Lloyd C Douglas Home For Christmas

Douglas, Lloyd C. HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. Illustrated by David Hendrickson. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: (1937). 1937 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover

118p. + Plus color frontis. Text illustrations in black and white by David Hendrickson. Color pictorial title page. Ink staining slightly marring top corner of rear text. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Original dust jacket, slightly worn with ink staining rear top wrap. Nice copy of the second edition. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W67 Dust Jacket Included Hardcover

[SW: CHRISTMAS; PRINTING; FINE PRESS; LLOYD C. DOUGLAS; HOME FOR CHRISTMAS STORY ; LITERATURE; CHILDREN; JUVENILE; ILLUSTRATIONS]

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Douglas, Lloyd C.. Home for Christmas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937
Good-/No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall c. 1937, red cloth, frontis, illus., 118pp., (wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners bumped, bds.soiled, bds.somewhat bowed, note written inside front cover, front hinge cracked and weakening). "The Claytons all spent their childhood in a little farmhouse. Now there were Gertrude in New York, Claire in Louisville, Nan in Detroit, Fred in California, and Jim in Chicago . . . It was Nan"s idea that they should all go back there for Christmas to live for a few days as they had done in their childhood, remembering the hardships and pleasures of those far-off years . . . What happened there is told in a novel full of humor and tenderness, intertwined with a delightful love story.".

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Currah, Ann (editor) (Helen Dore Boylston; Norman Collins; Richard Gordon; P. D. James; Mary Jane Burton; Rudyard Kipling; Paula Milne; George Marshall; David Poling; Monica Dickens; Janet Sacks; Leo Tolstoy; Edgar Allan Poe; Ernest Hemingway; Sam Rose): NURSING STORIES: The Miracle; Unqualified Diagnosis; A Clinical Examination; Taming an Invisible Killer; Mark of the Beast; Wrong Foot; Doctor in the Jungle; Christmas on Duty; Prince Andrey's Wound; Some Words with a Mummy; Catherine in Childbirth, London Octopus Publishing Group 1979
0076410009 Very Good Lawrence Taylor;

351 pp. First Thus. Brown cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Miracle (from Sue Barton - Student Nurse) by Helen Dore Boylston; Unqualified Diagnosis (from London Belongs to Me) by Norman Collins; A Clinical Examination (from Doctor in the House) by Richard Gordon; Demonstration Patient (from Shroud for a Nightingale) by P. D. James; Taming an Invisible Killer (from Louis Pasteur) by Mary June Burton; Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling; Wrong Foot (from Angels) by Paula Milne; Doctor in the Jungle (from Schweitzer: A Biography) by George Marshall and David Poling; Christmas on Duty (from One Pair of Feet) by Monica Dickens; The Extraordinary Doctor by Janet Sacks; The School for Aerospace Medicine (from If the Sun Dies) by Oriana Fallaci; The Nurses (from Sister Dora) by Jo Manton; Prince Andrey's Wound (from War and Peace) by Leo Tolstoy; The Forgotten Medical Warrior by Ann M. Currah; Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe; Betty in a Leprosy Hospital (from Miracle at Carville) by Betty Martin; At Home (from Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal) by Lloyd C. Douglas; Typhoid (from The Final Diagnosis) by Arthur Hailey; The People in the Castle (from Not What You Expect) by Joan Aiken; Little Girls Too (from Barnardo) by Gladys Williams; A Normal Life by Sam Rose; Catherine in Childbirth (from A Farewell to Arms) by Ernest Hemingway; Hester's Summer by Gordon Cooper; and Florence Nightingale (from The Best Years of Their Lives) by Peter de Morny. Later Printing Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

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Currah, Ann (editor) (Helen Dore Boylston; Norman Collins; Richard Gordon; P. D. James; Mary Jane Burton; Rudyard Kipling; Paula Milne; George Marshall; David Poling; Monica Dickens; Janet Sacks; Leo Tolstoy; Edgar Allan Poe; Ernest Hemingway; Sam Rose): NURSING STORIES: The Miracle; Unqualified Diagnosis; A Clinical Examination; Taming an Invisible Killer; Mark of the Beast; Wrong Foot; Doctor in the Jungle; Christmas on Duty; Prince Andrey's Wound; Some Words with a Mummy; Catherine in Childbirth, London Octopus Publishing Group 1979
0076410009 Very Good Lawrence Taylor;

351 pp. First Thus. Brown cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; illustrated endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Miracle (from Sue Barton - Student Nurse) by Helen Dore Boylston; Unqualified Diagnosis (from London Belongs to Me) by Norman Collins; A Clinical Examination (from Doctor in the House) by Richard Gordon; Demonstration Patient (from Shroud for a Nightingale) by P. D. James; Taming an Invisible Killer (from Louis Pasteur) by Mary June Burton; Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling; Wrong Foot (from Angels) by Paula Milne; Doctor in the Jungle (from Schweitzer: A Biography) by George Marshall and David Poling; Christmas on Duty (from One Pair of Feet) by Monica Dickens; The Extraordinary Doctor by Janet Sacks; The School for Aerospace Medicine (from If the Sun Dies) by Oriana Fallaci; The Nurses (from Sister Dora) by Jo Manton; Prince Andrey's Wound (from War and Peace) by Leo Tolstoy; The Forgotten Medical Warrior by Ann M. Currah; Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe; Betty in a Leprosy Hospital (from Miracle at Carville) by Betty Martin; At Home (from Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal) by Lloyd C. Douglas; Typhoid (from The Final Diagnosis) by Arthur Hailey; The People in the Castle (from Not What You Expect) by Joan Aiken; Little Girls Too (from Barnardo) by Gladys Williams; A Normal Life by Sam Rose; Catherine in Childbirth (from A Farewell to Arms) by Ernest Hemingway; Hester's Summer by Gordon Cooper; and Florence Nightingale (from The Best Years of Their Lives) by Peter de Morny. First Printing Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

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