[Rarebooks] FS: The First Newbery Award Winner SIGNED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING

[Charles Agvent]

VAN LOON, Hendrik. THE STORY OF MANKIND. London: George G. Harrap & Co. 
Ltd., n.d. [1921]. First British 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. (#015175)        $850.00

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