[Rarebooks] FS: First Winner of the Newbery Award INSCRIBED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING
Charles Agvent
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VAN LOON, Hendrik. THE STORY OF MANKIND. London: George G. Harrap & Co.
Ltd., n.d. [1921]. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Illustrated by the
author. A lively and entertaining chronicle of world history from
500,000 B.C. to present times. Apparently the First British Edition of
the FIRST WINNER OF THE NEWBERY AWARD. Lengthily INSCRIBED and SIGNED by
the author on 7 November 1921, the year of original publication, with an
ORIGINAL DRAWING of a ship sailing the seas. Close to Fine, lacking the
dustwrapper. $850.00
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