Inscribed to Two Pulitzer Prize Winners
Heimlich's Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation
Publication: Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014. First Edition.
Notes: A scarce inscribed copy of this memoir of the physician who pioneered the Heimlich maneuver, a simple procedure to help civilians clear blocked airways. The press popularized Heimlich's method and it became widely known in the United States. As an elementary school student, your cataloguer inhaled a piece of hot dog at a school picnic; one of the parent chaperones performed the Heimlich maneuver and popped it free.
Later research suggested that Heimlich's maneuver was no better at saving lives than other methods.
253, [1:blank] pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good to near fine copy in wrappers (paperback); a few dents to the covers. There wasn't a hardcover issue of this book. This copy is inscribed to two Pulitzer Prize–winning authors, "Henry J. Heimlich / Cincinnati, Ohio / October 13, 2015. For Susan and Neil Sheehan." Uncommon signed.
Susan Sheehan was a New Yorker staff writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book about a patient in a mental institution; Neil won one for his Viet Nam War history, A Bright and Shining Lie.
ISBN: 9781616148492
Item No: #366360
Price: $200