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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
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Eighty-four champion hippopotamuses hit the Zamboola River with a thunderous crash and the 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race has begun!

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Collins ,       1969 .
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      Extent: 56p.
      Description: col. illus.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Simon and Schuster ,       1969 .
      Extent: 56p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0671651056
    • Middlesex,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Penguin ,       1969 .
      Extent: 103p.
      Description: illus.
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin ,       1977 .
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      Extent: 100p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1981
      ISBN: 0140309918
      Series: Young Puffin Puffin (publisher), series - publisher
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1977 .
      Extent: 103p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1989
      ISBN: 0140342974 (pbk.)
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 2019 .
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      Extent: 100p.p.
      Edition info: 50th anniversary ed.
      ISBN: 9780140342970, 0140342974
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[Review] The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race Jean Chapman , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 34-35)
— Review of The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race Morris Lurie , 1969 single work children's fiction
[Review] The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race Jean Chapman , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 34-35)
— Review of The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race Morris Lurie , 1969 single work children's fiction
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