The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715620673
- ISBN 13
- 9780715620670
- Seller
-
Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
xii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, spine faded, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, slight roll to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
Synopsis
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered in 1986.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016382
- Title
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Author
- Oliver Sacks
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0715620673
- ISBN 13
- 9780715620670
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
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