Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
by HACKING, IAN
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
University Press of Virginia 1998. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 239pp, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)
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- Title
- Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
- Author
- HACKING, IAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia 1998
- Keywords
- first editions case studies psychology mental illness health fugue social psychiatry
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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