A Very Good Inning : A Biography of G. L. Cooke, M.D.

Card covers, 121 pages, oblong, 8.75x10 in - 22.5x25.5 cm, B&W photographs.

Front cover rubbed and creased, bumped at edges. Back cover sunned and stained. Spine rubbed at head. Bottom edge lightly stained. Free endpapers, title page, pp.i-iv and 1-2 starting to come loose at top hinge. Pages edge-tanned, pp.i, 3, 18, 29, and 75 lightly stained, all pages readable. Inscription by previous owner on front cover verso. Laid in content age-tanned at top.

In this volume, William Robert Nelson Blair (former head of the University of Calgary's Department of Psychology) chronicles the work of Dr. George Lorne Cooke as a general practitioner in Lloydminster from 1912 until his retirement in 1979. Using interviews and anecdotes, the book traces the changing story of practicing medicine over a sixty-year period, bridging rural pioneer practice and urban medical institutions. The book is also indirectly a history of Lloydminster's growth as a city, as Cooke served as its mayor in the 1930s and 1940s. Large photographs of Cooke and Lloydminster appear throughout the text. Laid in is a small, typed sheet summarizing the book's contents, authorship, and funding.