Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 1361 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Arthur Szyk. Near fine with slight wear to leather spine ends. Book has a supplied clear mylar cover. Clean and bright with no markings. Slipcase has wear and chipping at front openings, top strip has been repaired. See photos.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES. Limited Editions Club (1946), New York, 1946.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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. Some loss of leather at spine tips and along spine edges. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase with short split along top edge
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1946.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 550 pp. Quarter white leather over brightly colored patterned boards with matching patterned slipcase. Gilt lettering on spine. #724 of 1500 copies. 24 full-page plates plus a double-page plate of Arthur Szyk's brilliantly colored portraits-in-miniature. The color illustrations are vivid and striking. Done in modern verse by Frank Ernest Hill. Several very small spots on spine where white has flaked off and spine head is lightly sun-toned; otherwise, near fine. Clean square and tight throughout. Slipcase has some wear on top and bottom sides. Size: Tall 8vo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES. Limited Editions Club (1946), New York, 1946.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 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 #1249 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. A few small rubbed spots on the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Nicer than usually found due to the fragile nature of the sheepskin spine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Chaucer, Geoffrey & Szyk, Arthur. THE CANTERBURY TALES. Limited Editions Club, 1946.
Price: US$406.00 + shipping
Description: THE CANTERBURY TALES, Limited Editions Club, 1946, first edition thus, slight wear (flaking off of the white coloring) to the spine edges, modest crease to the head of the spine, else just about fine in white 1/4 leather with full color pictorial boards in like matching color pictorial slip-case. 1/1,500 copies SIGNED by Arthur Szyk with 24 full color illustrations (including the double page frontis/title page).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very good to fine in a near fine slipcase. Signed by the illustrator on limitation page. Leather spine tips are rubbed with two 1/8 inch tears at top of spine. Slipcase has a one inch crease in board paper covering near bottom of spine.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Arthur Szyk, 10.25 x 6.75, white leather backed pict boards, 550 pp, extremities a bit worn, spine browned a bit, hinges loose, contents nice, in lightly extremity-worn slipcase. LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY ARTIST ARTHUR SZYK.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Description: 618 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 360 of 1500 signed by Arthur Szyk in ink with numerous color engraved plates by Pioneer-Moss designed by him. NEWMAN & WICHE 175. Letter press printed by Aldus Printers with decorated initials and headings by Charles E. Skaggs. Orig. half white sheepskin gold stamped with full color paper sides patterned by Szyk. Fine in fine matching slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.