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Steven Runciman.
The First Crusade.
Published Cambridge U.P., 1980 (abridged from the 1951 edn.)
ISBN 0521232554.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Japan.
Size: 193x255x24mm.
Page count: 240pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good dustjacket a little scuffed and ruffled, but not too heavily worn; some mild bumping on the edges and corners of the boards and spine; some residue marks on the free endpapers, looks like transparent tape or something similar; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for unillustrated paperback, £12.99]
Weight without packaging: 972g.

How to order this book

Abridged to provide a popular illustrated edition without apparatus; takes the story up to the crusaders' capture of Jerusalem.

Contents: Reign of Antichrist; Pilgrims of Christ; Confusion in the East; Holy peace & holy war; The summoning; The People’s expedition; German crusade; The princes & the Emperor; Campaign in Asia Minor; Armenian interlude; Before the walls of Antioch; Possession of Antioch; Road to Jerusalem; Triumph of the cross..

Illustrations: throughout, 16 pages in colour, the rest monochrome
Maps & plans: 1, repeated on front and back endpapers

Notes: none (intro. refers readers to the full edition for notes & bibliography)
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

[BML/MF]
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