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The Arts
by van LOON, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York =: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Author and illustrator Hendrik Willem van Loon shares with the reader, in words and with his pictures, the sweeping history of art. Beginning with cave drawings, he describes the history of paintings, sculpture, architecture, music and other "minor" arts, through the 19th century. Illustrated throughout by Mr. van Loon. With general outline of the history of art to endpapers, and a fold-out dust jacket with map of the history of art. --- In full red-orange cloth-covered boards with shield design in gilt to cover, pasted-on color illustration to spine with gilt-stamped spine titling; black topstain. Dust jacket with color van Loon painting to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy: bright and lacking significant damages. Fold-out dust jacket/map with a few tears but mostly in good shape.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiii, 677, (2) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86120
- Title
- The Arts
- Author
- van LOON, Hendrik Willem
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York =
- Date Published
- 1939
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Littleton, Colorado
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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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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