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Comments: The story of a New England doctor who lived in Japan in the late ninteenth century, when it was a very closed society highly suspicious of the outside world. Berry and his wife lived in Kobe, Okayama and elsewhere during their two extended stays, during which he helped in removal of the edicts against Christianity, introduced sanitation and modern medical methods, championed prison reform, and established a nurses' training school. Illustrated in black and white. Bright blue cloth printed in gilt, 247 pages, illustrated dustjacket. Inscribed by the author (the doctor's daughter) to a specific person in both English and in Japanese. Some light edgewear, tiny closed tear to spine head, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with some light foxing to some of the plates, no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some overall fading and light spotting, edgewear and a few corner chips, fairly little paper loss.
by: Katherine Fiske Berry
1940