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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
de ADAMS, Henry
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. The erudite Henry Adams (1838-1918) takes the reader on a guided tour of Mont-Saint-Michel, Chartres and other historic sites in northern France in a deluxe leatherbound reprint edition by the Franklin Library. The author was the great-grandson of President John Adams and grandson of Pres. John Quincy Adams. With illustrations by Gonzalo Fonseca. Issued as part of the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is included. --- Bound in full maroon bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges (AEG) all in bright gilt. Leaves made from high-quality papers. Maroon silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about Near Fine copy: tightly-bound, bright and newish, though with mild scratching to textblock fore-edge gilding and 3 shallow indentations to front cover fore-edge.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xvi, 367 pages .
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Bluebird Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 88206
- Título
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
- Autor
- ADAMS, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Franklin Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Fecha de publicación
- 1978
- Catálogos del vendedor
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