dooley m d thomas (33 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Rubbing and fading to boards. Fore edges are scuffed. Spine is slightly cocked. Former owner's name on front flyleaf. Scribbling on front end page and flyleaf.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Berkley #G 272. 155 pages. 35 cents cover price. First Printing. Green covers unabridged. Owners name in light pencil on flyleaf. Line drawing of Dr. Dooley and oriental mother and child on back of U.S. Medical Mission truck. One minor small corner crease.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Second Printing. Clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Chips and tears along edges of jacket. Creases along spine. Rubbing and fading to jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, first printing #G272 of Dooley's account of the time he spent in the Kingdom of Laos providing medical treatment after the fall of North Vietnam to the Communists. Slight edge wear. In near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Printing. 1958. 1st Printing. Very Good hardback book. Very Good dust jacket. Square, tight and clean except for name of previous owner. 208pp. 8vo. (Uu).

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. 144 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Slightly creased spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. New and Revised Edition. Bookplate and ink scribbles on flyleaf. Stories of Dr. Dooley's medical missionary and Navy physician work in Southeast Asia. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. THE INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF HEALING THE SICK IN REMOTE AND PRIMITIE COUNTRIES.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good -. 1st Printing. Solid with a light spine roll, a 3/8 inch split along the top edge of the back cover and spine, and a reading crease along the spine on the front cover. The previous owner's name is on the top of the first inside page in ball point pen ink.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF HEALING THE SICK IN REMOTE AND PRIMITIVE LANDS BEYOND THE REACH OF MODERN MEDICINE.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Of This Revised Edition. -----------Black cloth, silver spine lettering, book is 8 1/2" tall. 275 pages, with map and with section of photos.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight binding, totally clean text- - no dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. **YOUR PURCHASE SUPPORTS A SMALL BUSINESS!!**.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket showing moderate signs of wear and tearing noted to edges, corners, and head and tail of spine. Green cloth cover with gold gilt lettering. Some discolorations noted to edges with wear, minor wear noted to corners and edges. Pages brown with age around the edges, clean and very readable. Some wrinkling noted to head and tail of spine. Jacket flap corners have been clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This is the story of six young Americans who decided to travel, without pay or material recompense of any kind, to a remote part of the world in order to combat the two greatest evils afflicting it: disease and Communism. When they received an invitation to bring their medical team to the distant kingdom of Laos, they knew they would be going to the very edge of tomorrow.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket 16 pages of bw photos.

Hardcover. Ink notation and some offsetting on front fly else about fine in near fine dust jacket with a tape stain and a few minor tears.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover/pub.1956/Fair condition/214 pages - The fantastic experiences of a navy doctor among the terrorized vietnamese victims of the communists. [TA431651]. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Very good in good dust jacket. Book has minor rubbing of spine and edges of cover, name of former owner front endpaper, aging of pages, dust jacket has slight rubbing of spine and edges of panels.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Worn. Later Edition. 208pp Illus "Six young Americans, led by the doctor.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thomas A. Dooley, M.D. Deliver Us from Evil: The Story of Viet Nam's Flight to Freedom. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. 8vo (8.25 × 5.5 in.), gray-brown cloth, gilt-titled spine, 191 pp + 8 pp photographic plates. Foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke, U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations. A dramatic and deeply personal account of Operation Passage to Freedom (1954-55), in which over 300,000 North Vietnamese civilians were evacuated to the South with U.S. Navy assistance following the Geneva Accords. Dooley, then a young naval physician, chronicles the ordeal of refugees fleeing communist rule and his own moral awakening during the mission. Illustrated with Dooley's photographs of Vietnamese civilians and naval operations, the book became an instant bestseller and helped shape American public opinion toward early U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Condition: Very Good minus. Lacking dust jacket. Cloth faded at spine and edges with light spotting near base; previous owner's name ('Mary T. Wallin, October 1959') on front free endpaper. Text block tight and clean, illustrations bright, binding sound. A well-preserved first printing of this important Cold War narrative. Edition / Printing Diagnostics: Copyright © 1956 by Thomas A. Dooley; Library of Congress catalog card number 56-7816. No later printings listed. Published simultaneously in Canada by Ambassador Books, Ltd., Toronto. Manufactured in the U.S.A. Dr. Thomas A. Dooley (1927-1961) was a U.S. Navy physician whose humanitarian work in Vietnam and Laos made him a Cold War icon of medical service and Christian compassion. After publishing Deliver Us from Evil, he founded the Medico organization, establishing field hospitals throughout Southeast Asia before his death from cancer at age 34. His memoirs inspired later Peace Corps initiatives and remain touchstones of American medical philanthropy abroad.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Nice copy with dustjacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Book condition is good. Head and tail spine edges, corners rubbed. Very slightly slanted. Front and back head corners slightly bent. Gilt lettering on spine. Previous owners inscription on front free endpaper. The story of Viet Nam's flight to freedom. 214 pages.

Condizione: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket showing moderate signs of wear and tearing noted to edges, corners and head and tail of spine. Red cloth cover with gold gilt lettering to spine. Some minor wear noted to corners and edges of spine. Flaps of jacket have been clipped. Pages brown with age around the edges, clean and very readable SIGNED BY AUTHOR. This is the latest installment of Dr. Tom Dooley's inspirational story of healing the sick in remote and primitive lands beyond the reach of modern medicine. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine Minus. 1st Edition. Signed by author on a sticker affixed to the front free endpaper. Previous owner info written on front and rear free endpapers. Boards are straight and stiff. Binding is tight and tips are pointed. Photos and illustrations. DJ has some minor staining on flaps but mostly clean. Not price clipped. Looks compassionate in a shiny mylar dust protector. Packaging suitable for wrapping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition, Later Printing. xvi + 208 pp., map, b/w photos. Signed presentation on the f.f.e.p., signed "Tom Dooley." Continuing story of Dooley's efforts in S.E. Asia. Hardcover in good cond., d/w is worn & torn, some water staining, tape repair, sl. faded spine, but its all there & not price-clipped, just fair tho. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Jacket. Book has been moderately worn, rubbed, and soiled. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Book is near fine, previous owners inscription to end paper,Dustwrapper has minor chipping and rubbing to ends, presents well. pp 209, 1 map, 16 pages b/w photographs, publishers postscript. Dr. Tomas Dooley could have enjoyed a fashionable practice in St Louis; but while serving as a doctor in the U.S Navy he had to organise a refugee camp at Haiphong in Indo-China for refugees from Communism. What he saw changed his whole life and led to the set up of MEDICO, a non-profit-making organisation which raises money to send doctors and medical help to underdeveloped countries. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wraps. Condizione: Very good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. v, iii. 89, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. The Society of the Cincinnati is a hereditary society with branches in the United States and France, founded in 1783, to preserve the ideals and fellowship of officers of the Continental Army who served in the Revolutionary War. Now in its third century, the Society promotes the public interest in the Revolution through its library and museum collections, publications, and other activities. It is the oldest hereditary society in the United States. The Society does not allow women to join, though there is a partnership society called Daughters of the Cincinnati which permits all female descendants of Continental officers. This volume Includes five lectures delivered at the Institute . during 1970-1975 on the theme of the American Revolution, and a paper on the same theme by a member of the VMI history department. The Contents are: Morison, S.E. Verrazzano, discoverer of Virginia.--Rankin, H.F. Yankee Doodle: the soldier of the American Revolution.--Meade, R.D. Patrick Henry: a fresh reappraisal.--Taylor, G.V. The officers of the French Army in the War of the American Revolution.--Barrett, J.G. The Revolutionary War reminiscences of John Burrows.--Higginbotham, R.D. Washington and American generalship in the Revolution. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.