The Sign Of Jonas
by Merton, Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. 362 pp. First Edition, 1953. Price clipped. Inked name ffep. Tiny chips to top and bottom edge spine dj with some additional minor edge wear to same. Faintly age-toned bottom text block edge, else Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.5". Brown cloth with gilt stamped device on front board, gilt lettering to spine, and pictorial endpapers. In acetate protector. Subtitled: "The Journal of Thomas Merton" on the dust jacket. " the day by day experiences and meditations of Thoma Merton from the time of 'The Seven Story Mountain.'".
Synopsis
Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005642
- Title
- The Sign Of Jonas
- Author
- Merton, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- RELIGION MEMOIRS MEDITATIONS AND EXPERIENCES JOURNAL ENTRIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY;
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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