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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.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. B&W illus. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners bumped, mild edge wear, covers clean, spine sunned. Binding tight and text clean with gift message on ffep. Nautical. 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 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, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1935. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Author & Illustrator). Text/As NEW & Bright. 1935 First Edition, 3rd Printing. Blue linen boards/VG w/trace rubs to corner tips & fading to gilt embossed spine. Unique fold-out DJ/VG --- 18" x 20" map of world's Great Discoveries showing 28 historical sea routes ---, sound & intact w/rubs to edges & folds reinforced w/archival tape; front cover surface showing marked soiling & discoloration. History of man told, and illustrated, through the story of the sea and ships from 5,000 B.C. to 1935 A.D. (covering 7,000 years) by Dutch-American historian, journalist & author Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882 - 1944). Book is a history of warfare for as Van Loon says: "Man is a predatory animal. He lives by eating other animals and he enriches himself by stealing that which belongs to his neighbors. Hence the history of the world is the history… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Lot of Books by Hendrik Willem Van Loon - The Arts (c.1939); The Fall of the Dutch Republic (c.1924); The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators (c.1916); An Indiscreet Itinerary (c.1933) (INSCRIBED); The Message of the Bells, or What Happened to Us on Christmas Eve (c.1942); My School Books (c.1939); R. v. R., being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (c.1930); Report to Saint Peter (c.1947); The Romance of Discovery: Being an Account of the Earliest Navigators and the Discovery of America (c.1917); Ships & How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C. - A.D. 1935) (c.1935); The Story of America (c.1927); The Story of Mankind (c.1938); Tolerance (c.1925); Van Loon's Geography (c.1932) (2 copies); Van Loon's Lives (c.1942) (2 copies); The Story of Hendrik Willem Van Loon by gerard Willem Van Loon (c.1972). All vols. are hardcover, various printings. Most vols. are lacking dustjackets. Very Good / very Good (minus). Heavy sets may require… Read More