William Osler Introduction (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. xxii, 484pp. With black and white frontispiece. Translated from the French by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. Bound in original dark blue cloth, with gilt to front cover and spine. Volume admits to fairly heavy wear, with several small bumps and worn areas to extremities, general light wear and some soiling, faint staining to cloth, and fading to all gilt. A previous owner's name blacked out with dark pen. Minor dings and creases to extremities of many pages, with no effect on the reading of the text. Mild tanning to paper. Text clean. Binding a little shake, though generally firm.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First THUS. From a private collection. First Dover edition, 1958 (originally published in 1951 by Oxford). Cover has sunning, minor shelfwear. Plastic coating is peeling. Binding tight and sturdy; text appears clean. Light age-toning. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. …

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 1937 reprint. Size octavo, 484 pages including index. Red cloth covered boards with black titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Condition very good, slight rubbing to edges, front hinges slightly loose, pages slightly toned else clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages have slight browning to edges, endpapers are browned. Title page has a trace of foxing. Lettering on front cover is slightly rubbed. Lettering on spine is darkened and hard to read.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sewn grey textured printed wrappers, slender 4to., (i), 5, (1) pages. One of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the 1992 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. A fine copy.

[0-7720-1341-1] [1982]. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 115pp. Photographs. Edited with introduction by Charles G. Roland. (Medicine, Lecture).

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1931. Xxxvi, 146 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The Student Life and Other Essays" is a collection of essays by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler on the nature of study and the medical profession, offering timeless advice on intellectual and professional development. The title essay emphasizes the passion and energy required for learning, comparing the student's pursuit of knowledge to epic quests. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Large 8vo. 484 pp. Very clean. No inscriptions. Binding sound. VG+.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 228 pp. Wraps are rubbed and yellowed, edgewear. Leaves a little yellowed, bookseller sticker and brief notes inside back wrap. Spine straight and uncreased. beco.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, gilt front board decoration (the cane), top edge gilt, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 261 pp., index. Very good (a little foxing and slight soiling, spine and boards; spine lettering moderately faded; attractive bookplate, front pastedown; binding tight and pages clean). Introduction by Sir William Osler. (3214002).…

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Later printing. Quarter cloth hardcover. This Beaumont is the person that Beaumont High School was named after. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 146 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled w/ light rubbing along hinges, and to corners and spine ends. Spine sunned. Neat inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of Sir William Osler reproduced from the portrait painted by John Sargent in 1905 of "The Four Professors.".…

Hardcover. Later Edition. Octavo, 47 pages, plus frontispiece. In Very Good minus condition. In blue morocco three-quarter binding with blue cloth boards; gilt borders to leather elements; spine paneled with gilt stamps and titling; with bound-in ribbon bookmarks. Some shelf wear to boards, with scuffing to covers and rubbing to edges. Very small spots of exposed board at the corners. Text block is lightly worn and toned along edges. Toning along edges of endpapers. Some pages show offsetting from the ribbon bookmark. Ribbon bookmark is frayed at the end. Shelved in Room A. 1409660. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

Hardcover. 20cm, xxi, 484pp.,frontis photographic portrait, marbled endpapers & leaf edges, a schoolprize copy rebound in dark green polished calf with gilt ruled border &school crest on front, presentation plate on front paste-down, in finesigned bindings. (sgc) First translated in 1902, the Osler introductionwas added in a two -volume edition in 1911 and in this one-volume editionin 1919. (Bibliotheca Osleriana). Very attractively bound as a prizeedition for Ashbury College, Ottawa with crest on front and presentationdate of 1931. Bindings signed by Birdsall (Northampton & London).…