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Good hbk in faded green and brown embossed cloth, gilt. Bookplate on the inside front cover. Front endpaper removed. Cover spine frayed at the top and bottom edges. With illustrations. Includes biographies on Dante, Chaucer, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Sir Thomas More and many others. No publication date or edition statement. 18038. eng
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has some shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Book has some crumpling to boards. ; Aers aims at a literary, critical response which moves from close reading of particular texts (notably Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales) to the relevant contexts, social, theological, ecclesiastical. The reader is thus able to return to the texts with an enriched and sharpened understanding of his world, and an increased appreciation of the literature at the heart of this book. ; 248 pages
Contents include: 17 Essays: George Lyman Kittredge ("On the 'Troilus'" from Seven Types of Ambiguity) ; C. S. Lewis ("What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'") others including: Morton W. Bloomfield; E. Talbot Donaldson, Norman Davis, John Leyerle, and many others. ; 323 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar and taped down to book. ; Contents include: 17 Essays: George Lyman Kittredge ("On the 'Troilus'" from Seven Types of Ambiguity) ; C. S. Lewis ("What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'") others including: Morton W. Bloomfield; E. Talbot Donaldson, Norman Davis, John Leyerle, and many others. ; 323 pages
pp. xi, 229. Tall 8vo. 235mm. Original full blue cloth binding. Spine lettered in gold. Original priced dust jacket, soiled. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. POETRY BX 3
8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Oxford History of English Literature, II. Bennett's classic study was first published in 1947.
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece and plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1957, this is the fullest exegesis to date of Chaucer's famous allegory.
pp. 404, cm 21x14, rilegatura editoriale in t.t.
32 pages. Features: The Loneliest Man in New York - an intimate study of Frank A. Munsey by one of his former newspaper executives; Through the colored glasses of Freudism the doctor looks at Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady - and decides that Freud should be repudiated; Building Good Roads by Gasoline - income from tolls, gas tax and licenses pays for U.S. roads; America's Scattered Children - the American flag flies in Alaska and more than halfway across the Pacific on thousands of islands; 'Bad English' is a Heritage from Olden Times - much of the grammar now classed as incorrect has come down to us by word of mouth from the time of Chaucer and before; Henry Ford's Page - understanding how the public mind moves from interest to disinterest; Editorials - the defeat of Mrs. Ferguson in Texas was actually a repudiation of her husband, Jim Ferguson, corn is a huge commodity, taxes hurt the British whisky-making industry; Voyage of the Victoria - The Passage of the Strait (part 9); The Women of Mexico Awake - they claim freedom which their American sisters enjoy; Pity the Poor Baseball Scout! - he deals in human ivory; Phoning in the Woods - photo-illustrated article on phone lines serving fire-fighting Forest Rangers in Montana; Chats with Office Callers - New Yorker article explains how for three times in a row the writer attended church, only to witness the uplifting of those of another religion; Rare Americana in a Unique Setting - the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Some Vanished Towns of Kansas - cities that died before they had lived/State Capital which could not be found; Interesting tree photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Mm 145x220 Volume nella sua brossura originale, sopracoperta figurata a colori, x-482 pagine. Opera in stato di nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Small scratch to front paper label. ; J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures Seventh Series; 207 pages
Spine is sunned. ; TEAMS Middle English Texts; 10.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 Inche; 200 pages
pp. 208, cm 23x16, paperback edition.
A couple of pages have pencil notes and underlinings. Michael Ondaatje's name to ffep. ; Michael Ondaatje has signed the title page -- his university copy from 1964. Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient". ; 63 pages
320 p. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. Paper slightly browned. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Fine condition. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC W48 BAG 1
[Chaucer Studies Vol XXXVII] Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. 231p. ibliography index Book
Minor Shelfwear; The New Middle Ages; 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.5 Inches; 176 pages; Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at policework of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social and political quality of Chaucer's writings, rathen than artistic merit, that made him the "Father of English Poetry."
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book and inscription on front endpaper. 126 pages, illustrated with cartoons, about fifty pieces with music and lyrics such as: Rolling in the dew, Seventeen come sunday, The trooper and the tailor, Unfortunate miss Bailey, Willie the weaver, The little cabin boy, Let's have another round, I wish I was a single girl, Jennifer gently, the jolly boatswain, Kate and her horns, etc.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full read cloth boards. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. A Modern Library Giant #G54. 1234 pages. Including stories by Chaucer, Dickens, Hardy, Stevenson, Kipling, Wells, Galsworthy, Saki, Maugham, Conrad, Huxley and many more.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to rear, rubbing to ends of sunned spine and very minor bump to lower front corner. Page fore-edges untrimmed. Gilt top of page edges. 86 page intro plus 502pp. Second and Enlarged Edition of Chaucer's minor poems.
8vo., Third Impression thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, decorative endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in EL in 1908. EL 307; Seymour 185.0.
In-8 (cm. 23.40), mezza tela editoriale, custodia illustrata, pp. XXXVIII, (2), 1074, (6). A cura di Vincenzo La Gioia. Introduzione di Piero Boitani. Prima edizione. Testo originale a fronte. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
8vo. First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; faux-vellum blocked in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. First appearance in FS as a single volume. Wright's translation was first published by OUP in 1985, and subsequently by FS in three volumes (with parallel Middle English texts) in the following year. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; oatmeal holland, brown cloth backs lettered in gilt, green tops, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
