Stay of Execution a sort of memoir

Alsop, Stewart

Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1973

About this Item

8vo 312pp. from front flap: "I have quite often wondered what it would be like to be told that I had an inoperable and lethal cancer," Stewart Alsop writes. He found out on July 6, 1971, when he was told that he had a kind of leukemia that was likely to kill him in a year, and almost surely in two. Writing movingly but without sentimentality, Alsop describes what it means to live with a terminal disease and to confront daily the prospect of one's own death." #03986. Book VG: mild dust/shelf wear to boards and outer edge text block. name and date on title page, text clean, binding tight. DJ VG-: creasing to flaps, mild toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stay of Execution a sort of memoir
• Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1973
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: first edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • autobiography & memoir
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction