Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Selzer, Richard - 1981

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1981. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback, slight rubbing and soiling to wrapper, no fading or tears. Wrapper is now in a clear removable protective sleeve. Not price clipped, No inscriptions, illustrated. Bright and clean internally with little wear, slight browning to page edges. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1981. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 216 pages.. A series of essays on the art of a surgeon and the parts of the body subject to his/her care. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1st ed. 216pp. VG/VG copy, now preserved in mylar jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1981.

London, Chatto & Windus First UK edition. - hard cover in dust jacket The essays in 'Mortal Lessons' combine unflinchingly exact descriptions of the surgeon's art and those parts of the body with which he may have to deal (the belly, brain, liver, the gut), with extraordinarily sympathetic specultions on the beauty, the complexity and transience of the human body, the mixture of awe, compassion, and professionalism felt by the surgeon. 222 x 142mm., pp. 216. H/cover in d.j. Contents, p.o. ""blind stamp"" ffep; dust jacket, slight wear top/bot. spine. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0701125586

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.