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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem.
Van Loon's Lives 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..
New York, Simon and Schuster,
1944, Hard Cover,
illus: Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Van Loon's lively imaginary dinner parties with great men and woman of the past. In a humorous and personalized manner Van Loon introduces Robespierre, Saint Francis, Queen Elizabeth, Emily Dickinson, Chopin and many others. The series of dinner parties take place in his ancestral home the little village of Veere, on the Dutch coast. The first guest was Erasmus, smasher of cant and deceit, and one of Holland's noblest men of the Renaisance. We meet: Plato, Confucius, George Washington with William the Silent; Buddah; Hans Christian Anderson, Cervantes with Shakespeare and Moliere; Leonardo da Vinci appears, when he receives his invitation addressed to the the Greatest Inventor of all tiem. The Bachs, Brueghels, Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden gather in the market place for a picnic. Rossini cooks dinner for Chopin, whose playing lures Emily Dickinson. An enchanting combination of history and biography with fantasy. 98 illustrations by Van Loon, many in color. Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944), a Dutch-American author and illustrator, was the first winner of the Newbery Medal for The Story of Mankind. Brown cloth boards, gilt emblem to front, yellow pastedown title panel to spine. DW not price clipped, yellow, illustrated to front and spine. Front flap edge has 2 1/2 inch chew mark to edge, upper spine end chipped, 1 inch chew area to lower rear flap edge. Mild soil to DW, few stains to fore edge of first two pages. Color illustrated e.p., top edge blue. Inscription to f.e.p. All else clean, tightly bound. Guest list and dates of personage to rear. Rear DW "In this book you will read a great deal about the old and lovely city of Middelburg". There is a drawing of a destroyed city. "Today it looks like this. The Germans bombed it until not a single house was left standing". "Save your Town form a Similar Fate, and if you Cannot Enlist..Buy War Bonds". DW in brodart mylar. 8 vo, 886 pp
(Van, Loon, S, Lives, Historical, Lives, Chopin, Confucius, Emily, Dickinson, Historical, Biographies, Saint, Francis) Cat No. 4259.
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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem.
Van Loon's Lives 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..
New York, Simon and Schuster,
1944, Hard Cover,
illus: Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Van Loon's lively imaginary dinner parties with great men and woman of the past. In a humorous and personalized manner Van Loon introduces Robespierre, Saint Francis, Queen Elizabeth, Emily Dickinson, Chopin and many others. The series of dinner parties take place in his ancestral home the little village of Veere, on the Dutch coast. The first guest was Erasmus, smasher of cant and deceit, and one of Holland's noblest men of the Renaisance. We meet: Plato, Confucius, George Washington with William the Silent; Buddah; Hans Christian Anderson, Cervantes with Shakespeare and Moliere; Leonardo da Vinci appears, when he receives his invitation addressed to the the Greatest Inventor of all tiem. The Bachs, Brueghels, Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden gather in the market place for a picnic. Rossini cooks dinner for Chopin, whose playing lures Emily Dickinson. An enchanting combination of history and biography with fantasy. 98 illustrations by Van Loon, many in color. Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944), a Dutch-American author and illustrator, was the first winner of the Newbery Medal for The Story of Mankind. Brown cloth boards, gilt emblem to front, yellow pastedown title panel to spine. DW not price clipped, yellow, illustrated to front and spine. Front flap edge has 2 1/2 inch chew mark to edge, upper spine end chipped, 1 inch chew area to lower rear flap edge. Mild soil to DW, few stains to fore edge of first two pages. Color illustrated e.p., top edge blue. Inscription to f.e.p. All else clean, tightly bound. Guest list and dates of personage to rear. Rear DW "In this book you will read a great deal about the old and lovely city of Middelburg". There is a drawing of a destroyed city. "Today it looks like this. The Germans bombed it until not a single house was left standing". "Save your Town form a Similar Fate, and if you Cannot Enlist..Buy War Bonds". DW in brodart mylar. 8 vo, 886 pp
(Van, Loon, S, Lives, Historical, Lives, Chopin, Confucius, Emily, Dickinson, Historical, Biographies, Saint, Francis) Cat No. 4259.
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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem.
Van Loon's Lives 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..
New York, Simon and Schuster,
1944, Hard Cover,
illus: Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Van Loon's lively imaginary dinner parties with great men and woman of the past. In a humorous and personalized manner Van Loon introduces Robespierre, Saint Francis, Queen Elizabeth, Emily Dickinson, Chopin and many others. The series of dinner parties take place in his ancestral home the little village of Veere, on the Dutch coast. The first guest was Erasmus, smasher of cant and deceit, and one of Holland's noblest men of the Renaisance. We meet: Plato, Confucius, George Washington with William the Silent; Buddah; Hans Christian Anderson, Cervantes with Shakespeare and Moliere; Leonardo da Vinci appears, when he receives his invitation addressed to the the Greatest Inventor of all tiem. The Bachs, Brueghels, Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden gather in the market place for a picnic. Rossini cooks dinner for Chopin, whose playing lures Emily Dickinson. An enchanting combination of history and biography with fantasy. 98 illustrations by Van Loon, many in color. Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944), a Dutch-American author and illustrator, was the first winner of the Newbery Medal for The Story of Mankind. Brown cloth boards, gilt emblem to front, yellow pastedown title panel to spine. DW not price clipped, yellow, illustrated to front and spine. Front flap edge has 2 1/2 inch chew mark to edge, upper spine end chipped, 1 inch chew area to lower rear flap edge. Mild soil to DW, few stains to fore edge of first two pages. Color illustrated e.p., top edge blue. Inscription to f.e.p. All else clean, tightly bound. Guest list and dates of personage to rear. Rear DW "In this book you will read a great deal about the old and lovely city of Middelburg". There is a drawing of a destroyed city. "Today it looks like this. The Germans bombed it until not a single house was left standing". "Save your Town form a Similar Fate, and if you Cannot Enlist..Buy War Bonds". DW in brodart mylar. 8 vo, 886 pp
(Van, Loon, S, Lives, Historical, Lives, Chopin, Confucius, Emily, Dickinson, Historical, Biographies, Saint, Francis) Cat No. 4259.
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Roosevelt, Theodore.
Theodore Roosevelt an Autobiography
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons,
1923, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, The autobiography of Theodore Roosvelt: President, Naturalist, Rough Rider, Outdoorsman, Noble Peace Prize winner, and writer. He advocated a strenuous life, family and head on political and social change to the U.S. Chapters include: Boyhood and life; the vigor of life; practical politics; In Cowboy land; appied Idealism; New York Police; War of American Unready; New York Governorship; Outdoors and Indoors; The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive; Natural Resources of the Nation; Big Stick and Square Deal; Social and Industrial Justice; Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal; Peace of Righteousness. 8 photograph illustrations. With Appendix. Many pages unopened, on lower edge page roughly opened. Faux brown leather boards and spine, TR initials in gold embossed to front board, dulled gilt title panel to spine. Corners and spine ends bumped, upper front hinge 1/4 closed tear. Previous owner's decorative book plate to pastedown. All else, clean, tightly bound. tall 8 vo, 597 pp
(Theodore, Roosevelt, An, Autobiography, Roosevelt, S, Square, Deal, Theodore, Roosevelt, Governor, Of, New, York, Theodore, Roosevelt, Cowboy, Sagamore, Hill, Teddy, Roosevelt) Cat No. 4260.
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Roosevelt, Theodore.
Theodore Roosevelt an Autobiography
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons,
1923, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, The autobiography of Theodore Roosvelt: President, Naturalist, Rough Rider, Outdoorsman, Noble Peace Prize winner, and writer. He advocated a strenuous life, family and head on political and social change to the U.S. Chapters include: Boyhood and life; the vigor of life; practical politics; In Cowboy land; appied Idealism; New York Police; War of American Unready; New York Governorship; Outdoors and Indoors; The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive; Natural Resources of the Nation; Big Stick and Square Deal; Social and Industrial Justice; Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal; Peace of Righteousness. 8 photograph illustrations. With Appendix. Many pages unopened, on lower edge page roughly opened. Faux brown leather boards and spine, TR initials in gold embossed to front board, dulled gilt title panel to spine. Corners and spine ends bumped, upper front hinge 1/4 closed tear. Previous owner's decorative book plate to pastedown. All else, clean, tightly bound. tall 8 vo, 597 pp
(Theodore, Roosevelt, An, Autobiography, Roosevelt, S, Square, Deal, Theodore, Roosevelt, Governor, Of, New, York, Theodore, Roosevelt, Cowboy, Sagamore, Hill, Teddy, Roosevelt) Cat No. 4260.
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