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1973154702San Francisco: Bellerophon Books 1973. Staple Bound. Very Good. Staple-bound book. 8 1/2""w x 10 3/4""h. Approx. 50 pages. Adult coloring book with black and white drawings by Gregory Irons who drew posters for Jefferson Airplane and the Fillmore Auditorium as well as many comics. Keywords: Canterbury Tales Adult Coloring Book Counterculture San Francisco Bellerophon Books Comics Jefferson Airplane Fillmore Auditorium Bellerophon Books unknown
1999Q-0192741810Oxford University Press 1999-05-13. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press paperback
19749026195Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1974. Hardcover. Fine. In contemporary verse by J. U. Nicolson. With illustrations derived from the Ellesmere manuscript. Published exclusively for subscribers to the Franklin Library collection : The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Bound in the publisher's original brown composition leather spine stamped in gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Franklin Library hardcover
1934P-23728New York: Covici-Friede 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 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. Covici-Friede hardcover
1977Q-0140150811Penguin Classics 1977-05-26. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1997Q-0140380531Puffin Books 1997-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Puffin Books paperback
1983Q-0140444084Penguin Classics 1983-08-25. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1971Q-0140442391Penguin Classics 1971-04-30. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1998Q-0192781235Oxford University Press 1998-04-02. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press paperback
1955125010Maryland: Penguin Classics 1955. First Edition; Sixth Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. Rubbing along panel/spine edges. Light shelf wera on front/rear panels. Penguin Classics unknown
1990Q-0460870270Everyman's Paperbacks 1990-07-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Everyman's Paperbacks paperback
1998Q-019283360XOxford University Press 1998-07-09. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press paperback
1995Q-0312111282Bedford/St. Martin's 1995-12-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bedford/St. Martin's paperback
2000Q-0395978238Cengage Learning 2000-04-13. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cengage Learning paperback
1992x-041500134XRoutledge 1992. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. Routledge paperback
1995Q-9626340444Naxos Audio Books 1995-09-01. Audio CD. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Naxos Audio Books unknown
1964mon0002592524Thomas Nelson 1964-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Moderate shelfwear and/or minor creases. Pages clean and intact. Thomas Nelson hardcover
192834945London: The Medici Society 1929. January 1928. Hardcover. Used - Good. Worn copy but clean and intact. BLACK COVER. Illustrations after by W. Russell Flint. Color plates. Previous owner sticker inside cover. Pencil mark to front flyleaf. London: The Medici Society, 1929. hardcover
1934980358Garden City Books. Very Good. 1934. Three-Quarter Leather. Very nice green leather over green cloth. Gilt decoration titles and top page edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 627 pages . Garden City Books hardcover
1969014015Chicago: The Great Books Foundation. Complete set. All volumes appear to be unread copies. Slipcase has edge wear. V11 . Near Fine. Soft cover. Third Printing. 1969. The Great Books Foundation paperback
1977Q-0140044523Penguin Books 1977-09-29. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
1937187105New York: P. F. Collier & Son 1937. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. All volumes Very Good in boards. Corners lightly bumped. Vol. I spine crown chipped. ; The Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books. P. F. Collier & Son hardcover
193444649AB1934. 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 17000 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. 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 Giovanni Boccaccio's The 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 contemporariesJohn Gower William Langland the Pearl Poet and Julian of Norwichalso wrote major literary works in English. It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference. While Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine. Chaucer was a courtier leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility. The Canterbury Tales is generally thought to have been incomplete at the end of Chaucer's life. In the General Prologue some 30 pilgrims are introduced. According to the Prologue Chaucer's intention was to write four stories from the perspective of each pilgrim two each on the way to and from their ultimate destination St. Thomas Becket's shrine making for a total of about 120 stories. Although perhaps incomplete The Canterbury Tales is revered as one of the most important works in English literature. It is also open to a wide range of interpretations. Wikipedia hardcover
196543201AB1965. London Centaur Press Ltd. 1965. Octavo. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. hardcover
1994Q-0679601252Modern Library 1994-11-15. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Modern Library hardcover
