Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Adams, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Fair Slipcase
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
The Limited Editions Club printed only 1500 copies of this book, of which this is #651. The book is in excellent condition while the slipcase is good but has experienced somewhat unprofessional repairs with clear tape. There is a former owner's bookplate inside.
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 exuberanceand puckish witto his writings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Desert Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1554
- Title
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- Author
- Adams, Henry
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover bound in grey cloth with black label and gold lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair Slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition #651 of 1500
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club; publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 349 pages
- Size
- 7in x 10in
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- michel chartres
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Literature;
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- Bookplate
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