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  • And if there was any doubt, all I had to do was open the front cover, and there it all was on the fly-leaf.

    April « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • And if there was any doubt, all I had to do was open the front cover, and there it all was on the fly-leaf.

    henry denander | 6 poems on writing, writers, fatherhood, marriage, jazz, jazz musicians, fame & much more « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of a book, octavo size, no water-mark.

    Sole Music 2010

  • I just checked it out at Amazon.com, read the fly-leaf and it's definitely on my must-read list.

    Warning orders... 2008

  • The authors are noted in the fly-leaf and the stories are in random order thereby preventing any bias towards 'named' writers etc.

    CONE ZERO Bob Lock 2008

  • The authors are noted in the fly-leaf and the stories are in random order thereby preventing any bias towards 'named' writers etc.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Bob Lock 2008

  • It has been suggested that copies of the volume were distributed earlier than November and that some of the poems, printed separately and distributed in fly-leaf form, were added later.

    Fugitive Pieces 2007

  • “William Dobbin, — th Reg.,” in the fly-leaf; a guide-book with his initials; and one or two other volumes which belonged to the Major.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • And she pleased herself by writing in the fly-leaf in her neatest little hand, “George Osborne, A Christmas gift from his affectionate-mother.”

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakespeare autograph (as I was informed in the Museum), turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.

    Representative Men 2006

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