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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 our dinner guests in a bygone year. / Written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Biography.
Penn Provenance:
Gabriel, Allen (autograph) (note) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
Gabriel, Ruth (autograph) (note) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
xxii, 886 pages including illustrations, 2 unnumbered pages including illustrations, plates. : color frontispiece, color plates. ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1942.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket (torn on spine) retained.
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has ms. note: "Allen & Ruth Gabriel ... Read aloud together at breakfast-table each day. (Before 1969)".
OCLC:
353777

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