The Serpent And The Staff. by Frank Yerby - 1959

HARDBACK "HEINEMANN FOR THE BOOK CLUB," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1959 (1958) * Publisher: The Book Club. * Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth covered boards, black title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no marks or other visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Coloured dust wrapper over black and white drawings and titles to face. White titles to black spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 16s. 0d. Some shelf wear & nicks to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective cover. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some age to top and fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 271 pp. text. v pp. blank at rear.* Description: The talents of Dr. Duncan Childers are those of the men of the Renaissance. He is as handsome as a god and as skilful at the piano as in the operating theatre. Many different people and experiences shape his tempestuous career, among them the New Orleans slums where he was born; gentle, dark-haired Jenny Greenway and Hester, his blonde, sensual wife; the terror of a malaria epidemic, the stately Viennese salons, and Dr Jarvis Phelton, who cares more for publicity than for sound practice. In spite of some of them, and with the help of others, Duncan begins to learn that the goal of medicine is the saving of lives, not of money.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st thus with some age and wear reducing it to VG. Now in a clear un-attached protective dust wrapper.*