John Ormond Introduction (3 results)
Language: English
Published by Time, Inc., New York, 1964
- Softcover
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
Contact seller5-star sellerTrade Paperback. Condition: Good. Copyright 1964. 177 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Publisher's remainder copy. Creased spine. Back cover corners are missing. Stain on fore-edge. Alexey Brodovitch (Cover Design) (illustrator).
Published by Time Inc., New York, 1964
- Softcover
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.UHR Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy. Book.
Published by Times Reading Progrm, Special Edition/Time Inc, New York, NY, 1964
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
Contact seller4-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 1st Edition. Welsh poet & writer Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), hard-drinking & ever bar present, hailed as a major 20th century Welsh poet, wrote wrote chiefly in the English language. This novel shows his rhythmic, ingenious command of words & imagery is e…videnced in his prose as well. A semi-Gothic tale of a medical school physician/teacher short on lab cadavers, and, the consequent criminal responses by either digging them out of graves, or, killing them fresh to sell them to the medical school. The work, set in early 19th century Edinburgh, famous for schools of medicine, is based on true story of Dr. Knox for whom Burke and Hare, who in 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, murdered at least 16 people to sell their bodies for anatomical dissection. Screen script adapted to 1985 horror film, The Doctor and The Devils, produced by Mel Brooks.