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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
by NIELSEN, Jerri
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0786866845
- ISBN 13
- 9780786866847
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hyperion, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 362pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine/fine. Small remainder mark on bottom page edges. Tight, handsome second printing of this chronicle of this physician's breast cancer battle, signed huge in black fineline on the title page. Nielsen died in 2009 at age 57 when the cancer recurred.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37513
- Title
- Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
- Author
- NIELSEN, Jerri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0786866845
- ISBN 13
- 9780786866847
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Medical;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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