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Book Information:

Author: Ivan Singer
Title: Bases in Banach spaces.
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1981, viii + 880 pp., $78.00.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Charles W. McArthur
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1982), 478-486
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15023-6