Baltimore: Church Home & Hospital, 1994. First Edition. Full cloth. Quarto. x, 115 pages. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Black and White Photographs. Recollections of 13 men and women who devoted their lives to one of Maryland's oldest medical institutions--the Church Home & Hospital facilities located at Fayette Street and Broadway in Baltimore. It was in one of the buildings now owned by the corporation that Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with spine and upper board stamped in silver foil. Shallow wrinkle to edge of cloth at head of spine, jacket has a closed 1.25" edge tear with associated creases at top of rear panel, a shallow chip at same location, a short edge tear at bottom edge of front panel, and a few other light extremity rubs. . Jacket in Mylar protector.

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Bookseller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 11425.5
Title: Poe Died Here Recollections of Church Home and Hospital
Author: Wehr, Frederick T
Illustrator: Black and White Photographs
Format/Binding: Full cloth. Quarto. x, 115 pages
Book Condition: Used - Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Church Home & Hospital
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date Published: 1994
Keywords: Maryland, Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, Hospitals, Medicine, Nurses, Church Home, Episcopal
Bookseller catalogs: Regional;

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