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The Crusades: the Flame of Islam
by Lamb, Harold
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubledy, Doran. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Black cloth titled/decorated in gilt, red topstain, decorative endpages. Early printing. Light rubbing to cloth. Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 490 pages .
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
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36032
- Title
- The Crusades: the Flame of Islam
- Author
- Lamb, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubledy, Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1931
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- 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...
- Good+
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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