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  • The hundreds of red-bound Gideon Bibles will be donated to church groups, but almost everything else is up for grabs.

    April 2006 2006

  • "C'est l'adresse plus chic de New York!", reads the first page of the smaller, red-bound book, Assets, detailing the new amenities at The Mark with illustrations and photos.

    Is The Mark Trying Too Hard? 2007

  • "C'est l'adresse plus chic de New York!", reads the first page of the smaller, red-bound book, Assets, detailing the new amenities at The Mark with illustrations and photos.

    Is The Mark Trying Too Hard? 2007

  • "C'est l'adresse plus chic de New York!", reads the first page of the smaller, red-bound book, Assets, detailing the new amenities at The Mark with illustrations and photos.

    Is The Mark Trying Too Hard? 2007

  • But there are the other, rarest nights — they never needed to be many — when the Major with a more than usually frightful scowl will stalk to a desk in a corner of the room, unlock it with a key from his chain, and ceremoniously extract from it an elderly red-bound volume called Selected Readings from the Works of Rudyard Kipling.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • For some time Francis had been reading a small, red-bound Bible.

    Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995

  • There was a bookcase containing a red-bound, battered copy of the Penal Code, which must have been bought from one of the secondhand book dealers along the Seine or up the Boulevard Saint-Michel; a few early twentieth-century novels, a volume of Zola and one of Tolstoy, and a much-thumbed plan of Paris.

    Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • In a little red-bound volume printed in Shanghai in 1863, and translated from the Chinese for the benefit of a few of General Ward's relatives in this country -- a work which I have been permitted to examine -- the native chronicler says of our hero:

    The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford

  • Here another _chuprassi_ took his hat and, holding out a pen for him, indicated the red-bound Visitor's Book, in which he was to inscribe his name.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • They examined the end of the rope which was still knotted into the net enclosing the bottle, and the piece of red-bound wire cord that lay on the table.

    Vintage Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1937

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