BEIN Tanselle H13 2489: Original cream wrappers with green ink. "Big blue book" series statement missing. Publisher's advertisements on 7 pages at end, not noted in pagination, and page 4 of wrapper.

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[Big blue book] ; [no.] B-497

Story of the human race : a biographical history of the world ; bk. 3

Charlemagne, who rescued a Pope and became an emperor

Peter the Hermit, who slaughtered the jews for the love of Jesus

Saint Francis of Assisi, a catholic anarchist

Dante Allighieri, "the voice of the silent centuries"

Marco Polo, the link between Europe and Asia

Petrarch, Johannes Huss and John Ball, three leaders of the Renaissance

Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans and Mother of France

Torquemada and the holy inquisition

Columbus, who didn't discover America.

Kings and rulers > Biography.

Biography > Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Biography > Middle Ages.

Biographies.

Informational works.

Biographies.

Publishers' advertisements.

Haldeman-Julius Company, publisher.

United States kansas Girard.