Publisher's review copy, with TLS to Kenneth Tynan from the publisher loosely inserted.

BERGER, John [Jean MOHR, Photographer] ~ A Fortunate Man. The story of a country doctor.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, London: 1967.

4to., bright green cloth over black boards; gilt device to upper cover; lettered in gilt to backstrip with publisher's device to foot; upper edge stained green; photographic endpapers; housed in the original photographic dustwrapper (unclipped, 30s net); with numerous black and white photographs throughout; THE BOOK just a little scuffed to edges, with pages a touch toned at edges; near fine in the very good DUSTWRAPPER which is toned to the inside flaps and spine; one short closed tear (2cm long) to the upper panel. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition. This a review copy, sent by the publisher to the theater critic Kenneth Tynan, with a TLS from the publisher, signed by Anne Graham Bell, loosely inserted. A work which combines Berger's observations on the role of the doctor and the practice of medicine with Mohr's insightful black and white photographs. Together Berger and Mohr (who was an active photographer in a number of humanitarian organisations including the Red Cross and the WHO), would go on to collaborate on a further five books together, including 'A Seventh Man' (concerning migrant workers in Europe), and 'At the Edge of the World' which describes the photographer's own life working for over forty years with the dispossessed, the marginalised and the overlooked in society. 'A Fortunate Man' describes the life and work of Sassall, Berger's GP at the time. The pair joined Sassall and his family for six weeks, following him to patient meetings and emergency callouts. The book remains "fresh, urgent and relevant; a reminder for physicians and patients alike of the essence of medical practice, of the differences between healing and medicating." (Gavin Francis, The Guardian).

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Very Good