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193646050London/Southampton: Victor Gollancz Ltd Covent Garden 1936. 1st Edition. Rust colored cloth wrapped boards gilt lettering to back strip. A VG copy corners a bit rubbed and bumped gilt bright light soiling discoloration to edges of boards some age toning/foxing to end papers internally clean crisp and bright. 142 pp. 73 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 10-1/2" x 8" <br/><br/> Victor Gollancz Ltd, Covent Garden hardcover books
1949137549Columbus OH: Golden Goose Press 1949. First edition. Softcover. 32 pages. Number 96 from an edition of 200 hand set in Cheltenham types and printed on Warren's Old Style. Includes poems by Robert Lawrence Baum Leslie Woolf Hedley Harold G. Miller Scott Greer and Nathan R. Teitel. A very good plus copy in stapled wrappers in a very good dust jacket that has some edge wear and is lightly soiled. Golden Goose Press unknown books
18802305839New York: William Wood & Company 1880. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition Garrison-Morton 4846. Ink gift note to female doctor on front endpaper Dr. Ellen C. Partridge from her pastor. Chicago Sept. 6th 1880.' front hinge just beginning to weaken. 198 pp. 8vo. George M. Beard was the leading authority on the topic of neurasthenia having described it in his work Neurasthenia; or Nervous Exhaustion in 1869 see Garrison-Morton 4843. He was also the co-author with Alphonse David Rockwell the inventory of the electric chair of "the most influential American treatise ever published on electrotherapy." see Garrison-Morton 1996.4 a treatment that Beard advocated for neurasthenia. While the diagnosis has fallen out of use since Beard's time many notable figures suffered from it at the time: Virginia Woolf; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; William James; Marcel Proust; etc. James humorously referred to the disease as 'Americanitis. William Wood & Company unknown books
187539397New York: No publisher 1875. 8vo 23.5 cm 9.25". 8 pp. <br><br>In this paper Beard presents "a few cases of diseases of the nervous system that are in some one or in several features representative in their character. They will serve to represent some of the leading and distinctive symptoms that are found in the diseases spoken of as well as certain features in their progress and treatment." As Beard notes electricity was used in all cases and sometimes in addition to "other remedies."<br>Â Â Â Â Dr. George Miller Beard 183983 was a neurologist who is responsible for popularizing "neurasthenia" a weakness of the nerves brought on by urbanization and the increasing stress caused by it.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat has located five institutional copies in the U.S. In self-wrappers stitched; chipping along edges with loss to one corner some dust-soiling pinhole in front wrapper faint foxing to rear wrapper. Small stain and finger smudge to one page. An interesting look at 19th-century mental illness treatments from a prominent neurologist. No publisher unknown books
187439386Detroit: E.B. Smith 1874. 8vo 22.2 cm 8.75". 7 1 pp. <br><br>A paper "reprinted from Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy October 1874" which describes Beard's method of using electricity on children with certain illnesses he first experimented these techniques on dogs and rabbits and the specific cases he treated.<br>Â Â Â Â Dr. George Miller Beard 183983 was a neurologist who is responsible for popularizing "neurasthenia" a weakness of the nerves brought on by urbanization and the increasing stress caused by it.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat could not locate any U.S. institutions with holdings. Stitched leaves without wrappers; first and last leaf separated some chipping and closed tears around edges. An ever-intriguing and inevitably baffling look at late 19th century medical practices. E.B. Smith unknown books
196315144New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1963. Fireside BCE. Hardcover. moderate shelfwear light bumping to several corners agency stamp on front pastedown hidden by jacket flap; jacket shows wear and minor wrinkling along top edge wear at several corners minor soiling to front panel tiny tears at top of spine and bottom of rear panel. B&W photographs Two Oxford men Bennett and Moore teamed up with two Cambridge men Cook and Miller in this "satirical review which treats calmly and ruthlessly of the hydrogen bomb the end of the world religion on television capital punishment race relations and the emerging African nations. It is funny on all subjects." Walter Kerr . Random House hardcover books
1963131877London: Souvenir Press 1963. First UK Edition. <br/><br/>Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly faded nicking to the edges and light soil. Souvenir Press unknown books
198130099Ellensburg WA: Vagabond 1981. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paperbound quarto. 94 pp. Includes some photographic illustrations. The first issue of John Bennett's literary magazine entitled Black messiah. This issue's focus is on the life and art of author Henry Miller with contributions by Jan Jerouac Alfred Perles Norman Mailer Jack Saunders and many others. A very good copy with some light cover wear and some paper loss at base of the title page. Interesting copy in that Bennett has INSCRIBED THIS COPY TO AL ARONOWITZ and dated in 1998. Aronowitz was the great gonzo rock and roll journalist who may be best known for introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles. Vagabond paperback books
197566413Duxbury:: Whitetail Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. B000CS0VJU . Black and white photographs by Peter Miller and John Randolph. Second printing. Very good in a very good moderate edge wear dust jacket. . Whitetail Press, hardcover books
1974259815San Francisco: Benro Pub 1974. Newspaper. 32p 8.5x11 inches photos ads services listings reviews features news very good magazine-format newspaper on newsprint stapled wraps. Cover story on the Metropolitan Community Church Conference. Loud Rand author of "Rough Trade" presents a foodie article. Benro Pub unknown books
1972258511San Francisco: Benro Ent 1972. Magazine. 40p including covers 8.5x11 inches photos ads listings reviews features lightly-worn and toned else very good pastebound newsprint entertainment magazine. Cover story on the crowning of Mister Marcus as Emperor of San Francisco. Benro Ent unknown books
1973258676San Francisco: Benro Enterprises 1973. Newspaper. 32p 8.25x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews event listings local gay business ads mild toning and three-hole-punch in spine for binding else very good magazine-style newspaper on pastebound newsprint. Cover story on the San Francisco gay theatre awards. Also a report on the burning of the LA MCC Church. The beginning of The Empress Connection by Maxine. Benro Enterprises unknown books
1973258675San Francisco: Benro Enterprises 1973. Newspaper. 32p 8.25x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews event listings local gay business ads mild toning else very good magazine-style newspaper on pastebound newsprint. Cover story on the San Francisco gay theatre awards. Also a report on the burning of the LA MCC Church. The beginning of The Empress Connection by Maxine. Benro Enterprises unknown books
1973258952San Francisco: Benro Enterprises 1973. Newspaper. 32p 8.25x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews event listings local gay business ads mild toning else very good magazine-style newspaper on pastebound newsprint. Cover story on the police harassment of gay men. Also part two of the article begun in previous issue on the exorbitant budget in SF for victimless crime prosecution. Benro Enterprises unknown books
1973258949San Francisco: Benro Enterprises 1973. Newspaper. 32p 8.25x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews event listings local gay business ads mild toning and three-hole-punch in spine for binding else very good magazine-style newspaper on pastebound newsprint. Cover story on Tzarina Luscious Lorelei and on the SF $110 million budget for fighting gays prostitution and pot smokers. Benro Enterprises unknown books
1973258950San Francisco: Benro Enterprises 1973. Newspaper. 32p 8.25x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews event listings local gay business ads mild toning else very good magazine-style newspaper on pastebound newsprint. Cover story on Tzarina Luscious Lorelei and on the SF $110 million budget for fighting gays prostitution and pot smokers. Benro Enterprises unknown books
1973258951San Francisco: Benro Enterprises 1973. Newspaper. 32p 8.25x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews event listings local gay business ads mild toning and three-hole-punch in spine for binding else very good magazine-style newspaper on pastebound newsprint. Cover story on the police harassment of gay men. Also part two of the article begun in previous issue on the exorbitant budget in SF for victimless crime prosecution. Benro Enterprises unknown books
197940493San Francisco: Book Club of California 1979. First edition. Quarter cloth over decorated paper covered boards gilt title map endpapers. A fine copy. In original somewhat worn plain dust jacket. 73 pp. Illus. with 9 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. One of 500 copies. Book Club of California hardcover books
1938M9408Offprint from:: Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine vol. VI no. 6 1938. 1938. 8vo. 649-667 pp. Photos. Printed wrappers. FINE. Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine, vol. VI, no. 6, 1938. unknown books
1765WRCAM46139New England 1765. Pen-and-ink on laid paper with the road colored in sepia and with water elements in green with a yellow wash border within the gradients on seventeen of eighteen sheets. Sheet size: 27 1/2 x 214 inches overall if joined. Minor repairs one small blank section in the upper border lacking. Very good. Provenance: Sir Francis Bernard Colonial Governor of Massachusetts 1712-79; by descent to Robert Spencer Bernard Nether Winchendon House Buckinghamshire England. A truly massive road map measuring over seventeen feet from east to west showing the roads across the colony of Massachusetts in great detail. It is one of only a handful of road maps to survive from the colonial era. It was created for Sir Francis Bernard then colonial governor of Massachusetts. <br> <br> In November 1969 noted historian of cartography William P. Cumming discovered in the family home of Sir Francis Bernard "a collection of maps that in purpose and type differed so markedly from the more usual military coastal and general colonial maps of the time that it stands out in both interest and importance. These were domestic maps of a gentleman's estates and the roads to them.Probably Sir Francis's most important contribution to cartography was to have careful surveys made of the roads from Boston.westward to Albany New York on a one-inch to two-thirds-mile scale. It was along part of this Albany to Boston road that the American rebels dragged the heavy cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga that set up on Dorchester Heights forced General Howe's evacuation of Boston in 1776.No route maps as detailed as these except for two short New Jersey road maps are known for any other section of the eastern seaboard until those of Christopher Colles in 1789" Cumming pp.29-30. <br> <br> The present manuscript map depicts the road across Massachusetts but does not extend as far as Albany. The road divided into miles throughout extends from Boston to Springfield where it splits into two westward routes to Albany: the first a more southerly route via Great Barrington Massachusetts which ends on the present map at a point approximately thirty-three miles from Albany; and the more northerly route which is shown on the map as far as Northampton just past the Connecticut River. The map is done on a very large scale of approximately two-thirds of a mile to the inch with towns rivers mountains residences meetinghouses and numerous taverns identified along the way. Cumming records this map as four separate entries i.e. MP21-24 although with an incorrect sheet count. <br> <br> Comprised of eighteen sheets one narrow blank sheet is missing the top half of the map is comprised of ten narrow sheets varyingly long and short while the bottom half is comprised of eight uniform sheets each measuring 18 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. The sheets are as follows: <br> <br> 1 Southeast corner of the map blank except wash border. <br> <br> 2 Blank except for wash border with a segment of rhumb line. <br> <br> 3 missing but would clearly be blank except for wash border with section of rhumb line <br> <br> 4 Text reading "Boston to Albany." <br> <br> 5 Text reading "Way to Spr-" with part of the southern road. <br> <br> 6 Text reading "-ingfield" with part of the southern road including Springfield and the Connecticut River. <br> <br> 7 A small sheet containing text reading "and" and part of the southern route. <br> <br> 8 blank except for wash border <br> <br> 9 blank except for wash border <br> <br> 10 Southwest corner of the map blank except for wash border. <br> <br> 11 Northeast corner of the map containing Medford Boston and the route as far as Framingham. <br> <br> 12 Text reading "the road" with the northern route from Sudbury to Westborough. <br> <br> 13 Text reading "from" with the route from Shrewsbury to Leicester. <br> <br> 14 Text reading "by" and "road b-" with the route from Brookfield west to Coy's Hill and the Porpoodock Mountains. <br> <br> 15 Text reading "-y way of Northampton to Albany" showing the route from Belchertown to Northampton including part of the Connecticut River and the Hadley Mountains. <br> <br> 16 Text reading "Gr-" with part of the route showing Blandford. <br> <br> 17 Text reading "-eat Barrington" showing the route from the Farmington River to Tyringham. <br> <br> 18 Northwest corner of the map showing Great Barrington and a bit beyond to the Massachusetts-New York border. <br> <br> Sir Francis Bernard became the colonial governor of Massachusetts in late 1759 shortly after British troops were victorious in the Battle of Quebec. That decisive French and Indian War victory opened a vast region for renewed English settlement and trade thus necessitating the need for more accurate surveys of the roads. The present manuscript map was surveyed and drawn by talented military mapmaker Francis Miller in 1765 for Bernard the details of which are recounted by Bernard in a 1766 letter to Lord Barrington: <br> <br> "I am desired to certify to your Lordship that at the beginning of the Year 1764 Genl Gage at my Request gave Leave to Ensign Francis Miller of the 45th regiment then stationed in Newfoundland to come to Boston to assist me in some Works of Public Surveying which I had undertaken in pursuance of resolutions of the general Assembly & partly by Orders from England. Mr Miller being then at an outpost & not easily relieved did not arrive at Boston till Nov in that Year when the Season for actual Surveying was over. He was employed that Winter & Spring following in protracting the Surveys made that Summer among which was a compleat Route from Fort Pownal on the River Penobscot to Quebec & some other curious explorations of the Eastern parts of New England hitherto unknown to Englishmen: of which elegant Maps drawn by Mr Miller have been transmitted to the Board of Trade. Early in the Last Summer I employed M' Miller having previously informed Genl Gage of the Intention to make an actual Survey from Boston to Albany & back again by another Way being near 200 Miles; & afterwards from Boston to Penobscot being above 200 Miles; by which Means a true Geometrical Line of 400 Miles in length through part of New York & all the habitable part of New-England has been obtained which will afford great Assistance to the Ascertaining the Geography of this Country & its Sea Coast. After this Survey was finished he was employed in protracting the Same & making Drawings thereof which he has done with great Accuracy & Elegance" Bernard to Barrington Jan. 1 1766 quoted in THE BARRINGTON-BERNARD CORRESPONDENCE p.103. <br> <br> This important manuscript map detailing the route from Boston westward towards Albany constitutes among the earliest of American road maps. CUMMING BRITISH MAPS OF COLONIAL AMERICA Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1974 pp.29-30 and Appendix A. THE BARRINGTON-BERNARD CORRESPONDENCE Cambridge: Harvard University 1912. unknown books
1949141058Columbus OH: Golden Goose Press 1949. First edition. Softcover. Copy number 1 from an edition of 200 hand set in Cheltenham types and printed on Warren's Old Style. Published by Richard Wirtz Emerson with this being his copy and with his attractive bookplate on the verso of the front cover. Golden Goose Book 5 with poems from Robert Lawrence Beum Leslie Woolf Hedley Howard G. Miller Scott Greer and Nathan R. Teitel. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers and with tanning to the endpapers from the flaps of the near fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Golden Goose Press unknown books
37868NY: Harper and Brothers 1959. Paperback. Very good. 184pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers paperback books
197618369Ireland: Dolmen Editions 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small quarto in dustwrapper. A fine hardbound copy in dustwrapper. Illustrated bibliography of twenty five years of publications by the Dolmen Press. Compiled by Liam Miller. One of 650 trade copies. Beautiful and useful. <br/><br/> Dolmen Editions hardcover books
1999229785New York: Arcade Publishing 1999. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Frontispiece and a few b/w illustrations. 420pp. 8vo two-toned cloth a bit rubbed d.w. New York: Arcade Publishing 1999. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page. Some foxing on inside of dust wrapper otherwise not visible. First Edition. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Arcade Publishing unknown books
198746585NY:: Whitney Museum of American Art. Near Fine. 1987. Paperback. 0874270545 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition paperback. Near fine in oversize illustrated wraps. . Whitney Museum of American Art, paperback books
