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New York: Crosset & Williams. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. In DJ. .

Hemlock, New York: Crosset and Williams, 1946. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, SIGNED by author, in illustrated original dust jacket. Clean blue pebbled cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean, with clean illustrated endpapers (illustrated by Virginia E. Smith). Boldly signed "Harold W. Trott, Capt. M.C." across back of front free endpaper. 371 pages. Dust jacket is clean, has small edge chips; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A stirring, true novel about a young medical student who planned, worked, and saved to become a doctor. It will take you through a life and death struggle in a large Montreal hospital, which actually happened. There, this medical student fights for weeks to live with a dreaded paralysis of his whole body from which no other person ever recovered. Finally, the student graduates to find… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

[Hemlock, NY]: Crosset And Williams, 1946. Signed by Trott (as "Capt. M.C.") opposite the title page. Also signed by Emmett [R. Corey?] on the same page. Harold Trott [1899-1961] was a Captain in the U.S. Medical Corp. "Campus Shadows" describes his life as a medical student at McGill University between 1918 and 1924. It is one of the most detailed memoirs by a McGill student for any period. Trott wrote about his lectures, dissecting labs, clinics, bull sessions, money problems, professors, classmates, rowdy student initiations, and life at McGill's Strathcona Hall residence and in Montreal rooming houses. 8vo., black faux-leather, stamped in gilt, in dust jacket; 371 pages. Very Good (covers bright, contents clean & tight); moderate wear (shallow chip head of spine & short tears) d/j.

Hardback. New.