The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

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Some material from this book first published in the UK

as The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, 1996

This revised edition published in the UK by Robinson,

an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2014

Copyright © Maxim Jakubowski, 2014

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UK ISBN: 978-1-47211-112-8 (paperback)

UK ISBN: 978-1-4721-1180-7 (e-book)

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US ISBN: 978-0-7624-5221-7

US Library of Congress Control Number: 2013949486

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