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References
- ↑ ""Best Selling Books", The Bookman, January 1918, p. 624".
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- ↑ Schneider, Robert W. Novelist to a Generation: The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill, p. 235 (1976)
- ↑ The Best-Sellers of 1917: The "Publishers Weekly's" Consensus, American Library Annual 1917-1918, pp. 100-01 (1918)
