faber and faber 1983 london boston (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative wrappers. 84 pages. Near fine. Originally published in 1982. Here reprinted with revisions.

brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1983 & NAP). 210p. b&w map. bibliography. index. medieval history. biography. history of islam. history of the crusades. ~ Saladin has been more generally admired in the Christian West than in the Moslem East, in spite of his achievements for Islam. This new study, which places him against the background of Islamic history, beliefs and culture, is based upon a sympathetic understanding of Moslem attitudes and gives a balanced view of a man who, even by his Moslem enemies and rivals, was regarded as remarkable. Jerusalem had fallen to the First Crusade in 1099. The Latin Kingdom, founded on Christmas Day of the following year, lasted until Saladin destroyed King Guy's army at the Horns of Hattin in 1187. Saladin's magnanimity at the surrender of Jerusalem and other cities won the reluctant respect of the defeated Christians. The Crusade that was now led against him by Philip of France and Richard I of England inflicted terrible reverses on the Moslems; yet despite faint~heartedness and even desertions among his supporters, Saladin held Jerusalem and negotiated an honourable peace. He became the West's favourite Moslem, a chivalrous figure of romance, honoured by writers from Dante to Sir Walter Scott and beyond. But many fellow Moslems saw him as a ruthlessly ambitious upstart who was exploiting the Holy War in order to establish his own power. The politics of the Moslem world, not the Crusaders, determined Saladin's career. P. H. Newby has travelled most of the Saladin territory~ from Tikrit in Iraq, where Saladin was born, to Damascus, where he died ~ and for some years lived in Cairo, where the most striking of Saladin's monuments remains.

20x13. Rústica ( tapa blanda), 72 pgs. Texto en ingles. 670131.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. pp. 262. 4 double-sided colour plates & 149 text illus. many illus. of marks. biblio. index. cloth (scored, plastic tab inserted). dw. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Publisher s pictoral wrappers. A near fine copy. Signed by Brink to title page. André Brink [1935-2015] was a South African writer, whose novels often criticized the South African government. He was one of a new generation of Afrikaan writers known as the Sestigers ( Sixtyers , or writers of the 1960s), whose declared aim was to broaden the rather too parochial limits of Afrikaner fiction . Brink s works were well received abroad, but some were banned in South Africa. Signed by Author.

8vo. pp. 192. 12 double-sided colour plates. numerous b/w text illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

First edition. 183 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in like dust jacket. Stoppard contributes an introduction to this collection of seven plays. Baker & Wachs G4a(A).