The Ballad of Typhoid Mary by Federspiel, Jurg, and Agee, Joel (Translated by) - 1983

New York.: Dutton Books. 1982 German edition, Suhrkamp., 1983. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Ex-library. End papers glue residue where it was adhered to inside boards. Missing first free end paper. Markings in red pen ink.. Tidwell, Earl (Jacket designed by).. 1 Text in English, German. Cloth and paper over boards. 172 p. Audience: General/trade. Historical medical biographical fiction. On January 11, 1868, in the early morning, the image of a wreck of a ship emerged in the whirling snow in New York Harbor. Close up, the stench of feces and death was overpowering. Once a sailing ship, the "Leibnitz", had left Hamburg 2 months before with 544 passengers, 108 of the immigrants had died. The daughter of the deceased cook was13. She was Maria Cudoff, alias Mary Mallon, and she was a typhoid carrier immune to the bacillus. In putting her cooking skills to work over her long career in elite homes and hotel kitchens. The narrator, Dr. Howard J Rageet over decades in tracking down Mary, still an active carrier, created this "morbidly witty moral fable".