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Steven Runciman.
A History of the Crusades, vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971 reissue (previously issued 1965; original edn. was Cambridge U.P., 1951).
Series: Pelican Books.
ISBN 0140213791.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, London, Fakenham & Reading.
Size: 129x197x22mm.
Page count: text xiv,377pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: looks battered, covers scuffed and creased, edges and corners worn, spine creased; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.50
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[Publisher’s price for current edn. £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 318g.

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Contents: Holy places of Christendom; Preaching of the crusade; Journey to the wars; War against the Turks; The promised land.
Appendices: Principal sources for history of the 1st crusade; Numerical strength of the crusaders.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 5
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 19pp
Index: yes

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