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The Arts
by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, decorative label on spine, embossed gilt medallion on cover. Illustrated with color and B&W drawings by the author. Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author. van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, "The Fall of the Dutch Republic" (1913). He was a correspondent for the Associated Press during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and again in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. He lectured at Cornell University from 1915 to 1917; in 1919 he became an American citizen. "The Arts" is "The story of painting and sculpture and architecture and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the caveman until the present time, all in a single volume.". Spine is mildly soiled, front hinge starting, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . B&W and Color Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xxiii), 677, (2) pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9464
- Title
- The Arts
- Author
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Illustrator
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Art;, Architecture, Music, Non-Fiction;, The Arts, Art History, History
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
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