Verlag: Covici-Friede, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Kent, Rockwell (illustrator). First edition thus. Two volumes, large 4tos, 529pp; original natural linen stamped in gilt, t.e.g. One of 924 numbered copies on Worthy (there were another 75 on Crane's Olde Book paper), designed and printed by Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs at the Stratford Press and signed at the colophon by the illustrator Kent. Among the more ambitious works in Kent's long career, including 25 full-page two color woodcuts, reproduced by the Knudsen process of halftone lithography, along with dozens of decorative head- and tailpieces. Spines and edges of cloth covers slightly toned, few marks, very good copies in specially made card slipcases.
Verlag: Covici, Freide
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 1930. Cloth, folio, 530 pp. (in 2 volumes), illustrated. Original and modern versions in parallel columns. Slipcased. Light rubbing and a little soiling to buckram binding; internally very sound and clean. #766 of 999 copies printed at the Stratford Press.
Verlag: Garden City Publishing Company, Garden City, 1934
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint (stated "Deluxe Edition"). Translated by J.U. Nicolson. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Thick octavo. Gift inscription, corners a little bumped, near fine in a well-worn but sound good dust jacket.
Verlag: Garden City Publishing, Garden City, 1934
Anbieter: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, Frankreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Kent, Rockwell (illustrator). Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. tan cloth, labels on spine and front cover, black and blindstamped lettering and design, no dust jacket, 625 pp cover are lightly worn a number written in back ink on the bottom of the spine covers are slightly loose Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Verlag: Covici Friede, New York, 1934
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First trade edition. Translated by J.U. Nicolson. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Tall octavo. Slight foxing on page edges else fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling. Prospectus for the book laid in, with "Compliments of R.R. Seely." Scarce in this condition.
Verlag: Garden City Publishing Company., New York, 1934
Anbieter: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Full red cloth boards. Upper lettered in blind with mounted illustration in gilt border. Spine with paper title label. Pictorial pasted and free endpapers. No dust jacket. , Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s ? 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature" and was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets? Corner in Westminster Abbey. Rockwell Kent (1882 ? 1971) was a prominent American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. , Size : Quarto.(235 x 155 mm), Very good example of this De Luxe Edition of Chaucer?s famous work, illustrated with many plates by noted American illustrator Rockwell Kent. , 627 pp. Light toning, shelfwear, occasional pencil notations.