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Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer; Rockwell Kent, illustrations, Gordon Hall Gerould, introduction

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  • Hardcover
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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 1940’s through the late 1980’s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar Everyman’s Library (Random House), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford World’s 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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Seller
The Book Shed US (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

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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...
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