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Author: Thompson, Morton
Title: The Cry and the Covenant
Place: Garden City, NY
Publisher: Doubleday
Date: 1949
Item # : 121238
Offered by: PBA Galleries
Start Date   09/20/2002 17:00:00 CDT
Dynamic End Date   09/30/2002 19:00:00 CDT
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Description:
8vo. Cloth, jacket. First Edition.
Passionate novel of the life of Philipp Semmelweis, one of the world's greatest doctors and discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, who was ostracized and villified by his colleagues for his beliefs and personal eccentricities.
Condition:
A few small chips to jacket, some edgewear and a bit of soil; top page edge dusty, bookplate to front free endpaper, mild offsetting to endpaper gutters; about near fine in very good or better jacket.
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