Varied Operations by Bruce, Herbert A
- Bookseller: Old Goat Books
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1010259
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG.
- Jacket condition: Good. DJ has chips on corners and spine edges and wear to other extremities.
- Edition: 1st
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Longmans, Green
- Date published: 1958
- Pages: 356 pages.
Description
Longmans, Green, 1958. 1st. Hardcover. VG./Good. DJ has chips on corners and spine edges and wear to other extremities.. Octavo. Autobiography of the Emeritus Professor of Surgery who became Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. Herbert Bruce (1868-1958) also was a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, founder of the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, and a founder of the American College of Surgeons. Forward by John Diefenbaker. Black and white illustrations and photos. Red cloth boards. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover
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octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
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