Slocum Milton Jonathan (16 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. A wonderful picture of a doctor's life in (an almost vanished) New York.--Oliver SacksIn the middle of the Depression, when the West Side of Manhattan was a small town of its own, the young Milton Slocum, MD, and his wife, Belle, set up general practice in New York City's notorious Hell's Kitchen. Available around the clock for every medical emergency, Dr. Slocum tended to a vivid cast of real-life characters--mobsters, theater people, Old World families, boxers, and others--who became his good friends as well as his patients. Dr. Slocum's tales of his thiry-year Manhattan practice--many heartwarming or hilarious, others poignant reminders of the difficulties of the Depression and the dearth of medical advances--recall life way back when, when corner drugstores sold leeches, the local candy store doubled as a telephone message center, the shoeshine stand was a bookie joint, and where the neighborhood women cushioned their elbows with brightly colored pillows as they leaned out of the windows to chat with passersby. Manhattan Country Doctor is a moving, nostalgic account of medicine as science and art, of a colorful neighborhood in turbulent times, and of a man who exemplified the traditional image of the country doctor amid the teeming brownstones of New York City. Slocum won me over. The doctor has a deadpan humanism that allows the story to tell itself. . . . Tough, clear-eyed, idiosyncratic and fiercely honest, an original who animadverts on miserly patients, egocentric doctors, psychoanalysis and lucky Luciano with evenhanded fervor.--The New York Times Books Review.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Stated First Edition, jacket has shelf wear, writing inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very clean book. Pictures on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1986), 1986. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new, with some shelf/edgewear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 271pp.

Stated 1st edition; 8vo., cloth backed boards, hardcover; "the affectionate memoir of a doctor who practiced medicine from 1934 to 1968 in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan;" a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a lightly sunned else very good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author on the first free end page, this copy has a solid tight binding and clean unmarked pages.light edge wear from the shelf. Signed by Author.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. Discoloration to wrappers at front panel. Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC).; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 271 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Dust jacket has light shelf wear, text is inscribed by Milton Jonathan Slocum, M.D. Bonnie Doon, California July 31, 1987, otherwise without flaw. 6.5 X 9.5" 271 pages, Published 1986. This is a nostalgic, heart-warming account of medicine as science and art, of a colorful neighborhood in turbulent times, and of a man who exemplified the traditional image of country doctor amid the brownstones of Manhattan from 1934 to 1968. Here, also, is a rich social history of one of Manhattan's most famous neighborhoods, Hell's Kitchen. Inscribed by Author(s). …

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In-8° pp. IX-271, leg. edit. con sovrac. ill. Dedica anonima sul primo foglio.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.