The Arts
by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- Hardcover
- 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. 1943. Sixth Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, tan label on spine, gilt medallion on cover. Illustrated with 72 in text drawings and 80 full page illustrations in color & wash, all by Van Loon. In 63 chapters, Van Loon discusses the history of art, from Prehistoric man through the art of Claude Debussy. Van Loon's idiosyncratic style takes the reader from the painter's studio into the study of the composer. It took Hendrik van Loon 30 years to learn enough to write "The Arts," and then it took him 10 years to actually write it. The result is a book that cannot be duplicated anywhere in any language: a book about all the arts for all the people. His most ambitious work, it will probably prove the author's most useful one.. Spine and edges of book are sunned, one white spot on front cover, gilt on cover faded, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD. . Color Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 677, (1) pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15162
- 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
- Sixth Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Art;, Art History, Illustrated Books, The Arts, Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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