The Road To Wellville - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1993.
The Road To Wellville - 1st Edition/1st Printing
A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition, SIGNED by author T. Coraghessan Boyle in unread Fine condition.
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.
This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker, simply superb quality, Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xx], 476, [2] pages; 12602; Signed by Author.
Price: $60.00
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