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Set of 10 books including: Herzog, Justine, Clea, The Thin Man, Folk Ways and More.

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Set of 10 books including: Herzog, Justine, Clea, The Thin Man, Folk Ways and More.

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A set of 10 books including the following titles:

Indians of the Plains by Robert H. Lowie

Indians of the Northwest Coast by Philip Druker.

Herzog, by Saul Bellow.

Vietnam: Between Two Truces by Jean Lacouture with introduction by Joseph Kraft and translated from the French by Konrad Kellen and Joel Carmichael.

Folk Ways by William Graham Sumner.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovivh by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

How I Won the War, a Novel by Patrick Ryan.

Clea, Investigation of Modern Love by Laurence Durrell.

Justine by Laurence Durrell.

The Peter Priciple, Why Things Always for Wrong by Dr. Laurence j. Peter and Raymond Hull.

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett.

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Set of 10 books including: Herzog, Justine, Clea, The Thin Man, Folk Ways and More.

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