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Short Books [Published Date: 2003]. Hardcover, 157 pp. First printing, (with full number line). Very good in very good dust jacket. Maroon boards with gold lettering on spine. light bumping to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover. [From front jacket flap] This is the true story of a remarkable Welsh girl, who through her apparently supernatural powers of survival transfixed Victoria England. During the last two years of her life, Sarah Jacob allegedly did not eat or drink anything at all. She seemed to be living on thin air. Was she, as her father told the many thousands of visitors who flocked to her bedside, "a gift from God"? Or was she, as the medical establishment countered, a fraud, a secret feeder who was duping the gullible in the interests of fame and profit? There was only one way to find out. Determed to expose Sarah, a team of doctors descended on the Jacobs' tiny Carmarthenshire farmstead to put the miracle girl to the test....