IT ALL STARTED WITH EUROPA: BEING AN UNDIGESTED HISTORY OF EUROPE FROM PREHISTORIC MAN TO THE PRESENT, PROVING THAT WE REMEMBER BEST WHATEVER IS LEAST IMPORTANT

Armour, Richard

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1955

About this Item

SIGNED BY ARMOUR as usual on the front free endpaper as follows: "Regards, | Richard Armour." 8vo. (20 cm.) [8]1-119p. Profusely illustrated with black and white line drawings by Campbell Grant. "About the Author" on the last page. Black paper over white paper with letters in red on the spine and with a vignette in red on the front cover of a cave man who appears to have just drawn images of horses and a buffalo (in white on black). Just touches of wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket chipped, shelfworn and price-clipped, but most all there. A Harvard Ph.D., Richard Armour is well known for writing light and humorous verse, as well as a series of humorous "historical" books whose titles begin with "It All Started With." He was Professor of English in Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA. Campbell Grant [b. 1909] was a water color painter and mural painter in California who was also a member of the Federal Art Project. "IT ALL STARTED WITH EUROPA is a devastation of Europe's past, from the Caveman to the Cold War." [from the dust jacket]. Seller Inventory # 007063

Bibliographic Details

Title: IT ALL STARTED WITH EUROPA: BEING AN ...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Publication Date: 1955

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Campbell Grant

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition