The Island of the Colorblind by Sacks, Oliver - 1997

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Stated First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Very clean cream boards with unfaded black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 298 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, very small surface scrape at upper right corner of front panel from sticker removal (barely noticeable) - enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind, author finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. And on Guam, where he goes to investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis endemic there for a century, he becomes, for a brief time, an island neurologist, making house calls with his colleague John Steele, amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture..