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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
by Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Dutton Adult, 2003-06-02. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8x5x0. Signed by Author. Inscribed by Carrell on the title page. The binding is tight, corners and boards show some rubbing and a trace of soiling. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling and edgewear, small chip out at the head of the spine, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xvii, 474pp.
Synopsis
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again. Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JCOScarSM
- Title
- The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
- Author
- Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Publisher
- Dutton Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003-06-02
- Size
- 8x5x0
- X weight
- 29 oz
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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