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The Great Book Purge

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Most Expensive and Hard to Find or Out-of-Print Romances

Posted on June 2, 2022August 4, 2023 by jdiazsweetsavageflame

We’ve compiled a list of some of the most difficult old-school romance novels to track down. Some of these books we’re lucky to have in our collection, others we once had and sold or lost (how foolish!). And finally, there are those we’d pay our weight in gold to have.

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