The Normans In Sicily.
by Norwich, John Julius
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0140152121
- ISBN 13
- 9780140152128
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "LARGE FORMAT," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd. with number line. "HARD-TO-FIND." * Date of Publication: 1992.* Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers showing a mosaic from the Sala di Ruggiero in The Royal Palace, Palermo. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear, two reading creases to slightly faded spine, slight wear creases to boards, particularly to back. Seems lightly used. VG+ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Edges very slightly grubby. VG++* Illustrations: Two blocks of 16pp b/w photos & b/w line drawn maps etc. within text. * Pages: 752 pp. text. xliv pp. genealogy, maps, appendix, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- When "The Normans in The South," was first published, it was acclaimed for ite "diligence, narrative skill, and a scholarship fired by enthusiasm" (Sunday Telegraph) which made it "instructive throughout, as well as consistently entertaining," (The New York Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, it is published together with its sequel, "The Kingdom in the Sun." In 1016 a rebel Lombard lord at the shrine of Monte Sant'Angelo appealed for help to a group of pilgrims - and unwittingly set in motion "the other Norman Conquest." Here is the epic story of the house of Hauteville: of Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between Caesar and Napolean, who briefly held at bay the Pope, the Eastern and the Western Emperors, of his brother Roger, who helped him win Sicily from the Saracens; and of his nephew Roger II, crowned at Palermo in 1130.* This is a VG++ text copy of the 1st./2nd. with minimal age and wear reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9331
- Title
- The Normans In Sicily.
- Author
- Norwich, John Julius
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0140152121
- ISBN 13
- 9780140152128
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 796
- Date Published
- 1992-01-01
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