[Salesman's Dummy of] The New Modern Medical Counselor: A Practical Health Guide
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- Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1951
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers', or booksellers', dummies are special sample copies of books issued to canvassers, showing sample pages, illustrations, bindings, etc. Their pagination rarely matches that of the actual book to be sold. They are unique in that, they are different depending on the publisher's designs. They feature attractive aspects of the book, in this case, a volume set, with engraving prints, type set, and paper samples.
This volume includes various home remedies and home health care instruction. Includes chapters on basic physiology, exercise, nutrition, diseases--albeit sample sections. Quite interesting to the volume during Cold War era, a section on first aid emergencies including nuclear fallout, atom bomb blasting survival. A rare example of home health featuring 1950s aesthetics and situations, with the alternative binding cloth pasted on the rear board in green.
Hubert Oscar Swartout ( pinyin S Q ngx n) served as a schoolteacher in Michigan, followed by a decade of teaching and editing in China. When he returned to America, he became a physician, an author of medical books, and an administrator as County Health officer in Los Angeles. Slightly cracked, but intact, minimal shelfwear to extremities, bumping, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Var. pg. Illus. (b/w and color plates). Pebbled dark leather over boards with gilt titling and decorative elements, stamped ensignia, marbled edges and various different colors of papers, examples of printing. Inserted salesman's order form and leather boards specimen, pictorial endpapers.
This volume includes various home remedies and home health care instruction. Includes chapters on basic physiology, exercise, nutrition, diseases--albeit sample sections. Quite interesting to the volume during Cold War era, a section on first aid emergencies including nuclear fallout, atom bomb blasting survival. A rare example of home health featuring 1950s aesthetics and situations, with the alternative binding cloth pasted on the rear board in green.
Hubert Oscar Swartout ( pinyin S Q ngx n) served as a schoolteacher in Michigan, followed by a decade of teaching and editing in China. When he returned to America, he became a physician, an author of medical books, and an administrator as County Health officer in Los Angeles. Slightly cracked, but intact, minimal shelfwear to extremities, bumping, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Var. pg. Illus. (b/w and color plates). Pebbled dark leather over boards with gilt titling and decorative elements, stamped ensignia, marbled edges and various different colors of papers, examples of printing. Inserted salesman's order form and leather boards specimen, pictorial endpapers.