Ships & How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C.- A.D. 1935) by van Loon, Hendrik Willem

George G. Harrap & Co., 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1935. Reprinted. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

G. G. Harrap & Co, London, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

London: George G. Harrap, 1935. First Edition . A very good copy in the original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's blind stamp. A little fore-edge foxing. 304pp. Profusely illustrated.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. fifth printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Blue cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends worn, covers rubbed, spine a bit sunned. Binding tight and text unmarked. PO's stamp on front pastedown. Naut. Stax.

New York: Somerset. Good in Very Good dust jacket. unk. Reprint. Hardcover. Previous owner's name written front flyleaf. .

Hardcover. Good. Dust jacket worn and torn. Book is clean and unmarked

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good, book has slight rubbing of spine and edges of cover, minor foxing of pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. 4th printing. Hardcover. Good condition chipped d.j./fair. 318p., illus. Jacket is double-folded & has a colored world map inside.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1935. 1st printing; dj w/chipping, lite ltoning and sunning, yellow c w/red titles; 309 clean, unmarked pages/index. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Van Loon, Hendrik William. 8 Vo; 2 Pounds.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. Fifth Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Hendrik Willem van Loon. Large 8vo. Pp. xv, 318. Frontis. illustration. Illustrated with numerous ink drawings by the author. Illustrated title page in red and black. Blue cloth, titles and illustration in gilt on the spine, pale blue topstain: edges minimally rubbed, gift inscription in ink on ffep dated Christmas 1935 and later ink price marking, pencil marks on back endpaper, bookseller tag of Charles E. Lauriat Sea Books Boston, leaves crisp and binding tight. In the color van Loon-illustrated dust jacket, which unfolds to reveal a color world map printed verso: edges chipped, sunned and stained, short closed tears, spine darkened. The success of journalist and historian Van Loon's unconventional 1921 The Story of Mankind led to many subsequent books for young people with his informal prose and illustrations. A charming production. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.