New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. 8vo. [xvi], 239 pp. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. Ownership signature of Tom and Helen Little on fly-leaf. First edition. The fascinating stories of five separate patients brought into Massachusetts General Hospital. This work was the basis for..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 8vo. [ii], xvii, [i], 266, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 8vo. [ii], xi, [i], 393, [4] pp. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 8vo. [ii], xi, [iii], 247, [6] pp. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. More
New York, London, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1952]. 8vo. [iv], 331 pp. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, in original red, white and yellow dust-jacket (tattered and chipped with some repairs). First edition. The autobiography of this physician turned writer, which chronicles his dual life as first a medical doctor and..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. 8vo. 304 pp. FIRST EDITION. Red publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in original yellow dust-jacket (spine of dust-jacket slightly soiled with a couple tiny chips, two small tears to edges of top panel, else fine). First edition. The tale of a man who discovers..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. 8vo. 318 pp. FIRST EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth, yellow lettering to spine; in the original yellow dust-jacket. From the library of Zane Grey, with his embossed stamp to fly-leaf. ZANE GREY’S COPY. First edition. A physician who is blamed for the death of three patients..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931. 8vo. 637 pp. FIRST EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in original dust-jacket. HIS FIRST NOVEL. First edition of Cronin’s first novel, the story of an arrogant and cruel hat-maker who struggles for social acceptance. It was made into a motion picture in..... More
New York: The American Weekly, 1958. 8vo. [viii], 23 pp. First edition in book form. With 3 plates by Ben Stahl. White publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to top cover and spine. First edition in book form. Commissioned by The American Weekly to write a Christmas Story, Cronin chose to write..... More
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1961]. 8vo. [vi], 345 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering and design to spine; a fine copy. LUST AND BETRAYAL. First edition of this story about a doctor by a doctor. A best-seller at the time of its release perhaps due..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. 8vo. [vi], 160 pp. FIRST EDITION. Blue publisher’s cloth with paper spine label, in original gray, red and blue dust-jacket (dust-jacket slightly sunned at spine and edges, a tiny chip at head of spine, else fine). First edition of Cronin’s foray into drama. This..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. 8vo. 254 pp. FIRST EDITION. Red publisher’s cloth, in original yellow dust-jacket. A fine copy. First edition of this tale set in and around Edinburgh. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. 8vo. [iv], 263 pp. FIRST EDITION. Red and black publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, in original illustrated dust-jacket. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. The tale of an overbearing father and the liberation his son finds with the help of the gardener. This novel..... More
Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, [1942]. 8vo. 85 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Blue cloth; a fine copy in the original dust jacket. First edition. Da Costa (1863-1933) studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College, where he ultimately became the first Samuel D. Gross Professor of Surgery. The present..... More
Woodstock: The Elm Tree Press, 1922; 1926. 8vo. vii, [i], 55; 39 pp. Linen-backed boards. Dana’s morocco armorial bookplate to top board, inscription to fly-leaf, “Compliments, Chas L. Dana.” Bookplate of Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, small date stamp, “Nov. 25, 1927" to top corner..... More
Woodstock: The Elm Tree Press, [1918]. 8vo. ix, 35 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 1 black and white photograph tipped onto verso of page 31. Cloth-backed boards, paper label. Library date stamp “Nov 22, 1927” on title, with bookplate of The Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings..... More
NY: Greenberg, [1935]. 8vo. 288 pp. First edition in English. Tipped in errata leaf typed on blue scratch paper. Publisher’s brown cloth, no dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author on the fly-leaf, “To the great Miss Mary Pickford, who is becoming as famous in the American literary field as insuperable she..... More
Newark: Physicians Drug News Co., 1914. 8vo. 62 pp. FIRST EDITION. Black pebbled cloth; a fine uncut copy from the library of Samuel X. Radbill, with his bookplate. First edition of this collection of poems by and about doctors. Davis (1868-1932) was an Oklahoma physician, whose other works include Davis’..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1949]. 8vo. [v], 470 pp., including bibliographic note and index. FIRST EDITION. Grey cloth with dust-jacket, very slightly chipped at head and foot of spine; a very good uncut copy. First edition, written in collaboration of his wife, Rhea. “This book is the story..... More
London: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, [1932]. 8vo. viii, [iv], 363 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 14 plates. Yellow cloth, end-papers lightly spotted; uncut. First edition. A biographical account of several doctors and their efforts to save lives. Chapter titles include Banting: who found insulin; Minot: against death; Evans: death in milk;..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1962]. 8vo. [x], 246 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Tan cloth; though without a dust-jacket, an excellent, uncut copy. First edition. A memoir written after the death of his second wife, Rhea, for whom De Kruif abandoned his first wife and two children..... More
London: The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press, 1817. Three volumes. Imperial 8vo. [iv], vi, ccxxv, 410, [2]; [iv]. 536, [2]; [iv], 544, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata, colophon, and half-titles. With 40 plates, including the oft missing "Presentation in the Temple" in Volume I, portraits..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. 8vo. [iv] 87, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Title in black with red. Half calf over linen; preliminary and last leaves foxed, interior and text in generally excellent condition. First edition of this popular book which passed through many later editions. This work was..... More
London: Harding, Triphook, Lepard, J. Major, 1824. 8vo. [iv], li, 912 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt; preliminary and last blanks are foxed, interior and text in excellent condition. First edition. Dibdin's descriptive catalogue of his ideal library was published in an edition of two..... More
