Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First English Language Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xxii, 467 (7) pp, illus. Translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch: First Complete English Language Edition,1996. Not Price Clipped. 2 pages creases at top fore-edge corner with faintly foxed text block, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.25". Black cloth with glossy copper lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "This is the first full translation into English of the classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations.".

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 006272
Title: The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Author: Huizinga, Johan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First English Language Edition
ISBN 10: 0226359921
ISBN 13: 9780226359922
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago, IL
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: HISTORY FRANCE CIVILIZATION MIDDLE AGES NETHERLANDS LIFE CULTURE AND ART 14TH AD 15TH CENTURIES
Bookseller catalogs: HISTORY;
Size: Large Octavo

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