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The Miracle Man - Frank L Packard
c1932 US hardback first film tie in edition by AL Burt in New York A near VG indeed book in unclipped dust jacket Clean and tidy boards, tight binding, some occasional scattered spotting to text block No previous owner name or damaged pages etc The wrapper shows a scene from the 1932 film, now regarded as a Lost Film, minor loss to spine ends Needley, Maine, offers no attraction for aspiring young medical men. . One who tried it recently, and who pulled down his shingle in disgust after a week, says competition is too strong, as the village is obsessed with the belief that they have a sort of faith-healer in their midst to whom is attributed cures of all descriptions stretching back for a generation or more. The healer, he adds, who rejoices in the name of the Patriarch and lives in solitude a mile or so from the village, is something of an anomaly in himself, being both deaf and dumb. A magic-mystery based book, very scarce
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TEN days had passed, bringing with them many changes. The snow was gone, and the warm, balmy airs of springtime had brought the buds upon the trees almost to leaf. It seemed indeed a new land, and one now full of charm and delight — the desolate, straggling hamlet, once so barren, frozen and hopeless looking, was now a quaint, alluring little village nestling picturesquely in its hollow, framed in green fields and majestic woods. Quiet, restful, peaceful it was — like a dream place, untroubled. Upon the farms about men plowed their furrows, calling to each other and to their horses; in the homes the doors and windows were thrown hospitably wide to the sweet, fresh, vernal airs, and the thrifty housewives were busy at their cleaning. And there had been other changes, too. The ten days had found Madison more and more a constant visitor, and finally a most intimate one, at the Patriarch's cottage — while to the circle in .the hotel office his voice no longer rose m even feeble protest, he was one of them |
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