DOCTOR OF THE HAPPY LANDINGS

Julia Lake [Julia Lake Skinner, b. 1897] Kellersberger and Eugene Kellersberger

Published by John Knox Press, Richmond, VA, 1949

About this Item

SIGNED on the half title page by both authors. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. [14]15-265p. Illustrated with black and white drawings as chapter headpieces. Endpapers are maps showing the places visited. Blue decorative cloth with black letters on the spine and with a vignette that wraps from the front cover to the spine of an airplane flying through the clouds of a blue sky. Just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket spine slightly faded with a few small chips missing around the edges. The Kellersbergers use the format of letters home to friends to tell of their journeys to distant and seldom-visited places to study leper colonies around the world and to minister to the lepers. Eugene Kellersberger was an ordained Presbyterian minister, a medical missionary to the Belgian Congo, and General Secretary of the American Leprosy Missions. Julia Lake Skinner Kellersgerger was the author of several books, including Congo Crosses. A Study of Congo Womanhood (1936), God¿s Ravens (1941) and A Life for the Congo. The Story of Althea Brown Edmiston (1947).

Seller Inventory # 008124

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DOCTOR OF THE HAPPY LANDINGS
• Publisher: John Knox Press, Richmond, VA
• Publication Date: 1949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)