{"product_id":"the-emperor-of-all-maladies-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Emperor of all Maladies (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMUKHERJEE, Siddhartha.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Full green-grey leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Scribner, 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSiddhartha Mukherjee (b. 1970) was born in New Delhi, studied at Stanford, took his DPhil at Oxford researching cancer-causing viruses, and completed his MD at Harvard Medical School. He has practised as an oncologist at Columbia University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, published extensively in \u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and has since \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/em\u003e written \u003cem\u003eThe Laws of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eThe Gene: An Intimate History\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and \u003cem\u003eThe Song of the Cell\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), establishing himself as the most distinguished writer working at the intersection of oncology, genetics, and literary nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/em\u003e began, Mukherjee has said, as a response to a patient's demand: \"I'm willing to go on fighting, but I need to know what it is that I'm battling.\" The book he wrote in answer is one of the great works of American nonfiction of the twenty-first century: a biography not of a person but of a disease, tracing the history of cancer from its first documented identification by the Egyptian physician Imhotep more than four thousand years ago through the epic and often brutal interventions of twentieth-century medicine — radical mastectomy, high-dose chemotherapy, radiation — to the molecular biology that finally began to reveal the nature of what cancer actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion, and the combination produces writing of unusual power. The history he tells is not only a history of science but of the human beings who made and suffered from that science: the oncologist Sidney Farber, whose obsession with curing childhood leukaemia launched the era of chemotherapy; Mary Lasker, the socialite and lobbyist who turned cancer research into a national political cause; the patients whose testimonies frame the contemporary sections of the book. The \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e noted that it \"takes some nerve to echo the first line of Anna Karenina and infer that the story of a disease is capable of bearing a Tolstoyan treatment — but that is, breathtakingly, what Mukherjee pulls off.\"\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe book won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the inaugural PEN\/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. It was adapted as a documentary by Ken Burns for PBS, selected as one of the best books of the 21st century by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and included on \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine's list of the hundred most influential books of the last hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eSome spotting along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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