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1996Eleven very well illustrated chapters, each written by an expert in the field, highlight the developments of the Late Middle Ages (c.1200-1500) This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
1969The history of the Valentine card. 144 pages. Book is accompanied by an amount of ephemera on the subject collected by a previous owner. Dust jacket with extensive and horrible tape repair to tears around the edges.
1969The history of the Valentine card. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket with some small tears around the edges.
1969The development of the English sentence from Caxton to Johnson. 242 pages. Index. Blue buckram covers, gilt title on spine. Scratch to back of dust jacket, also an indentation to dust jacket and back cover. Several marks on page fore-edges.
1972Large format: 9 3/4"w x 13"h. Edge wear and tears to dust jackets. Age-toned paper, loosely bound in a "newspaper" format. Three volume set: Volume One, In the Days of the Bible, From Abraham to Ezra, 1726-444 BCE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Two, Second Temple/Rise of Christianity, From the Maccabees to Spanish Jewry's Golden Age, 165 BCE - 1038 CE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Three, The Dawn of Redemption, From the Crusades to Herzl's Vision of the Jewish State, 1099-1897 [First Edition, 1972]. "Using the vehicle of modern journalism, the publishers and editors of Chronicles have endeavored to draw, in vibrant, living terms, a composite picture of the life of our forefathers as they lived it, in all its drama and all its simplicity, its joys and its tragedies, its hope and disappointments."
1972Large format: 9 3/4"w x 13"h. Edge wear and tears to dust jackets. Age-toned paper, loosely bound in a "newspaper" format. Three volume set: Volume One, In the Days of the Bible, From Abraham to Ezra, 1726-444 BCE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Two, Second Temple/Rise of Christianity, From the Maccabees to Spanish Jewry's Golden Age, 165 BCE - 1038 CE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Three, The Dawn of Redemption, From the Crusades to Herzl's Vision of the Jewish State, 1099-1897 [First Edition, 1972]. "Using the vehicle of modern journalism, the publishers and editors of Chronicles have endeavored to draw, in vibrant, living terms, a composite picture of the life of our forefathers as they lived it, in all its drama and all its simplicity, its joys and its tragedies, its hope and disappointments."
1940A 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.
1969Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sections include: Job, The Mahabharata, The Kalevala, Sappho, Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Euripides, Plato, The trial and death of Socrates, The Republic, Lucretius, Chaucer, Tu Fu, Poems, Ben Jonson, Folpone, Casanova, History of my life, Walt Whitman, Tolstoy, Rimbaud, etc.
1963Book 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.
1989Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 197 pages. Contents include: Role of the pilgrim, Shape of performance, Substance of the game, Social base of angry speech in Chaucer's London, Insult strategies fo the pilgrims, License to lie: the Churls' rhetoric of fiction, Gentil folk: back to court
1885320 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
1929pp. vii, 602, (6) [Publisher's catalogue]. 180mm. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Very good. CLASSICS BX 3
1906pp. viii, 298, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. 8vo. 200mm. Original full purple cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. Extremities very slightly rubbed. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Chaucer scholar Robert Kilburn Root (1877-1950), first came to Princeton in the spring of 1905, and stayed until his death. POETRY BX 3
1958pp. 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
1977pp. ix, 328, x [Index]. Illustrated by J. Wolf. Decorated title page. 245mm. Original full cloth binding lettered in gold. Fourth printing. Hardbound. Very good. BIO BX 2
1916pp. xi, 442. Double column. Large 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered spine. Front board slightly dust spotted. Hardbound. POETRY2 BOX 1
197540p. Numerous illustrations. Small folio. Original green cloth binding. XLib. REF9
1932136p. Bold full page woodcuts printed in red. 8vo. Original vellumized backed paper boards. Spine soiled. Number 206 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies privately printed for Subscribers. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! EROS1
1934pp. xxii, 330; 670 (2) + Frontis. Color floriated initials. Each page set within a light ruled frame. Small folio. Designed, printed, and bound (in quarter cream linen, brown paper sides with Chaucer's arms in color) by George W. Jones, at the Sign of the Dolphin; set in Linotype Granjon; on Malling Mills Special paper. Slipcase shows some soiling and wear. Number 1465 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by Jones. A handsomely produced edition, of these immortal bawdy and satirical tales. *PRICE JUST REDUCED! W37/44
192632 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
2000No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 138pp. Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale plus a fifteen page Glossary of his words.
1977328p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1973312p., illus. by J. Wolf. Hardcover Very good condition good
1932Previous owner's neat name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering to spine, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 772pp. Chaucer's tales and his poetry, in one volume.
1896No 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.