Ether and Me or "Just Relax"
by Will Rogers
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935 G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1935. Hardcover. Stated 10th Impression of the Memorial Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light wear/bumping to head, tail and tips . DJ: Good+; NOT Price Clipped ($1.50); small missing pieces at head and tail; chipping and small closed tears to front panel edges. Tan and Brown paper covered boards with tan lettering on spine and front board. 77 pp 12mo. A medical tale by a great humorist accented with wonderful drawings of the medical/comical events in the story. Rogers describes the events surrounding a bout of gall stones from home treatment to the local small town doctor to the final solution in a hospital stay. A clean presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005632
- Title
- Ether and Me or "Just Relax"
- Author
- Will Rogers
- Illustrator
- Grim Natwick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- medicine, humor, surgery, gall stones, Will Rogers, vaudeville, surgery, country doctors
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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- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- 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...