Byzantium: The Decline And Fall *SIGNED First Edition*

John Julius Norwich

ISBN 10: 0670823775 / ISBN 13: 9780670823772

Published by Viking, 1995

About this Item

The final instalment of the famous Byzantium trilogy. Inscribed by the author to the title page: "Best Wishes from John Julius Norwich". Signed copies in good condition are quite uncommon.

Viking, 1995

SIGNED First Edition, First Printing

Condition is very good in very good dustjacket. Some browning to the pages that you would expect from a book this age. Cover remains nice and bright, and spine remains tight.

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Seller Inventory # ABE-1770585700152

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Byzantium: The Decline And Fall *SIGNED First Edition*
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670823775
• ISBN 13: 9780670823772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed History
  • Signed First Editions
  • History & Military

About this title

Synopsis

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune. The terrible siege of Constantinople in 1453 ended the empire, founded in the year 330, which Lord Norwich has devoted many years to re-creating; this volume forms the climax to an epic sequence of books.

About the Author

John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write. Byzantium: The Decline and Fall is the third in his three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire.