
Price: $35.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
(x) + 291 pp + ads. Many full page illus & plates. Inscribed on the first fly "Barbara Seaman Anderson, with the affectionate regards of her old friend Louis Livingston Seaman February 24 1906." Octavo. Book was written while Seaman was a Major in the services and the "silent foe" refers to disease, which according to statistics of previous wars, is responsible for 80% of mortality, compared to 20% for bullets. O. D. Green cloth cover with gilt and red cross to center is clean, some edge/corner wear, spine tips a little rubbed and spine gilt faded. Interior frontis plate and title page just starting to loosen at bottom gutter, contemporaneous account of the book's publication inserted with consequent foxing on those two pages, otherwise clean and unmarked. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall; 291 pages; Signed by Author
Title: The Real Triumph of Japan. The Conquest of the Silent Foe Gift inscription from author
Categories: First/Limited/Signed Editions, Military & Wars, Medicine,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1906
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 002064
Keywords: Disease Epidemiology War Wounds Battle Medicine Mortality,