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Dead and Buried: the Horrible History of Bodysnatching
by Adams, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0517135973
- ISBN 13
- 9780517135976
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1972. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing (letterline on copyright page begins with "a") in clean dust jacket. Clean gray boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs.152 pages. Clean dust jacket has a few tiny edge nicks and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The horrible history of body-snatching, which reached its peak at the beginning of the 19th century. Fron Land's End to John o'Groats, people lived and died in terror of the bodysnatchers, for the old saying you are worth more dead than alive was never as true as in those days, when the ressurectionists busied themselves in the graveyards of the land at the dead of night--in search of "things for the surgeon.".
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026845
- Title
- Dead and Buried: the Horrible History of Bodysnatching
- Author
- Adams, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0517135973
- ISBN 13
- 9780517135976
- Publisher
- Bell Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- TRUE CRIME, BODY SNATCHING, MEDICINE, MEDICAL SCHOOLS, HISTORY, NORMAN ADAMS, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical/Health; true crime;
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