Woman as Healer
Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 241pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked in a lightly worn dustwrapper; Very Good or better. More
Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 241pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked in a lightly worn dustwrapper; Very Good or better. More
St. Louis: Actaeon Group, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 11pp.; illus. Fine condition. Missouri-based UFO fanzine. Order form (light dampstaining) laid in. OCLC locates one copy as of January, 2018, at Ohio State. More
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1846. Offprint. Paper on the crop pest the Hessian fly (also known as the barley midge) first published in the "American Journal of Agriculture and Science," Vols. IV and V. Asa Fitch, one of the country's first occupational entomologists, went on to describe thirteen new genera and..... More
London: Dunn & Chidgey, 1888. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed, all edges marbled; 36pp.; tables in text. Light wear and chipping to extremities, a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good. Later printing of an article first published in the "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society," Vol. VII, no. 1, 1847. Lawes..... More
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1847. Offprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed, all edges marbled; 74pp.; tables in text. Light toning to extremities, bottom fore-edge corner of first two leaves dog-eared, else Very Good and sound. Article first published in the "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England," Vol. VIII, part..... More
Washington DC: American Council on Education, [1932]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's orange staplebound wrappers; 32pp.; illus. A hint of toning to extremities, else Fine. At head of title: "Achievements of Civilization No. 3." More
New York: New York Pharmacal Ass'n / Arlington Chemical Company, n.d. [1928]. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial thick-paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; mild corner-creasing; Very Good+. Illustrated after original engravings, with descriptive text. One of a series of premium booklets issued by the Pharmacal Association, a manufacturer of..... More
London: Ernest Benn, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers, yapp edges; 32pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled and lightly worn from handling, glue residue in title page gutter, a few unobtrusive pencil check marks in margins, else Near Very Good and sound. Lecture on the life and career..... More
Notre Dame, IN: [University of Notre Dame], 1953. Second Edition with Additions and Revisions. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's black cloth tape-backed printed card wrappers; [4],81pp.; text printed from typescript. Wrapper extremities a bit toned and slightly worn from handling, small loss at spine crown, bookseller's sticker and ownership signature inside..... More
London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. Third Edition. Third edition of this substantial volume detailing a variety of grotesque childhood diseases and afflictions. Expanded from the second edition by over 50pp, with an additional 14 woodcuts. Thick octavo (21.5cm); burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in gilt..... More
Paris: Librarie Hatier, 1963 [but 1966?]. First Edition? Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated boards; 111pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear at corners, else Fine. Title page dated 1963 while the printer's slug in rear dated 1966. More
New York: Global Communications, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 68pp.; illus. Light soil and wear from handling, else Near Fine. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018, though two variants have been catalogued. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Green publisher's cloth, with green dust jacket; [xviii],335pp; black and white diagrams. Ownership mark of James Glen Mead, noted zoologist and Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. A straight copy, lightly rubbed, with minor underlining and..... More
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1931. First Edition. First printing, limited to 1750 copies. Quarto (27cm). Cream cloth stamped in black and red; plain endpapers; [xii],449,[3]pp; black and white frontispiece and plates. Signed by author on title page; 1953 gift inscription on f.f.e.p. Generally clean, with a few small smudges to..... More
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Cream cloth stamped in red and black; plain endpapers; [xiv],466pp; black and white plates. Signed by author on title page; presentation inscription from the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Academy of Medicine on front free endpaper. Sound and..... More
Seattle: Radical Women, n.d., ca. 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner. Fine. Personal essay by an "ADC welfare mother" getting sterilized: "it damn near killed me." OCLC locates 7 copies as of Sept.2019 (UC Davis, Duke, UVA, Central Connecticut, Wisconsin Hist. Soc., U.Waterloo..... More
Koln: Taschen, 2005. Elephant folio (41cm). Pictorial white cloth; pictorial endpapers; 714pp; color illustrations throughout, including 9 folding plates. Straight and sound, cloth lightly smudged, minor mark to top edge, else internally clean and bright: Near Fine. Physician and anatomist Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery's magnum opus, with illustrations by Nicolas Henri..... More
Koln: Taschen, 2005. Elephant folio (41cm). Pictorial white cloth; pictorial endpapers; 714pp; color illustrations throughout, including 9 folding plates. Straight and sound, cloth lightly smudged, internally clean and bright; Very Good. Bourgery's magnum opus, illustrated by Jacob took 20 years to complete. The result was a landmark of anatomical study..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [4],252pp. Some minor dustiness to jacket and textblock edges, light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. More
London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1894. First Edition. Octavo. Pebble-grained red cloth boards; 468pp; illus. Faint spotting to cloth, else a tight, VG or better copy. Text fresh and clean. Numerous text illustrations, one color plate illustrating spinal nerve-routes. Bury (1852-1944) long-time professor of clinical medicine at the University of..... More
[Washington, DC]: Geological Society of America, 1942. Octavo (25cm). Original tan paper wrappers; [vi],663,[1]pp; list of publications on rear wrappers. Sound but rubbed, external dustsoil, internally clean: Very Good. Geological Society of America Special Papers Number 42. More
Baltimore: Charles Willms Surgical Instrument Company, [ca 1924]. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; [v],416pp; illus. Mild wear and soil to binding; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Very Good, lacking dated price list in front pocket. Extensive and well-illustrated trade catalogue of early 20th-century medical devices and apparati. Undated, but a...... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. Black cloth hardcover; [xxx],380pp. Neat ownership signature; a few spots of soil to text block edges, still a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 275pp; illus. Fine in crisp, near-fine dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy. More
[Great Dunmow, Essex: Cosmology News], 1993. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); side-stapled pictorial self-wrappers; 25pp.; illus. Wear from handling, else About Very Good. "Ufology: Is it the road to nowhere?" Unlocated in OCLC as of January, 2018. More