New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., [2014]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 400pp. Fine/near fine. A superbly "tight 'n' bright" copy of the 75th anniversary facsimile of the 1939 first edition. Outstanding, fresh copy. More about Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism
New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., [2014]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 400pp. Fine/near fine. Wonderfully bright, tight and lovely copy of AA's 75th anniversary facsimile of the 1939 first edition. Truly a handsome copy. More about Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism
N.p. Published by Nelyon Johnson Dewson and John Reynolds Dewson, 1940. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. 183pp. Frontispiece, plates. Good plus. Bookplate on front pastedown and publisher's bookplate tipped to front flyleaf. First edition, privately published, of the beloved midwestern dentist, husband and father. More about Charles Nelson Johnson: A Tribute
New York: American Public Health Association, [1956]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. xv, 578pp. Illustrations, tables. Very good. Spine very slightly sunned. Tight, nice second edition -- discreet ex-library, with no spine marking and almost no other markings. More about Diagnostic Procedures for Virus and Rickettsial Diseases
Detroit: Difco Laboratories, [1953]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 350pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and attractive ninth edition of this 1927 text, with ownership signature on front pastedown (as undergrad) and front flyleaf (as medical student) of noted pediatric infectious disease specialist Ralph C. Gordon. More about Difco Manual of Dehydrated Culture Media and Reagents for Microbiological and Clinical Laboratory...
Detroit: Difco Laboratories, [1985]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 1155pp. Very good. Black remainder mark on outer page edges. Tight, nice reprint of the tenth edition of this 1927 text. More about Difco Manual of Dehydrated Culture Media and Reagents for Microbiology
Indianapolis: Daniel Sommer, 1895. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. 224pp. Very good. Would be near fine but for faint number near spine tail -- but evidently just a private collection number and not an ex-library copy, for there are no other markings whatsoever. First edition, tight and bright and quite attractive... More about Hydrophobia and Its Cures by One Who Was a Victim
New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Hardcover. Small 4to. Terra cotta and tan cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 649pp. Illustrations, tables, foldout chart.Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and edge chips (large at head and tail of spine), though complete and overall still attractive. A tight and nice first edition of this..... More about One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry
New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown and green buckram, dust jacket. 429pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Tight, attractive later (4th) printing. More about 'Pass It On': The Story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world
N.p. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, [1968]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. xii, 323pp. Good plus. A bit of edgeworn and with spine slightly sunned. Tight, decent first edition of this government-sponsored study. Pencilled ownership signature on title page of noted pediatric medicine professor and medical..... More about Perspectives on Human Deprivation: Biological, Psychological, and Sociological
Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1849. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green hand-lettered wrappers. 30pp. Very good. Occasional foxing; minor chipping at spine. Interesting annual minutes and membership directory, with an essay on hygiene by Alvan Talcott appended. More about Proceedings at the Fifty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Connecticut Medical Society, May, 1849
Baltimore: J.H. Furst Company, 1905. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ribbed burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 189pp. Very good. Edgeworn, more so at head and tail of spine, though internally tight and nice. Interesting compilation of reports from this professional association, plus articles such as "Nurses' Home and School Buildings" by Mary... More about Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Convention of the American Society of Superintendents of...
Baltimore: J.H. Furst Company, 1907. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ribbed burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 122pp. Very good. Bit of edgewear, mainly at head and tail of spine; internally clean, tight and nice. Interesting compilation of reports from this professional association, plus articles such as "Ways and Means of Raising an... More about Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the American Society of Superintendents of...
Nashville: The Public Library of Nashville & Davidson County, 1975. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. vi, 164pp. Errata slip tipped in. Near fine. First edition, limited to 600 copies -- tight and bright. Noted Nashville historian and author Alfred Leland Crabb provides the introduction to these... More about Send for a Doctor: Paragraphs from Nashville History -- Lecture Series 1974-75, Number 4
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1985]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 255pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Minor bit of edgewear. A tight and quite nice first softbound editrion of this well-illustrated survey. More about "Send Us a Lady Doctor": Women Doctors in America, 1835-1920
Chicago: The Year Book Publishers, 1903. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt spine. 232pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear; some faint white stains to binding. Tight, decent first edition of Volume VII in editor Gustavus P. Head's "Practical Medicine Series of Year Books... More about Pediatrics / Orthopedic Surgery
New York: Random House, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine and green paper over boards, dust jacket. xix, 331pp. Fine/near fine. Tight, attractive later (4th) printing. More about A Natural History of the Senses
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 245pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. Fine/fine. A superb and pristine first edition. More about Health Care in the Parisian Countryside, 1800-1914
New York: Henry Schuman, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 253pp. Illustrations. Very good/good plus. Some jacket edgewear and small edge chips, more so at head and tail of jacket spine. Handsome, tight first edition bearing a special leaf signed boldly by Adams tipped in. More about Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War
Dayton: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 253pp. Illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Some jacket edgewear, archivally closed (onverso) edge tears and edge chips. Handsome, tight "Facsimile Reprint No. 84" of the 1952 first edition, even reproducing the special leaf... More about Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War
Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, [1983]. Hardcover. Edited by Dr. Wilks and Dr. Daldy. 8vo. Full burgundy calf with decorative gilt, compartments, gilt spine. xxxi, 242pp. Sewn-in burgundy silk page marker. All edges gilt. Illustrations, marbled endpapers. Fine. A tight and handsome facsimile reprint of the New Sydenham... More about A Collection of the Published Writings of the Late Thomas Addison, M.D., Physician
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, [1966]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xvi, 140pp. Map, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear. A tight, quite handsome first edition of this "biography of Rocky Mountain spotted fever -- a disease which is uniquely American." Ownership... More about Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. xii, 128pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear; pediatrician's bookplate on front pastedown. Later printing of this popular 1938 study, tight and nice. More about Babies Are Human Beings: An Interpretation of Growth
New York: The Macmillan Company, 194. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. xii, 128pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear and bit of rubbing; nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Later printing of this popular 1938 study, tight and nice. More about Babies Are Human Beings: An Interpretation of Growth
Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1995. Hardcover. Edited by Paul L. Maier. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. 299pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition of the first volume in "The Alexander Oral History Project," covering the long and illustrious career of Kalamazoo's first black surgeon. Name/address label on front..... More about C. Allen Alexander, M.D.: An Autobiography