chaucer geoffrey rev walter skeat (22 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; 642 clean, unmarked pages/glossary+catalogue; (#161 in series, list to 309 on dj reverse); green Blumenthal binding w/gilt titles on black; Famous Skeat Edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; Green Blumenthal binding with gilt titles on black; Rockwell Kent end paperes; 642 clean, unmarked pages/glossary+catalogue; (#161 in series, lists to 415 on dj reverse).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Green cloth, dust jacket. Light signs of age. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. An Oxford University Press edition presenting three sections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. With extensive prefatory material including a Life of Chaucer, also with plentiful footnotes, glossary, endnotes and index of proper names. An entry in publisher's Clarendon Press Series. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with horizontal bands in black to covers, spine titling & decorations in gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with frequent penciled notations, inked prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and acidic stains to endpapers, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; lxii, 266 pages.

Etat : Fair. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 149 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper, half-title page and title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good (Book condition). School Edition. School edition. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

hardcover. Etat : Good. ninth.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good (Book condition). School Edition. School edition. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Reprint in the Oxford Standard Authors Edn. Medium 8vo. (19cm. tall x 12cm.). pp. xxiv, 732. plus 149pp. Glossarial Index. Portrait frontispiece. In the original gilt lettered brown cloth. A very good plus hardback copy of this scholarly edition. Free from annotations.

2nd. and enlarged edition. Medium 8vo. (19cm. tall x 13cm.). lxxxvi, 502. plus 10pp. publisher's list. In the original green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Spine wrinkled and a trifle soiled. Contents clean and sound. A good plus to very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. ninth.

Half Calf. Etat : Good to Very Good. REPRINT. A solid, brown half calf prize binding with gilt crest on the front board. The head and heel of spine are heavily rubbed with some loss to head. The front joint is also rubbed. All edges gilt. The pages throughout are clean. Has a bookplate for St Paul's School (assuming Portsmouth), dated 1923. This is a very nice and clean copy of this classic, with some rubbing as described. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good - Cash. No Jacket. Darker green cloth cover with gold text on the spine. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Text has several underlinings and notations. P/o partial sticker inside the cover. Some age adiscoloration to the cover. P/o name and notation on the half title page. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Etat : Very Good. Hardcover(Rebindered). Book Condition: Very Good. Text is clean and tight. Markings and marginal notes on the inside.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. **HARDBACK** In price-clipped dustwrapper No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition 1972 Oxford.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!** The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great typographical dust jacket. Bound in purple balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching purple topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text besides Sold at Retail by Macy's stamped on title page. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED IN NEW BOOKSTORE CONDITION!! The beautiful typographical dust jacket is NEAR FINE with slightest of chipping at extremities. Extremely clean and bright with slight spine darkening but still beautiful which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 169 titles matching a 1929 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!** The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great typographical dust jacket. Bound in red balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching red topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED IN NEW BOOKSTORE CONDITION!! The beautiful typographical dust jacket is FINE! Extremely clean and bright which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 169 titles matching a 1929 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Etat : Very Good. 1901. Very Good.

Leather. Etat : Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). Two volumes of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with 'The Canterbury Tales' and the 'Introduction, Glossary, Indexes' volumes present here and uniformly bound in calf. Two fascinating volumes of Rev. Walter W. Skeat's seven volume set 'The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited, from Numerous Manuscripts'.The two volumes present here are individual works in themselves.Volume IV: 'The Canterbury Tales: Text'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and with extensive critical and contextual notes, this volume presents the entirety of Chaucer's Middle English tales.Volume VI: 'Introduction, Glossary, Indexes', a volume of criticism including indexes of proper names, authors quoted or referenced by Chaucer, lists of manuscripts, glossary of Gamelyn, and glossary to the Romaunt of the Rose. In half calf bindings, with gilt detailing to back strips. Significant fading to back strips, with both volumes lacking volume number labels. Rubbing to back strips and joints. Front joints starting, with boards firmly held. Head and tail of 'Canterbury' joint starting, with boards firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Good. book.

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.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. All olumes bound in green cloth with gilt decorations to the spines Light shelfwear to the outer extremities of the boards, with a little cloth missing at the heads and heels of the spines. Outer page edges lightly browned.

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.