Author: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem.
Title: My School Books from the Unpublished Autobiography of Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
Description: (Wilmington, DE: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. 1939). 1939). - Small 4to, gray cloth (very lightly bumped; binding lightly spotted with darker spotting along spine; light stains to rear cover; tiny scoremark to front cover) titled in gilt with vertical light & dark blue bands & vignette in dark & light blue on front cover. 24 pp. B&W pictorial title & B&W textual illustrations with B&W pictorial bookplate printed on front pastedown. Very good internally.

Given away at the 1939 New York World's Fair by the "Fabrikoid" Division of Du Pont to promote its PX Cloth in which the book is bound--"a pyroxylin impregnated fabric which is distinguished for its cleanability, its durability and its functional beauty. Good .

Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; ADVERTISING.

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