Health Is Wealth
by de Kruif, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York , NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1940. This book, by the author of Microbe Hunters, is a report on a five-year effort to promote a national health program and obtain the political support to enact it into law; de Kruif was a microbiologist, well-known as a writer on medical and science issues; signed by the author and inscribed to Alene Erlanger, a kennel owner and dog breeder who, a few months after Pearl Harbor, organized a national program, Dogs for Defense, to select and train dogs for military use in World War II (black covers with silver lettering on spine; front end paper removed; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006002
- Title
- Health Is Wealth
- Author
- de Kruif, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York , NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1940
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