About this title: 1930. Van Loon gives us the thrilling story of the great artist whose famous signature R.V.R. on any picture makes it priceless. He tells about the son of a Dutch miller who rose to fame, who tasted the fruits of success and prosperity and sank to the trials of bankruptcy and utter want. A lavish spender, a generous giver, a constant friend to all in need, he found himself alone when he needed friends most. Six drunken grave diggers lowered his cheap coffin into the earth. The book is full of high spirit, eager thinking, laughter, scorn, reason, kindness, observation, shrewdness, courage, ...
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Garden City Books, N. Y.
Date Published: 1930
Description: Illustrated. Good in As is jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover has light shelf wear with a stain to the top outer edges of the pages. The jacket has a large chip on the front...Note on the front fly...................We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild
Date Published: 1930
Description: VG Used, Very Good. No DJ. HARDCOVER, VG/No DJ, Literary Guild, 1930, 38.4 oz. This copy has visible but minimal wear, has no dust jacket, has a name, inscription, stamp or some other indications of previous ownership, is in otherwise Very Good condition. Special Notes on this book: wear to board edges, fray/tearing to spine top. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, Garden City, NY, 1930.
Description: Octavo, hardcover, previous owner's name and gift note on endpaper, corners bumped else VG in brown boards. No dj. Detailed account of the last years of the great Dutch master. 570 deckled pages, including epilogue, plus bw plates; Originally published as RVR The Life and Times of Rembrandt Van Rijn. Frontis of a young Rembrandt. read more
Description: Very Good. B001IN7JPW Great 1957 printing tightly bound and intact with no marking to textblock, page ends or inside cover. Tiny bump to upper page ends caused several tiny dogears. Cover shows surface/edge/corner scuffing, creases at center spine from opening, 3 small faint creases to surface and a small dimple. read more
Edition: 1st Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Good. To view other titles by this author enter the key words; XDCX, XJGX, Van Loon or Art. In good condition with minor wear o/w tight clean and square. read more
Description: Good. No Jacket. HC. Good to VG/No Jacket. Thick Average-Size Book. Netherlands, Art, Painter. 570p., includes b/w illus. Corner gone p. 196. Small watermark bottom edge 315-400pp and slight crinkling extends beyond f or 20pp approx. Some browning pp. margins. Illus endpapers. Some rubbing covers. T137. read more
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