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Book Information:

Author: Sylvie Guerre-Delabri\`ere
Title: Classical sequences in Banach spaces
Additional book information: Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1992, xiv + 207 pp., US$99.75. ISBN 0-8247-8723-4.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Peter G. Casazza
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1994), 117-124
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00444-6