The Witch Doctor - Michael Temchin - Paperback

8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used first edition! Black an [more]

8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used first edition! Black and white pictorial wrapper with white lettering. 184 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages of text and 4 wonderful pages of historic black and white photographs and illustrations! "In prewar Poland the members of the medical profession were held in high esteem. Whether Jew or Gentile, whether in the sophisticated metropolis or in a remote Jewish shtetl, the pan doktor enjoyed a position of social prominence. When the Nazi scourge befell the Polish Jews, some 3, 000 Jewish physicians became martyrs----and heroes----of the Holocaust....."----from the Introduction (The Gun And the Scalpel).[less]