Doctor on the Boil, Richard Gordon

First Edition. Good Condition. 8vo. pp.187 Pale foxing to foredges and a couple of the early pages and to the front & rear endpapers. Original black hardcover in slightly chipped spine sunned dust wrapper.

Doctor on the Boil is a 1970 comedy novel by the British writer Richard Gordon. Bored with his retirement, Sir Lancelot Spratt returns to St Swithan’s Hospital to resume his work and disturbs almost everyone else there.