THE TORCH
by Wilder Penfield
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/G-VG
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Item Price
€27.95€22.36
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston-Toronto: Little, Brown & Co, 1960. THE TORCH- Wilder Penfield- Little, Brown & Co.- Boston/Toronto- 1960-1st Edition-1st Printing-Stated- Hardcover:-8vo-VG+/G-VG- original price-clipped dj-now in mylar- Green cloth boards with gilt titles- 370pp- clean-no writin or tears.-shaloow dampstain on ffep-otherwise clean- Corners are slightly bumped, as is spine, otherwise clean and crisp, DJ's Spine is rubbed and chipped, dj a chip at top near spine and a rubbed section on the DJ without any colour, 367 pp. + index- SEE PHOTOS- "This is a story from the life of HIPPOCRATES the physician - a story of what may have happened one spring twenty-four hundred years ago."- cover art by Eric Carle- Maps. Garrison and Morton 6623.2: "A romantic and inspirational historical novel about Hippocrates by the great Canadian neurosurgeon." The second of Penfield's two historical novels.- Fiction-historical-romance-medicine-Hippocrates (2659) . 1st Edition-1st Printing. Cloth. VG+/G-VG. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2659
- Title
- THE TORCH
- Author
- Wilder Penfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- G-VG
- Edition
- 1st Edition-1st Printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston-Toronto
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Fiction-historical-romance-medicine-Hippocrates
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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