The Road to Wellville - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Viking, 1993.
ISBN: 0670843342
The Road to Wellville - 1st Edition/1st Printing
A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition with minor soiling to fore-edge. In Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author T. Coraghessan Boyle directly on the half-title page.
Boyle provides a delightfully comic anatomy of a society obsessed with miraculous cures and spectacular successes. In 1907, Battle Creek, Michigan, is a magnet for rich seekers of health and robust seekers of wealth. The former flock to John Harvey Kellogg's health spa, where the regimen requires a change in the intestinal flora via five enemas per day. The latter attempt to con their way into the booming breakfast food business; 8vo; Signed by Author.
Price: $120.00
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