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Textbook of Black-Related Diseases

1975

United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A 1975 first edition of the medical textbook titled [Textbook of Black-Related Diseases] by Dr. Richard Allen Williams with cased binding. The cover of the textbook is black with three stylized images of animal-like figures in red at top, including one resembling a crustacean and one of a four-legged creature with a tail inside of an egg. Below the images in blue text is the author’s name [Richard Allen Williams]. At the bottom of the front cover in red text is the title [TEXTBOOK OF / BLACK-RELATED DISEASES]. The spine of the textbook has the author’s last name at the top in blue text. Below this is the animal figure in an egg, also in blue. The title of the book is written horizontally in the center of the spine in red text. The logo for the McGraw-Hill Book Company is at the bottom of the spine in blue.

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Catalog reference: 2019.46

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