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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Adams, Henry
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Spray, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Heritage Press, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Samuel Chamberlain. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the simple blue cloth-over-boards binding, with a bright interior, unmarked, and with plentiful photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, full-page and full-color. Produced to the high standards of the Heritage Press, which used plates from the First Editions Club to make fine literature more broadly available to the American public. Introduction by Frances Henry Taylor. Housed previously in a simple, shelf-worn cardboard slipcase and that has done its job well. 348 pp., and with the Sandglass pamphlet laid in.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Synopsis
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater. As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.
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- Bookseller
- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 353886
- Title
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- Author
- Adams, Henry
- Illustrator
- Samuel Chamberlain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- Large 8vo 9" - 10
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Henry Adams Samuel Chamberlain Mont-Saint-Michel Chartres Cathedral
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