The Unconquered Knight: A Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Nino by De Gamez, Gutierre Diaz - 1928

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

George Routledge and Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription and clipping to front free endpaper. Newspaper clipping stuck to rear free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to spine and boards.

Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. Hardcover. xv, 232p., illustrated from period artwork nicely reproduced in b&w photogravure, hardbound in 9x6 inch ribbed red cloth boards with printed paper spine label in red & black, textblock left untrimmed to nice effect.. Label is rumpled with a splash stain, top and tail rims of the casing are a bit crimped, the foredge of one unopened leaf is slightly torn, an else excellent copy. Broadway Medieval Libraryù.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Ink signature and date, some shelf wear, faded spine, lightly bumped corners else very good condition with text clean and binding sound without dust jacket. 232pp., illus.

UK: The Boydell Press, 2004. Soft cover. As New. 14 x 1.3 x 21.6 cm. P/B 232 pages, condition is As New. Gutierre Diaz de Gamez entered the service of Pero Niño, count of Buelna, in 1402, when they were both about 23, and served as head of his military household for nearly fifty years. He began a chronicle of his master's deeds in about 1431, and it is this eyewitness account of the life of a knight, both in war and peace, which is translated here. It is written in praise of his master, but beneath the veneer of hero-worship a good deal of the reality of a knight's existence shows through: even in the prologue, Diaz de Gamez gives a bitter picture of the hardships of a military campaign: 'Knights who are at the wars eat their bread in sorrow; their ease in weariness and sweat... Mouldy bread or biscuit, meat cooked or uncooked, water from a pond or a butt, poor sleep with their armour still on their backs, the enemy an arrow-shot off...' On the other hand, he can evoke the… Read More

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.