Description: When van Loon and his friend Frits, residing in the quaint Dutch town of Veere, hit upon the idea of learning about the past by inviting particularly intriguing historical players to a series of dinner parties hosted at their own humble home in the Netherlands, they didn't imagine such an arrangement was actually possible. Stated as 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 the two protagonists had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to them as dinner guests.' No dust jacket. Orange boards with gilt titles are in good/acceptable condition with bumps, rubbing, fading and some soiling as per photos with moisture mark to rear. Smudges to pages 443 and 563/564/565/566 but otherwise internal pages are clean and unmarked.
Price: 5 GBP
Location: Whitstable
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Illustrator: Hendrik Willem van Loon
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Fiction Subject: Historical & Mythological
Author: Hendrik Willem van Loon
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co.
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Weight: 1250 g
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1950
