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Show "CANTERBURY J TALES" BRINGSSSS.OOO AT SALE Now York, Jan. 11. -A Caxlon cdi-liou cdi-liou of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales ' dated 1477, which was tho fourth or fifth book printed-in England. broiigbA $5,000, fhc highest bid for any book at oda's session of tho Hoc Library Li-brary auction. George D. Smith of this cltv bought the book. Wni M. H.H of Chicago, paid .$1.S50 for a Cnesnr printed in Rome In 1409 and Julius Soudhelm, a Gorman dealer, deal-er, pai.l $1,000 for copy 0f Qicqro'B "Epistles to Brutus' printed In 1470. Today's bids nmoiuued in all to $31,-202 |