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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Seller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White

United States
About Item: New York, NY: American Book Company, 1898 American Book Company, New York. c1898. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to tips; small mottling patch at head; light soiling to boards. No DJ. Brown cloth over boards with dark brown lettering on the spine; brown lettering and decorations on front board. Clean internals; interior hinges are sound and not split. 150 pp 16mo. Geoffrey Chaucer was a great epic poet of the 1300s who is buried in Westminster Abbey, and is recognized today as the father of English literature. The General Prologue is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury agree to take part in a storytelling competition, and describes the pilgrims themselves. The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Chaucer's magnum opus, The Canterbury Tales. The Knight is described by Chaucer in… Read More
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