Editore: [no place, perhaps New London, Ohio]: Tilmon H. Smith, [no date, circa 1964 or 1965]., 1965
Da: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Probable first edition (no direct statement provided). [6], i-iii, [1], 1-163 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (as issued?). Dark red cloth lightly rubbed; gilt stamped lettering on spine and front board remains bright; boards' bottom fore-edge corners slightly bumped. Past owner's ink signature at top of front free endpaper; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. OCLC only cites copies at eight member institutions of which five are in Mississippi. Uncommon autobiography of Water Valley, Mississippi-born surgeon and physician Tilmon H. Smith who, upon graduating medical school at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, initially practiced in Calhoun County, Mississippi from 1915 to 1922 and thereafter the majority of his career in New London, Ohio but with periods of service in Memphis, Tennessee, Panama City-Canal Zone, Charleston, West Virginia, among other locales. {Bibliographical reference: James B. Lloyd "Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967" page 414.}.