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A Country Doctor
by Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [1884], 1884. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 2-351, [3] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with purple lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Navy coated endpapers and pastedowns. A preliminary leaf starting from the gutter, two owner's inscriptions, a bit of foxing to the leaves.
Synopsis
A hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewett’s story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she becomes his protégée. But when she enters medical college, she realizes that she will have to choose between marriage and her career, between the demands of her society and her obligations to her true self. Inspired by Jewett’s own interests and by her father, A Country Doctor portrays a world very much in flux and Nan, ultimately, as a woman with a new world opening to her. First time in Penguin Classics
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000011218
- Title
- A Country Doctor
- Author
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company [1884]
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Evening Star Books
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Madison, Wisconsin
About Evening Star Books
We buy and sell rare and fine books in many fields. Our interests include philosophy, modern first editions, and works of historical or intellectual interest. In addition to bookselling, we regularly do valuations and appraisals for non-IRS purposes. Evening Star Books is a Limited Liability Company.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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