Medical from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Honolulu: Arizona Memorial Museum Association, 1989. Hardcover. Photographs by Wayne Levin. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 100pp). Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition of Number 91 in the "Bishop Special Publication" series, tight and bright. Extensive vintage and contemporary photographs illustrate this chronicle of the remote Hawaiian settlement where for generations victims… Read more about this item

Dubuque: Finlay Hospital, 1942. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 8pp, 10pp, (2pp), 8pp, 6pp, (2pp), 10pp, (2pp), 8pp, 10pp, (2pp), 11pp, (1p), 8pp, 11pp, (1p), 8pp, 11pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Homely dampstain to four preliminary leaves (only), rest is tight and bright. Physicians at Finlay Hospital of Dubuque, Iowa, contributed "Clinico-Pathologic Conferences" articles to every issue of… Read more about this item

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 prolific Western historian as written by his third wife,… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 234pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine ever-so-lightly sunned; ownership signature on front pastedown. Superb first edition of this account of a medical missionary from Pennsylvania in New Mexico -- heavily letters, diary entries and other writings by the reverend and… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1904. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. 86pp. Figures. Very good. While the outer wrapper (only) is edgeworn and age toned and front wrapper shows a few stains, it remains uncut and internally tight and very good, with a touch of fant dampstain. First edition of this dissertation monograph by the American psychiatrist… Read more about this item

Hanover, NH: Westholm Publications, 1956. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. 45pp. Near fine. First edition of this writer's account of his life-changing heart attack experience. Colophon at rear notes "This brochure has been designed, hand set, and printed by Carroll Coleman at The Prairie Press in Iowa City" -- and this copy boldly signed by Coleman beneath. … Read more about this item

Leipzig: Psychoanalytischer Verlag G.M.B.H., 1921. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale grey/blue boards with black lettering. 140pp. Very good. Binding lightly age toned and faintly edgeworn; text block tight and non-brittle, though typically age toned. First edition of what was published in English (1923) as "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego," the founder of psychoanalysis's study of the workings of… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering and black pebble-grain cloth. xvi, 545pp, (4pp ads), 8pp ads. Numerous small illustrations, tables, 6 full-page chromolithographs. Very good overall. Calf spine and corners are rather rough (especially at spine head/tail), though text block is quite tight and near fine. A tight and… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering and gilt and silver decoration. 385pp, (6pp ads). Frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Quite minor mottling to binding, which shows very faint spine sunning, else tight and internally nice. Attractive second edition of this epistolary novel about a young med school graduate… Read more about this item

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 study, one of the most provocative and intriguing Mary… Read more about this item

Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy and beige paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 280pp. Fine/near fine. Tight and bright first edition chronicling the 1993 (to cite jacket front panel) "proceedings of a Moot Court of Military Appeal to hear the case of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd...." Interestingly, Mudd was represented… Read more about this item

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1930. Hardcover. 4to and 8vo (respectively). Quarter vellum with gilt lettering and beige paper over boards, 2-compartment slipcase with paper spine label. xxxv, 29pp; 32pp. Facing frontispieces. Near fine/very good. Both volumes with pristine spine and typically age toned boards, per usual, else tight and internally near fine; extra-heavy slipcase quite strong but a… Read more about this item

New York: Raven Press, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark green cloth with silver lettering. xiii, 466pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight, bright first edition of this thick history.

Chicago: Gross & Delbridge Company, 1896. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering over bevel-edged boards. xiv, 772pp. Very good. Faint binding wear only; couple of neatly inked medical notes on inner flyleaf and inked/pencilled medical notes on rear flyeaf; half dozen quaint contemporary medical newsprint clippings neatly tipped to front pastedown. Tight and nice sixth edition of… Read more about this item

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with Black lettering and black and blue pictorial stamping. 155pp, (5pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page plates. Very good overall. Bit of dampstaining to bottom of some page edges near rear; faint floral mustiness. A tight and decent first edition of this early title about Wlfred Grenfell (1865-1940),… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co, 1892. Hardcover. 8vo. Blind-ruled pebble-grained burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. 921pp, 16pp ads. Very good. Binding mildly rubbed, with spine tail a bit scuffed, else tight and internally near fine. Bright and attractive first U.S. edition -- notes title page, "Revised and Adapted to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States" from the 1892… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. viii, 308pp, (4pp). Very good. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Mildly edgeworn, with spine lettering quite rubbed. A tight and nice later (24th) printing of this 1940 novel about a G.I. who contracts leprosy in the Philippines and ends up in a leper colony -- winner of the National… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown textured paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. 238pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Sans jacket, else a tight and handsome first edition of this biography of the English pioneer of occupational medicine.

Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1922. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. xix, 645pp, xi; xii, pp. 647-1388. Extensive figures and line drawings, several color plates. Very good. Faint edgewear only; endpapers a bit mottled and age toned. Tight and quite attractive set of this hefty, heavily illustrated tome by the French… Read more about this item

St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 659pp. Illustrations. Very good. Quite mild binding wear only -- overall tight and internally bright and fine; faint floral mustiness. Attractive second revised edition of this standard text, often reprinted, by the pioneering San Francisco pediatrician (1870-1965). Exceptionally nice and sharp copy. … Read more about this item