first edition Hardcover
1911 · New York
by [Ex-libris Emma K. Willits] [Women in Surgery] [Pediatrics] [Children's Medicine] Austin, Mary
New York: Duffield and Company, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 128pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Light brown paper over boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front board. Ex-library, with traces of library markings on the rear endpaper. Spine subtly darkened. Ex-libris Emma K. Willits, with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Emma K. Willits (20 September 1869 – 9 April 1965) was a physician and surgeon who played a significant role in the development of Children's Hospital in San Francisco (now the California campus [Women and Children's Center] of the California Pacific Medical Center), serving as the head of the Department of General (truncated)