Author: MADDEN, JOHN J.
Title: The Children of the Rocks. A Story of Tours. (Signed).
Description: Kansas City: Burton Publishing Company, 1944). 1st edition. "The Children of the Rocks is more of a study than a story. It deals with a dangerous period in history. Aperiod when civilization rested upon the issue of a single battle in the last days of September, A.D.732. In this great event, Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks engaged the Moslem forces of Abdel-Rhaman at Tours in old Gaul. The issue was Christ or Mohamet.". Pp.192, frontispiece map, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper, pencil marginal corrections affecting pages 139-142. Grey cloth, dustwrapper worn to edges with losses but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. G+/G.** Judge John J.Madden of Witchita, Kansas.

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