Van Loon's Lives by Hendrik Willem van Loon 1942 Simon Schuster Publishing Rare literature books
$25.50 $34.00
This is a very good hardcover, NO dust jacket, jacket missing. 1942 Simon & Schuster Publishing. This copy is very good inside and out. The inside pages are very clean and only marking seen is previous owners gift inscription and date on first blank page, see photo. The binding is tight and straight, bound in fine sewn (not glued) binding for durability and aesthetics. Red hardcover boards are also very good with only light shelf wear. Standard octavo book size or 6" x 9" with 883 pages.
Van Loon's Lives by Hendrik W. van Loon is subtitled Being a True and Faithful Account of a Number of Interesting Meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plate 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. It is finely illustrated by the author.
The book is a popular historical anthology written and illustrated in both black and white sketches and color illustrations by Hendrik Willem van Loon. The book imagines a series of mythical dinner parties bringing together nearly 50 great historical figures, from Confucius and Plato to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson.
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