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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later printing.. Later printing (1953) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with green lettering, small green illustration on cover, green lettering on spine. Light foxing to top board edges, otherwise clean. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. With wonderful photographs by Charles R. Joy, and a Concluding Essay by Albert Schweitzer. 159 pages. Dust jacket is clean and not price clipped, but has edge chipping and short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author and photographer spent time with Albert Schweitzer in his forest hospital at Lambarene, and tell of their experiences in text and pictures, with a concluding essay by Dr. Schweitzer..

New York: Century Company, 1924. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition.. New York: Century Company, 1924. Second edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Second edition in scarce original dust jacket. Very clean blue-black cloth boards with red lettering red cross in white circle on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with many black and white historical photographs. 209 pages including bibliography. Dust jacket has very light soiling, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

Austin, Texas: Ashtanga Yoga Productions, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Eighth Printing.. Austin, Texas: Ashtanga Yoga Productions, 2004. Eighth Printing. Fine. Very clean hardcover book with glossy photo-illustrated cover. No fading or wear. Concealed spiral binding is in perfect condition. All pages are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Well-illustrated throughout with photographs. 262 pages with index. The perfect practice companion for beginners or experienced students. The Primary & Intermediate Series plus Three Short Forms..

Free Press, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Free Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Very clean unfaded maroon cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 272 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few small edge nicks and very short closed edge tears, slight vertical surface wrinkle due to manufacturing on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Authentic and appalling study of government syphilis medical research on 400 African American men from 1932 to 1972. 8vo. Black History..

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean unfaded stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 249 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, two tiny closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. .

Picador, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very clean hardcover first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket (now enclosed in archival quality removable mylar cover). Clean black paper-covered boards with white lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. 294 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. One Black doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of Black Americans. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Later Printing.. New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1952. First Edition, Later Printing. Near FIne/Very Good+. Very clean brown cloth boards with African mask decoration on cover, black lettering on spine. Hint of light surface wear to corners, no fraying, no wear-through. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 248 pgs. Illustrated with photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Adventure..

New York : Crown Publishing, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in unclipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Unfaded black cloth boards with white cloth spine, blue metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean illustrated endpapers; dust speckling to text block edges. No previous owner names or marks. 214 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; vertical crease to front inside flap. .

HarperCollins, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Fine first edition (stated First Edition with complete number line), SIGNED by the author, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige boards with burgundy cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages and edges are clean. Signed "Michael Dorris" on title page. Foreword by Louise Erdrich. 300 pages with Bibliography. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The author, an expert on Native Americans, tells the deeply moving story of his adopted son Adam, who suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. .

Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, 1971. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, 1971. Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. Very clean blue boards with black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Very small P/O label at inside edge of front free endpaper. Illustrated with old photographs. CLean bright dustjacket has not been price clipped, is unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover..

Hemlock, New York: Crosset and Williams, 1946. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, SIGNED by author, in illustrated original dust jacket. Clean blue pebbled cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean, with clean illustrated endpapers (illustrated by Virginia E. Smith). Boldly signed "Harold W. Trott, Capt. M.C." across back of front free endpaper. 371 pages. Dust jacket is clean, has small edge chips; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A stirring, true novel about a young medical student who planned, worked, and saved to become a doctor. It will take you through a life and death struggle in a large Montreal hospital, which actually happened. There, this medical student fights for weeks to live with a dreaded paralysis of his whole body from which no other person ever recovered. Finally, the student graduates to find… Read More

New Jersey: Rae Publishing, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New Jersey: Rae Publishing, 1968. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition in clean original illustrated dust jacket. Clean color illustrated cloth boards with white lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean - clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. 96 pages. Illustrated jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The biography of nurse Clara Maass and a history of the hospital that was named after her..

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with white cloth spine, red and black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. States First Printing, 1994 on copyright page; no price on jacket. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 750 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This exhaustively researched book uncovers the conditions that favor--even promote--the mutation and spread of deadly viruses and microbes, with possible solutions..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Attractive first edition book in clean unclipped dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards with gray cloth spine, red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear; very light foxing. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages are clean with clean gray endpapers - small remainder mark on top text block. 223 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A compassionate surgeon who is also a superb writer shares the mysteries of medicine, life, and the human body..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Very Good+/no dust jacket . Nice clean solid book. Story based on the 20th Century-Fox Photoplay, with pictures of the Dionne Quintuplets. Green pebbled cloth boards with largeclean, unworn photo illustration on cover of the quints and Dr. Dafoe. No chipping or wear. Slight fading to rear board edges. Crisp black lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date neatly penned at top of front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Newspaper photograph of quints and doctor tipped in at rear of book..

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1972. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing (letterline on copyright page begins with "a") in clean dust jacket. Clean gray boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs.152 pages. Clean dust jacket has a few tiny edge nicks and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The horrible history of body-snatching, which reached its peak at the beginning of the 19th century. Fron Land's End to John o'Groats, people lived and died in terror of the bodysnatchers, for the old saying you are worth more dead than alive was never as true as in those days, when the ressurectionists busied themselves in the graveyards of the land at… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Good. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. Clean unfaded dark green cloth boards with turquoise and gold title box on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 316 pgs. Unfaded illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, has 3/4" piece missing at base of spine, a few additional chips and closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. By the author of "The Horse and Buggy Doctor", Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler now looks at life and love, at American women, and at the problems of the American domestic scene. For half a century as a Kansas doctor he watched and ministered to the physical and mental pain of thousands of average human beings--out of his experience he developed his own… Read More

Emmaus, PA: Organic Gardening Book. Fine. Soft cover. Emmaus, PA: Fine. Very clean beige wraps with black lettering and small illustration on cover. No creasing or wear. Pages are clean and bright. 96 pgs. The Gardeners' Book Club, Series 3, Number 2..

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. London: Bloomsbury Publishing , 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First printing in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean brown boards with black lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Clean brown endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 420 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (L20.00 on front inside flap), slightest hint of edge wear, no chips or tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A superb and enlightened book to throw light into the shadows of a still-feared disease..

Five Elements Press, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third Printing.. Five Elements Press, 2006. Third printing. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition (third printing) in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded blue boards with silver lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Beautiful full color photographs by Ed Ouellette. 352 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, no wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The time-hnored science of healthy living known as Ayurveda joins forces with modern Western medicine and contemporary international cooking to create a cookbook and guide to personal healing like no other. The book is co-authored by a trio of Westerners who are passionately involved in this Eastern discipline. Over 150 recipes and award-winning food photography..