Electronic life. How to think like computers
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 8vo. [xii], 209, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. More
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Five patients. The hospital explained.
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
The great train robbery.
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
The lost world
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
The terminal man.
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
Adventures in two worlds.
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
Beyond this place.
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
Grand canary.
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
Hatter’s castle.
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
The innkeeper’s wife.
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
The Judas tree.
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
Jupiter laughs.
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
The northern light.
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
The Spanish gardener.
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
Poems of John Chalmers Da Costa.
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
Fragments from Parnassus being parts or the whole of great and good poems: Edited by Charles L. Dana. (Bound with) Fragments from Parnassus; Supplement.
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
Poems and songs of patriotism and war.
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
Yankee faith and other stories.
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
The doctor, his book of poems.
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
Life among the doctors.
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
Men against death.
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
The sweeping wind: a memoir.
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
The bibliographical decameron, or ten days pleasant discourse, upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engravings, typography and bibliography.
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
Bibliomania, or, book-madness
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