Vintage Find of the Day: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a new modern English prose translation by R.M. Lumiansky, 1948.

This quote by one of my favorite writers graces the first page:

“…If I dare to wish for genius, I would ask for the grace to write The Canterbury Tales…” - Aldous Huxley

Between its vibrant covers, the book’s 382 pages are wonderfully crisp, aged to a warm orange at the edges. It also comes complete with the previous owner’s neat signature, plenty of handwritten notes in the margins and numerous underlined passages. Be still my heart…I have not read this since high school. I am very excited to revisit it.

$1 at the Raleigh flea market