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	1 Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age Selzer, Richard Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. 1993 Trade Paperback Very Good,  0316780650 / 9780316780650 CC6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in tan wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus some scattered dogearing and an occasional wrinkled page plus there is a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. A medical memoir of a doctor that begins in Depression-era Troy, New York where the author grew up. His parents were both strong-willed and his mother urged her son to become a writer while his father urded his son to become a physician. It is an autobiography that relates his years of work to sort out the persuasive influence of his parents and his gradual development of his own sense of who he was and what he wanted to be, both a writer and a doctor. By the author of "Imagine a Woman and Other Tales," "Taking the World in for Repairs," "Letters to a Young Doctor," Mortal Lessons," "Rituals of Surgery," and "Confessions of a Knife." 300p. SCW05423  Price: 3.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age Selzer, Richard William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York 1992 Hard Cover Very Good, Very Good 2nd Printing 0688097154 / 9780688097158 Signed by Author AQ6 - A 2nd printing hardcover book signed and dated by the author in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has light discoloration and shelf wear. Book cocked, previous owner's name stamped on the front free endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear. Also inscribed by the author to previous owner on the half title page. Association copy. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SW1087BB  Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality Selzer, Richard Whittle Books/Penguin Books New York, New York, USA 1994 Hard Cover Good, Very Good 2nd Printing 067085414X / 9780670854141 Ex-Library BE1 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some light fading on the top cloth board edges plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and mark on the top outside paper edges, inside surface of the front board, front endpaper, half title page, and title page plus the book is slightly shelf cocked. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear wear plus the endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there is a library label on the back plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A memoir of the medical collapse of a retired surgeon and renowned medical essayist into a coma and about the pain and indignity of medical procedures and the agonizing hallucinations that follow coma as well as the drama of the struggle between life and death. The author is a winner of a National Magazine Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. By the author of "Down from Troy," "Taking the World in for Repairs," and "Mortal Lessons." 118p. SCW07439  Price: 3.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart