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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. Tight clean book in tidy dust jacket with just light shelfwear. In green cloth with titles in central black rectangle. ; Modern Library; Vol. 161; 642 pages.
Edité par The Modern Library, New York, 1957
Vendeur : Mountain Books, Kent, CT, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Green cloth, dust jacket. Light signs of age. We ship fast.
Edité par Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1942
Vendeur : Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Firmly bound, decorated brown cloth boards. Scuffing on cover and spine. No jacket.
Edité par New York: The Modern Library Publishers. First Modern Library Edition, 1929., 1929
Vendeur : Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE SURVIVING COPY OF VERY FAMOUS STORY. BOOK: Bright Blue Balloon Cloth; Spine 5; Gold grapevine with title on slightly faded spine; Blue top-stain; Green Kent Endpapers with short tear on side seam of FFEP and three pages (See 2454_4). DJ is covered in mylar; Light green with blue tirim; front flap is worn thru; tanning on spine; 169 titles listed at back (see scans). SUMMARY: A group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England.
Edité par The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920
Vendeur : Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, Etats-Unis
Finely bound example of Chaucer's complete works. Octavo, bound in full tree calf by Riviere & Son with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, supplied tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A nice binding. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde.