24pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers. 8vo. Covers very slightly rubbed at edges and toned, especially over spine. Internally some mild corner curling and some very mild page warping, else neat and clean.
A slightly extended version of a lecture given before the West London Branch of the Historical Association in 1952, intended to serve as an introduction to the history of the Near East in the period immediately before the Crusades of the latter part of the 11th century.
