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New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1943. First Edition 4to size red clothbound hardcover; 106 pages with full page black and white and color illustrations throughout The title page says: "Thomas Jefferson The Serene Citizen from Monticello who gave us an American Way of Thinking and who gained World-Wide Renown by his Nobel Understanding of that most Difficult of all the Arts THE ART OF LIVING as he felt that it should be practiced in the Republic of which he was one of the Founders." Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882 - 1944) was a historian, author and illustrator, often combining all three, as he did in this volume on Thomas Jefferson. He was the winner of first Newbery Medal in 1922 for his children's book, The Story of Mankind. This is a well loved child's book: light soil to covers, edgewear, lightly bumped corners, worn top corner. There is red ink transfer on bottom edge of inside covers and bottom edge of page from 92 to end of book, penciled name inside front cover with… Leer más

NY : Simon & Schuster . 1942. good+. Hardcover. ...about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year. 886pp + color illustrated plates; color il'd endpages; b/w illustrations; 8.5" tall; soiled red cover with faded gilt lettering on spine; no dj .

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1943. First edition red cloth hard cover with partial dust jacket, VG/Poor. Book is clean, tight and unmarked copy. Front board slightly bowed. Front panel and front flap of dust jacket present, missing rear flap and rear panel. 106pp., color illustrations by author.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. Picture Book.

Editorial Americalee. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket. Spanish. Stamped on inside. Spine cracked. (america, founding fathers, presidents)

Dodd, Mead & Co., 1943. 106pp. Red cloth hardback, DJ has minor wear, tears and chipping, slight waterstain along edges of spine, VG, stated First Edition, b&w and color illustrations, Illustrated biography of Thomas Jefferson written for young adults, . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Van Loom, Hendrik Willem .

ill. (some col.); plates (some col.).
extra half-title ([4] leaves) loose or added.
book-plate on half-title.
Biographies of famous people. Includes Erasmus, William the Silent, George Washington, Sir Thomas More, Bach, Breughel,
Cervantes, Shakespeare, Moliere, Descartes, Emerson, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Robespierre,
Torqumada, the Buddha, St. Francis, H.C. Andersen, Mozart, Beethoven, Napoleon, Plato, Confucius, Peter the Great, Charles XII of Sweden,
Voltaire, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Montaigne, Rabelais, Emily Dickinson, Frederic Chopin, Benjamin Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Jakob van Heemskerk,
Willem Barents, Surgeon de Veer, Thomas Jefferson.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942. Hardcover. 886p. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine slightly faded and cockeyed; otherwise clean and securely bound. Imaginary conversations with historical figures.

VG/G+ illus by author Dodd, Mead & Co NY 1943 1st hardcover 8vo, 106 pages, color and b+w illustrations, review copy. Review copy with slip tipped on to front endpaper. Dustjacket with light extremity wear and shallow chipping at spine ends. Solid and clean with dj bright in protective cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1942. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is chipped at edges with age-toning to spine and edges. Full page colour and black & white illustrations by the author. xxii, 886 pages. Full subtitle: "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 our dinner guests in a bygone year." The author a notable Dutch American historian and writer wrote this, somewhat whimsical book, consising of biographies of various famous historical characters often pairing together characters from different times and places whose life, careers or personalities seemed to Van Loon to bear a similarity to each other The author and his childhood friend Frits summon the famous… Leer más

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Fair/Poor. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover Cloth. The Serene Citizen from Monticello who gave us an American Way of Thinking and who gained Worldwidw renown by his noble Understanding of that most difficult of all the arts, the art of living as he felt that it should be practiced in the Republic of which he was one of the founders . 8vo., 106 pp., dj frayed, yellowed, torn, inside hinges weak, pages yellwoed, .

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1942.. In 8¡, tela editoriale con titolo su tassello al dorso e piatto decorato con fregio oro, pp. XXII, 886 (2) con illustrazioni in bianco e nero ed a colori nel testo e su tavole fuori testo. Ex libris alla prima sguardia. Ottimo esemplare.