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London: Limited Editions Club. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited Edition (this number 458 of only 1,500). Signed by the publisher on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound ivory cloth over green boards, black lettering on spine, black with red detailed coat of arms on cover, frontispiece shows Troilus from an early (circa 1500) Italian engraving in the British Museum, the title page is intricate detailed letters in green and gold, all pages decorated in light square geometric design. Rendered in modern English verse by George Philip Krapp. . Spine slightly faded with a few dark marks, head of spine gently bumped, else tight, square and clean. The cardboard slipcase has some mild shelf-wear and is lightly bumped at corners and edges, with some tiny stains to front. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD (slipcase). . 4to 11" - 13" tall. (xxi), 309 pp .
Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer; Rendered into modern English verse by George Philip Krapp by Chaucer, Geoffrey - 1939
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Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer; Rendered into modern English verse by George Philip Krapp
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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London: Limited Editions Club, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. xxi, [1], 309, [3] p., frontispiece and added elaborate double-page title page; 32 cm. White linen spine with black spine title. Grey paper over boards with black-and-red armorial illustration on the front cover. Grey slipecase with black spine title. This is number 1,439 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies printed for George W. Jones from the Linotype Granjon designed by him at the Fanfare Press, London, and signed by Jones. Book is in Near Fine Condition: spine is lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and crisp. Slipcase is in Very Good Condition: dampstain on top section; otherwise, lightly soiled; solid.
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Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Troilus and Cressida / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; rendered into modern English verse by George Philip Krapp
by Chaucer, Geoffrey (-1400)
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[New York] : Limited Editions Club (London : Fanfare Press), 1939. Limited Editions Club edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth-backed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 309 pages; Description: xxi, 309 p. : 1 ill. ; 33 cm. Subject: Troilus (Legendary character) --Poetry. Cressida (Fictitious character) --Poetry. Trojan War --Poetry. Troy (Extinct city) --Poetry. Notes: Limited edition Number 294 of 1500 copies.
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