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The Button Thief

Arthur Stringer

Publisher: Caelwick Press

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Summary

The Button Thief by Arthur Stringer is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: SKEEL, the mild eyed young expert of the Amalgamated Wireless, began to realize that he was going to be late. And the thought of being late at this, his first official dinner in Washington, made him desperate. He took a deep breath, thrust a determined thumb knuckle down between his Adam's apple and This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.
Available since: 06/06/2026.
Print length: 35 pages.

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