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Campus Shadows - A Story of a Doctor by a Doctor
by Trott, Harold W
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hemlock, New York: Crosset and Williams, 1946. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, SIGNED by author, in illustrated original dust jacket. Clean blue pebbled cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean, with clean illustrated endpapers (illustrated by Virginia E. Smith). Boldly signed "Harold W. Trott, Capt. M.C." across back of front free endpaper. 371 pages. Dust jacket is clean, has small edge chips; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A stirring, true novel about a young medical student who planned, worked, and saved to become a doctor. It will take you through a life and death struggle in a large Montreal hospital, which actually happened. There, this medical student fights for weeks to live with a dreaded paralysis of his whole body from which no other person ever recovered. Finally, the student graduates to find the profession of his boyhood dreams a pill peddling society of professional men administering to a pill demanding public of neurasthenics. A never-say-die story written by a doctor..
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30515
- Title
- Campus Shadows - A Story of a Doctor by a Doctor
- Author
- Trott, Harold W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Crosset and Williams
- Place of Publication
- Hemlock, New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- MEDICAL FICTION,DOCTOR NOVEL, DOCTORS, HOSPITALS, HEALTH CARE, HAROLD W. TROTT, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, INSPIRATIONAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical/Health;
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