A Labrador Doctor: An Autobiography
by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1919. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Presentation copy, with a great inscription. Signed and inscribed by Grenfell 'To Jerome A. Johnson: It's hard to live alongside an auto-biography, when so many people, who read it have been there. To all like yourself the only witty inscription after the gratitude for your personal help on the coast has always to be apology. gratefully yours/ (signed) Wilfred T. Grenfell Oct. 26. 20. ' 8vo. 441pp. with 24 b/w plates. Green cloth, with gilt titles. Cloth rubbed and a bit soiled; inner hinges loose (but intact and unbroken) text is clean and text block tight. Jerome A. Johnson bookplate to front pastedown/ Laid in loose and mounted to the endpaper are newpaper clippings (1927) in refrence to Grenfell,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00537043
- Title
- A Labrador Doctor: An Autobiography
- Author
- Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Polar Exploration, Medical, Canadian History, , , , , ,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Arundel Books of Seattle
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Seattle, Washington
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