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Very Much Alive; The Story of a Paraplegic
by Terry McAdam (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955 Houghton Mifflin Company, New York. 1955. Hardcover. First Edition (matching date on title page and copyright). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on FFFP in pencil. Book Condition: Good; shelfwear to board edges; flaking to spine title; light wear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Fair/Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); moisture stain to spine and rear panel bottom; chipping and small missing pieces at head, tail, and panel edges; missing section to front panel at title. Blue boards with black cloth overlay on spine with silver lettering on spine.Tinted text block top. 146pp 8vo. This is the story of a Kansas boy who suffered a broken back in 1951 in a car accident and became a paraplegic (waist down). This book is his story and the stories of some other men in Paraplegic Ward 5 and their world of physical limitations and spiritual loneliness. A story of faith and the potential greatness of man. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. This is the only signed copy on the market.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010162
- Title
- Very Much Alive; The Story of a Paraplegic
- Author
- Terry McAdam (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- paraplegic, paralysis, Paraplegic Ward 5, Washburn University, automobile accidents, neurosurgery, combat injuries, PTSD, Kansas, medicine, orthopedics, neurology,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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