Author: HOWARD, DONALD R.
Title: Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 052524400X. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Donald Howard's biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) brings together, per the jacket flap, ".Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." With a section of gloss plates bearing illustrations from Chaucer's time, as well as maps of England and Europe to endpapers. --- In terra cotta paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth with decorations and titling in gilt to spine. Volume wrapped in jacket with color portrait of Chaucer to front panel. --- With mild dampstains to corners of a few leaves, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket ($29.95) with minor wrinkling and rubbing, else bright and intact. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xix, 636 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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