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Devils, Drugs and Doctors: The Story of the Science of Healing from Medicine Man to Doctor
by Haggard, Howard W
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Blue Ribbon Books, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A comprehensive history of medicine & healing from ancient times to the present. Orig. published in 1929 by Harper & Bros, this is a later reprint from Blue Ribbon Books, identical in content, with 150 illustrations from original sources. Hardcover book has blue cloth-covered boards with faded lettering to spine. Condition is solidly Good: generally very clean, but pages are heavily foxed around edges & tanned overall, but unmarked. Text block secure, but binding cracked at half-title page. Summary of contents pasted inside front cover, causing discoloration to facing ffep. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019084
- Title
- Devils, Drugs and Doctors: The Story of the Science of Healing from Medicine Man to Doctor
- Author
- Haggard, Howard W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Blue Ribbon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- HISTORY MEDICINE HEALING BELIEF ILLNESS DISEASE HUMAN BODY TREATMENT CURE SUPERSTITION PHYSICIAN DOCTOR CHILDBEARING CHILDBIRTH HEALTH MEDICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Health & Medicine/Alternative Healing/Illness & Wellness;
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La Mesa, California
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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