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The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints
by Lamb, Harold
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [1930], 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [6], 4-368, [2] pp. Black cloth with a decoration in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several double-sided plates of black and white images. Jacket design by Keith Henderson. Difficult to find in collectible condition, this is a sharp copy of Lamb's informative history of the Middle Ages' pivotal military conflict. Jacket with a few chips and some toning to its reverse.
Synopsis
At the end of the night of the Dark Ages a multitude of our ancestors left their homes. They started out on what they called the voyage of God..They were marching out of the familiar, known world into Asia to set free with their own hands the Sepulcher of Christ. They wanted to live there, in the promised land, ruled by no king but by the will of God. On the shoulders of their jackets they wore a cross, sewn out of cloth, and because of this they were called the cruciati, or cross-bearers..In this volume is told the story of the first crusaders. It begins with their setting out, and it ends with the death of the last survivor. Eight hundred and thirty-five years have passed since then, and the lives of these men are known to us only the chronicles of their day..Several of these chronicles were written by men who marched with the crusaders, by two chaplains and an unknown soldier. Two other narratives ere finished in Beyond the Sea after the march, and we have the accounts of others who saw the crusaders pass..It is the story of a dozen men, most of them leaders, who started out on that long journey- what they saw on the road, and what they did, and what befell them at the Sepulcher of Christ.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013984
- Title
- The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints
- Author
- Lamb, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [1930]
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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We buy and sell rare and fine books in many fields. Our interests include philosophy, modern first editions, and works of historical or intellectual interest. In addition to bookselling, we regularly do valuations and appraisals for non-IRS purposes. Evening Star Books is a Limited Liability Company.
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