Published by Toronto University of Toronto Press 1937, 1937
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
First Edition Signed
Condition: very good. 1st Edition. 49,pp. Octavo in original green cloth with frontispiece (portrait of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe), plates (some folding), illustrations, charts and diagrams + 5 folding charts in rear pocket. Rear hinge starting. Scarce. very good Inscribed to Dr. Allan Ray Dafoe (the quintuplets doctor) on the front free endpaper by co-authors: W. E. Blatz, M. W. Charles, M. I. Fletcher, A. L. Harris, M. Mason, and D. A. Millichamp. The very best association copy of the book available!
Publication Date: 1939
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
unbound. Vintage 9.5 x 12.5-inch black-and-white photograph of Hersholt in a three-piece suit, posing in a hammock with the Dionne quintuplets, one of whom is playing with a telephone receiver, no place, January 1939. Inscribed at the lower left: "To the Patter Family, from their friend, 'Doc' Jean Hersholt." Near fine. Danish-born American actor; played the title role in "The Country Doctor" (1936) about the Dionne quintuplets; winner of a special Academy Award in 1949; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award instituted in his honor.