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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. jacket missing sections, ragged but present; boards and sunned in places, edge worn. pages tanned; Dr. Christian's Office is the heartwarming story of the career of a typical country doctor to whom the minds and hearts of his neighbors and patients are as important as their physical ailments.
Published by The World Publishing Company, 1946
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1946. First Edition thus. 243 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Water marking to top edge of pages to front. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Jacket has moderate tanning.
Published by The World Publishing Co, 1944
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. DJ may have toning, marks, chips and tears. Cover may have general wear. Pages may be tanned with foxing. May contain inscriptions.
Published by Cleveland: World Publishing Co, 1946, Cleveland, 1946
Seller: Wabash Museum Books, Mount Carmel, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 243 pages story of Dr. Christian in the setting of a small town Pages tight; yellowed; no markings in book. Blue hard cover with dark blue lettering and small encircled illustration of doctor and child on front cover. Slight rubbing on cover and spine edges. Minimal shelf wear.
Good plus or better, light general wear Cloth Worn jacket with tears and chips. Yellowed, brittle pages. Prev owner's bookplate on front fly.
Published by Tower Books/ The World Publishing Co. 1946., 1946
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Hardback. Reprint edition. Very Good condition with browning to interior edges of pages in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor chips, small tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight sound unmarked copy.
Published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, 1048
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First Edition thus (Tower Press); dj w/chippikng, rubbing at folds, unclipped price, in mylar; blue c w/navy titles; 243 clean, unmarked, moderatelhy toned pages Size: 8 Vo.
Published by New York: Random House, 1944
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Inscribed & signed on the first free endpaper by co-author Jean Hersholt who starred as Dr. Christian on the long-running radio program. Earlier in his career, Hersholt co-starred in Von Stroheim's silent film Greed. Small octavo. Condition: several tears & minor nicking to the dust jacket; else very good+ in fair DJ. 243 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by New York: Random House, 1944
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed & signed on the first free endpaper by Jean Hersholt, co-author and star of the Dr. Christian radio show in the 1940s. First printing, stated. Small octavo. Condition: DJ price-clipped with slight nicking, chipping & toning; slight fading to top edge of cloth binding; else near fine in very good DJ. 243 pags. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Random House, New York, 1944
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Dust Jacket Condition: near Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Hersholt on the front free endpaper. A nice copy with minimal shelfwear to the binding; contents clean and binding sound; dust jacket is a bit shelfworn at the extremities with some chipping including a bit of loss to the front panel near the hinge; dust jacket is now protected and brightened in a mylar cover. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket.
Published by Random House, New York, 1944
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. A unique First Edition, First Printing (so stated) bound in tan cloth with jacket. Inscribed to Ralph Morgan (actor) on front free endpaper by co-author Jean Hersolt who starred as Dr. Christian on the long running radio program: "To Ralph and Daisy Morgan with love from their old friend Jean Hersholt, Christmas, 1944". Jacket has soiling and wear at edges, liquid stain and tear on rear jacket.; liquid stain on boards near spine, pages yellowing. Very Good+ in Archival Plastic Cover.
First Edition. Warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper to a famous Hollywood columnist, 'To Jimmy Starr, With kindest regards from his old friend, Jean Hersholt, Sept. 1944.' An invitation to a testimonial dinner for Hersholt is laid in. Some cloth spots; very good plus in a dust jacket with the interior of the rear flap tissue mended. The radio show featuring Dr. Christian was a long running popular series that made a successful transition to television. The radio show, named for its sponsor, began as the Vaseline Program. You wouldn't do that nowadays. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
First Edition. Hersholt's own copies of the first two printings, both fine in dust jackets, and with long inscriptions by the author on their history, bibliography (the actor-author was a noted book collector) and success. Laid in are three typed letters from publisher Bennett Cerf to Hersholt about the novel, with a page of typescript. Hersholt's bookplate is in each book; contained in a quarter-morocco slipcase. There were six films that starred Hersholt as the kindly Dr. Christian, one of some 140 films in which he appeared in, the best-known of which is probably von Stroheim's Greed. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.