Van Loon's Lives
by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
NY, Simon & Schuster 1942, 1942. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, in red cloth boards with gilt design on cover and paste-on on spine. Lightly scuffed in red boards. No dj. Beautiful endpapers. 888 pp. 47 chapters, beautiful illustrations in color and b & w. This classic is an account of what it would be like to have as our dinner guests historical personages from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson. A classic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29851a
- Title
- Van Loon's Lives
- Author
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- NY, Simon & Schuster 1942
- Date Published
- 1942
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
bookwitch
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Concord, California
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....