2010, ISBN: 9781168048059

Hardcover

New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Type: Hardback 1939 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Vintage Dust … More...

New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Type: Hardback 1939 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Vintage Dust Jacket in Good Condition in archival protective sleeve. . Written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The dust jacket folds out completely to map 20" ax 20", in color, " A Map to locate and date the most important events in the history of the Arts by --Van Loon". It is quite unique. The notes and drawings by Van Loon on the endpapers are also quite unique with so much information about the arts. The red cloth binding is quite clean and unmarked, faint wear to lower corners, slight scuffing to upper corners Gilt decoration on front, red titles on spine. Paper panel, decorated with musical instruments, affixed to spine, is in fine condition. Endpapers with a unique illustration of the history of art. Hinges tight and intact Sewn binding is tight, solid, sqare. Internals toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind. Many full color drawings by Van Loon, in color and wash and b/w --so delightful! Van Loon's humor is also delightful. And as he says: "This book was written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem Van Loon to give the general reader (who perhaps had always considered this a rather remote subject) a better understanding and a greater appreciation of everything that has been done within the realm of painting and architecture and music and sculpture and the theater and most of the so-called minor arts from the beginning of time until the moment we come so close to them that we begin to lose our perspective." 677 pages with A Section on "A Few Musical Instruments" and Index. 6.5 x 2 x 9.75 inches. 1937, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1939, 2.75, New York: Garden City Publishing, 1937. 525pp.incl.index; HB blue w/green&gilt; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; PONinscript.; tanned w/clean,tight pgs. DJ color pic.covers w/blk.&yellow; ft.&spine sunned to gray; wear on edges&corners w/many chips&tears. "...story of the world we live in and of the peoples o f five continents who share it with us." 150 illus., 22 in color.. De Luxe. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by van Loon, Hendrik Willem. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Garden City Publishing, 1937, 3, USA: Boni & Liveright, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gold title on dark blue boards with pictorial paste on. 8vo, 489pp. 17th. printing., Boni & Liveright, 1922, 3, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10, 2.5<

2010, ISBN: 9781168048059

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10, 2.5