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Negotiating the Gray Maze: The Business of Medicine in Japan
by Colby, Mark A
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1891640003
- ISBN 13
- 9781891640001
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Floating World Edithions, 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition, stated. Octavo, hard cover with black cloth spine over yellow paper covered boards and gilt spine title. 174 pp. A practical memoir of the cross-cultural challenges of medical practice and the heatlh care systems of Japan with occasional humorous sidelights. A tight, clean, fresh, crisp, bright volume with sparkling spine gilt, unmarked, unblemished and unread in a very tight, crisp, sharp, unclipped, glossy, dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW in AS NEW dust jacket. Uncommon..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09925
- Title
- Negotiating the Gray Maze: The Business of Medicine in Japan
- Author
- Colby, Mark A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1891640003
- ISBN 13
- 9781891640001
- Publisher
- Floating World Edithions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- COLBY, BIRT, MEDICINE, CLINICAL, BUSINESS, JAPAN, JAPANESE, MEDICAL, PHYSICIANS, TREATMENT, HEALTH, CARE, SYSTEM, CULTURE, CULTURAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Health;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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