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The Canterbury Tales

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.... Read more about this item
Kapow!

Kapow!

by Adam Thirlwell

Medieval Miscellany

Medieval Miscellany

by Judith Herrin

Under the Syrian Sun

Under the Syrian Sun

by A C Inchbold

Arno Schmidt

Arno Schmidt

by Arno Schmidt

Pharsalia

Pharsalia

by Lucan

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Weird Tales Vol 30, No 3, September 1937

by H P ; Seabury Quinn, Edmond Hamilton, Clark Ashton Smith Lovecraft

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Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis

by Decima L and Farmer, David Hugh Douie

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.... Read more about this item
Le Morte D\'Arthur

Le Morte D'Arthur

by Malory, Sir Thomas

Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

by Chaucer, Geoffrey:

.- London. 1986. Penguin Books. 18x11 cm. 1 tomo. 526 pgs.. Con fotografías. Rústica editorial . Buen estado. . . ISBN 13: 9780140440225.
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£5.19
The Canterbury Tales

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

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

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
Benedict Arnold Patriot and Traitor

Benedict Arnold Patriot and Traitor

by Randall, Willard Sterne

New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Book Club Edition; First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 667 pages; Mylar Cover on dust jacket, Dust Jacket clean, Book Show Little Wear, Illustrated with Photographs and maps. Text is clean no markings seen .
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£24.63
The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Paperback. Good.
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£1.45
Lays of Courtly Love in Verse Translation

Lays of Courtly Love in Verse Translation

by Patricia Terry (foreword by Charles W. Dunn)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. VERY GOOD. 18 cm.. Spine is tanned. Doubleday Anchor A360. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£8.04
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Paperback. Very Good.
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£6.95
Canterbury Tales

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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£7.39
Illustrated Edition (The Canterbury Tales)

Illustrated Edition (The Canterbury Tales)

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Hardback. Very Good.
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£2.17
The Canterbury Tales

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
The Canterbury Tales

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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£2.41
The Canterbury Tales

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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£11.31
Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales

by Mackaye, Percy; Chaucer, Geoffrey

Random House Value Publishing, 1987. Hardcover. 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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£5.91
The Canterbury Tales (in contemporary verse by J. U. Nicolson; with the woodcuts of William Caxton)

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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£20.19
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd

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
The Legend of Good Women

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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£20.19
The Canterbury Tales

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
Cynewulf's Elene

Cynewulf's Elene

by Cynewulf (edited by P.O.E. Gradon)

London: Methuen, 1966. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 19 cm.. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Spine and edges of covers are sunned. 114 pages. Methuen's Old English Library. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£12.07
The Canterbury Tales

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
The Vision And Creed Of Piers Ploughman. Edited, from a Contemporary Manuscript with Historical Introduction Notes and a Glossary (2 volume set)

The Vision And Creed Of Piers Ploughman. Edited, from a Contemporary Manuscript with Historical Introduction Notes and a Glossary (2 volume set)

by William Langland (edited by Thomas Wright)

London: Reeves and Turner, 1883. Second and revised edition. Hardcover. GOOD. 18 cm.. Burgundy cloth with blindstamp decoration to front cover, gilt titles to spine. Pages untrimmed, and some remain uncut. Fold-out frontispiece in Volume I. Lower corners bumped. Hinges cracked. Pages tanned. Marginalia in pencil on several pages. Back cover of Volume II has a faint water stain with some wrinkling. 621 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship... Read more about this item
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£26.25
The Canterbury Tales

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 Adventures Of Hershel Of Ostropol

The Adventures Of Hershel Of Ostropol

by Kimmel, Eric A. (As Retold)

New York: Holiday House. Good. 1995. no stated edtion. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 64 pages; Bright red cloth quarter spine with blue boards very lightly rubbed at edges. One slightly soiled spot at front cover. Text pages clean and tight. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. .
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£10.90
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

by CHAUCER, Geoffrey

London: Folio Society, 2008. Folio. 768 pp. Numerous illustrations. Bound in full goatskin by G. Lachenmaier with Fabriano Tiziano endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine copy. Cloth clamshell box. Facsimile Edition printed by Memminger Medien Centrum on Corolla Classic watermark laid paper. Limited to 1980 numbered copies. This being # 691 Accompanying folio text in quarter cloth entitled: The Golden Cockerel Press, The Canterbury Tales & Eric Gill. An Essay by Peter Holliday. Folio. 48 pp. illustrations.... Read more about this item
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£500.00