Van Loon's Lives
by van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Langport, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, U.K. : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952 Collectible. Beautifully illustrated with coloured and black & white illustrations. No dustjacket. Age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn, corners bumped. Spine sundamaged. Sewing of the inside back and front boards loose. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd - March 1952 reprint (first published 1943). Subject title: "Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year". Coloured illustrated endpapers (front & back). Includes a list of people mentioned in the book. Some of the "guests" are: Erasmus; George Washington; Sir Thomas More; Cervantes; Shakespeare; Moliere; Descartes; Queen Elizabeth I; Robespierre; St Francis; Mozart; Beethoven; Napoleon; Emily Dickinson; Thomas Jefferson; Chopin, et al.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000636
- Title
- Van Loon's Lives
- Author
- van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Illustrator
- van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- biography biographical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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About the Seller
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Langport, Somerset
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- Shelf Wear
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- Edges
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....