(New York: New York State Committee on Mental Hygiene of the State Charities Aid Association, 1938).
Price: $200.00
Softcover. First separate edition. Octavo. [52]pp. (paginated 757-808, as issued). Stapled brown printed wrappers. Faint tape residue at the spine from an early mend, browning on first and last leaf of text, else a good or better, sound copy of a fragile publication. Dr. Spock's first book, issued separately by the journal to which he contributed; published eight years before his landmark book, *Baby and Child Care* (1946), which was a best-seller for more than fifty years. First separately published work "By the courtesy of the D. Appleton-Century Company, this chapter is reproduced by New York State Committee on Mental Hygiene from the Practitioners Library of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. XIII, pp. 757-808... copyright... 1938" (from copyright information on verso of front cover).
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