8vo. Numerous diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's black gilt-lettered cloth (a touch of wear to extremities, endpapers toned). Provenance: Seeley Greenleaf Mudd, M.D. (1895-1968), American Physician (presentation inscription, see below).

FIRST EDITION OF WHITE'S "EPOCH-MAKING" TEXT. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WHITE to Mudd on the front flyleaf in the month of publication: "To Seeley G. Mudd With warmest regards and appreciation of our association in the study of heart disease from Paul Dudley White April 22, 1931." White, a leading American cardiologist and pioneer in electrocardiography, inscribed this copy to Dr. Mudd, a fellow cardiologist. In his bibliography on "Murmurs" for this book, White lists an article he co-authored with Mudd titled, "The Auscultatory Gap in Sphygmomanometry" (1928, p.707) and cites two other articles written by Mudd in the bibliographical section on "The Basal Metabolic Rate Determination. Temperature Records Spirography" (p. 726). "Paul White's epoch-making book for long remained unrivalled and set a new standard in cardiological text-books" (Bedford 357). A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.