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Palace of Healing : The Story of Dr. Clara Swain, First Woman Missionary Doctor, and the Hospital She Founded
by Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. x, 245pp. B/w photos. Faint dustmarking to top edge, small mark on bottom edge of text block, contents clean and firmly bound. DJ is priceclipped, sunned spine, light shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006566
- Title
- Palace of Healing : The Story of Dr. Clara Swain, First Woman Missionary Doctor, and the Hospital She Founded
- Author
- Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Biography Christianity First Woman Missionary Doctor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christianity; Biography and Memoirs;
- Size
- 8vo
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Sunned
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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