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INSIDE STORY June 1958
New York: JB Publishing, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Staplebound in wraps. Some light edgewear and rubbing. Interior toned but clean. Very good overall. June 1958 edition of this bi-monthly gossip magazine. Amongst celebritiy scandals and pop culture news is an account by a doctor Louis Maraventano describing in great...
HEALTH AND BEAUTY: As Explanation of the Laws of Growth and Exercise; Through Which a Pleasing Contour, Symmetry of Form, and Graceful Carriage of Body are Acquired and the Common Deformaties of the Spine and Chest Prevented
Philadelphia: E.A. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth. A fair copy, lacking last 3 leaves of text (pp. 249-253). Else generally very good. Cloth rubbed, front hinge tender. Chip to one corner of early page. Mild foxing internally. The second book from one...
A TEXTBOOK OF PHARMACEUTICAL ARITHMETIC
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, (1929). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth. Mild wear at edges. Contemporary owner's signature to front endpaper. Pharmacy bookplate tipped to copyright page. Else clean and bright throughout. Uncommon first edition of this work, which was issued in multiple subsequent editions until the late 1950s...
TRAINING AND REWARDS OF THE PHYSICIAN
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1918). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good. A touch shaken. Rubbing to titles. Else clean and sound. From Lippincott's Training Series. 153pp. with several illustrations. Includes chapters on public health work, urban vs. country practices, influence of "other" medical practices (Christian Science, etc.), rewards, etc. Uncommon.
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN ASIA
New Delhi: World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, (2002). First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. Very good. Externally clean and unmarred. One leaf (p. 17-18) detached but present. Else clean and sound throughout. 309pp. W.H.O. guide to traditional Asian medicine.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH
Boston: South End Press, (1981). first US edtion. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Minor wear to edges. Very faint toning to wraps. Interior clean and bright. Near fine. 360 pp. An examination of health politics from a feminist perspective, focusing on Britain and developing nations.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH
New York: Rare Book Company, [ca. 1930s]. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth. Spine faded. A bit shaken. Contemporary owner's signature to front endpaper. Very good overall. 1930s facsimile of the original 1875 edition of this founding book of Christian Science. "A disenchantment with orthodox medicine during years of invalidism...
THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. Gilt titles to front, spine. No dust jacket. Mild handling wear. Extensive marginalia in pencil, mounted illustrated clippings to endpapers. Overall sound, clean. First American printing of the influential work from 19th and early 20th Century Austrian...
The Science of Marijuana
Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Mild shelfwear, rubbing. Else clean and sound throughout. An objective and academic assessment. 283pp. with index and extensive bibliography.
LES TATOUAGES: Tatouages – Tatouers – Tatoues. Les Tatouages chez les Prostituees et les habitues des Prisons. Les Procedes – La Detatouage.
(Paris): Librairie de la Nouvelle France, nd [1908]. First Edition. 12mo. Original orange printed wraps. 123pp. plus 15pp. advertisements. A good copy with some dampstaining to front wrapper, which has additionally been professionally repaired: laid down on rice paper and skillfully re-backed and -hinged. Sound; presents well. A rare and interesting.....
I NEVER TOLD ANYBODY: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home
New York: Random House, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth, pastepaper boards. REVIEW COPY with slip present. About fine in like jacket. Scarce, pristine review copy of Koch's account of teaching a course in poetry writing to 25 residents of Manhattan's American Nursing Home in the mid-1970's along with...
TRANSACTIONS OF THE THIRD AMERICAN CONGRESS ON OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY: Municipal Auditorium St. Louis, Missouri September 8 to 12, 1947
Portland, OR: The Western Journal of Surgery Publishing Company, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. No jacket. Mild handling wear. Overall clean, sound, unmarked. Illustrated with charts and photographs. 412pp.
TATOUAGES DU "MILIEU"
(Lyon): Albums du Crocodile, 1934. First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Toning and light foxing to edges and rear panel. 44pp. Scarce and early work on tattoos in the French criminal underworld, written for an audience of medical school alumni and published under the auspices of the Hospices Civils...
LEGAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Science, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with printed titles. Spine cocked. Corner's bumped. Minor soiling. Stamps from private library at lower edge of text block and title page. Interior clean and bright. Very good. 485 pp.
RADON DAUGHTER EXPOSURE AND RESPIRATORY CANCER QUANTITATIVE AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS: Report from the Epidemiological Study of the United States Uranium Miners
[n.p.]: US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Some minor wear and sticker residue at spine. Light soil to rear panel. Interior clean and bright. Near fine. 176 pp. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and National Institute of Environmental Health...
[Small Collection of 10 Prohibition-Era Medicinal Liquor Prescriptions]
(San Francisco, CA): (1931). Ten pink printed duplicate prescription forms, each completed in several legible hands. 5.5" x 4.5" approx. Very good or better. Small collection of prescriptions for the use of medicinal alcohol during Prohibition in and around the Bay Area, ca. 1931. With interesting parallels to our current medical marijuana debate.
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[Two-Volume Patient Ledger of a General Physician's Office]
(Florence, SC) / (Fort Dodge, IA): np / (Kersten Publishing Co.), (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Two matching 4to. volumes. Embossed cloth. Blank logs marketed as Physician's Daily Record, published by the Kersten Publishing Co. of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Light, handling wear. Trace foxing at page edges. Overall, each sound, clean...
SHAKER HERBS: An Essay by Cynthia Elyce Rubin with 19th-Century Shaker Herb Labels
(Northampton, MA): Catawba Press, 1984. Limited ed. Hardcover. Miniature. 2.75" by 2.25" approx. Light green paper-covered boards. Near fine. Owner's tiny bookplate to front pastedown. Bright, crisp, and clean inside and out. Binding tight. 37pp. From an edition of 155 copies, printed from Bulmer type on Rives paper. An excerpt...
NURSING CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH MEDICAL-SURGICAL DISORDERS
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's printed silver cloth. Crease running diagonally across the front board. Some wear to edges and corners. Barcode sticker at spine. Rubbing to rear boards. Interior clean and bright. Very good. 1251 pp.
SHE WASN'T EVEN A NURSE
New York: Vantage Press, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. Trace handling wear. Overall clean, near fine. Memoir of Ella Payne Moran, former coordinator of the practical nursing program at Margaret Murray Washington Vocation High School, Washington, DC. An...
THE OLD COUNTRY DOCTOR
Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Publishing Company, (1937). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth. Black lettering to spine. No jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to half-title page. Spine cloth faded. Ownership name to first pastedown. Otherwise sound, clean. Limited to 500 copies, each signed by the author. The uncommon autobiography...
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[Original Photograph Album of Children with Polio]
Chicago: np, [ca. 1930-1959]. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Commercial strong-bound album. Vinyl covered boards. 145 black and white; 4 color photographs verso and recto mounted to 23 black paper leaves, one or two elements loosely laid in. Front cover detached, but archivally mended. Edgewear to pages. Images generally clean...
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[Archive of Parole Documents, Mug Shots of Defective Delinquent Prisoners]
Bridgewater: Massachusetts, 1923-1960. 136 gelatin silver, black-and-white mugshot photographs, most about 5" x 3." Spread across, and typically mounted to, more than 200 different typed and manuscript documents, recording 106 different inmates. Materials loose. Fit into individual archival sleeves and housed in an approximately 10" x 13" x 3" cloth...
A SEX STARVED WORLD
Los Angeles: Yale Publishing Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Light wear and scuffing to boards and fore-edge. Pages toned, with a few corner creases. Previous ownership signature to ffep. Very good. Eugenic utopian fantasy of a doctor's dream-journey to the liberated land of...
THE CACTUS HUMANUS, METHODICALLY, VIZ.; INDUCTIVELY & DEDUCTIVELY, TREATED, ANALYZED, & ILLUSTRATED, BY ALBIGRAECUS CACATUS PEDO, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN MS., FREELY ANNOTATED, & PROVIDED WITH AN ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX, BY BEAUMONT & FLETCHER
[Reading, PA]: np, 1875. First Edition. Original manuscript of 42 leaves, plus two hand-drawn plates. In contemporary composition book of sheep-backed marbled (tourniquet) boards; inked in a fine though unusual hand on blue-lined, chain-laid paper with calligraphic title and dedication pages. Leather spine perished; boards detached; several leaves separated from...