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Merton; A Biography
by Monica Furlong
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060630795
- ISBN 13
- 9780060630799
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY : Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980 Harper and Row, Publishers, New York. 1980. Hardcover. 1st Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, has pencil underlining and notations throughout and a F/O name and address on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; small stains to textblock top and bottom. DJ: Good: NOT Price Clipped ($12.95); chipping and missing small pieces at head, tail, and upper tips. Gold cloth boards and spine with bright brown lettering on the spine. 342 pp 8vo. Merton was a dynamic, fully flesh-and-blood modern man who dared to commit himself to a lifelong search for a meaningful and authentic way of life. He managed to combine a unique variety of roles; prolific spiritual writer and poet, monk and hermit, social activist- while living at the Trappist monastery in Kentucky. This book captures the essence of the man, whose ongoing transformation made his life an adventure of discovery. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011761
- Title
- Merton; A Biography
- Author
- Monica Furlong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060630795
- ISBN 13
- 9780060630799
- Publisher
- Harper and Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Merton, Trappist Monk, monk, hermit, poet, spiritual writer, social activist, Catholicism, Eastern mysticism, Zen, Taoism, Vietnam War, racial integration, nuclear threat, psychology, philosophy, religion,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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