An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner
by FLEXNER, James Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0316286117
- ISBN 13
- 9780316286114
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and beige paper over boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 494pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint bit of jacket edgewear. Tight, handsome first edition, penned by the National Book Award-winning son of the self-taught pathologist and biologist who discovered a cure for spinal meningitis.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35316
- Title
- An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner
- Author
- FLEXNER, James Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0316286117
- ISBN 13
- 9780316286114
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Medical;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...