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The Merchant of Venice: Authoritative Text, Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and Appropriations
Shakespeare, William ; Edited by Leah Marcus; Sources and contexts: Richard Robinson, Ser Giovanni Fiorentin, Thomas Elyot, Edwin Sandys, Daniel Price, Thomas Coryat, William Camden, Thomas Calvert, Peter Heylyn, Simonds D'Ewes, and Edward Nicholas; Criticism: Nicholas Rowe, William Hazlitt, Anna Jameson, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, G. Wilson Knight, Barbara Lewalski, Lawrence Danson, Derek Cohen, Laurence Lerner, Toby Lelyveld, James Shapiro, Stephen Orgel, Charles Edelman, Walter Cohen, Karen Newman, Alan Sinfield, James O'Rourke, Kim Hall, R.W. Desai, and Avraham Oz; Rewritings and Appropriations: John Cunningham, Iain Crichton Smith, Alan Sillitoe, Karl Shapiro, Leonard Nathan, and Fiona Pitt-Kethley.
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Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York / London, England 2006
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Softcover. xiii, 347 pp. Softcover. LCC: 2005053425 Good condition; touches of wear on covers; slight water warping near bottom edges of pages.
Published by E.P. Dutton, New York, NY 1969
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st American edition. First American edition. Book has some light wear. Dust jacket is price clipped, some wear to spine ends and light rubbing and smudges overall. Illustrated with eight b & w reproductions of paintings by the author. Material includes descript…ions of travel using essays, letters, travel articles, and selections from early novels. Has an index. Durrell is known for his sense of place.
Published by Rutgers University 1990
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with faint stain to back cover and last few pages. Edward W. Said - Third World Intellectuals / Metropolitan Culture. John G. Blair - Chain And Democracy. Alan H. Friedman - The French Lesson (fiction). Nancy Huston - A Tongue Called Mother. Edward Snow - Bruegel's Peasant Dan…ce. Daniel Aaron - Theodore Roosevelt As Cultural Artifact. J. D. McClatchy - Two Poems. Lee Rust Brown - Emersonian Transparency. ; D3D; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages.
Star-Web Paper - 1979 (Number 7)
(MELTZER, David, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Michael Leder,and others.) FISHER, Thomas Michael, edited by
Published by All This & Less Publishers, New Mexico 1979
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover design by Guy A. Rossi. Quarto. 76pp. Stapled wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Light age-toning, near fine. Copy 48 out of 300. Notable contributors include David Meltzer, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Michael Leder, and others.
Star-Web Paper - 1979 (Number 7)
(MELTZER, David, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Michael Leder,and others.) FISHER, Thomas Michael, edited by
Published by All This & Less Publishers, New Mexico 1979
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover design by Guy A. Rossi. Quarto. 76pp. Stapled wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Age-toning and rubbing, near fine. Copy 93 out of 300. Notable contributors include David Meltzer, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Michael Leder, and others.
Published by The Poetry Review, London 1970
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 93pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with a crease along the rear spine fold, near fine. This issue features Robert Graves, James Kirkup, John Smith, Hardiman Scott, Brian Patten, Stewart Conn, Thomas Blackburn, Clive Sansom, and Ilsley Ingram. Additional contributors include Eddie E…ainwright, Robin Lee, Robin Fulton, Bernard Saint, William Hayward, Lucien Stryk, Patience Tuckwell, Martin Booth, David H. W. Grubb, Gerda Mayer, Maureen Duffy, A.E. Dudley, Miriam Waddington, Jeremy Robinson, William Golightly, Steve Marsling, Gordon Symes, Paul Coltman, Eric W. White, John Hatfield, Maurice Carpenter, William Kean Seymour, Jean Overton Fuller, Alan Pearson, Ilsley Ingram, Edward Lucie-Smith, Raymond Durgnat, and John Headlam.
Published by E. P. Dutton 1968
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More imagesPublished by Richard Fawcett 1985
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Issue 5 of this fantastic small-press dark fantasy fiction zine, published in 1985. Features stories by B. Richard Parks, Phillip C. Heath, Frank Belknap Long, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Billy Wolfenbarger, Bobby G. Warner, Margaret Widdemer, Richard Le Gallienne, M. Jesse Hoare, Joseph Payne Bre…nnan, Delia Shiflet, Theophile Gautier, and many more. There where seventeen issues between 1980-1996, the first four edited by UK fan Dave Reeder, the rest by American author Jessica Amanda Salmonson. The first two issues (1980-1981) were published by Dave Reeder himself, the following fifteen issues (no 3 and 4 with Reeder still as editor) by Richard Fawcett in the USA. Contains an ad card for issue #6 with discritions of that issue and back issues. Perfect for the collector of horror and fantasy zines. Good to very good; covers are dirty and show slight discoloration as do the inside pages. No tears, rips, or missing pages. Protected in an acid free plastic sleeve. Cover & Interior Art by Alan Hunter, Thomas Clark, & Wendy Wees (illustrator).
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. inscribed and signed by editor on title page, 11 inches, 133 pages, maps, photos, Constitution statistics, Dandrea drawing of frigate, color illustrated card cover. Cover lightly edgeworn and rubbed, contents fine. A daily log and journal by Ship's Carpenter has been used to create the first book… on this voyage. USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975. Signed.
The Journal of Theological Studies:
Edited by Henry Chadwick and H. F.D. Sparks; Authors contributing articles, notes, or studies: J.R. Bartlett, Douglas Jones, Michael Goulder, David Rokeah, Miroslav Marcovich, Peter Brown, Kurt Aland, Samuel Miklos Stern, Don Cupitt, David Winton Thomas, Timothy David Barnes, Reginald Eldred Witt, Ernst Bammel, Alan Cameron, Paul Meyvaert, Arthur Voobus, and Silas Rees.
Published by Clarendon Press at Oxford University Press, Oxford, England 1968
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Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. New Series. Volume XIX, Part 1 (April 1968). Softcover.
Published by Three Bobs Press 1990
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This version limited to 500 copies in black lettered [trade sized paperback format] wrappers. Essays and photographs relating to Necon, stories, plus essays on H. P. Lovecraft, etc. Divided into three parts: The first part contains Necon Memories along with photos and drawings that…seem particularly Necon. The second part contains fiction; some new, some out of print for a long time, and the third part contains two articles about H.P. Lovecraft. If you were at the early Necons and remember the fun of those years you will want a copy of this book. This copy is signed by several of the writers and is in excellent condition. Very good to fine, being protected in an acid free plastic sleeve. Illustrations by Bob Lavoie, Steve Gervais and Don Maitz (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
A Philosophy & Public Affairs Reader: Equality and Preferential Treatment
Marshall Coehn, Thomas Nagel and Thomas Scanlon (Edited by); Ronald Dworkin, Owen M. Fiss, Alan H. Goldman, et al. (Contributing Editors)
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1977
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 209 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Published by London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE Publications 1998
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Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the wrappers. Text complete, clean and tight; Paperback; Measures Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6") (1 kg); pp 376; Index; Contains: Diagrams; Tables; References; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately pac…ked, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #185322 ||.
The Poet's Dante:
Edited by Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff; Contributing authors: Ezra Pound,William Butler Yeats, Charles Williams, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Osip Mandelstam, Eugenio Montale, Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Howard Nemerov, James Merrill, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, Jacqueline Osherow, J.D. McClatchy, W.S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Geoffrey Hill, Rosanna Warren, W.S. Di Piero, Daniel Halpern, Alan Williamson, Mark Doty, C.K. Williams, Mary Baine Campbell, and Edward Hirsch.
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York 2001
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxvi, 403 pp. LCC: 33552.
More imagesThomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law & Hereditary Right
Thomas Hobbes, & edited by Alan Cromartie and Quentin Skinner
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Paperback. Condition: fine. First paperback edition. The Clarendon Edition of The Works of Thomas Hobbes. Volume XI. Trade paperback. 192pp.
Published by The Shenval Press, London 1970
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 108pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from Ronald Draper, Nadine Gordimer, Mikis Theodorakis, Ian Wedde, David Harsent, Geoffrey Hutchings, Berthe Morisot, Daniel Hoffman, Vis Nathan, William Feaver, Roy Armes, Don Locke, P.…Lal, Edward Thomas, Patric Dickinson, Duncan Fallowell, and Gavin Ewart.
Published by The Shenval Press, London 1970
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 96pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from W.H. Auden, Michael Feld, Philip Larken, Daniel Hoffman, Minos Argyrakis, Douglas Dunn, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Fuller, Julian Symons, John Ginger, Stephen Grant, Lucian Freud, Ian Watson, Li…onel Brett, Don Locke, Peter Porter, John Elsom, Edward Thomas, Jonathan Raban, and John Betjeman.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 221 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
More imagesPublished by The Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent 1952
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Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Two unbound signatures. 12mos. xvi; P.387-390. A touch of toning and one small spot on front wrap, near fine. Containing only the Editor's notes and the contents pages listing the contributors to this issue which are Jocelyn Brooke, Jon Manchip White, Hal Summers, Frederick Vanson, U…rsula Wood, R.L. Cook, Thomas Fassam, Michael Hamburger, R.H. Ward, Juanita Peirse, F. Pratt Green, A.J. Bull, and Alan Barnsley, along with the author's biographical notes. No poems.
More imagesLondon Magazine. March 1978. Volume 17. Number 9. Includes: Lucian Freud - Night Nudes; Anthony Powell - Dawn in Henrietta Street, Glen Baxter Cartoons and Article
Anthony Powell, Graham Swift, D. M. Thomas & others. Edited by Alan Ross
Language: English
Published by London Magazine, UK 1978
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Paperback. 21x15.5cm. 96 pages. Flat spine Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref HV5. London Magazine. March 1978. Volume 17. Number 9. Includes: Lucian Freud - Night Nudes; Anthony Powell - Dawn in Henrietta Street, Glen B…axter Cartoons and Article. Lucian Freud, Glen Baxter (illustrator).
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Military Miscellany I. Manuscripts From the Seven Years War, The First and Second Sikh Wars and the First World War edited by Alan J. Guy, Thomas and Gerard J. DeGroot. Bottom corners very slightly bumped. The Journal of Georg…e Durant, giving a vivid account of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1758-1759, has passed through the family, by dirent descent to the present opwner, who has kindly allowed its reproduction in this volume. Daniel George Robinson's letters, describing the experiences of an engineer working on the Hazara Survey during the First and Second Sikh Wars (in which he participated), belong to the family of their editor, R. N. W. Thomas, who is himself related to the writer. The Diary of the Reverand G. S. Duncan gives a very personal view of Haig's GHQ from 1916 to 1918 and is interesting beftween the two men and how it fostered Haig's conviction that he had been singled out by God and that 'At the right time the Lord will bring about a gteat victory.'449 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).
Published by Published by Sutton Publishing Limited for the Army Records Society. 1996 1996
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21.5cm, 449p., index, colour frontis portrait, map, illustration, red cloth, fine in fine jacket. (Mt).
More imagesRational Choice Marxism
Michael Burawoy, Alan Carling, Alan Gilbert & others. Edited by Terrell Carver & Paul Thomas
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1995. 21.5x14cm. viii+338 pages with index. SPINE IS LIGHTLY CREASED. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard. ref o-as.
Wales through the Ages: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to 1485. Volume II: Modern Wales.
Edited by A. J. Roderick; Contributing authors: Glyn Daniel, W.F. Grimes, Donald Moore, Kenneth Jackson, J.E. Caerwyn Williams, Nora Chadwick, Emyrs Bowen, J. Goronwy Edwards, Glyn Roberts, William Rees, Idris Foster, Myrddin Lloyd, Thomas Jones, T. Jones Pierce, A.J. Roderick, Gwyn Jones, A.O.H. Jarman, Glanmor Williams, Thomas Parry, Gwyn Williams, Evan Jones, David Williams, W. Ogwen Williams, Penry Williams, E. Gwynne Jones, R. Geraint Gruffydd, A.H. Dodd, J. Gwynn Williams, A.H. Dodd, Mary Clement, P.D.G. Thomas, Evan Jones, R.O. Roberts, Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, Alan Conway, Thomas Parry, G.O. Pierce, John Morris, Brinley Thomas, K.O. Morgan, and T.I. Jeffreys Jones.
Published by Christopher Davies (Publishers) 1959, 1971, Llandybie, Wales 1959
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London 1945
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February…1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - just a small pencil price at the top of the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the bottom of the front pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. Top corners of some pages slightly creased - otherwise, no creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London 1945
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February…1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with just some very light foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).
Published by De Gruyter, Oldenbourg 2016
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Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 194, [2]pp. Original paper covered boards, with black and white lettering to spine and covers. "This inaugural volume of the 'German Yearbook of Contemporary History' is devoted to a central theme of recent historical scholarship: the Holocaust. Ulrich Herbert and… Peter Hayes take stock of German contributions to Holocaust research, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe examines the collective memory of the murder of the Jews in the Ukrainian diaspora, and Jürgen Zarusky critically evaluates the controversial notion of the "Bloodlands". The volume is rounded out by an English translation of the original 1953 article by Hans Rothfels in which a key document, the Gerstein Report, was first published, as well as a retrospective analysis of this important article by Valerie Hébert. Updates on recent German projects in the field of Holocaust history are also provided by Frank Bajohr and Susanne Heim." (From the Publishers). Binding and interior in very good condition.
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