THE FACEMAKER: A SURGEON'S BATTLE TO MEND THE DISFIGURED SOLDIERS OF WORLS WAR 1.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork [images from a series of portraits from 'The Allies' by Eugene Burnand (1850-1921) - pencil and pastel on paper.] illustrated dw/dj with capitalised,white with grey flecked lettered title and author name to front of dw/dj; a white spine/backstrip with capitalised black with white flecked title and author name,a thumbnail colour detail from front image and publisher's colour illustrated initialled name colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with coloured part facial portrait and critics' black-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present and majority of light creases to top edges and top corner tips - these tips with miniscule bumping.Top+fore-edges bright crisp, clean without ageing/toning or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original pale beige cloth with blocked,black ink lettering to spine and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, illustrated,1st edn,xiipp+ 4-315pp [paginated] includes verso of Note to reader, a Prologue,13 chapters and an Epilogue,16pp contemporary biographical b/w photograph portraits and b/w illustrations in 1 block,between pp162/63, Notes,Acknowledgements and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] blank with author's other work/title to its verso,half-title+title pages,a dedication,epigram page with 2 epigrams,a Contents list/table with blank versorecto of Note to reader,title separator page, and to the rear,6pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of other detracting faults. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front,one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities.The war's new weaponry,from tanks to shrapnel,enabled slaughter on an industrial scale,and given the nature of trench warfare,thousands of soldiers sustained facial inuries.Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before yet,disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved. In 'The Facemaker',award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies,who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies,a Cambridge-educated New Zealander,became interested in the nascent filed of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front.Returning to Britain,he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction inSidcup,south-east England.There,Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors,nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart.At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero,but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfifgurement,Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but lso their spirits. Meticulously researched and grippingly told,'The Facemaker' places Gillies ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired.The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge,and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **