Open Wide, Please! Illustrations by Frederick Franck. [Inscribed.]

Franck, Frederick, writing as Dr. Frank Fredericks

Published by London, Peter Davies, (1957).

About this Item

Second printing, shortly after the first (December, 1957, first printing was in September). Small 8vo. Cloth with dust jacket. Very good copy in very good dust jacket, spine panel of jacket has a very small chip at top right and a short tear at top left. Illustrated by the author. Inscribed amusingly on the front free endpaper "To Ben Wechsler . . . also known as Franck Medico's Balkan Sobranie Division / May '58 / Franck." Laid in are a one-page printed sheet, folded in fourths, "Biographical Notes Frederick Franck," which includes biographical information and a list of his art exhibitions, and another version of the same in some kind of early photocopy technique. Franck, besides being a practicing dentist and having worked with Albert Schweitzer, was the author of many books, especially on Buddhism, and an artist and illustrator. In the book, which he calls an "autodentobiography," he divides himself into several selves that talk to each other. Seller Inventory # 4503

Bibliographic Details

Title: Open Wide, Please! Illustrations by ...

Publisher: London, Peter Davies, (1957).

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition