About this title: For nearly two centuries, from 1096 until 1291, a tide of pilgrims, knights, men-at-arms, priests, traders and peasants swept from Western Europe to the Levant - Crusaders whose common aim was to recover the Holy Place of Christendom.
The Sword and the Scimitar is a saga of one of the most fanatical religious wars in world history. It is a story abounding with highly distinctive personalities - popes, saints, kings, sultans and heroes like Saladin and Richard Coeur de Lion, of the encounter of two great cultures and their cross-fertilization.
It tells of the three great Military Orders, ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 0399113754 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 239 pg. Pages clean and tight, dj has very minor wear to edges and is covered in clear protective mylar. 1i6-2. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Victor Gollansz LTD
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780575018822ISBN:0575018828
Description: Good in Fair jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 1974 Hard Cover. Victor Gollancz LTD-Publisher. 240 Pgs. Owner notation Title Page. No other marks, clean pgs, binding tight. Green boards with title in gilt on spine. Gilt decoraton on front. Front board with slightly darker area top corner. Little of same on back cover top corner. DJ Good with light shelf/edge wear. Illustrated. read more
Edition: No Additional Printings Stated
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: G. P. Putnam
Date Published: 1974
Description: Very Good in Good Plus jacket. 10" by 7" Green cloth binding with gilt title and decoration, clean and sturdy, 240 pages, illustrated, light wear; jacket is clean, spine faded and edge wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780399113758ISBN:0399113754
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Tight binding. Clean. No marks to text. Price in pencil on a front pg. Remains of price sticker on front cover. Illustrated. Index. Cloth over boards. Sewn binding. read more
Description: Putnam's, c.1974, First edition, hardcover, 10x7", b/w and color; Illus, clean and solid, a VERY GOOD copy, in a colorful GOOD+ dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780399113758ISBN:0399113754
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Putnam, 1974. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Near Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Book and Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new removable archival protector. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam, NY
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780399113758ISBN:0399113754
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0399113754. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780575018822ISBN:0575018828
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780399113758ISBN:0399113754
Description: ISBN 0-399-11375-4. Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. read more
Edition: 1st Ed. (U.S. ) 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780399113758ISBN:0399113754
Description: Many COLOR & B/W Illus. Fine/Fine. W/Dust Jacket 240pgs(Index) Clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0399113754. Tears, etc. Price unclipped. SBN 399 11375 4. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover; 1st Printing
Publisher: G. P. Putman's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: NF/VG+ 43, 49. 399113754. 1st edition/1st printing. Sub-title: The Saga Of The Crusades. "Ernle Bradford, in this profusely illustrated book, sees this whole strange episode in history as part of the ceaseless pendulum that oscillates between different races, climates, religions and cultures. " The book is bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. It is clean, straight & tight, illustrated endpapers. The spine ends are lightly bumped from shelving. The unclipped, price intact dust jacket is ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover; 1st Printing
Publisher: G. P. Putman's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: NF/VG+ 43, 49. 399113754. 1st edition/1st printing. Sub-title: The Saga Of The Crusades. "Ernle Bradford, in this profusely illustrated book, sees this whole strange episode in history as part of the ceaseless pendulum that oscillates between different races, climates, religions and cultures. " The book is bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. It is clean, straight & tight, illustrated endpapers. The spine ends are lightly bumped from shelving. The unclipped, price intact dust jacket is ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth, Gilt Lettering.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780399113758ISBN:0399113754
Description: Near Fine in Good-Very Good jacket. Small 4to. Pp: 240. Illustrated throughout in b&w and colour with photographs and reproductions of early art works, maps. Decorated endpapers. Maps of the Crusades, index, bibliography. Spine of dust jacket a little sunned with light wear to head; half-inch tear to rear joint. A very readable history of the Crusades, with the illustrations dating back to the twelfth century. read more
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