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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the InsideFirlik, Katrina

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside


Firlik, Katrina

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Page 187 dog-eared, slight wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450411


Price: $12.00 

 

Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Par

Hardcover. London, Falcon Educational Books, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 227 pages, brown cloth with gilt title on spine, b&w illustrations. Autobiography of one of the greatest 16th century European surgeons. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 412468


Price: $19.00 

 

Autopsy: The Memoirs of Milton Helpern, the World's Greatest Medical Detective


Helpern, Milton

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 6 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear to dust jacket. Dust jacket tear repaired with tape on top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467491

Record # 467491


Price: $13.00 

 

Bela Schick and The World of Children


Gronowicz, Antoni

Hardcover. New York, Abelard-Schuman , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY SCHICK on the dedication page. Dust jacket worn, soiled, book clean but a tad musty.

Record # 402564


Price: $18.00 

 

Beloved Physician, The: Sir James Mackenzie


Wilson, R. McNair

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Frontis, portrait. 2 library stamps to end papers, previous owner's inscription. Otherwise very good. 316 pgs.

Record # 101474


Price: $10.00 

 

Big-Little World of Doc Pritham, The


Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, B&W photographs. The biography of a Maine country doctor who spent 65 years practicing in Greenville, Maine.

Record # 304417


Price: $12.00 

 

Biological Aspects of Metals and Metal-Related Diseases


Sarkar, Bibudhandra (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York , Raven Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, b&w diagrams. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Very light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401652


Price: $60.00 

 

Claude Bernard and the Experimental Method in Medicine


Olmsted, J.M.D. and E. Harris

Hardcover. New York, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait. Red cloth covers with black lettering on spine.

Record # 403690


Price: $15.00 

 

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn


Morantz-Sanchez, Regina

Softcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with marginal wear to edges, small spot of discoloration to rear wrap & edge. Illustrations in black & white, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 5560153


Price: $19.00 

 

Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.


Bray, William (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 951 pages, one contents page loose.Red cloth covers with light wear, soil, spine fade.

Record # 800462


Price: $10.00 

Doctor Wells of VermontBartlett, Donald

Doctor Wells of Vermont


Bartlett, Donald

Softcover. Hanover, Dartmouth Publications, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library edition with stamps on top left corner of front cover, and embossed stamp on title page. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613944


Price: $24.00 

 

Double Thread, A : A Childhood in Mile End - And Beyond


GROSS, JOHN

Hardcover. US, CHATTO WINDUS, 1st, 2001-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Previous owner's stamp and notes on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464317


Price: $13.00 

 

Dr. Richard Bright, 1789-1858


Bright, Pamela

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head Ltd, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. light edgewear,tanning on dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453988


Price: $15.00 

Dressing Station, The: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and MedicineKaplan, Jonathan

Dressing Station, The: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine


Kaplan, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean copy with wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471594


Price: $19.00 

Education of Laura Bridgman, The : First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn LanguageFreeberg, Dr. Ernest

Education of Laura Bridgman, The : First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language


Freeberg, Dr. Ernest

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458720


Price: $15.00 

 

Foursquare: The Story of a Fourfold Life


Oliver, John Rothbone

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges.Former owner's signature on front flyleaf, dated 12/12/1929. Covers bound in maroon fabric, in excellent shape for its age. Pages and edges a little yellow with age.

Record # 30721


Price: $15.00 

 

Friend of the Flock, A: Tales of a Country Veterinarian


McCormack, John

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on some internal pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233785


Price: $19.00 

 

Good Listener Helen Bamber, The : A Life Against Cruelty


Neil, Belton

Hardcover. US, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st, 1998-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Previous owner's stamp and notes on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464322


Price: $15.00 

 

Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist, 1791-1851


Pattison, Frederick L. M.

Hardcover. Tuscaloosa, Ala., University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 284 pages. Light scuffing and scratches to rear cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457029


Price: $12.00 

It's Not My Fault: Tales of a Vermont DoctorConger, Beach

It's Not My Fault: Tales of a Vermont Doctor


Conger, Beach

Hardcover. Golden, Colo., Fulcrum Pub., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight fading to front of jacket and normal wear, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 2230660


Price: $11.00 

 

James Parkinson: His Life and Times


Morris, A.D.

Hardcover. Boston, Birkauser, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages, hardcover. Edited by F. Clifford Rose. Black and white photos throughout. Light rubbing to boards. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing to copy top and fore edges. Foxing on half title page and title page. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951160


Price: $48.00 

 

John Hunter: Man of Science and Surgeon (1728-1793)


Paget, M.A., Stephen

Hardcover. New York , Longmans Green & Co., 1st US, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856729


Price: $31.00 

Life as we Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional ChildBerube, Michael

Life as we Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child


Berube, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Signed by author on half title page. Dust jacket has fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855686


Price: $13.00 

 

Life of Marie Moulton Graves Hopkins: Beloved Wife of John Henry Hopkins - The Story of Their Life and Work Together


Hopkins, S.T.D., D.D., John Henry

Hardcover. N/P, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 265 pages. Signed by the author on half title page and with a letter by he author laid-in. Dust jacket is missing a few small chunks around the edges of the spine and light soil. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856799


Price: $63.00 

 

Luigi Galvani


Dibner, Bern

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1971, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. An expanded version of a biography prepared for the forthcoming edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes a supplement reproducing three of the four original drawings illustrating the 1791 edition of De Viribus Electricitatis. Immaculate dust jacket and pages. Fold-out illustration at end of book.

Record # 802114


Price: $13.00 

 

Luigi Galvani


Dibner, Bern

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1971, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. An expanded version of a biography prepared for the forthcoming edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes a supplement reproducing three of the four original drawings illustrating the 1791 edition of De Viribus Electricitatis. Immaculate dust jacket and pages. Fold-out illustration at end of book.

Record # 802113


Price: $13.00 

 

Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor


MacMillan, Dr. C. Lamont

Toronto, McGraw-Hill. Ryerson, 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. SIGNED BY MACMILLAN on front fly leaf . Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf , map frontis. His account of serving on the island from the late 1920's through the 40's.

Record # 300939


Price: $9.00 

 

Menders of the Maimed


Keith, Arthur

Hardcover. Huntington, NY, Robert E. Krieger publishing Co., Reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Red cloth, silver titles and decorations, no dust jacket issued. Very minor rubbing along edges, else like new.

Record # 809656


Price: $25.00 

 

Mission to Shanghai: The Life of Medical Service of Dr. Josiah C. McCracken


Fulcher, Helen McCracken

Hardcover. New London NH, Tiffin Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Insight into China, its history, and the heart, mind and family life of devoted Christian physician. Mild rubbing to boards. Faint soiling to rear panel. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952572


Price: $29.00 

 

Nola A Memoir of Faith, Art and Madness


Hemley, Robin

Hardcover. St. Paul, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Some edge wear to fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 55600


Price: $20.00 

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family SecretsDittrich, Luke

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets


Dittrich, Luke

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 2016, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470127


Price: $13.00 

 

Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake


Peake, Ernest Cromwell, Hillary Spurling (Introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."

Record # 32165


Price: $25.00 

 

Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas, The


Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1994-08-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 523 pages. Faint musty smell. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463081


Price: $10.00 

 

Puzzle People, The - Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon


Starzl, Thomas E.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, PA, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.364 pages.

Record # 61187


Price: $25.00 

 

Recollections of a Part-Time Medical Missioner


D'Andrea, M.D., Frank H.

Paperback. unknown , Frank H. D'Andrea, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Paperback. 255 pages.

Record # 204913


Price: $13.00 

 

Shakespeare's Son-in-law: John Hall, Man and Physician


Joseph, Harriet

Hardcover. Hamden, Archon Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Foxing to endpapers. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613200


Price: $38.00 

 

Thomas Hodgkin: Morbid Anatomist & Social Activist


Rosenfeld, Louis

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Madison Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, black cloth cloth, in a bright dust jacket,

Record # 403330


Price: $15.00 

 

Time To Remember, A: An Autobiography


Sunderman, Jr., F. William

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Institute for Clinical Science, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 641 pages, b&w photos. Bound in green leather, gilt design and lettering, all edges gilt, ribbon marker.

Record # 809275


Price: $25.00 

 

Touching the Rock - An Experience of Blindness


Hull, John M.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light dust jacket wear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 54201


Price: $15.00 

 

Victor C. Myers - Clinical Biochemist


Caraway, Wendell T.

Softcover. Flint, Privately Published, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Biographical and reference information on Victor C. Myers, Clinical Biochemist. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608281


Price: $12.00 

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