Boston: Joy Street Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fourteen children recount their struggles with disease and adversity. Illustrated with Krementz's photographs. Krementz is Kurt Vonnegut's widow. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Nicely inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, with a posthumous.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Essays on fascinating cases of neurological disease, revised from their appearances in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. First edition (stated). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with cracking to back fold.
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Calcutta: Published by the "Bangabasi" Office, 1905. A scarce 19th century European view of India, notable for its reports on drugs. One of the plates depicts three types of drug use: a b'hangee, or hemp-plant drinker; a chursee bhistee, or a person smoking cannabis resin; and a faqueer postee, an.....
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London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. An entry in the Dr. Priestley series, this one with Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. The US edition is titled "The Case of the Sustitute Doctor," which better captures the plot—the solving of the death of a patient and his substitute (locum tenens) doctor. While.....
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Calcutta: Printed and Published for the Imperial Department of Agriculture in India by Thacker, Spink & Co., 1921. First Edition. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Chemical Series. vol. 6. no. 2. Investigations on Indian Opium, No. 2. [iv], 61–154, [4]. Seven charts. A report on a study.....
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Calcutta: Savielle & Cranenburgh, Printers, Bengal Printing Company Limited, 1862. First Edition. 14 pages. A table of drugs, mostly plant-based, in use in India, with the scientific or English name, the provincial name, and notes by the author. Dey was an early proponent of indigenous medicine. Pepared for the world's fair.....
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Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1891. First Edition. xi, 161 pages, including indexes in English, French, German, Hindustani, and several other Indian languages. "Printed and published by order of the Madras government, at the recommendation of the Madras working committee, Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883–1884. A listing of plants, with.....
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London and Bombay: Richardson & Co. and Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1881. First Edition. xxxv, 219 pages, including indexes by scientific name and common names in English and various Indian languages. Printed and bound in Bombay. Descriptions of plants in the Southern province of Pakistan, with information on their use, organized.....
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Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1952. First Edition. Government of India, Ministry of Health, Pharmacognosy Laboratory Bulletin No. 2. vi, 124 pages. 7 by 10 inches. 51 half-tone plates, most reproducing four photographs of plant specimens, plus a folding map, "Distribution of Leaf Drug-Yielding Plants in India." Information on "a number.....
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Sydney, Australia: "Health and Diet" Press, [n.d. but ca. 1911]. 88 pages plus [10] pages of ads. Heath and Diet series, no. 2 Recipes for the NeoVeg (Neophye Vegetarian), "the one who has already renounced—or who is willing to renounce—flesh, fish and fowl, and is now ready to eliminate from his.....
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Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Trade paperback. 276 pages. An autobiographical account of a radical anti-abortionist's escape from jail and his use of an anthrax scare to disrupt hundreds of abortion clinics following 9/11. Waagner, now serving a long prison sentence, is associated with the Army of God.....
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London: John Murray, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 320 pages, plus ads. The author collects stories about centenarians and marshals evidence, most from other sources, that debunks the claims. He quotes from autopsy reports, the opinions of doctors, and press accounts. At the end of the book he cites cases.....
Price: $125
