An Introduction to the Principles of Nursing Care
by Smith, Martha Ruth; [and] Jean Broadhurst
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, London, New York and Montreal: J. B. Lippincott and Company, 1938. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xx, 661 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Moderate wear to the binding, which is a bit cocked. The inner hinges are sound. Prior owner's inscription on the front flyleaf. Text is toned but generally clean. Illustrated with photos. Includes a couple of foldouts.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050926
- Title
- An Introduction to the Principles of Nursing Care
- Author
- Smith, Martha Ruth; [and] Jean Broadhurst
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott and Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, London, New York and Montreal
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1938; Martha Ruth Smith; Jean Broadhurst; Nursing Care; Nurses; Nursing; Health; Medical; Medicine.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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