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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Tight clean book in tidy dust jacket with just light shelfwear. In green cloth with titles in central black rectangle. ; Modern Library; Vol. 161; 642 pages.
Published by New York: The Modern Library Publishers. First Modern Library Edition, 1929., 1929
Seller: Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE SURVIVING COPY OF VERY FAMOUS STORY. BOOK: Bright Blue Balloon Cloth; Spine 5; Gold grapevine with title on slightly faded spine; Blue top-stain; Green Kent Endpapers with short tear on side seam of FFEP and three pages (See 2454_4). DJ is covered in mylar; Light green with blue tirim; front flap is worn thru; tanning on spine; 169 titles listed at back (see scans). SUMMARY: A group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England.
Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1929
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!** The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great typographical dust jacket. Bound in purple balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching purple topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text besides Sold at Retail by Macy's stamped on title page. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED IN NEW BOOKSTORE CONDITION!! The beautiful typographical dust jacket is NEAR FINE with slightest of chipping at extremities. Extremely clean and bright with slight spine darkening but still beautiful which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 169 titles matching a 1929 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.