Baby Child Care by Benjamin Spock, First Edition (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sixth Edition. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Steven Jones (Cover photo), Dorothea Fox (Illustrations by) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 832 pp. Flawless book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "Very good" with some edge wear and a single reading crease about 1/4-inch (6.4 mm) from spine. This 1963 trade paperback printing of the 1957 American original states "Deutsche Originalausgabe im Ullstein Taschenbucher-Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt M . . . Titel del amerikanischen Originalausgabe 'Baby and Child Care (new enlarged edition.')" Text entirely in German. Der Text dieses Buches ist vollständig in deutscher Sprache. 206 pp. including Index, followed by 2 pp. publisher's ads. Reduced from $70.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st UK edition by American Paediatrician Benjamin Spock. One of the best selling books of the 20th century.

Condition: Very Good +. Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing. 12.5 x 18.5 cm red boards with black titles to the spine xii 474pp. In original unclipped jacket designed by Iris Weller priced at 10s 6d net. The boards are bright and unfaded with just the tiniest bruises to 3 of the 4 corners. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a small ink spot on the contents page a hint of toning and spotting to the very edge of the text block. The dust jacket is bright and unfaded with a little toning to the rear panel. There are splits to the top fore edges of both front and back panels measuring 1-2cm. There is a triangular chip of 2cm from the upper joint extending a little onto both the front panel and spine with a tear extending from it 3 cm down the spine. The split on the rear joint extends 4cm onto the rear panel and 2 cm onto the spine. Despite these tears the book presents surprisingly well in its clear, removable, protective cover [not shown] Spock's Baby and Child Care was first printed in the USA in 1946. It went on to become one of the best-selling books of the 20th century and revolutionised the upbringing of children with a more child centric ethos and its advice to parents that; "You know more than you think you do". This scarce 1st UK edition in its even scarcer dust jacket has a number of differences from the US edition with changes in language "nappie" for "daiper" etc. together with an editor's note at the front referring to medical entitlements under the relatively new National Health Service and the extra rations available to pregnant women and new mothers (although rationing officially ended in July 1954). In all, a lovely copy of this groundbreaking book. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth with gold lettering on the cover and spine. Binding tight and pages clean. A remarkably crisp copy for such a utilitarian book. 527 pages. No date on the title page, but there is a line of type under the publication city, "1 2 3 4 5 CR7595 Duell, Sloan." Copyright page dated only 1945, 1946, with no statement of edition/printing. There is NO book-of-the-month-club dot on the back cover. Spock's book was THE gold standard for books on child-care for a generation or more. It begins with the famous line, "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." By the time of Spock's death in 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies. Early editions are extremely scarce. This copy has a clipped signature on a larger page tucked inside the front cover, which could be bound in or nicely mounted. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. Signed by Author(s).

A first edition, first printing of 'Baby and Child Care' published by Bodley Head in 1955. A very good book without inscriptions. Spotting to the page edges. In the slightly later dust wrapper, unclipped with some internal strengthening and a small chip to the head of the spine. Some rubbing to the corners. One of the best sellers in world history.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in silver, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light staining and wear to cloth, former owner bookplate and label to front free end paper, pages toned and creases to several terminal leaves. Next to the Bible, this ranks as the best-selling book in America in the twentieth century.