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Sci-Art Publishers, Cambridge, Mass., 1951. 18 preeminent medical & social experts of the time. Royal Deluxe Edition, Signed by the Autho Albert Schweitzer. Binding: Full Gilded Leather. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Size: 8vo - over 7.75" - 9.75" tall. This is the Royal Deluxe edition of Albert Schweitzer's Jubilee Book, published to raise money for his hospital with a book of twenty-six chapters and 508 pages (including an extensive index) covering topics about medicine, philosophy, music and others written by his colleagues, experts in their fields. It is numbered "Copy No. 23" of an unknown amount of Royal Deluxe editions and is signed by 18 medical, philosophical. Legal and social experts of the time, including the publisher A.A. Roback. This book is finely bound in dark red leather with bright gold accents, with a grey silk bookmark. It is in fine condition.
There is a signed letter from the publisher, A.A. Roback, attached to a front page in which the publisher states the book was shipped directly from the publisher with the autograph sheets. These signature pages have been tipped in to the front of the book. First page bearing a fountain pen signature of Albert Schweitzer. On the letter in the front, is the signature of A.A. Roback and on another page are 14 signatures, authors of many of the chapters in the book: (1) A.A. Roback (2) Werner Jaeger (3) George Sarton (4) Sir Phillip Manson-Bahr (5) J.S. Bixler (6) Clement C. Chesterman (7) William Ernest Cooke (8) Olof Linton, Theol. D (9) Karl Vietor ( (10) Roland H. Bainton (11) Edward L. Thorndike (12) A.T. Davison (13) Leo Schrade ), also another page which was sent later with Dean Roscoe Pound, Paul Tillich, Georgio Del Vecchio,
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