KOSSAK- KRZYŻOWCY vol.1-4 (complete in 4 vols.). Autographs by the Author!

KOSSAK ZOFIA

KRZYŻOWCY

Volumes 1-4 (set in 4 vols.)

Autographs of the Author dated on the title page in v.1,3.

2nd ed.

Poznan-Warsaw-Wilno-Lublin 1939, St. Adalbert's Bookstore, , pp.278, [2], 4 k. sketches spread after text; 338, 2k. sketches after the text; 354, 2 k. sketches after the text; 346, 1 k. sketches after the text; format 12x19cm

"Crusaders" is the first part of a -consisting of 4 volumes- trilogy describing the history of the Crusades by an outstanding Polish novelist, which describes the confrontation of disintegrating feudal Europe with the world of Islam: its spirituality, customs and culture.

The novel's action begins in Poland in 1095 and ends with the liberation of Jerusalem and the recovery of the Holy Sepulcher.

The trilogy about the Crusades consists of:
- Crusaders (vol. 1 God willing; vol. 2 Fides graeca; vol. 3 The Tower of the Three Sisters; vol. 4 Jerusalem Liberated)
- The Leper King
- Without Arms

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Condition BDB-/ minor defects to publisher's covers, publisher's own entries, publisher's dry stamps: "A book not for everyone",

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