HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1950* Publisher: Christophe Johnson.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, black title to spine. No bumps or rubs, a few light marks to covers. VG* Jacket condition: Paper dust wrapper now in clear un-attached wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, price clipped, showing shelf price of 9/6d net. Slight shelf wear with minimal loss to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight offsetting o end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 178 pp. text. vi pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Did Adelaide Bartlett administer the chloroform found in her husband?s stomach at the autopsy following his mysterious death at their flat in Pimlico? This is the question which all England was asking in 1886 as the outcome of the trial in which this good-looking young woman was tried for the murder of he husband and found ?Not Guilty?. In the first of their Medical Viewpoint series, the publishers have asked ?Gordon Gwynn? (the pseudonym masks the name of a well-known specialist in anaesthetics) to give an expert opinion.* A NEAR VG+ copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Some age to dust jacket reduces it to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 927
Title: Did Adelaide Bartlett ---? : A Medical Viewpoint
Author: Gwynn, Gordon
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG./VG/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
Publisher: Christopher Johnson
Place of Publication: London UK. 184
Date Published: 1950-01-01
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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