223pp. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles on spine and front board. Spine titles just legible, front board titles faded. Wear to spine ends, including slight raveling to head of spine. Missing spot of fabric at upper corner of back board. Binding remains secure, spine straight. Pages age toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. MacCabe was a horse trainer and journalist who published this book first as Human life and how it may be prolonged to 120 years. This revised edition was the first to appear in America. Uncommon edition.

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Title: Human Life, Its Enjoyment and Prolongation
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1923
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition - Second Printing.
Condition: Good
Book Type: Book

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