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London: Printed and Sold By All the Booksellers, 1792. Pamphlet. Removed from a sammelband*. A nice later copy of this celebrated tract. Begins with title page (No front cover). pp. 1-44; 45-52 (Appendix); pp. 53-58. "Common Sense was by far the most influential tract of the American Revolution, and it remains one of the most brilliant pamphlets ever written in the English language" (Lutz, Donald S. and Jack D. Warren: "A Covenanted People"). "It is not too much to say that the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, was due more to Paine's Common Sense than to any one other single piece of writing" ("One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900"). Pages clean and supple. One tiny hole to p. 39, encompassing the words "continent" and "arming" (lines 27/28), but obscuring neither, from easy recognition. Pages overall, bright and supple The publication information at the bottom of the title page has been neatly papered over with a sympathetic strip of…