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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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Les Chansons De Geste Actes Du Xvi� Congres International De La Societe Rencesvals, Pour L'Etude Des Epopees Romanes, Granada, 21-25 Juillet 2003
by C / J Paredes, Eds Alvar
The Lyrics Of the Red Book Of Ossory / Edited By Richard Leighton Greene
by Richard Leighton, Ed Greene
Weird Tales Vol 30, No 3, September 1937
by H P ; Seabury Quinn, Edmond Hamilton, Clark Ashton Smith Lovecraft
"Sonando Van Sus Nuevas Allent Parte Del Mar"" El ""Cantar De Mio Cid"" Y El Mundo De La Epica
by A Montaner Frutos
The Wandering Scholars the Life and Art Of the Lyric Poets Of the Latin Middle Ages
by Helen Waddell
Parergon Journal Of the Australian and New Zealand Association For Medieval and Early Modern Studies Volume 33, Number 1, 2016
by Anne Scott
Estatutos De La Orden De San Juan De Jerusalen Edicion Critica De Los Manuscritos Occitanos
by M R / R Cierbide, Eds Bonnet
Medieval Literature Books & Ephemera
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....
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420 Characters: Stories
by Lou Beach
Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine bellyband dust jacket/wrap. Contents unmarked. Appears new/unread.
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€11.19
The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Paperback. Good.
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€11.57
Mason & Dixon
by Pynchon, Thomas
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good-. First edition, first printing, 1997. Hardcover 8vo, 773pp. Very Good in VG- dust jacket: previous owner seems to have had some trouble with a tea spill that left some pale staining on the verso of the jacket and splatter mark on the foredge, but it doesn't show through to the front. Name on ffep, else unmarked.
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€14.17
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Panther, 1969. Paperback. Acceptable. 1969. Reprinted. 315 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to first page. Small tears to edge of some pages, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Creasing to spine. Wear marks overall.
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€5.15
The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer : Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library)
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Paperback. Good.
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€1.99
The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, 1913. Three volumes complete - Volume One - x, 235pp, [5]; Volume Two - x, 217pp, [5] and Volume Three - x, 183pp, [5]. Original full vellum in DJ's, gilt title to spines and upper covers, t.e.g. DJ spines faded, with ink number (as issued?) to spines. Hint of foxing to fore-edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean. With thirty-six colour, full-page, tissue-guarded, tipped in illustrations by W. Russell Flint (twelve in each volume) as called...
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€2,842.80
Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
627 pages. A Very Good deluxe first edition of the classic 1934 Rockwell Kent-illustrated Modern English version by John Urban Nicolson.A little age-darkening, hinges just beginning to start, very light corner bumping, but binding otherwise tight and square, all pages clear and intact; no tears, marks, stamps, etc. Possible small water spot top page edge. A very solid and and intact edition of a classic.
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€89.74
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
London: Wordsworth, 1995. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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€4.74
Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard)
by Michael Kimball
First edition, first printing (stated). Softcover 12mo, 162pp. "A collection of miniature biographies, each one squeezed onto the back of a postcard." In Near Fine condition with a touch of shelfwear soil on the rear wrap, but overall a nice copy with crisp, unmarked contents. Mudluscious Novel(la) series. A charming book, hard to find!
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€35.89
The Kingis Quair: Together with A Ballad of Good Counsel: by King James I. of Scotland
by Rev. Walter W. (edited by) Skeat
Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons & rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spines; preceding the poem is a lengthy (55 pages) & erudite introduction by the editor. The Kingis Quair is a fifteenth-century poem attributed to James I of Scotland. It is semi-autobiographical in nature, describing the King's capture by the English in 1406 on his way to France and...
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€148.06
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998. 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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€6.21
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
8-1: Folio Society. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Vol. 1 & 2 .
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€47.37
The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
NY: Golden Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, corners bumped.. 1962. First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated hardcover. A Deluxe Golden Book and special edition of the Canterbury Tales with color illustrations throughout by Gustaf Tenggren. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 140 pages .
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€23.62
Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Hardback. New. These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
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€20.89
Two by Duras
by Marguerite Duras; Alberto Manguel (translator)
First thus. Very Good with light wear to wrappers, but overall a nice copy. Text unmarked.
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€5.90
The Canterbury Tales (Illustrated)
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1988. Tight and unmarked. Sticker scuff to front flyleaf. 483pp. Translated by J. U. Nicolson. Color plates and b&w drawings. Dust jacket lightly rubbed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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€14.17
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin, 1958. Paperback. Very Good. 1958. Reprinted. 521 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. 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 tanning.
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€4.74
The Canterbury Tales (Collins Classics)
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
William Collins, 2020. 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
New York: Heritage, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. Illustrated color plates by Arthur Szyk. Small quarto. Decorative papercovered boards. Tiny tear on rear pastedown, small crease on front fly, near fine in a very good, clear acetate dust jacket with light toning and rubbing. With The Heritage Club Sandglass Number 12J laid in.
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€28.34
The Canterbury Tales
by CHAUCER, GEOFFREY
New York: Modern Library, 1929. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Good. Moderate wear to covers, with a touch of soiling; spine somewhat sunned. Superficial crack at title-page gutter. Previous ownership signature to half-title. Lacking dust jacket. Text otherwise clean and bright. Binding otherwise secure.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. vii, 602 pp. + adverts. Toledano Binding Style No. 5 in plum balloon cloth, with Kent torchbearer device in blind on upper cover, gilt grape-vine to spine; purple Kent...
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€50.06
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Used paperback book with barely any creasing along the spine and almost no rubbing on front and back covers. No writing, notes, or highlighting interferes with the text. Binding is firm and the text is perfectly readable. This is a previous library copy with a stamp on the inside of the front cover and a sticker on the inside of the back cover.
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Standard shipping is via USPS Media Mail. It is a tad slower sometimes, but it is far less expensive. Expedited shipping will be USPS First Class shipping rates.... Read more about this item
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€2.83
The Canterbury Tales (Oxford Illustrated Classics)
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Paperback. Very Good.
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€1.99
