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1945

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2021

2025

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Book, The Reader is Warned

This is a Book. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and written by John Dickson Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. It is dated 1945. Its medium is letterpress halftone. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.

This object was donated by Caitlin Condell. It is credited Private collection, New York.

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 16.5 × 11.4 × 1.3 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

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