Use of Medical Literature.
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, [1974]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. x, 406pp. Figures. Very good. Tight, quite nice first edition. Mild ex-hospital copy, with very few and very discreet markings. More
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, [1974]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. x, 406pp. Figures. Very good. Tight, quite nice first edition. Mild ex-hospital copy, with very few and very discreet markings. More
Boulder: The Johnson Publishing Company, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown and tan cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 274pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed, with spine a tad sunned. Tight and handsome first edition of this deckle-edged beauty, a life of the polymath physician and..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 508pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Faintest of edgewear, but all gilt bright and nice. A tight and most attractive first edition of this thick survey. More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Hardcover. Translation by Edwin B. Holt. Small 4to. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xiv, 619pp. Very good. A bit edgeworn, with scuffed and sunned edges; 1916 ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight, decent and internally very good first edition..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth. xxxv,331pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Very good. Only the faintest of edgewear, else internally near fine. A tight and handsome early (undated, but likely 1940s) printing of #152, first published in this form in 1929. More
New Yok: Basic Books, 1956. Hardcover. Volume II. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. xii, 267pp. Very good/very good. Autographed by Murphy. First edition, nicely signed on the front flyleaf. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1993]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. xiv, 203pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers only, with price sticker scuff at upper right of rear wrapper, else tight and internally fine. Tight and nice later softbound printing of this fascinating 1986..... More
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, [1996]. Hardcover. Edited by Richard R. Duncan. Small 4to. Full blue leatherette with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 140pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, front endpaper map. Fine/fine. Superb, tight first edition. Neil served as assistant surgeon with the 12th West Virginia Regiment. More
St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. x, 527pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Tight, quite handsome second edition of this influential 1965 text -- an uncommon inscribed and signed copy, accomplished large and bold by the author in black fountain pen on the front..... More
New York: Hyperion, [2001]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 362pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine/fine. Small remainder mark on bottom page edges. Tight, handsome second printing of this chronicle of this physician's breast cancer battle, signed huge in..... More
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, [1981]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. x, 212pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good Lower left and lower right corner of rear board (and corresponding jacket) quite rough. Tight, nice first edition of this collection of essays on the historical..... More
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1930. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. xix, 251pp. Illustrations. Very good. Quite mild bit of edgewear. Tight, decent first edition -- a mild ex-library copy, but with very few and mostly-removed markings. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [2001]. Hardcover. Foreword by Charles Schulz. 8vo. Black and burgundy paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 254pp. Table. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition of this study of human longevity. Olshansky signs the title page in full in black fineline, and also signs..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 388pp. Fine/fine. Perfect, pristine and tight first edition. More
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1907. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, gilt spine. x, 828pp. Top edge gilt. Numerous illustrations, marbled endpapers. Good plus. Quite edgeworn, especially to leather corners, with front board starting but bearing discreet and expert older strengthening to inner..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929. Hardcover. 4to, Original blue buckram. xxxv, 785pp. Very good. Some faint pencil underlining shadows in the opening text pages; rear inner hinge a tad delicate, but sound. First edition, tight and nice, of this famed bibliography. Editors W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill and Archibald Mallach open..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1904]. Hardcover. 12mo. Original blue cloth. 54pp. Very good. Mild edgewear and bit of minor scuffing. Tight, attractive copy of the 1904 Ingersoll Lecture. Though this copy bears the "Published October, 1904" statement (and no further impression statement) on the copyright page, it bears no date..... More
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, Inc., [1967]. Hardcover. Introduction by H.H. Bashford. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt spine. xxxvi, 145pp. Frontispiece. Very good. A tight and attractive facsimile reprint of this 1931 four essay collection, part of this publisher's "Essay Index Reprint Series." Discreet ex-library, with almost no markings. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, [1979]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver lettering, dust jacket. xvii, 954pp. Numerous tables and figures, text front endpaper. Near fine/very good. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with several edge chips. Tight and attractive later (4th) printing of this massive study, a...... More
[Madison]: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1991. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. 52pp. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Historical Bulletin No. 46, being Ostendorf and Neely and Lattimer's speeches delivered on 8 April 1990 at this group's annual meeting -- their fiftieth. More
[Madison]: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1991. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. 52pp. Illustrations. Fine. istorical Bulletin No. 46 -- Ostendorf, Neely and Lattimer's speeches given 8 April 1990 at this group's annual meeting -- their fiftieth. First edition. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, [2009]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 376pp. Fine/near fine. Tight and lovely first edition of this medical thriller. More
New York: Penguin Books, [1989]. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. 204pp, (4pp ads). Very good. Faintest of edgewear. Tight, quite nice second softbound printing. More
Macon: Mercer University Press, [1981]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full green leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 332pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition. More
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1885. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black pebble-grained cloth with gilt spine lettering. 1094pp; 1312pp. Illustrations, charts. Very good;good plus. Volume I rather edgeworn and corner bumped, though especially clean, bright and tight-hinged internally; 1885 ownership signature on front flyleaf. Volume II edgeworn, rather rubbed and corner..... More