McGraw-Hill Book Company, founded 1917 Search this
Medium:
black carbon ink on wood pulp paper with color printing ink and coated paper over cardboard
Dimensions:
H x W x D: 9 7/16 × 7 11/16 × 1 3/8 in. (24 × 19.5 × 3.5 cm)
Type:
textbooks
Place made:
United States, North and Central America
Date:
1975
Description:
A 1975 first edition of the medical textbook titled [Textbook of Black-Related Diseases] by Dr. Richard Allen Williams with cased binding. The cover of the textbook is black with three stylized images of animal-like figures in red at top, including one resembling a crustacean and one of a four-legged creature with a tail inside of an egg. Below the images in blue text is the author’s name [Richard Allen Williams]. At the bottom of the front cover in red text is the title [TEXTBOOK OF / BLACK-RELATED DISEASES]. The spine of the textbook has the author’s last name at the top in blue text. Below this is the animal figure in an egg, also in blue. The title of the book is written horizontally in the center of the spine in red text. The logo for the McGraw-Hill Book Company is at the bottom of the spine in blue. The back cover is damaged with several scrapes and gouges at the center and bottom. Another animal-like figure, this one of a four-limbed creature with two arrows sprouting from the top, is depicted in red is at the bottom left corner. The front and back endsheets have colored images of medical ailments printed on them. The book contains 805 pages with black and white illustrations throughout.
