Chaucer for Music and the Stage

Chaucer Set to Music : 21 Books

Austin, William. Chanticleer: For Mixed Voices. Delaware Water Gap, PA: Harold Flammer, Incorporated, 1973. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Good / No Jacket. Music by Richard Dirksen.

Barab, Seymour, Music. Chanticleer: A Comic Opera in One Act on a Tale By Geoffrey Chaucer. ill. Richards, M.C., Libretto. Boosey and Hawkes, 1964. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Soft Cover. Fine / No. This is the vocal score for the opera.

Bennett, Robert Russell. Three Chaucer Songs (1926): Merciless Beauty for Soprano and String Quartet. Mauricetown, NJ: Maurice River Press, 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 1491123117.

Curnow, James. Canterbury Tales: Music Works, Grade 3. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1991. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Unbound. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 8408823899. Instrumental music loose sheets for various instruments

De Koven, Reginald and Harry B. Smith. Maid Marian: Comic Opera in Three Acts. ill. Smith, Harry B. New York: Edward Schuberth and Co., 1901. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Full-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Front cover very loose but holding.

Dyson, George, trans. Canterbury Pilgrims: Portraits chosen from the Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and set to music for Chorus, Orchestra and Three Soloists (Soprano, Tenor and Baritone). The. London: Oxford U.P., 1931. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Printer Wrapper. Good / No Jacket. Text translated by George Dyson. Soft cover.152 pp. Publishing date of this copy unknown possibly 1931.

Fly, Leslie. Canterbury Tales, The: Nine Miniatures for Pianoforte. Manchester: Forsyth Bros Ltd., 1957. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Good / No.

Fly, Leslie. Canterbury Tales, The: Nine Miniatures for Pianoforte. Manchester: Forsyth Bros Ltd., 1927. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Good / No.

Holland, James Nathaniel. Canterbury Tales: An Opera in Four Acts. San Isidro, Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica: James Nathaniel Holland, 2021. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Printer Wrapper. New / No Jacket. ISBN: 9798459521481.

Kirk, Theron W. Four Old English Carols For Mixed Voices. New York: J. Fisher and Bro., 1954. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Unbound. Very Good / No Jacket. “Fisher Edition No. 8835.”

Raybould, Clarence. Four Songs with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Alfred Lengnick and Co., Ltd., 1948. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Original Wraps. Very Good / No. Green paper wraps Stapled. Contains Merciless Beautee by Chaucer, In the Red April Dawn by W. E. Henley, Crepuscule by H.R. Barbor, and The Flower Girl by Richard Middleton.

Sadie, Stanley, Ed. Musical Times June 1970. London: Novello and Company, Ltd., 1970. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Contains “In Hevene and Helle: Anthem for SATB and Organ. Words by Geoffrey Chaucer. Music by Jeffrey Bishop.

Sadie, Stanley, Ed. Musical Times: June 1965. London: Novello and Company, Ltd., 1965. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Contains “Virelai: Part-song for SATB (unaccompanied Words by Chaucer. Music by Ned Rorem.

Starkie, Martin and Nevill Coghill. Canterbury Tales: Principal Chorus Vocal Book. ill. Hill, Richard and John Hawkins. New York: Musical Theatre International, . 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No. Vocal Chorus book.

Starkie, Martin and Nevill Coghill. Vocal Selections from Canterbury Tales. ill. Hill, Richard and John Hawkins. Boston: Management Three Productions and Frank Productions, 1969. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Very Good / No.

Trimble, Lester. Four Fragments from the Canterbury Tales. New York: C. F. Peters Corporation, 1967. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Good / No Jacket.

Walton, William. Troilus and Cressida: Opera in Three Acts. ill. Hassall, Christopher, Libretto. London: Oxford U P, 1954. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Soft Cover. Good / No Jacket.

Wilkins, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 085991052-0. Brown cloth.

Williams, R. Vaughan. Merciless Beauty: Three Rondels. London: J. Curwen and Sons, Ltd., 1922. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Very Good / No.

Wood Thomas. Chanticleer: A Tale for Singing the Words Derived from The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. London: Stainer and Bell, Ltd., 1947. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Printer Wrapper. Good / No Jacket.

Wood, Carol Lloyd. Chaucer Songbook, The. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 1998. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Spiral Bound. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 078663146-5.

Chaucer dramatized

Ammann, Herman. Canterbury Tale from the Wife of Bath, A: A Comedy in One Act. Schulenbury, Texas: I. E. Clark, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-88680-018-8. White paper cover with red lettering on both front and back. 22 pp.

Betterton, Thomas. Amorous Widow: Or, the Wanton Wife. A Comedy. London: A Bettesworth, T. Astley, W. Frales, 1729. Fourth Edition. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Paper Wraps. Very Good / Good. Original brown paper wraps. 76 pages.

Bumgarner, Burton. Director’s Book: The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Flying Circus. Englewood, CO: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., 2007. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Spiral Bound. Very Good / No Jacket.

Bumgarner, Burton. Canterbury Tales or Geoffrey Chaucer’s Flying Circus, The. Englewood, CO: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., 2007. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket.

Burack, A. S. Plays: The Drama Magazine for Young People. Boston: Plays, Inc., 1963. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. May, 1963 issue. ex library from Gray Library.

Calcutt, David. Death’s Trick. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2002. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0199159262. Play for children based on the Pardoner’s Tale

Chapman, George. May Day from The Plays and Poems of George Chapman. Templeton, CA: William and Geoffrey Press, 2021. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Cloth. Facsimile. Very Good / No Jacket. Red cloth cover. Contains only “May Day.”

Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. New York: Samuel French, Inc, 1982. First Edition. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-573-63023-2. Tan cover with black lettering. 111pp.

Davy, John. Woman’s Will: A Riddle. London: Clementi and Co., 1820. Folio – over 12″ – 15″ tall. Unbound. Poor / No Jacket. Unbound. 28 pages of music and lyrics. The libretto is 79 pages by Edward Lenthal Swifte. London: J. J. Stickdale, 1820.

Dekker, Thomas, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton. Patient Grissil: A Comedy. London: Shakespeare Society, 1841. First Thus. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Brown cloth with blind stamped covers. Gold lettering on spine. Top half of spine broken. Reprinted from the Black-Letter Edition of 1603. Foxing on preliminary and end pages. Uncut. 96 pp.

Drinkwater, John et. Al. Modern Short Plays. ill. Raleigh, Walter. London: U of London Press Ltd, 1931. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Contains Raleigh’s play, “The Riddle” starting on p. 33.

Dryden, John. All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, A Tragedy. London: John Bell, 1776. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good / No Jacket. Part of Bell’s Editions. Rebound in pinkish-purple paper covered boards

Duffield, Brainerd, Trans. Canterbury Tales, The: A Musical Stage Version. Elgin, Illinois: Performance Publishing, 1973. Soft Cover. Good / No Jacket. Yellow cover. 104 pp.

Elvgren, Gillette. Canterbury Tales from The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer: A Stage Adaptation with Music. Virginia Beach, VA: Blue Moon Plays, 2002. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 9781943416165.

Gay, John. Poetical, Dramatic, and Miscellaneous Works of John Gay. London: Edward Jeffrey, 1745. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Full-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Six volumes. Contains the play “The Wife of Bath.” Boards loose but present.

Golisciani E. and E.G. Cottrau. Griselda: Dramma Lirico In Quattro Atti. Napoli, Italy: Societa in Accomandita A. Bellisario, 1889. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Original Wraps. Fair / No Jacket. Grey paper with covers taped on. 35 pp. In Italian. “Rappresenato al Teatro Afieri do Toprino il 25 settembre 1878 e al gran Teatro Reale di Malta il 1st aprile 1880. Traduzione francese di Jules Ruelle; Traduzione inglese di C. Busuttil; Traduzaione tedesca di W. Kuden; Musica di Giulio Cottrau.”

Hatton, Thomas J. What Women Want Most: A One-Act Play Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company, The, 1982. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Blue paper cover. One act play. 24 pp.

Hill, Robert. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. ill. Balbusso, Anna and Elena Balbusso. Black Cat Publishing, 2014. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 9788853014177. Contains unopened CD. Heavily illustrated in full color.

Hollis, Dave. Canterbury Tales Adapted for the Stage, The. Northampton, Great Britain: Jasper Publishing Ltd., 1996. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 1-874009-42-2. 40 pages

Hughes, John. Siege of Damascus, The. London: Jacob Tonson, 1735. Third Edition. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Paper Wraps. Good / No Jacket.

Hurst, Keith. Canterbury Tales. Cheltenham, UK: Nelson Thornes, Ltd., 2001. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Soft Cover. Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-7487-5694-9. 21 pp. Contains in play form, “The Pardoner’s Tale,” :The Friar’s Tale,” The Miller’s Tale,” “The Reeve’s Tale,” “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” and “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”

Jackson, R. Eugene. Canterbury Tale, The. Tallest, Florida: Big Dog Publishing, 2010. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Adapted for the stage. 91 pp.

Johnson, Ben. Ben Jonson’s Sad Shepherd with Waldron’s Continuation. ill. Greg, W. W. Delhi, India: Facsimile Publisher, 2017. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Pictorial Cover. Facsimile. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 8888002099718. Originally published by Louvain in Leipzig and London in 1905.

Krueger, Luke. Canterbury Tales, The: Adapted and Translated By Luke Krueger. Next Stage Press, 2014. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Stapled. New / No Jacket. ISBN: 9781940865140. Tan paper cover, stapled.

Levey, Sivori. Two Knights, The: Adapted from The Canterbury Tales. London: Pilgrimage Play Society, 1921. Folio – over 12″ – 15″ tall. Stapled. Good / No Jacket. First published in 1919.

Linton, W. J. And R. H. Stoddard. English Verse: Dramatic Scenes and Characters. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Half-Leather. Fair / No Jacket. Spine loose. Text block good. Contains the General Prologue. The final -E is marked when pronounced. No indication as to who the editor was.

Linton, W. J. And R. H. Stoddard. English Verse: Translations. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Half-Leather. Fair / No Jacket. Spine loose. Text block good.

Linton, W. J. And R. H. Stoddard. English Verse: Lyrics of the 19th Century . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Half-Leather. Fair / No Jacket. Spine loose. Text block good.

Mackaye, Percy. Canterbury Pilgrims, an Opera in Four Acts, The. ill. De Koven, Reginald. Cincinnati, New York: John Church Company, The, 1917. First Edition. Folio – over 12″ – 15″ tall. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good / No Jacket. from the seller: De Luxe Limited Edition. Oversized hardback: three-quarter black leather with banded spine and gilt title. Tan and off-white marble paper-covered boards with gilt borders. Grey, green, and gold marbled endpapers. Upper pages gilt-edged; others deckle-edged. 436 pp. Very good condition. No dust jacket, as issued. Attractive limited edition of this work premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1917. The libretto was written by noted American dramatist and poet Percy Mackay. The musical score was composed by Reginald De Koven, a pioneer of American light opera. Binding moderately edge worn and rubbed with minor chip from head of spine; somewhat heavier wear at head and tail of spine and corners. Contents clean and bright with beautiful title page in the fashion of a multi-colored illuminated manuscript. Includes photographs of Mackaye, De Koven, Giulio Gatti-Casazza (manager of the Metropolitan Opera), conductor Arthur Bodansky, Edith Mason and other cast of the production. This would be one of the last performances by some of the German members of the Metropolitan Opera Company pictured (Max Bloch, Robert Leonhardt) who would be dropped from the company a year later as enemy aliens during World War I. A scarce piece of American operatic history. ISBN: B00N1G0IHK

Mackaye, Percy, Trans. Canterbury Pilgrims, The: A Comedy. London: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket.

Mills, Ruth. Merchant’s Tale and the Shipman’s Tale, The. Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire: Macmillan Education Limited, 1985. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-333-38383-4.

Olfson, Lewy. Dramatized Classics for Radio-Style Reading. Volume 1. Boston: Plays, Inc., 1964. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Cloth. Good / Good. “Canterbury Tales.” pp. 163-183. A mixture of The Knight’s Tale, Wife of Bath, Chantecleer, and The Pardoner’s Tale to be read “radio-style.”

Pickering, Kenneth. Some Canterbury Tales Adapted From Geoffrey Chaucer. ill. Hyde, Derek — Music. London: Samuel French, Inc, 1988. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-573-08077-1. Orange stapled cover with black lettering and images from Caxton on front and back cover. Contains adaptations of several tales.

Pickering, Kenneth and Michael Herzog. Troilus and Criseye Adapted from Chaucer. Colwall, Worcs, Great Britain: J. Garnet Miller, 1997. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. As New / No Jacket. ISBN: 0853436134.

Price, Lindsay. Canterbury Tales, The. Toronto, Canada: Theatrefolk, 2002. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 1-894870-34-4. Orange cover. Script is designed for high school productions. 77 pp.

Prochaska, Reiner. Canterbury Tales: Love and Marriage New York: Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., 2018. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Trade Paperback. As New / No Jacket. ISBN: 9780881457711.

Raleigh, Walter. Riddle: A Pleasant Pastoral Comedy Adapted from The Wife of Bath’s Tale as it is Set Forth in the works of Master Geoffrey Chaucer. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1895. First Edition. 48mo – over 3″ – 4″ tall. Original Wraps. Fair / No Jacket. “Sewn signature bound in brown paper wrapper which is considerably frayed along the edges. ex library of University of Detroit with usual markings. 26pp. Softcover small 4to. Book plate of Hean and Herb B——–?. Note in French in inside front cover dated 1895.

Raleigh, Walter. Riddle: A Pleasant Pastoral Comedy Adapted from The Wife of Bath’s Tale as it is Set Forth in the works of Master Geoffrey Chaucer. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1912. First Edition. 48mo – over 3″ – 4″ tall. Original Wraps. Near Very Good / Good. “Sewn signature bound in olive green paper wrapper which is considerably frayed along the edges. Otherwise a nice clean copy, unmarked. 26pp. Softcover small 4to with a hand coloured frontispiece illustration.

Riley, Martin. Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2003. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Trade Paperback. Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-19-832063-9. Cover contains a picture of the Ellesmere drawing of the miller. Book contains teaching material in addition to the play. 125 pp.

Robinette, Joseph. Chanticleer and the Fox. Woodstock, Illinois: Dramatic Publishing Company, The, 2009. First Edition. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Stapled. New / No Jacket. ISBN: 1-58342-226-9. “A play in one act for family audiences.” is what it says on the title page.

Robinette, Joseph. Chanticleer and the Fox. Woodstock, Illinois: Dramatic Publishing Company, The, 2009. First Edition. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” Tall. Stapled. New / No Jacket. ISBN: 1-58342-226-9. “A play in one act for family audiences.” is what it says on the title page.

Robinson, Oliver William. Chauntecleer or Chickens Come Home to Roost: A Children’s Operetta in One Act. Chicago: H. T. Fitzsimons Company, 1933. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Yellow-gold paper cover with black lettering on front cover. Images of children dressed in chicken suits on front cover. Blue sticker on “The Art Craft Drama Co., 14329 Faust Avenue. Detroit-Michigan. Plays–Operettas–Entertainment” on front cover. 28 pp.

Rowe, Nicholas. Tamerlane. London: Jacob Tonson, 1735. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Paper Wraps. Good / No Jacket.

Rowe, Nicholas. Ulysses: A Tragedy. London: Jacob Tonson, 1735. First Edition. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Cloth. Good / Near Fine. Rebound in red cloth.

Rowe, Nicholas. Ulysses: A Tragedy. London: Jacob Tonson, 1735. First Edition. 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall. Printer Wrapper. Good / No Jacket.

Scates, E. P. The Canterbury Tales: A Play. Privately Printed, 2005. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. First performed in 2007. 37 pages.

Scates, E. P. Canterbury Tales: The Play, The. San Bernardino, CA: 2007. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. New / No Jacket. ISBN: 9781516972753.

Scott, Dorothy and Diana Scott. Junior Form-Room Plays, Second Series. London: Dent, J. M. And Sons, 1939. First Edition. 24mo – over 5″ – 5¾” tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Purple cloth with gold lettering and design on spine. Signature of “E. L. Moore. May 1939” on inside front cover. ffep stamped “Specimen.” Contains “The Pardoner’s Tale of the Three Men Who Wished to Kill Death.” from Chaucer. 192 pp.

Shay, Frank, Ed. Treasure of Plays for Men, A. Boston: Little, Borwn, and Co., 1923. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Brown boards with lettering on spine faded and unreadable. Contains “The Devil’s Gold: A Dramatization of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale” by Sarah Jefferis Curry.

Shelabarger, Elaine. Pardoner’s Tale, The. London: Macmillan Education, 1978. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Dramascript

Simons, Sarah E. And Clem Irwin Orr. Dramatization: Selections from English Classics Adapted in Dramatic Form. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1918. First Edition. 12mo – over 6¾” – 7¾” tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Green cover with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Picture in gold on front cover. Contains dramatized Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

Smith, Evelyn. Form-Room Plays–Junior Book. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1933. 24mo – over 5″ – 5¾” tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Classic stories rewritten as short plays designed to be performed in classrooms. Part of the Kings Treasures of Literature series. General editor Sir A. T. Quiller Couch. 256 pp. Contains “The Cock and the Fox.”

Smith, Evelyn, Ed. Form-Room Plays–Junior Book. London: Dent, J. M., 1957. 24mo – over 5″ – 5¾” tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Classic stories rewritten as short plays designed to be performed in classrooms. First published in 1920. General editor Sir A. T. Quiller Couch. 256 pp. Contains “The Cock and the Fox” and “The Parlement of Foules.” Signature of “Jackie Atkins” on front and back inside covers.

Sodaro, Craig. Canterbury Tales, The: Adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Poem. Tallahassee, FL: Eldridge Publishing Co., 1999. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Preview copy.

Sperinck. Jim. Canterbury Tales, Panto: A Pantomime, The. Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain: Jasper Publishing Ltd., 1994. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 1874009554. Yellow stapled cover. ex library. Suffolk Libraries.

Spofford, Ainsworth R. And Charles Gibbon. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship, Vol. V, The. Philadelphia: Gebbie and Co., 1890. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Half-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Maroon leather over maroon cloth. 1 1/2″ tear down front spine from the top. Gold lettering on spine and gold design bordering the leather and the cloth on front and back covers. Contains an abbreviated version of “The Knight’s Tale” pp. 133-35. Translator not listed. 384 pp.

Spofford, Ainsworth R. And Charles Gibbon. Library of Choice Literature: Prose and Poetry Selected from the Most Admired Authors, Vol. 2. The. Philadelphia: Gebbie and Co., 1882. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Dark green cloth elaborately stamped on front cover and spine in black and gold. Back cover blind stamped. “Death and the Drunkards” a retelling of “The Pardoner’s Tale” on pp. 237-39. 384 pp. Ex library of Independence School Library. Dedication on ffep. “Given to the Independence high school by the daughters of Maude Durham Purdy who was a member of the first graduating class in 1877.”

Starke, Martin. Canterbury Tales. London: Classic Presentations Ltd., First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Unbound. Manuscript. Fair / No Jacket. Original manuscript for the musical “Canterbury Tales” with production notes through out.

Starkie, Martin and Nevill Coghill. Canterbury Tales Souvenir Program. London: Chanticleer Productions, Ltd., 1968. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Good / No Jacket.

Stewart Anna Bird. Belles of Canterbury, The. Filiquarian Publishing, 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Facsimile. Very Good / No Jacket. Facsimile of the 1912 book published by Samuel French, London.

Strum, Alec. Sputhfield Stories: A Contemporary Take on the Canterbury Tales, The. Englewood Co: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., 2007. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket.

Thomas, Eberle and Barbara Redmond. Six Canterbury Tales. New Orleans: Anchorage Press, 1982. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. New / No Jacket. Orange card stock for cover.

Thomas, Michael. Jankyn’s Gold: A Play Based on some of the Tales of Chaucer. Colchester, Essex, UK: SchoolPlay Productions Ltd., 1997. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Spiral Bound. As New / No Jacket. ISBN: 1902472055. 20 pages. Green cover with white spiral binding.

Van Schuyver, Susan A. Five Tales from Chaucer. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Contemporary Drama Service, 1988. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. A collection of five playlets: The Tale of Chanticleer, The Test, The Miller, The Loathly Lady, The Three Young Men and Death.

Van Schuyver, Susan A. Five Tales from Chaucer. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Contemporary Drama Service, 1988. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Good / No Jacket. A collection of five playlets: The Tale of Chanticleer, The Test, The Miller, The Loathly Lady, The Three Young Men and Death.

Van Wyck, William. In a Garden: a Fantasy; and Other Plays. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Fair / No Jacket. Original typewritten copies of Van Wyck’s plays.

Villemain, M., Ed. Cours De Litterature Francaise. Paris: Didier, 1841. Original Wraps. Good / No Jacket. Original yellow-green wraps. Two volumes.

Wengrow, Arnold. Canterbury Tales: A Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Meriwether Publishing, 1983. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Soft Cover. Fair / No Jacket. Corners curled. Spine broken. 111 pp.

Westmore, Peter. Chanticleer and the Fox: A Musical Play for Children. ill. Hughes, Edward, Music. London: Oxford U P, 1966. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Orange cover with illustrations of Chanticleer and the Fox on the front cover. 30 pp.

Williams, R. Vaughan. Merciless Beauty: Three Rondels. London: J. Curwen and Sonds, Ltd., 1922. First Edition. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Stapled. Very Good / No.

Woods, Phil. Canterbury Tales, the. Leicester, UK: Leicester Haymarket Theater, 1986. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Stapled. Very Good / No Jacket. Theater program for the Leicester Haymarket Theater production in 1986.

Woods, Phil and Michael Bogdanov. Canterbury Tales: Chaucer Made Modern. North Shields, Northumberland: Iron Press, 2000. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-90-6228-43-3. This edition first published in 1980. 71 pp.

Yates, Irene. Pardoner’s Tale and Other Plays, The. ill. Swain, Holly and Anna C. Leplar, and Linda Clark. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1999. First Edition. 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall. Soft Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-435-11602-9. Contains “The Pardoner’s Tale,” “The Scottish Play,” and “The Curse of the Baskervilles.” 70 pp.

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