Stay Execution Sort Memoir by Alsop Stewart (31 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Condition: Good. 2nd Imp. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 305 pages. Ex-libris front endpaper and date and city on back endpaper. Illustrated with photographs. Death is, after all, the only universal experience except birth, and although a sensible person hopes to put it off as long as possible, it is, even in anticipation, an interesting experience. He found out.he had a kind of leukemia that was likely to kill him in a year, and almost surely in two. Alsop describes what it means to live with a terminal disease and to confront daily the prospect of one's own death. Stay of Execution is also a suspenseful tale of medical detection. The author's illness is mysterious and deeply puzzling-for a few glorious weeks the doctors even thought that it might not be leukemia at all. Now the original diagnosis has been amended. Alsop's form of leukemia may not be rapidly fatal; he has received a stay of execution. The uncertainty of his future has turned Stewart Alsop's thoughts back to the past.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Stained page edges. No store stamps. --- --- Writing movingly but without sentimentality, Alsop describes what it means to live with a terminal disease (cancer) and to confront daily the prospect of one's own death. . .

hardcover. first edition. 8vo 312pp. from front flap: "I have quite often wondered what it would be like to be told that I had an inoperable and lethal cancer," Stewart Alsop writes. He found out on July 6, 1971, when he was told that he had a kind of leukemia that was likely to kill him in a year, and almost surely in two. Writing movingly but without sentimentality, Alsop describes what it means to live with a terminal disease and to confront daily the prospect of one's own death." #03986. Book VG: mild dust/shelf wear to boards and outer edge text block. name and date on title page, text clean, binding tight. DJ VG-: creasing to flaps, mild toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Small 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1973). A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book club. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book and dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, book foredges soiled, dust jacket lightly worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book club. Very good in good dust jacket. D/j has minor tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Rep. The experiences of living with cancer. "An extraordinary book, grace under the ultimate pressure, filled with wit, wonder and endless courage." Pp. 312, 17 b/w photographs, slight toning to endpapers. Orange cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w edge chipped. G+/G+.

Condition: Very Good. 1973 edition, protective film over the jacket. The book is clean and readable throughout, a sound copy.