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English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer
by SCHOFIELD, William Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. A 1906 first edition of a history of English literature. This is the second volume in a 6-part series: History of English Literature. The author was a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. --- In dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signatures to front free endpaper and title page, inked underlinings on several passages in the first 100 pages, chafing to cloth at tail of spine and with a loosened rear hinge which has been carefully repaired prior to this listing.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; xiii, 500 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85878
- Title
- English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer
- Author
- SCHOFIELD, William Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>England, UK and UK History;
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Littleton, Colorado
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