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Thread of stunning first-edition book covers🧡 1. The first book of Ramayana by Peter Peterson in 1883

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2. The Spiritual Heritage of India by Swami Prabhavananda 1962

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3. Indian Saints and Mystics by Pravrajika Suddhatmaprana 2009

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4. Captivating the Simple-Hearted by Pieter Friedrich and Bhajan Singh 2017

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5. The Hobbit, drawn by Tolkien himself, 1937

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6. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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7. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, 1900

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8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865

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9. The first illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1894

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10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960

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11. Goldfinger by Ian Fleming, 1959 The author himself came up with the design of the front cover, which featured a rose between a skull's teeth.

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12. The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969

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13. The Grapes of WrathΒ by John Steinbeck, 1939

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14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1931

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15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884 The first edition cover featured an illustration of Huck, symbolizing the novel's adventurous spirit.

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16. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

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17. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996

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18. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949

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19. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, 1951

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20. The Sun Also RisesΒ by Ernest Hemingway, 1926

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