Literature
Kaloolah, or, journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: an autobiography of Jonathan Romer.
London: George Routledge & Co., 1850. 12mo. viii, 296 pp. Half-calf and marbled boards, edges sprinkled; end-papers lightly spotted. Second English edition of the author’s first novel, the tale of a journey to Africa where our hero discovers a mythical country, and even marries an African princess. A significant portion..... More
Kaloolah, or, journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: an autobiography of Jonathan Romer.
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. 12mo. xi, [i], [3]-514 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and additional full-page illustrated half-title. Publisher’s cloth, decorated in blind and with gilt illustration on top cover; first and last few leaves browned, otherwise very good with the book label of J.D. Prince, Jr., and the..... More
Chameleon.
Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, [1978]. 8vo. iv, 155 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original blue publisher’s cloth, in original black & white dust-jacket, some light wear to dust-jacket, else fine. First edition. The tale of Dr. Edward Mandolyn, a young African-American cardiologist and the protagonist of May’s first novel Mercy is king..... More
Mercy is king.
Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, [ca. 1974]. 8vo. vi, 186 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original pictorial paper covers, very lightly worn, else fine. First edition of this self-published novel by an African-American cardiologist, based upon his experiences at the Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in Los Angeles, now known as the..... More
In Flander’s Fields and other poems by Lieut. Col. John McCrae, M.D. with, An essay in character, by Sir Andrew Macphail.
Toronto, New York: William Briggs, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1919. 8vo. x, 141 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece photograph portrait of the author with tissue guard, 2 facsimiles including the author’s copy of the poem plus another photograph of McCrae and his dog. Publisher's blue cloth , author and title in gilt..... More
Valedictory poem. Delivered at the annual commencement of the Jefferson Medical College, March, 1879.
Philadelphia: [np], 1882. 8vo. 14 pp. Disbound. Later edition of this poem, which was reprinted from the March and April, 1882 issues of College and Clinical Records of Jefferson. Meigs (1829-79), a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and later there Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, specialized..... More
Poems: Partly medical. With an introduction by Mark D. Altschule.
Boston: Francis A. Countaway Library of Medicine, 1978. 8vo. 85, [3] pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title. Title in red and black. Original cloth-backed patterned boards, yellow lettering to spine. A fine copy. First edition of this collection of poems. “As a physician I was with the sick and dying daily..... More
Dr. Thorne’s idea.
New York: Life Publishing Company, 1910. 8vo. 244 pp. FIRST EDITION THUS. With frontispiece and 3 plates. Original blue publisher’s cloth, star pattern in white to upper cover, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. First edition thus. Originally published under the title Gloria Victis in 1899, the author made..... More
BURR, Charles W. The S. Weir Mitchell oration. S. Weir Mitchell, physician, man of science, man of letters, man of affairs.
[Philadelphia]: [College of Physicians of Philadelphia], 1920. 8vo. 31 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original green boards, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, some light spotting to upper cover; a fine, uncut copy from the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker, with his bookplate. First edition of this oration which was delivered..... More
EARNEST, Ernest. S. Weir Mitchell; novelist and physician.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950. 8vo. vii, [v], 279 pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title. With frontispiece, 2 plates, notes and index. Original blue publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lightly worn at head and foot. First edition of this biography of the renowned author and physician. Earnest (b.1901) was..... More
REIN, David M. S. Weir Mitchell as a psychiatric novelist.
New York: International Universities Press, Inc., [1952]. 8vo. xv, [i], 207 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original red publisher’s cloth, in original yellow dust-jacket. First edition of this biography of the literary life of the renowned physician and author. “The present book describes Mitchell’s development as a pioneer psychiatrist and evaluates his..... More
“An analysis of 3000 cases of melancholia.” Offprint from Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, 1897. Twelfth session.
Philadelphia: [n.p.], 1897. 8vo. 8 pp. Original printed wrappers. Volume XII of Mitchell’s case-study on Melancholy. BAL, 6, 14180. More
The autobiography of a quack and the case of George Dedlow.
New York: The Century Co., 1900. 8vo. x, [i], 149 pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title. With frontispiece and 7 plates. Original green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and decoration; top edges gilt, uncut; first gathering loose, 1 leaf detached, preliminaries spotted, some faint scattered marginal spotting. From the library of..... More
Characteristics.
New York: The Century Co., 1892. 8vo. [viii], 307 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original decorated blue-gray cloth. First edition. This is the first of Mitchell’s so-called “conversation novels,” consisting entirely of dialogue between a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, an artist and a young woman. BAL, 6, 14148; BMC, XVII, 520..... More
Circumstance.
New York: The Century Co., 1901. 8vo. [v], 495 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original maroon publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering and decorations to upper cover and spine, some light soiling to covers. First edition of the tale of a young adventuress .BAL, 6, 14202; BMC, XVII, 520. More
A comedy of conscience.
New York: The Century Co., 1903. 8vo. v, [i], 129 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. With frontispiece and 4 plates. Original blue publisher’s cloth, faint spotting to first few leaves. An uncut copy. First edition, first printing of this tale about the spinster Serena Vernon. BAL, 6, 14216; BMC, XVII..... More
Constance Trescott; a novel.
New York: The Century Co., 1905. 8vo. [iv], 384 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original blue publisher’s cloth, covers and spine lightly rubbed, a bit shaken. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition of what Mitchell considered to be his best work. Apparently, he re-wrote the novel three times after the manuscript was..... More
A diplomatic adventure.
New York: The Century Co., 1906. 8vo. [iv], 166 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original blue publisher’s cloth, some light wear to upper cover and spine; endpapers lightly foxed with some very occasional marginal spotting. Uncut, from the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker, with his bookplate. First edition of this novel set..... More
Dr. North and his friends.
New York: The Century Co., 1900. 8vo. [xi], 499 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original green publisher’s cloth, leaf decoration and lettering in gilt to upper cover and spine; top edges gilt, others uncut. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. Many of the characters from Mitchell’s earlier novel Characteristics appear here. A...... More
Far in the forest. A story.
New York: The Century Co., 1898. 8vo. 302 pp. Uncut in the original green publisher’s cloth, small tear in cloth to lower cover. Later edition of this novel set in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. BAL, 6, 14135; BMC, XVII, 521 (both first ed.). More
Group of four offprints of Mitchell’s speeches, as follows:
8vo. 1. “Address delivered before the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Maryland. On the occasion of the dedication of its building.” Offprint from the Bulletin of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, June, 1909. 8vo. pp. 220-227. Wrappers. BAL, 6, 14258. 2. “Address to the American Neurological Association.” Offprint..... More
The guillotine club and other stories.
New York: The Century Co., 1910. 8vo. vii, [v], 279 pp., FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 13 plates. Original green publisher’s cloth. Small publisher’s advertising pamphlet laid-in. First edition of this collection of four short stories. Aside from The guillotine club, the other three works are The fourteenth guest; The..... More
Hephzibah Guinness; Thee and you; and A draft on the bank of Spain.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. 8vo. 199, [5] pp., FIRST EDITION. including 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. Original beveled green publisher’s cloth, paper label on spine, covers lightly worn; stamps of the Library of Congress on title. First edition of Mitchell’s first novel. BAL, 6, 14101. More
The hill of stones and other poems.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. 8vo. iv, 98 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original decorated blue-green cloth, top cover lightly soiled; top edges gilt, uncut. First edition, binding variant A of this collection of verse. Titles include The shriving of Guinevere; The Quaker graveyard; and Fragment of a...... More