4 leaves, 171 pp, 1 leaf; 120 text figures; 4 large folding tables (after pp.
8, 32, 40, 128).
Original cloth.
Bottom of spine rubbed (I think a call no.
was on the spine and then removed; there is a pencil call no.
written on the front pastedown, see photo).
Otherwise the copy is Very Good.
First Edition.
Garrison Morton (online) 11349.
Copy of William W.
Pearson, with his signature and his embossed stamp ("Dr.
W.
W.
Pearson") on the front flyleaf.
His address was 417 Equitable Building, Des Moines Iowa.
Pearson was an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist.
He was the Dean of the Drake University College of Medicine from 1909-1912 (it closed in 1913).
He served as Vice President of the Amerian College of Surgeons and also Vice President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.
Pearson died in 1944.
Pearson willed his books to the American College of Surgeons.