BENJAMIN SPOCK Common Sense Book of BABY & CHILD CARE 1946 hardcover RARE

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BENJAMIN SPOCK Common Sense Book of BABY & CHILD CARE 1946 hardcover RARE :
$45.00

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.Spock, BenjaminPublished byDuell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1946. Cloth hardcover with scuffing and general wear to covers else good + binding tight interior clean ; illustrations ; 527 pages with index. RARE early VINTAGE edition of classic.
\"The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Carewritten byBenjamin Spock, is a manual on infant andchild carefirst published in 1946. The book, along with Dr. Spock, attained fame almost instantly, selling 500,000 copies in its first six months. By Spock’s death in 1998, over 50 million copies of the book had been sold, making it the best-selling book of the twentieth century in America, aside from theBible.[1]As of 2011, the book had been translated into 39 languages.[2]

Spock and his manual helped revolutionize child-rearing methods for the post-World War II generation. Mothers heavily relied on Spock’s advice and appreciated his friendly, reassuring tone.[3]Spock emphasizes in his book that, above all, parents should have confidence in their abilities and trust their instincts. The famous first line of the book reads, “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”[4]\"wikipedia