Item #21521 Growing Up with the Norman Conquest. Alfred Duggan.
/C. Walter Hodges, illustrator.

Growing Up with the Norman Conquest.

London: Faber and Faber, 1965, 1st, "first published"; purple cloth boards, in yellow and white jacket with red drawings of a knight and peasants; 8vo; 185 pp including index. Juvenile hardback.

Five chapters describing life in the castle of a Norman baron; the household of a Saxon landowner; a London family, novices in the Abbey of St. Albans, and a peasant family. Wonderful social history, taking place in July 1087.

CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket; no names, straight, tight, clean appears unread, both book and jacket lightly crimped at top of spine; jacket has a bit of rubbing on top edge and 1/4" tear on back; unclipped 18s. Item #21521

Price: $50.00

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