Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer; Rockwell Kent, illustrations, Gordon Hall Gerould, introduction
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Benson, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: International Collector's Library, 1934. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, offsetting to endpapers. Faux leather binding. Top edge gilt, marker ribbon. Clean and unmarked. In blue and gilt Rafael Palacios Tree of Life binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. From the publisher's description: The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940s through the late 1980s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar Everymans Library (Random House), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford Worlds Classics (Oxford University Press). Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. silk page marker. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.
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Details
- Seller
- The Book Shed (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2002929
- Title
- Canterbury Tales
- Author
- Geoffrey Chaucer; Rockwell Kent, illustrations, Gordon Hall Gerould, introduction
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- International Collector's Library
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
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Benson, Vermont
About The Book Shed
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...