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Sommerboken first published by Albert Bonniers Förlag 1972 This translation first published in the U.S.A. 1974 First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson of London 1975 Published in Penguin Books 1977

Copyright © Tove Jansson, 1972 This translation copyright © Random House, Inc., 1974

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