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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
de Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Bien/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Librería
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
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.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- JCOScarSM
- Título
- The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
- Autor
- Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Editorial
- Dutton Adult
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003-06-02
- Tamaño
- 8x5x0
- X weight
- 29 oz
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Chaparral Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Portland, Oregon
Sobre 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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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
