The Canterbury Tales **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!**

Chaucer, Geoffrey; Rev. Walter W. Skeat (Editor); Louis Untermeyer (Introduction)

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1929

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**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**.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Canterbury Tales **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!**
• Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1929
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine