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Hardcover. First edition. Tan cloth binding, lower corners of covers bumped, else light wear, clean and tightly bound, some abrasion to front edge of text block, minor. Light foxing to end pages, else an unmarked copy with clean pages; note paper quality is below average. Dust jacket with wear and soiling, chip, sunned spine, price-clipped -- presentable in a clear archival sleeve. Two color fold-out maps with some mis-creasing. Subtitle: "being the chronicle of a mediaeval Spanish Moor concerning his journey to the Egypt of Saladin, the holy cities of Arabia, Baghdad the city of the caliphs, the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Norman kingdom of Sicily." This is the English translation of "R hlat Ibn Jubayr." VG or better in Good minus dust jacket.