The Woman's Doctor
New York: Macaulay Company, 1933. Gretta (dust jacket). Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. xii, 307. Glossary. Brown cloth, titles and illustration stamped in red on the cover, titles in red on the spine, top edge dyed black: jacket offsetting to endpapers, small ink stamp to back endpaper, board edges rubbed, leaf edges age toned. In the two-color Gretta illustrated dust jacket, price $2.00 intact on front flap: mellowed creases along bottom edge, spine sunned and ends rubbed, short closed tear on rear panel with old cello tape repair verso. A handsome, presentable copy. Very Good+ / Very Good. Item #5962 Author Sol Barney Allen was a Toronto lawyer who kept company with physicians and wrote fiction, including at least a couple novels that feature gynecologists. This novel was published in Canada, 1948, as Toronto Doctor, using the same dust jacket art (blurb: "A Great Canadian Novel") and was subsequently issued as a paperback, The Gynecologist (1969). Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
The extensive glossary covers 42 pages. A novel of two Toronto gynecologists that ends in a conflict over abortion.
Price: $150.00