Vascular Spiders and Related Lesions of the Skin
Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1958.
Vascular Spiders and Related Lesions of the Skin by William Bennett Bean, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the College of Medicine, State University of Iowa, is a focused clinical study on vascular spiders (spider angiomas) and related skin lesions, drawn from over two decades of the author's own clinical observations across more than a thousand patients with spiders and two thousand additional "normal" subjects. The book examines the structure, causes, and diagnostic significance of these vascular skin patterns — including their connection to liver disease and pregnancy — and features detailed color frontispiece photographs alongside hand-traced scale drawings cataloguing the size, shape, and variety of actual spider lesions.
This copy is signed by the author — William Bennett Bean's signature appears in blue ink directly on the title page beneath his printed name and credentials, making this a genuine author-signed copy rather than a later or unsigned printing.
Condition & Binding: Hardcover bound in tan/buff cloth boards with the original dust jacket present, printed with a decorative spider-web motif design. The jacket shows moderate wear, soiling, edge and corner rubbing, and some creasing, but remains fully intact and readable. The interior text block is clean. Overall- very good. Item #1018
Price: $75.00