Bed-Time Stories for Convalescents

Boston, New York, and Paris: The A.M. Davis Co, 1930. Fine; some light toning.. Scarce edition of a charming and lighthearted book by a doctor, consisting of sixteen pages of humorous short stories, jokes, or scenarios. To set the tone, it begins with a caution to its reader: "Warning!! If you have been CUT OPEN and the stitches have not been taken out, DON'T read this book... Something may BURST THROUGH!" (upper wrapper verso). This copy has been personalized; in the rear, two illustrations of patients reading in bed have been labeled "Jen" and "Dewey" in contemporary ink. Small 4to (6" by 4.5"), pp. 16, stapled in original chromolithographed wrappers. This edition not in OCLC (Feb. 2022).