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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. rand hotel" setting is a Swiss chateau-clinic, presided over by a distinguished American gerontologist, where the three older parties have come for treatments designed to make them more youthful. Always stage center is the Methuselah Enzyme, with its inf (illustratore). Book Club Edition. Age discoloration around page edges; The time is now. The players are three couples, each comprised of an older and younger partner: the head of a major pharmaceutical company and his adoring young bride; a Wall Street financier and his teen-age, unadoring son; and an aging British actress and her young man from Secaucus, New Jersey. The "grand hotel" setting is a Swiss chateau-clinic, presided over by a distinguished American gerontologist, where the three older parties have come for treatments designed to make them more youthful. Always stage center is the Methuselah Enzyme, with its infinite capacity to be a blessing or a curse, according to the various human natures of those who control it. The true nature of the treatments at Chateau Mirabelle, their unexpected consequences and the special involvement of the younger members of the group in the "cure" of the older are the explosive elements of a story compounded of high drama, medical authenticity and far-ranging social implications.

Condizione: Very Good. Limited edition of a run of 750 copies, large 4to., pp.183, quarter bound in cloth and paper, cloth to spine and patterned paper covered boards, uncut, t.e.g., 16 colour plates; ownership signature in blue ink to front free endpaper few spots of foxing to endpapers/prelims, very occasional foxing throughout text, light rubbing to fore-edge, light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, worn, with spots of foxing and area of toning and loss to front right corner, dust-jacket has been professionally backed with card, comes with matching blue slipcase.