![]() ![]() It was an edition of The Canterbury Tales in a brightly-colored, illustrated paper dust-jacket, published by Blackie & Son of London and Glasgow ( ©1966), which originally sold for 45 pence as a new book, the equivalent of a little over $1 - or roughly about £9 and $11, respectively, at today’s exchange rate, the British pound having declined in value from about $2.40 to $1.25 between 19. The other day I spotted an interesting-looking book on the shelves of the Princeton Public Library’s ongoing “Friends of the Library” book sale (which prices most books at $1 or $2, just the right price to snare a casual browser!). The Canterbury Tales : brightly-colored, color-printed dust jacket of Blackie & Son’s edition for children from their “Stories Old & New” series (©1966). ![]()
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