A Doctor's Odyssey. A Sentimental Record of Le Roy Crummer: Physician, Author, Bibliophile, Artist in Living 1872-1934, with a Word in Memory by A. Edward Newton & Numerous Memoirs and Appreciations. SIGNED BY MYRTLE CRUMMER

BEAMAN, A. Gaylord [CRUMMER, Le Roy] [CRUMMER, Myrtle]

Verlag: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1935.

Beschreibung

Frontispiece, viii, 340 pp; illus. Original cloth. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY MYRTLE CRUMMER: "For Dr. Lewyllen [?] Lewis/ who helped me so much/ during the last terrible years/ Myrtle [Crummer]." Le Roy Crummer died in 1934, the year before this book about him was published. you cannot get a copy signed by Le Roy Crummer, but here is a copy signed by his wife Myrtle Crummer. Quoting from pp. 307 about Myrtle and Le Roy Crummer: ""He married late, but happily, and at a time when the enthusiasm and the bibliographical help which his wife could give, came to mean much to him. Neither of the two could have supported an academic study of the history of medicine; neither would take the place of an Osler, but together they found what they wanted, recognized its importance as by instinct, and secured it for their library. They also recognized the value of an organized search for material related to what they already possessed, and their repeated visits in Europe resulted in finds that probably never will be equaled in importance by any one collector, even though they knew quite well that in later years, when they were known by every dealer of note, preparations were made for their reception, rarities adduced, recesses diligently searched. A collecting energy as fruitful as was that of Dr. and Mrs. Crummer does not depend entirely upon 'luck'. Every collector in any field has some luck. In this case the felicitous result was due to an instinctive feeling for essential values, dependent upon a fundamental sense of valid authentic source material. One may be born with this feeling, but the specific sense is acquired only by the penetration of subjects, fields of research, organic groups of material, by means of an intelligent estimate of that which is centrally significant--in contradistinction to what merely may be peripheral and intermediate.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9077

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Titel: A Doctor's Odyssey. A Sentimental Record of ...

Verlag: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1935.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition