Report to Saint Peter Upon the Kind of World in Which Hendrik Willem van Loon Spent the First Years of His Life
by VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. 8vo. Brown cloth with paper spine label, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 220pp. Line drawings. Very good/good plus. Jacket a bit soiled, with minor edgewear. Tight, decent first edition -- a mild ex-library copy, with minimal markings. Van Loon's last book, a posthumously-published memoir of his early years.
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- Seller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8288
- Title
- Report to Saint Peter Upon the Kind of World in Which Hendrik Willem van Loon Spent the First Years of His Life
- Author
- VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Biography;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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