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Why Not? A Book for Every Woman. The Prize Essay to which the American Medical Association Awarded the Gold Medal for MDCCCLXV. Issued for general circulation by order of the American Medical Association
by Horatio Robinson Storer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lee & Shepherd, 1868. Second Edition. Hard cover. Published Boston: Lee & Shepherd, 1868. 12mo., 4 1/2" x 7", xi+99pp., 4pp. publisher's ads. Paneled burgundy cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, yellow endpapers. A physician and surgeon, Storer was an early anti-abortion activist who (successfully) lead a nationwide crusade to criminalize abortion. Light rub to the gilt of a few letters in cover title, else near fine, unfoxed, pages clean and bright, no markings. A very attractive copy. Scarce. . Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008952
- Title
- Why Not? A Book for Every Woman. The Prize Essay to which the American Medical Association Awarded the Gold Medal for MDCCCLXV. Issued for general circulation by order of the American Medical Association
- Author
- Horatio Robinson Storer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Publisher
- Lee & Shepherd
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1868
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
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The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- 12mo
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- Fine
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