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- ↑ Vollmer, April (2016). Pests of Public Importance. Book design by Esther K. Smith, hand set and printed by Dikko Faust, with a constructed poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faust. New York: Purgatory Pie Press. OCLC 1028051799.
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