Canterbury Tales Rendered Into Modern English By J. U. Nicolson by Geoffrey Chaucer, J. U. Nicolson - 1934

Garden City Publishing Company, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City Publ Co, 1934-01-01. De Luxe Edition. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable/No Jacket. Cover and page block show soiling and wear.

Garden City Publ Co, 1934. no additional printings listed . Hardcover. very good/good. NOT an ex library book. 627 pages. Dust jacket has 1 1/2" narrow chip top rear, 1/2" top front of spine.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. 627pp. Rendered into modern English by J.U. Nicolson. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated with sepia toned plates by Rockwell Kent. Light dampstain on top page edges that's started to bleed onto margins, good only lacking the dustwrapper.

Garden City: Garden City Books. Bright green cloth with Chaucer by Kent as blind-stamp into front cover and bright gilt spine title. 8 1/2" T all by 6 inches Wide by 1 5/8 inches thick. 1934 date on copyright page with typography by Robert Josephy. Kent illustrates each character in a type of sepia-toned wood-cut or copper-cut plates. The jacket is used but sill looks good or better with light edge wear. it has a publisher price inside on the flap of 2.95. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1934.

Garden City Publishing, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1934. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Rockwell Kent. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. The famed first modern rendition of the work that inspired Margaret Atwood's THE HANDMAID'S TALE. Book is fine, clean and unmarked. The rare dust jacket is very good, wit very small chips to spine edges not affecting title, and a few small amber stain spots to bottom corner not affecting artwork. Scarce in any condition. Archival Mylar cover provided, making this a solid, very attractive copy.

1934. New York, Garden City Publishing, 1934. 24 cm. XVI, 627 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece and portraits, in colour. Original hardcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Frontcover slightly stained. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work.It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.… Read More

Garden City Publishing Company. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips, edge wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1934.

New York: Covici Friede, 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First trade edition. Translated by J.U. Nicolson. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Tall octavo. Slight foxing on page edges else fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling. Prospectus for the book laid in, with "Compliments of R.R. Seely." Scarce in this condition.