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When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators: More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (Hardcover)

by Alan Dundes (Author), Carl R. Pagter (Author)

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Hardcover: 271 pages
Publisher: Wayne State University Press (March 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814318665
ISBN-13: 978-0814318669
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
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