Constantinople, First Edition (Over 1,000 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1St Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. Used - Very Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A-50-43,890-CG, text like new, VERY GOOD READING COPY, tight spine, clean pages, NO highlighting/markings, very fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Introduction by Jan Morris, index. Light wear, clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A., 1992. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition:Near Fine. First Printing. "The twelve stories collected here, the first comprehensive sampling of Sigurdsson's writing available in English, were published in Iceland over a period of some thirty-five years and provide an excellent introduction to his fiction. They embrace a range of emotions and experiences, from the innocence of childhood in the isolation of the countryside, to the loneliness of life in a growing town, to the frustrations of old age." This book has 224 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 374 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. Pp: ix + 304. Titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ b/w maps, prints, portraits, photos & facsimile docs. (listed). Interior leaves are clean and tight. Historical tale. Includes bibliography & index.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "This book examines a selection of Greek and Roman cities, looking specifically at their architectural remains. They are chosen for their importance to our understanding of the evolution of the city form, either because they were already important in antiquity, or because the quality of the remains makes them particularly interesting. Thus the survey includes early places which failed to develop, places which were major, dominant cities in their own time, and others which were never more than ordinary but which through accident (the eruption of Vesuvius at Pompeii) have left especially significant remains. This is more than a book about pure ancient architecture: rather it is architecture in its social context - showing how architecture is part of history rather than an aesthetic topic to be treated in isolation. The book emphasizes how the form and arrangement of different building types persist or develop in response to differing circumstances. " (Publisher). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bright and fine book and jacket - looks new with no wear or markings. Map end papers. Several full-color sections of illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First oversized paperback edition, first printing of the second novel in the "Aelric" series. In fine unread condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. Pp: ix + 181. Titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ b/w plan & map (listed). Shelfwear to wrps. Moderately handling wear. Interior leaves are clean and tight. From the Centers of Civilization Series. Constantinople as the center of the Byzantine world, A.D. 527-565. Includes selected bibliography & index. A clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. Stated 1st American edition with no additional printings listed. DJ has some minor general wear. Illustrated with a map. 8vo; 236 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Almost new paperback. Appears unread. Odor free. No spine crease. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean, unmarked. (Shelf: F2) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Baton Rogue. 1992. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Slight Water Stain to Side Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807117781. Translated from the Icelandic by Alan Boucher. 224 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration - 'Vetrarskogur' (Winter forest) by Jon Reykdal, 1990. keywords: Europe Scandinavia Iceland Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - The twelve stories collected here in THE STARS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, the first comprehensive sampling of Sigurdsson's writing available in English, were published in Iceland over a period of some thirty-five years and provide an excellent introduction to his fiction. They embrace a range of emotions and experiences, from the innocence of childhood in the isolation of the countryside, to the loneliness of life in a growing town, to the frustrations of old age. In 'The Changing Earth,' the effects of the revolving seasons on the Icelandic countryside form a backdrop to the coming-of-age of a farm youth who experiences first disillusionment and then a new sense of freedom as he matures and begins to appreciate the nature of love. 'Pastor Bodvar's Letter,' offers an ironic portrait of an aging, largely content man who, as he nears the end of his days, must come to terms with his life's disappointments. Many of the stories, particularly those told from the point of view of children, have the quality of fables. In the title story a boy is seduced by the boundless possibilities of a more exotic world represented by the trinkets proffered by a pair of wayfarers. In another, a child, inspired by an itinerant carpenter who has come to work at his family's farm, dreams of building a pyramid. Other stories are concerned with the fragility of human connections in an ever more impersonal society. In 'The Hand' a solitary man and an old woman, lodgers in the same house, forge a tentative yet important bond. In 'The Blind Boy' a composer, unable to complete his commissions, nonetheless is able to create beautiful music that soothes a sightless child. inventory #47104 Very Slight Water Stain to Side Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Hook, Christa (illustrator). First Edition, first printing . Text and images unmarked. The wrapper shows some very light handling, faint tanning along the spine. First edition cover artwork varies from item shown. 8vo. 96pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 1St Edition. Clean Tight And Square. No Markings With Little Shelf Wear To Jacket In Protective Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket, book has short edge-creases at the spine-ends and a remainder mark on the bottom edge, the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine, the jacket is in excellent condition with no remarkable flaws, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included.

black & red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. pg. 366 has a crease, otherwise 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 us edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). xxiii+374p. 3 b&w maps (one is double page). glossy b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. bibliography. index. medieval history. byzantine empire. middle east history. religion. venetian empire. ~ In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. Urged on by a canny, venerable Doge of Venice and a pretender to the Byzantine throne, the crusaders now turned their weapons against Constantinople, the heart of Christian Byzantium and the most opulent, sophisticated metropolis in the known world. The crusaders spared no one in their savagery: they murdered old and young, they raped women and girls, even nuns~in their frenzy. They also desecrated churches and plundered treasuries, and much of the city was put to the torch. In celebration of the victory, a prostitute from the crusader army climbed onto the altar of Hagia Sophia and gyrated to obscene songs: barbarism cloaked in the mantle of religious warfare had swept aside one of the great civilizations of history. Some contemporaries were delighted: God had approved this punishment of the effeminate, treacherous Greeks: others, including the once zealous Pope lnnocent III, expressed shock and disgust at this perversion of the crusading ideal. History has judged this as the crusade that went wrong and even today the violence and brutality of the western knights provokes in the Greek Orthodos Church, deep hostility toward the Catholic Church. In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips doesn' t just follow the fortunes of the leading players. Using firsthand accounts from knights' and commoners letters to enrich his analysis, he explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Turner, Graham (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Fine soft cover book. Covers have very slight wear to corners, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Dennis, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Fine soft cover book. Covers have very slight wear to corners, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). The Middle Ages; 248 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Light ripples to back endpaper map due to minimal water damage. Does not affect rest of the pages. No writing on text pages.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.