Drums and Scalpel - From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast
by Large, R. Geddes
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Canada: Mitchell Press, 1968. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 145 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "A particularly readable account, rich in anecdote, of how medicine came to the magnificently beautiful but isolated places of upcoast British Columbia." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper else book clean and unmarked. Dust jacket sunned at spine and now protected in archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound working copy..
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121a5592
- Title
- Drums and Scalpel - From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast
- Author
- Large, R. Geddes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mitchell Press
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Drums and Scalpel - From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Native Peoples;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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