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Boxed Set of Great Books Foundation First Year Readings

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Boxed Set of Great Books Foundation First Year Readings

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Boxed set of Great Books Foundation First Year Readings. Includes The Declaration of Independence, Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Locke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and more. Published by The Great Books Foundation, Chicago in the 1940s. *notes- wear from age, discoloration.

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Boxed Set of Great Books Foundation First Year Readings

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