QUACK, QUACK, QUACK: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
by Helfand, William H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0910672407
- ISBN 13
- 9780910672405
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
Item Price
A$77.55A$58.16
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About This Item
The Grolier Club, 2002. First edition (2002.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to with 252 pages. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with slight shelf wear. Some wear to top edge of the dust jacket. Interior is clean and tight. Fully illustrated! "This authoritative and entertaining exhibition catalog explores the long visual history of a rich and neglected topic: medical quackery, from the itinerant seller of nostrums four centuries ago to the unsolicited spam of today's internet. Presenting a broad variety of material?prints by William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, posters by Jules Chéret and Maxfield Parrish, and books by H. G. Wells and S. Weir Mitchell?Quack, Quack, Quack offers a delightful look at the remarkable artistry and elaborate language quacks used to peddle their wares: lavish pronouncements, excessive postures, and imaginatively exalted therapeutic promises." White spine/Gray text. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Psychology / Medical / Quacks.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jero Books and Templet Co. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033309
- Title
- QUACK, QUACK, QUACK: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
- Author
- Helfand, William H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0910672407
- ISBN 13
- 9780910672405
- Publisher
- The Grolier Club
- Place of Publication
- Falls Village, Connecticut, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- QUACK, QUACK, QUACK: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
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