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The Last Stitch
por Crosthwait, William L. and Fischer, Ernest G
- Usado
- first
- Condição
- Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.50)
- Livreiro
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1956. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 250pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "In 1898 the author of this book was called upon to performa. major tumor operation at a Texas ranch a hundred miles from the nearest hospital. The patient was old Aunt Bess Railton, matriarch of a large and unruly clan, whose members stood around outside while the doctor went to work. Dr. Crosthwait remembers one of these, fingering a lariat and remarking without a smile: "If anything happens to Aunt Bess, Doc done took his last stitch." Now, almost six decades later, that last stitch has not been taken, and Dr. Crosthwait can look back on one of the fullest, most humanly rewarding medical careers ever to be put between the covers of a book." #01694.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 1631
- Título
- The Last Stitch
- Autor
- Crosthwait, William L. and Fischer, Ernest G
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
- Condição de sobrecapa
- DJ VG: age toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.50)
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- first edition
- Editorial
- J.B. Lippincott Company
- Local de publicação
- Philadelphia
- Data de publicação
- 1956
- Palavras-chave
- doctor, medicine, family doctor, texas, nonfiction, memoir, first edition
Termos da venda
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Sobre o Vendedor
Matthew's Books LLC
Membro de Biblio desde 2023
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Sobre Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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- Tight
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- Shelf Wear
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