The Country Doctor Illustrated with the Most Recent Pictures of the Dionne Quintuplets

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1936. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The covers have some edge wear, rubbing and bumping. There is some beginning fraying to the cloth spine ends. The rear cover has noticeable toning. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there is noticeable toning to the edges of the pages. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "The Dionne quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood. The Dionne girls were born two months premature. After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross who paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario Government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935 which made them Wards of the Crown until the age of 18. The Ontario provincial government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction." (from Wikipedia) .