First UK edition. Square 4to. Pp. [viii], 85, [3]. Monochrome cartoon illustrations. Quarter-bound brown linen over cream paper-covered boards, blind-stamped publisher's logo to upper board; lettered in gilt to spine.
Copy bears mismatched dustwrapper of The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons, instead.
A humorous look at the medical profession, in a compilation of eighty-five cartoons from the greats at The New Yorker, including James Thurber, Peter Arno, Charles Addams and Leo Cullom.