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Great works of literature, often in their first edition. Classic and familiar stories as well as tales you have never heard before. We go back through four hundred years of storytelling.
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c1900 The Complete Works of Geoffrey ChaucerOxford: c1900A smartly bound collection of the works of English author Geoffrey Chaucer.
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1930 Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done into ProseLondon: 1930The first edition of Eleanor Farjeon's prose rendition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in the publisher's original dust wrapper.
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1958 From an Abandoned WorkLondon: 1958The first edition of this short story by Samuel Beckett, published here for the first time after appearing as a radio story on the BBC.
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1958 The Works of Geoffrey ChaucerCleveland and New York: 1958A large paper facsimile of the striking Kelmscott edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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1992 The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel BeckettLondon: 1992-3Some lovely first editions of Samuel Beckett's theatrical notebooks as issued by Faber and Faber, each volume in its unclipped dust wrapper and housed in the original cardboard slipcases.
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2010 The Complete Canterbury TalesLondon: 2010A modern edition of this classic work of English literature and Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus, an exceptional copy with illustrations reproduced by E Burne-Jones and William Morris.