The Canterbury Tales **RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION**
Language: English
Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1929
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.The Modern Library
AbeBooks seller since July 21, 2021
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 74.03
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**RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION** The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. This is a GORGEOUS FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great typographical dust jacket. Bound in purple balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blind stamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is NEAR FINE. Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching purple topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text. GORGEOUS! The beautiful typographical dust jacket is POOR with most of the spine missing and flaps separated. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 169 titles matching a 1929 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET! This book is part of the Modern Library collection from the Boston Book Company which comprised 1,917 modern library volumes and was used to create A Descriptive Bibliography of The Modern Library: 1917 - 1970 by George M. Andes in 1989. If you see anything else you like in my store let me know before you order as I always offer discounts to repeat customers! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Canterbury Tales **RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION**
- Author
- Chaucer, Geoffrey; Rev. Walter W. Skeat (Editor); Louis Untermeyer (Introduction)
- Publisher
- The Modern Library, New York
- Publication year
- 1929
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Poor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Boston Book Co Collection, Modern Library books
The Modern Library
Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since July 21, 2021
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The Modern Library
OH, U.S.A.
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Tom Maves
1178 Lincoln Rd
Columbus, OH 43212
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202-341-8230
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