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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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1954 The Beautiful and DamnedLondon: 1954A smart copy of this popular novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an important piece of fiction on the glittering Jazz Age in New York City.
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1949 The Last TycoonLondon: 1949The first UK edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's posthumously published final novel, in the exceptionally bright original dust wrapper.
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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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1991-94 The Great Gatsby The Last TycoonLondon: 1991-1994Two excellent Cambridge editions of these staple works of Americana, each edited and with an introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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1973 Bits of ParadiseLondon: 1973A first edition anthology of previously uncollected short stories by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
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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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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.