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1971 Fifty-Four Volume Set "Great Books of the Western World"

Item Details

A complete fifty-four volume set of Great Books of the Western World, edited by the faculties of the University of Chicago and published by Encyclopædia Britannica in 1971. This set features works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Homer, Plato, William Shakespeare, Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, and more. Each volume is bound in tan, blue, green, gray, or light red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine.

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Binding Hardcover
Number of Books 54

Condition

- to fair; some fading, discoloration, and tanning to spines; wear to gilt lettering; a few scratches and stains to exteriors; bumped spine ends; page discoloration.

Dimensions

35.0" W x 19.0" H x 6.5" D

- measures items as a group.

Item #

17BAL063-033

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