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Heading: (Kent, Rockwell)
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Title: The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Together with a Version in Modern English Verse
Place: New York
Publisher: Covici Friede
Date: 1930
Item # : 207259
Sale Number   426
Lot Number   16
Sale Name    
Fine Books in All Fields - Wizard of Oz - Illustrated Books - Fine Printing
Sale Date   04/15/2010
Price realized   $ 300
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Description:
2 volumes. Illustrated with woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. (Folio) 15x10, tan linen, front covers lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, slipcase. No. 995 of 923 copies on Number Two Rag, designed and printed by Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs at the Stratford Press. Total limitation of 999 including those numbered 1-75 on Crane's Olde Book.
Signed by Rockwell Kent in colophon. Paper spine labels applied.
Condition:
Slipcase a touch smudged; volume spine ends and a few corners a touch frayed; very good.
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