Description:
Hardcover.1943 first UK Edition. Red cloth covered boards, bottom corners frayed, spine bumped and worn to creases and edges no dust Jacket. Foxed and tanned paste down pages and the page edges are dusty and marked. Numerous detailed B&W and colour illustrations paper full page illustrations to front and rear. Bookplate stuck down on top of a Book Token with the inscription.Van loon's Lives: "Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year'.
Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author.
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