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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c....
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The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Penguin Books, 1996. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.52
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Paperback / softback. New. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.
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£10.49
Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Pocket Books, 1981. Unbound. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£7.41
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin Books, 1963. Paperback. Good/N/A. Translated by Nevill Coghill. A Penguin Classics edition. Rubbing to covers with shelf wear around the edges. Corners bumped and covers mildly curved towards fore edges. Slight spine lean with faint reading creases. Binding mildly split in gutters of first few pages, all remain attached however. All pages are clean and unmarked though mildly tanned.
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£11.33
The Canterbury Tales (in contemporary verse by J. U. Nicolson; with the woodcuts of William Caxton)
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 618pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp, tight copy in the publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt. Faux leather spine. All edges gilt. Appears unread.
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£20.23
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. 1966. Reprint. 525 pages. Paperback book with pictorial paper covers. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.
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£3.46
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Folio Society, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1957. 304 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges.
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£4.14
THE CANTERBURY TALES
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey
London: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. George W. Jones. Two volumes, tall quarto (8" x 12-1/2") bound in half cream canvas and decorated gray boards. Illustrated with floriated initials in green and yellow with each page ruled in pale gold on pale gray paper. Copy #397 of 1500 designed, printed, and bound by George W. Jones at The Sign of the Dolphin. SIGNED by the printer on the colophon page. Handsome edition of this classic collection of bawdy tales.
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£151.74
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Oxford Univ. Press, 1985. Soft Cover. Good. Not Ex-Library Copy. Trade Paperback Edition.Good Copy.Binding Is Solid.Text Unmarked.Not Ex-Library Copy.Corners Slightly Bumped.Writing On Front And Back Covers And First Page.
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£2.69
Illustrated Edition (The Canterbury Tales)
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Hardback. Very Good.
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£2.17
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Random House Publishing Group, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.92
The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey; Skeat, Walter W.; Untermeyer, Louis (Introduction)
New York, New York, U. S. A.: Modern Library, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No Edition Or Printing Stated. The Book Is Bound In Green Cloth With Gilt Lettering Within A Black Field On The Front And Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Green. The Book Has Minor Edge Wear And The Dye At The Top Edges Is Faded. The Front Hinge Is Cracked At The Title Page.
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£2.42
The Canterbury Tales: Play (Oxford Playscripts Series)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Paperback. Acceptable.
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£1.66
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin Books, 1957. Paperback. Good. 1957. 527 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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£3.12
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. 528 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.
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£9.84
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey
London: Limited Editions Club, 1939. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase with partial split at bottom edge. Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in quarter white rough natural linen and pale green boards decorated with a coat of arms on the front cover. Chaucer's classic verse romance has been rendered into modern English verse by G. P. Krapp. Designed by George W. Jones who has provided a brilliant two-page title composition using vintage historiated initial...
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£75.91
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin Books, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. Reprinted. 524 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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£3.76
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey
London: Limited Editions Club, 1939. Hardcover. Spine darkened but not terribly so. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase, intact but with some soiling. Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in quarter white rough natural linen and pale green boards decorated with a coat of arms on the front cover. Chaucer's classic verse romance has been rendered into modern English verse by G. P. Krapp. Designed by George W. Jones who has provided a brilliant two-page title composition using vintage historiated initial...
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£65.80
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin Books, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. Reprinted. 525 pages. Pictorial paperback. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Small price sticker to rear cover.
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£2.49
THE CANTERBURY TALES
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1946). Hardcover. Some loss of leather at spine tips and along spine edges. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase with short split along top edge. Arthur Szyk. Large octavo bound in original white morocco-grained sheepskin-backed decorated boards. Designed by George Macy with decorated initials and headings by Charles E. Skaggs and illustrated with full-page color plates by Arthur Szyk. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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£202.33
The Legend of Good Women
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey (edited by Janet Cowen and George Kane)
(East Lansing, Michigan): Colleagues Press, 1995. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 344pp. A fine, crisp copy in about fine dust jacket, just a tinge rubbed. Scarce copy of this Colleagues Press edition.
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£20.23
CANTERBURY TALES
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, : Franklin Library, , 1981. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edition and printing not stated. Decorated endpapers. All edges gilt. Hubbed spine. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey...
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£26.19£23.57
