Tale of a Physician: or, The Seeds and Fruits of Crime.
by Davis, Andrew Jackson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston: William White & Company, 1869. First edition. Cloth sunned, with boards and spine nearly completely turned tan; some light wear, with fraying at the head and foot of the spine; a little light foxing; in very good condition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.13 inches), original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering on the spine, 325, [1], 8 pages. "Moreover, finally, and in short: he found that, by this mysterious and immutable law of phreno-electrotyping, so to call it, which is outwrought on the sensitive surfaces of, and by the means of the psycho-dynamical forces at work within the unborn brain, the offspring could, and absolutely does, mentally inherit a predisposition to particular vices and crimes, as easily as to be born with cross-eyes, red-hair, far-sightedness, stammering, deafness and dumbness, cutaneous diseases, scrofula, and consumption." A crime novel from the clairvoyant free-love mesmerist Davis, using the developing tropes of the detective novel to dramatize his Spiritualist-inflected ideas of influence and inheritance. Wright II, 68; Hubin, Crime Fiction, page 108.
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- Bookseller
- Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21230
- Title
- Tale of a Physician: or, The Seeds and Fruits of Crime.
- Author
- Davis, Andrew Jackson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William White & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1869
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime Fiction; Spiritualism;
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