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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. CANTERBURY TALES. INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORâS LIBRARY, USA, 1934.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: USA: INTERNATIONAL COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY, 1934. LIMITED EDITION. GOOD+/NO JACKET. USA: INTERNATIONAL COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY, 1934. LIMITED EDITION. GOOD+/NO JACKET. USA: INTERNATIONAL COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY, 1934. LIMITED EDITION. GOOD+/NO JACKET. International Collector's Library, Garden City, New York, 1934. Limited edition reprint, Hardcover. Book Condition: good, not remaindered or book club or library, unmarked,
Seller: MySEAbooks, Harlingen, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First trade edition, preceded by a limited edition. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Gutter cracked, small dampstain on bottom page and board corners, cloth soiled with spine and edges age-toned, good only lacking the scarce dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Limited Ediitions Club, London, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 671 pp. This is a two volume set of The Canterbury Tales rendered into Modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. Both volumes are ivory cloth with brown paper and feature a coat of arms printed on each cover. Both volumes have browning on the outer spine. The first volume has a small brown spot on the cover. The pages in both volumes are clean and bright. The second volume is signed by the printer, George W. Jones. This set is number 718 out of a limited printing of 1,500 copies. The set comes in a fair to good slipcase with peeling paper and exposed cloth at the top and bottom edges. The first volume has a frontispiece that depicts a bust of Chaucer from the Guildhall Library. A lovely edition of Chaucer's classic tales. Size: 7 3/4" x 12 1/4"
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition, preceded by a limited edition. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Near fine in a fair only internally repaired dustwrapper with significant toning and chipping.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set in original, very lightly chipped slipcase. Limited edition, 318 of 1500 copies, signed by the printer, George W. Jones.
Seller: Benjamin Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: "SAMPLES" A BOOK CONTAINING FINE ILLUSTRATIONS AND FINE PAGES FROM THE BOOKS TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB IN ITS SIXTH SERIES, Limited Editions Club, 1934, first edition, an advance look at the books to be published in 1934, near fine in spiral bound wraps with fine contents consisting of Hervey Allens preface and the title pages, two pages of text and one page of production details for the 1934 publications of: THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON; A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS by Charles Dickens with a full color illustration by Gordon Ross); GREEN MANSIONS - A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST by W.H. Hudson (with a full color illustration by Edward A. Wilson); THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer; SLOVENLY PETER (DER STRUWWELPETER) by Heinrich Hoffman translated by Mark Twain with 3 full color illustrations by Fritz Kredel); UTOPIA written in Latin by Sir Thomas More and done into English by Ralph Robynson; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE by Lewis Carroll (with 2 illustrations by John Tenniel); THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN by Laurence Sterne ( with a 2 color illustration by T.M. Cleland); TYPEE - A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS by Herman Melville (with 2 full color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias); THE VOICE OF THE CITY AND OTHER STORIES by O. Henry (with 2 full color illustrations by George Grosz); THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with 2 full color illustrations by Valenti Angel) and ULYSSES by James Joyce with one illustration by Henri Matisse).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$146.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 vols. xxii,330pp. /331pp.-670pp. The frontispiece to this edition of The Canterbury Tales, a reproduction of the Frampton marble bust of Chaucer in the Guildhall Library, is from a pencil drawing by Dorothy Woollard. The Chaucer Signature is re-cut from the only one known, which is in The Public Record Office, London. Of this book fifteen hundred copies have been printed for the Members of The Limited Edition Club. This is copy number 915. Signed for its owner by the printer. 32.5x20.5cm. Gray boards backed in white cloth. Fore & lower edges untrimmed. With slip case somewhat stained & rubbed at corners. Spine foxed. Edges foxed & somewhat spotted. E.ps. & flyleaves spotted. Some pages sl.spotted. Vol.II ; Book shop label on front e.p. [01848-101921]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. Garden City Publishing Company, 1934.
Price: US$149.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus [first published in limited edition by Covici-Friede, New York, 1930]. Beautifully illustrated by ROCKWELL KENT. Rendered into modern English by J.U. Nicolson. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Initial price intact ($4.95). Protected in an archival wrapper. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Fine in a Fine DJ.
Seller: Ironwood Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Geoffrey Chaucer. CANTERBURY TALES. Limited Editions Club, 1934.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1934 Limited Editions Club 2 volume set missing the glassine jackets and slipcase. #513 of 1500 signed by the printer George Jones. E71 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES. Limited Editions Club, London, 1934.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: 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. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Number 1433 of 1500 signed by the Printer, George W. Jones of The Sign of the Dolphin Press. [i]-xxii, 1-330 pp.; [i-vi], 331-670 pp. [2]. Signed and numbered by the printer on colophon. 2 vols. Folio. Bound in quarter cream canvas with illustrated gray boards, black text on spines that have some toning. Double page titles in each volume, early ownership in ink on fep of both, frontispiece of Chaucer at in Volume 1, with ruled pages and colored initials at the beginning of each tale. In publisher's slipcase with illustrated titles on spine, slight bump at foot of slipcase, else a very good set [i]-xxii, 1-330 pp.; [i-vi], 331-670 pp. [2]. Signed and numbered by the printer on colophon. 2 vols. Folio Number 1433 of 1500 signed by the Printer, George W. Jones of The Sign of the Dolphin Press.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$367.50 + shipping
Description: Two vols., 4tos, linen-backed boards. One of 1500 numbered copies printed for the L.E.C. by George W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin, the entire edition signed by the printer. Fine in torn glassine jackets and original slipcase
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.