CANTERBURY TALES (in Modern English)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Garden City Publishing Co., 1934
Condition: Good+

This fat 627-page book reprints the Doubleday first edition of this new Modern English translation of the Tales by J.U. Nicolson. There is a full-page Rockwell Kent illustration of each of the tale-tellers. This is the DeLuxe edition with illustrated endpapers. The paper is torn through, exposing the webbing, in the gutter between the rear endpapers, and this is beginning to happen following the half-title page at the front. However, the bulk of the book's binding feels tight. The spine is slightly faded and there is a little rubbing on the covers and some light scratches on the BC. A few page edges are slightly bumped. The pages are mostly white. A nice reading copy of this classic.