New York: Julian Messner, 1960. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 246 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with rubbing at the edges, head and tail of spine with minor tears, a bit fading to the color of the jacket, otherwise very good copy.

First edition. Di Donato's third novel, published ten years after his highly acclaimed book, Christ in Concrete. In this three Circles of Light Di Donato revisits his childhood and his awakening as a young man, both in terms of his sexuality and growing responsibilities to his mother and family. Of the novel Ben Hecht wrote, Three Circles of Light is a beautiful book. Life seems worth living after its reading.

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Bookseller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 937
Title: Three Circles of Light
Author: Di Donato, Pietro
Book Condition: Used
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Publisher: Julian Messner
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1960

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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...
Publisher's cloth: A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
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...
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....