Saladin

First edition, first impression.  xvi, 208pp, with monochrome plate frontispiece and a few further monochrome plate illustrations interleafed in text.  Orange cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine.  Top edge sprayed orange.  8vo. Cloth very slightly rubbed on extreme corners and spine ends,  Hint of faint spotting to text block edges.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original illustrated, glossy dust jacket, not price clipped, a little shelf worn, somewhat sunned over spine and rear panel, short partially closed tear at head of spine.

A penetrating biography of Salah-ad-Din Ysef Ibn Ayyuh, better known as Saladin, the Asian leader who decisively trounced the Christian crusading armies in the 12th century, driving them from the holy land, and who, yet, was remembered in the West as a man of honour, wise and valiant.