Knight Crusader
by Welch, Ronald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press. Fair in Poor dust jacket. (1964). Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels partly removed from front endpaper. Dampstains to tail of spine and lower margins of boards. Vertical half of front flap of dustjacket missing, with loss of text. Brown paper and adhesive tape repairs to reverse of dustjacket spine. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. A rough reading copy. ; 1964 reprint. 272 pages. Red cloth boards with silver lettering and small shield illustration on spine. Historical novel. The Crusades. This title was awarded a Carnegie Medal for best children's book of the year by a British author. .
Synopsis
Knight Crusader is a children's historical novel by Ronald Welch, first published in 1954. It is set primarily in the Crusader states of Outremer in the twelfth century and depicts the Battle of Hattin and the Third Crusade. The novel was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1954.
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15715
- Title
- Knight Crusader
- Author
- Welch, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1964)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...