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New York: Henry Holt and Compay, 1931. Early printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Ink call number on spine, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1931 Hard Cover. 191 pp. "The Hôpital Albert Schweitzer was established in 1913 by Albert Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau Schweitzer in Lambaréné, Gabon. Albert Schweitzer opened a hospital in 1913 in Lambaréné in what was then French Equatorial Africa that became Gabon, where he ran it until his death in 1965.[1][2] He won the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his work there.[2] For most of its history, the hospital was operated, staffed, and funded by Europeans.[1][2] Schweitzer worked with "fellowships" in many countries to fund his work (including the US Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, which was founded in 1940)[3] and the fellowships were coordinated by the "Association Internationale de l'oeuvre du docteur Albert Schweitzer de…
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The Forest Hospital at Lambarene
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The Forest Hospital at Lambarene
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First printing. Gilt on green covers, 8vo, 191pp. Bookstore stamp on the inside of the front cover. Vintage newspaper & magazine clippings about Schweitzer and hospital patients enclosed with the book.
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The forest hospital at Lambarene
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1931. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 191; illustrations throughout; green cloth boards, light speckling and bumping to boards, else very good. Lacking dust jacket.
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The Forest Hospital at Lambarene
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New York: Henry Holt, 1931. First American Edition . Green Cloth. Near Fine Book/Good Dustjacket. A very clean, solid, tight example, no stains, gilt lettering on spine is bright, no fraying, no stains, previous owner's inscription [to Hodge from Sarah] on front endpaper dated Easter 1932. Dust jacket clean, large chiop at bottom of rear panel without loss of lettering, irregular chipping at top and bottom of spine averaging 1/4" with loss of last two letters of "Holt" and "Company", 1/2" narrow V-chips at four tips.
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THE FOREST HOSPITAL AT LAMBARENE
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NY: Henry Holt, 1933. National Recovery Administration Edition. Signed presentation from Helene Schweitzer, wife of theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer [1875-1965]: "To Bassett W. Hough with much gratitude from [then uses printed title "The Forest Hospital At Lambarene] & its New York representative, Helene Schweitzer. NY. 24/II 1939." With the ink name of "Ann Hough" on the front endpaper- daughter of Bassett. In 1913 Albert & Helene founded a hospital (now the Albert Schweitzer Hospital) at Lambarene in Gabon. In the first nine months, the couple examined 2,000 patients, some traveling hundreds of kilometers to get there. Helene played many roles: nurse, anesthetist and overseeing sanitary methods for preparing medical equipment. Small 8vo., embossed dark-green cloth in the uncommon first edition dust jacket; 191 pages. With two full-page maps & 20 photographs on 16 plates.. Very Good (spine dull; contents clean & tight); some wear (few small chips…
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