Toronto: Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada, 2006. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number sequence. One of only 5,000 first edition copies, this is Lam's first book, being a collection of 12 interwoven stories that won the Giller Prize. Black cloth w/red spine lettering, 355 pages (including glossary, acknowledgments, brief author biography). Somewhat cocked, light edgewear, in dust jacket w/light rubbing, edgewear, 1/8" nick to top right spine end, nicks to top spine folds, 1/2" tear to bottom left spine edge, impressions. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve..

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Bookseller: Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 016678
Title: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Author: Lam, Vincent
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
ISBN 10: 0385661436
ISBN 13: 9780385661430
Publisher: Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 2006
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: MEDICINE, MEDICAL PROFESSION, DOCTOR, DOCTORS, STUDENTS, GILLER PRIZE WINNER, NOISBN, WINNERS
Bookseller catalogs: Canadian Fiction;

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