the copyright to this text, as well as outlining the time frames that the text has held different iterations of the…

This is the inside flap of The Plague on which there is a sticker placed by the University of Victoria identifying this book as a gift to the University.

The Plague: inside book description and signature of Paul S. McLean. There are also some other scribbles on the page, and '200' written in pencil in the upper right hand corner.

Title page for the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Camus' The Plague. There is a quotation by Daniel Dufoe.

The first page of the novel presented in the book.

The final page of The Plague.

Square illustration of a turtle from Stories and Legends of Garden Flowers. It walks on the ground with dirt and grass, with mushrooms behind the turtle.

Page 23 of June 1982's Heresies, featuring a mock board game called "The Waiting Game," created by Beverly Naidus