Kettle by Gustav Eckstein, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding shows some separation at cover. See photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Novel set in California, near Carmel. This copy is INSCRIBED: "To Arthur Bachmeyer, for his quiet kindly belief." SIGNED on the title page by the AUTHOR on April 24, 1933. Also signed by Dr. Bachmeyer, who was Superintendent of Cincinnati General Hospital from 1915-1934, and Dean of the Medical School there, 1925 through 1933. Subsequently Bachmeyer became dean and director at the University of Chicago. Dr. Bachmeyer served as president of the American Hospital Association. With Gerhard Hartman, he edited THE HOSPITAL IN MODERN SOCIETY (New York, Commonwealth Fund, 1943.) Established by the University of Chicago in his honor is the Arthur C. Bachmeyer Memorial Address, featured annually at the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Management. It was in Cincinnati that the author met Bachmeyer. Eckstein earned his M. D. degree at the University of Cincinnati and in 1922 joined the faculty there as instructor in physiology. For a fascinating profile of Eckstein, see Kunitz: TWENTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS, FIRST SUPPLEMENT, 1955; pp. 298-299. Original black cloth. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. 344pp.