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1998UCHATHR01CTEveryman 1998. Very Good. Chaucer Georffrey. Three Tales About Marriage. NP: Everyman 1998. 105pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Everyman paperback books
20052273417Hackett Publishing Company Inc 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First printing. Sticker on rear wrapper front wrapper very faintly creased light smudges to page ridges. 2005 Trade Paperback. vi 348 pp. "Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter more rapid cadence than other translators a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover this translation's full Chaucerian range of diction--from earthy to Latinate--conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. The selection features complete translations of the majority of the stories including all of the more familiar tales and narrative links along with abridgments or summaries of the others. To reflect Chaucer's interest in poetic technique Glaser presents the tales written in non-couplet stanzas in their original forms. An Introduction marginal glosses bibliography and notes are also included. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc paperback books
2274360Appleton Century Crofts 1963. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Lacks jacket boards rubbed. Ink underlining. 1963 Hard Cover. An annotated collection of Chaucer's poetry with helpful information for the reader unfamiliar with middle English. Appleton Century Crofts hardcover books
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19812312594Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Caxton William. Near fine. 1981 Hard Cover. 618 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt decor and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. "The Canterbury Tales Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury2 is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.3 In 1386 Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of the Peace and in 1389 Clerk of the King's Works.4 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 from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. After a long list of works written earlier in his career including Troilus and Criseyde House of Fame and Parliament of Fowls The Canterbury Tales is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time and particularly of the Church. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people was without precedent in English. Although the characters are fictional they still offer a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. Often such insight leads to a variety of discussions and disagreements among people in the 14th century. For example although various social classes are represented in these stories and all of the pilgrims are on a spiritual quest it is apparent that they are more concerned with worldly things than spiritual. Structurally the collection resembles Boccaccio's Decameron which Chaucer may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. It has been suggested that the greatest contribution of The Canterbury Tales to English literature was the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream literature as opposed to French Italian or Latin. English had however been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time and several of Chaucer's contemporaries The Franklin Library hardcover books
1960UMACPAR00EFRandom House 1960. Very Good. Macdonald Dwight editor. Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm - and After. Chaucer Geoffrey; Beerbohm Max. New York: Random House 1960. 574pp. Indexed. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Light stains on text edges. Former owner's name on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with faintly faded spine. Edges are lightly rubbed bumped creased and chipped. Price clipped. Random House hardcover books
1973304869San Marino The Huntington Library 1973. 1973. First edition. 8vo. 12 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 165 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Anderson Ritchie and Simon. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [San Marino] The Huntington Library, 1973. hardcover books
195733317NY: Modern Library 1957. Hardcover. Very good. 642pp; ads. Very good hardback in a price clipped lightly rubbed jacket. <br/><br/> Modern Library hardcover books
1988Embry 174789Henry Holt 1988. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illus. by Reg Cartwright. Henry Holt, 1988. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19601297862New York: Russell & Russell 1960. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover; bound in dark blue cloth gilt lettering; boards have some shelfwear soiling on rear rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges sticker on spine; text block slightly age toned pages uneven on fore edges; volume 1 only; cxliv 504pp. 1297862. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Russell & Russell hardcover books
1992Embry 190157Everyman's Library 1992. Later printing. Fine. Gray cloth no dust jacket. Everyman's Library, 1992. Later printing. hardcover books
19781221New York New York U.S.A.: New York Dodd Mead 1978. 1978. First edition. Small 4to. 16 color plates over 200 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers. Bibliography discography. Dust jacket price clipped. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. New York, Dodd, Mead [1978]. hardcover books
196221551London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1962. Small 8vo pp. 191. Owner's signature on flyleaf o/w a nice copy in little stained and worn dj. Includes a long entroduction notes bibliography and glossary. Originally published in 1598. Thomas Nelson and Sons unknown books
19611319827New York: Golden Press Inc 1961. Hardcover. Large Octavo; pp 139; G/no-DJ; pinkish beige spine with multicolored text; cloth shows modest soiling to exterior; sticker residue to front; sturdy boards; some wear to edges; text block shows slight shelf wear to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; frontispiece; interior clean; profusely illustrated;. 1319827. FP New Rockville Stock. Golden Press, Inc hardcover books
1915001564London: George Routledge and Sons 1915. Undated but circa 1915. Border designs in green and gilt. Top edge gilt. Front cover vignette in gilt. Cover remains bright. Illustrated with 8 full-page photogravures after Gilbert James each with a tissue guard. The story is from "The Clerk's Tale" done into modern English with notes by Walter William Skeat. The illustrations are in black and white quite charming. Pleasant typography with wide page margins. Text and plates are crisp. Some browning of endpapers. Inscription in pencil on front flyleaf dated "Xmas 1915". 93pp. Blue Cloth. Mild Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. George Routledge and Sons Hardcover books
1991Embry 167218Book-of-the-Month Club 1991. Book Club edition. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Book-of-the-Month Club, 1991. Book Club edition. unknown books
19142260635Frederick A. Stokes Company 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Kirk M.L. First edition. Edges and front board lightly rubbed front hinge starting a few pages dog-eared. 1914 Hard Cover. 310 pp. Endpapers illustrated. Includes color illustrations by M.L. Kirk. "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. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
50804Garden City: Garden City Books nd. First printing of this edition. 626 pp. Near fine in full cloth and near fine edgeworn dust jacket with sticker abrasion over printed price. Cover art and illustrations throughout by Rockwell Kent. Garden City: Garden City Books hardcover books
196256093NY:: Golden Press. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Selected and adapted by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Second printing thus. Very good or better in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Golden Press, hardcover books
196146944San Francisco: Troubador Press 1961. First edition. 36 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Free translation by Kamstra illustrated with “cheering drawings†by Michael McCracken. San Francisco: Troubador Press, unknown books
197494608Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1974. Hardcover. In contemporary verse by J. U. Nicolson. Limited edition. Thick octavo bound in dark brown leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine. . Franklin Library, hardcover books
197887915London:: Folio Society. Very Good. 1978. Hardcover. Translated into Modern English by Nevill Coghill. Woodcuts by Edna Whyte. Second impression thus. Near fine in a very good slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1964355Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 1964. vii 247p. dj ex libris. University of Notre Dame Press unknown books
1927WRCLIT52322Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1927. Gilt cloth. First edition fifth printing. Poet/publisher James Laughlin's copy with his early pencil ownership signature occasional pencil underscoring and marginal strikes. Spine a bit darkened corners a trifle rubbed else very good. Harvard University Press hardcover books
2009Embry 195638Viking 2009. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Viking, 2009. First U.S. edition. unknown books
