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18938799Boston/new York: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1893. Hardcover. Gilt-pictorial smooth green cloth; ex-library small chip to head of spine; endpapers show foxing; attractively designed book; 1st . Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1908427768The Century Company 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. 421 pp. Inscribed by Mitchell to Mrs. Bayard on the front free endpaper. Light soiling and wear to exterior. Spine slightly cocked. Light toning to page edges. Some dampstaining visible to lower fore-corners. Overall very good no jacket. Mitchell was a physician known for discovering causalgia and erythromelalgia once known as Mitchell's Disease. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of his patients and his treatment of her inspired "The Yellow Wallpaper." The Century Company hardcover books
19087847NY: Century 1908. First edn. 8vo Pp. 421. Covers little soiled a VG copy. Century unknown books
1900184738New York: The Century Co 1900. Hardcover. G ex-library. Spine is faded has labels. Bookplate blind stamp pocket inside. Pages are clean and tight. Black boards gilt lettering cover/spine. v pages 1 leaf 47 pages. Nice reference or reading title. The Century Co hardcover books
1900D17723New York: The Century Co 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 8 47 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped in gold. A near fine copy. BAL 14191. First edition inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear Mrs Hamill I venture to contribute this volume as my personal gift. S. Weir Mitchell." <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
1900442111900. MITCHELL S. Weir. THE WAGER AND OTHER POEMS. NY: The Century Company 1900. 16mo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. First Edition. Signed. Initialed by Mitchell on the half-title page: "by S. W. M." Very Good some rubbing quarter-inch loss at head of spine front cover reattached. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1867D17724Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Plate illustrations. 79 pp. Title page in red and black. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine and extremities rubbed some bubbling to cloth scattered staining and toning else very good. BAL 14065. <br/><br/>First edition of Mitchell's anonymous collection written and published for the benefit of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Blanck's "Intermediate sheets" binding B with a gift inscription to the front free endpaper "Emily Yarnall/from Aunt Sally/December 25/66." The book was advertised as "just published" on December 15 1866. Blanck cites this very copy which was once in the collection of Harvard. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1904WRCLIT25413London: Unwin 1904. Crimson cloth stamped in gilt and black. First English issue comprised of American sheets with an English title leaf and binding. The sheets are from BAL's "third second printing." Bookplate and minor foxing otherwise near fine and bright. BAL 14223n. Unwin hardcover books
190467444New York: The Century Co. Very Good. 1904. Hardcover. First Printing Second Issue. 290 pages. Yellow cloth covers with gilt and green printing. The spine is darkened. The covers show some light soiling. Previous owner signed the front free end paper. Otherwise this is a clean nice copy. Very Good. . The Century Co. hardcover books
94043hardcover. 12mo cloth. N.Y.: Century 1904. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1871D17731Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1871. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 59 pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Dampstaining to boards chips to spine internally very good. <br/><br/> J.B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover books
19136733NY: Century 1913. First edn. 8vo pp. 510. A VG copy. BAL 14272. Century unknown books
1894482251894. MITCHELL S. Weir. WHEN ALL THE WOODS ARE GREEN. New York: The Century Co. 1894. First edition. 8vo. green cloth spine in gilt t.e.g. A very good copy that shows only light rubbing at the spine ends and extremities binding slightly skewed. unknown books
1905135219New York: The Century Co 1905. hardcover. very good. 15 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo 3/4 blue morocco gilt decorated and raised spines top edges gilt. New York: The Century Co. 1905. Author's Definitive edition. A lovely set.<br/><br/> The Century Co unknown books
190849157Portland ME: Mosher 1908. Periodical. 12mo pp. 223-247. Paper wraps. Cover slightly spotted and faded o/w a VG tight copy. A Medieval poem by an unknown author supposedly about a lost love but perhaps simply an allegory. Mosher unknown books
1877316316Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1877. First edition. 101pp. 8vo. Modern crimson cloth. First edition. 101pp. 8vo. "For some years I have been using with success.certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and of excessive feeding made possible by passive excerise obtained through the steady use of massage and electricity" Chapter I.<br/><br/>Mitchell used this resty cure on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it provided her the idea for "The Yellow Wallpaper" a short story in which the narrator is driven insane by this treatment.<br/><br/>This treatment was also used on Virginia Woolf who wrote a savage satire of it in her novel Mrs. Dalloway : "you invoke proportion; order rest in bed; rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends without books without messages; six months rest; until a man who went in weighing seven stone six comes out weighing twelve" G-M 4554 J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
1914D17742Philadelphia 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph. 155 pp. Original purple cloth lettered in silver. Spine faded. <br/><br/> hardcover books
190650652bdNew York: The Century Co. 1906. First Edition. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters and decorations to upper cover uncut 166 pp. The Century Co., 1906. First Edition. hardcover books
190512050NY:: The Century Co. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. B002Z57J7U . The twelve volumes are: THE ADVENTURES OF FRANCOIS: FOUNDLING THIEF JUGGLER AND FENCINGMASTER DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A QUACK AND OTHER STORIES CHARACTERISTICS CIRCUMSTANCE CONSTANCE TRESCOT DR. NORTH AND HIS FRIEND S FAR IN THE FOREST HUGH WYNE: FREE QUAKER IN WAR TIME ROLAND BLAKE WHEN ALL THE WOODS ARE GREEN and THE YOUTH OF WASHINGTON: TOLD IN THE FORM OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Some of the volumes are illustrated with a few black and white plates. First printings thus. All volumes are very good or better in green cloth top edges gilt. No dust jackets. . The Century Co., hardcover books
190050544bdNew York: Century 1900. First Edition. Octavo gilt-stamped cloth hardcover top edge gilt uncut viii 499 pp. Fine. Century, 1900. First Edition. hardcover books
1901M12948New York:: Century 1901. 1901. Sm. 8vo. 499 pp. Original dark green gilt-stamped cloth t.e.g. Ownership signature of Henry H. Fertig on his bookplate and B. Rhodes. Very good. Century, 1901. hardcover books
1885289945Philadelphia.: Lea Brothers & Co. 1885 . 2nd Edition. Publisher’s green cloth blind ruled borders gilt spine title. . Very good some darkening and a spot to spine contents tight and unmarked. . 20.2x13 cm. . Mitchell was a noted neurologist and also an author of popular fiction. Virginia Woolf was one of his famous patients Lea Brothers & Co. hardcover books
1904Embry 191901Jacobs 1904. Second edition. Light horizontal stain to a few pages light foxing to first few pages light wear to spine tips white stamping to spine lackingvery good. B&W illustrations. Green cloth decoratively stamped in green red and white. Jacobs, 1904. Second edition. hardcover books
190050543fdNew York: Century 1900. First Edition. Octavo gilt-stamped green cloth hardcover top edge gilt uncut i - x ii 149 pp. Very Good; frontis. loose. Century, 1900. First Edition. hardcover books
1900100724New York.: Century Co. 1900 . First edition. Hardcover black cloth . Very good with no dust jacket light soiling to covers. . 8vo. Signed & inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Century Co. hardcover books
