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Ancient Man. The Beginning of Civilizations
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1920. Written and Drawn and Done into Color (by the Author). 4to, green cloth, large pictorial label. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1920. First Edition. More
Typed Letter, signed
1939. 2 full pages on pictorial letterhead, single spaced, in response to a reader (whose letter is enclosed) praising Van Loon's book "Our Battle" but objecting to his referring to Jews as "Orientals". Old Greenwich, Conn., 16 March, 1939. With original mailing envelope. Van Loon is scathing in his reply "...for God's sake let us drop all the chips on all the shoulders...I have spent eight months doing nothing but trying to help Jews get out from the unspeakable Nazi..... More
The Last of the Troubadours.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939. The Life and Music of Carl Micahel Bellman, (1740-1795). Colored pictorial title page. Illus. 4to, pictorial boards, d.w. (light age toning & shelf-wear). (N.Y.:Simon & Schuster, 1939) First Edition. More
The Arts
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. Profusely illustrated in color, xxiii + 677 pages, 8vo, red cloth boards, gold embossed logo on front. d.w. that folds out to be a double page map. Chips and stains to wrapper, inscribed on first fly leaf. New York; Simon & Schuster (1937). A very good copy with a good dust wrapper. More
An Elephant Up a Tree
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933. 3 color illustrations and many in black & white. 8vo, green cloth with colored pictorial label, dust wrapper. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933. First Edition. The binding is rubbed and soiled & the spine faded; the chipped dust wrapper is heavily reinforced on the verso, but the book is special because of the original watercolor & ink drawing of an elephant family, along with a 1933 presentation covering an entire blank fly-leaf... More
Signed Original Pen-and-Ink Drawing of Franz von Pappen
1930. 1 page, 10 x 8 inches, no place, no date, circa 1930 -- a bust portrait of von Pappen, a former chancellor of Germany. Signed "W.H.V. Loon." Small closed tear on the bottom edge; otherwise very good condition. More
R. v. R.: The Life of Rembrandt Van Rijn.
New York: 1954. 150 illus., some in color. 8vo, pictorial cloth, worn d.w. New York, (1954). More
Man The Miracle Maker.
Large 8vo, cloth; pictorial label. (N.Y.): Liveright, (1928). More