Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930 Nineteenth impression February, 1930. 4to 10 1/2" tall. Brown boards and cloth stamped in gilt on spine. xiv, 401 pages plus 12 full plate B&W photo illustrations printed on slick paper. Color frontispiece. Intro by Ralph Adams Cram. 16 chapters. Index. Top page edges in gilt. Foredges and bottom page edges ununtrimmed and several page have been cut open roughly. Clean new looking spine. no jacket. Some wear at cover tips. Small previous owner's name on flyleaf otherwise a very clean text. Tightly bound. no jacket. Good or better condition..

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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: Cultural Connection (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 022054
Title: Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Author: Adams, Henry
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston and New York
Date Published: 1930
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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....