first edition Hardcover
(c.1948) · New York
by Williams, Beryl
New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of wear to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a tight clean book; jacket is clean and attractive, despite a jagged chip at top of spine (not affecting any text) and an almost-invisible two-inch split at bottom front foldover]. (B&W line drawings) Biography of the nurse-activist who co-founded the Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side, to provide health care and other services to immigrants and the poor, and is generally regarded as the founding mother of community nursing in the United States. . (Inventory #: 16457)