Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams - 2008-07-01

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Pan Macmillan. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardback. Very Good.

Pan Macmillan, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 310 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. It is 1790. After ten years training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of physicianin the Aberdeen Dispensary. Alec has ambitious plans for modernizing medical practice in the town, starting with the local midwives, whose ignorance and old-fashioned methods appal him.But Alec s dreams of progress are thrown into disarray when a mysterious disease suddenly strikes the town, attacking and killing every newly delivered mother for miles around. Alec alone recognizes it as childbed fever, a disease more deadly than the plague, a condition that has baffled the greatest physicians of the age, an illness with no known cause and no known cure.Desperate to save his patients lives, Alec sets out on an astonishing medical quest to conquer the disease. But while Alec… Read More

Macmillan, 2008. 9780230015555.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Macmillan, 2008. 9780230015555. 1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price cliped, Fine). Pp. 310 (no other inscriptions).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

London: Macmillan, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. Based on a true story, this is a stunning historical novel that brings to life a fascinating period in world history. It is 1790, and after 10 years of training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of Physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary. His plans for modernizing medical practice and dreams of progress are thrown into disarray when a mysterious disease suddenly strikes the town, attacking and killing every newly delivered mother for miles around, which he recognises as childbed fever, a condition that has baffled the great physicians, an illness with no known cure. Alec sets out on an astonishing medical quest to conquer the disease, but while he struggles to find solutions that lie far in the future, his wife Elisabeth is increasingly lost in the past, prey to terrifying memories of her childhood in Antigua, as she… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED+dated,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,black ink date, location and signature - without dedication: 'Rebecca Abrams Oxford,2009' to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with red+b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Some minor,miniscule rubbing to 2 top corners of inner flaps of dw/dj along with a couple of tiny,tiny snicks to top edges also,the majority of minimal creasing is to the top edges.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,5-310pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 comprising 62… Read More