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1976501851976. Health Insurance. United States Congress. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. National Health Insurance: Major Proposals. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representative Ninety-Fourth Congress First and Second Session on Consideration of the Major Proposals Relating to National Health Insurance. Washington: US Government Printing Office 1976. Three volumes. Softbound some shelfwear light markings in pencil in some places. A solid set. $75. unknown books
1954103547New York: Pageant Press 1954. Hardcover. 137p. first edition lightly worn dj with some tape repairs at edges else very good. Spence an Afro-Jamaican author and the principal author creates an adventure story with a California protagonist who travels to the Caribbean then returns to Southern California. Pageant Press hardcover books
1967006892Princeton N.J.: Princeton Univ Press 1967. SCARCE in the 1967 First Edition. Near Fine toning to front wrapper. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton Univ Press Paperback books
19782510Israel: Weight Watchers c. 1978. Poster. Color illustrated cardboard. Near fine. I48 x 33 cm. In the early 1960's Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch began inviting friends into her Queens home once a week to discuss how best to lose weight. As word spread and attendee numbers grew Nidetch finally launched Weight Watchers Inc. in May 1963. After inviting former attendees to franchise their own branches and run their own meets Weight Watchers spread across America and eventually across the world. By 1968 Weight Watchers had 102 franchises in the United States Canada Great Britain Israel and Puerto Rico. This Poster in Hebrew illustrates the thin person within an aspirational strategy of selling the weight loss brand. Printed in Israel by Shohar. Clean copy. <br /> Weight Watchers books
197243925Philadelphia: Philadelphia Women's Health Collective and Friends n.d. but ca. 1972. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; corner staple-bound self-wrappers; 5pp. printed from typescript. Fine condition. Critical account of a highly publicized weekend during which twenty Chicago women were transported by bus to Philadelphia in order to receive abortions after clinics in Chicago were shut down by the police. The weekend was organized by Harvey Karman and his associates and Karman's "super coil" procedure was used on the fifteen women already in their second trimester. Nine women experienced complications of which three were major complications. The report concludes that Karman was "more concerned undermining women's control of their health care and propagating his own technology and reputation than with meeting the health needs of women" p. 3. Uncommon: Northwestern only in OCLC as of April 2019. Philadelphia Women's Health Collective and Friends unknown books
1992Embry 153662Farrar Straus and Giroux 1992. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W photographs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19161689Battle Creek Michigan: Good Health Publishing Co 1916. Wraps. Original tan wraps. Good. 71 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. Originally named Western Health Reform Institute John Harvey and his brother W.K. Kellogg built an new structure and took the word "sanatorium" and changed two letters transforming and adding a new word to the English language. 11 paper label/addenda are stapled to the front cover. Chipped creased and rubbed. <br/><br/> Good Health Publishing, Co paperback books
1997261364New York: GMHC 1997. Forty-five issue broken run various pagination 8.5x11 inches articles reports drug information events services and resources some three-hole-punched issues a few pen marks light wear else good newsletters in stapled wraps. Includes two issues AIDS Medical Glossary. Numbers included are 3:6; 6:17; 7:4-12; 8:26-11; 9:1-12; 10:1 & 2 two versions 3-11; 11:1-3 & 6 a Glossary issue. GMHC unknown books
1982135134Harare: Ministry of Health 1982. 14p. 23p. 20p. 19p. and 39p. 8.25x11.75 inches tables cheap paperstock construction paper stapled in faded blue report covers. First five issues. Ministry of Health unknown books
19983375New York: GMHC Inc 1998. Very good . All items measuring between 6" x 4" and 11" x 8½". Two fliers printed recto and verso four brochures and one postcard. Generally very good plus or better: one flier with corner creases and minor stain on verso; minor corner crease on inner leaves of one brochure; two brochures stored opened to center pages so fold no longer sharp. These AIDS-related educational materials were published by the Gay Men's Health Crisis organization the long running group with a mission to help eradicate AIDS and improve the lives of those affected by it. Founded in 1982 and now known simply as "GMHC" they spread their life-saving messages through informative and nonjudgmental publications such as those offered here. There's an attractive brochure sponsored by the United Colors of Benetton and one entitled "10 Minutes That Can Change Your Life." Other pamphlets discuss taking "The Test" and alerting women that they too are at risk. Two vibrantly illustrated fliers promoted the 1992 and 1998 AIDS Walks the proceeds of which would benefit GMHC and help them pursue their mission. One of the brochures located on OCLC the rest of the items do not appear. A fine group of AIDS educational materials from an organization that still addresses AIDS issues through education care and advocacy. GMHC, Inc unknown books
1923259560Paris: Stamperia Libertaria 1923. Unpaginated paperback spine panel has chips at ends many pages uncut at top. Numerous illustrations by the author. A collection of works that had been published over the two previous decades by the Italian-born anarchist poet polemicist and printer active in Italy and France. Stamperia Libertaria unknown books
2000118350N.P.: The Stinehour Press 2000. leather title gilt-stamped on spine marbled endpapers paper-covered slipcase. Miniature Books. miniature book 8.7 x 6.9 cm. leather title gilt-stamped on spine marbled endpapers paper-covered slipcase. unpaginated. Printed as a keepsake for Grand Conclave XVIII of the Miniature Book Society 2000. Essay on the meaning of books and their potential. Specially bound by Jen and Joy Tonkin-Roberts and signed on colophon. Sliipcase lightly worn at edges. The Stinehour Press unknown books
1983CAT0129BNew York: Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc 1983. Poster 35 x 23 inches. Poersch Enno. A scarce poster for an important early AIDS benefit one of the first AIDS benefits organized by GMHC taking place a few months earlier than the Rodeo event. GHMC bought all of the tickets from Barnum and Bailey and sold them off for donation prices ranging from $10 to $500. All 17600 seats sold out. Leonard Bernstein conducted the circus orchestra in a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" which Larry Kramer GMHC founder and playwright described as "one of the most moving moments he had ever experienced." David Roman in Acts of Intervention: Performance Gay Culture and AIDS describes the event as "unquestionably the most galvanizing early AIDS fundraiser." The event did much to change attitudes about the crisis though the event was not covered by The New York Times or other mainstream media outlets. Enno Poersch designed the poster. <br /> <br /> Quite scarce with no examples shown in OCLC. Some light wear excellent condition overall. Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc unknown books
1983CAT0129ANew York: Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc 1983. First Edition. Posterboard 36 x 23 inches. Poersch Enno. A promotional poster for an early AIDS benefit at Madison Square Garden sponsored by the Gay Men's Health Crisis organization. GMHC which still exists played a very important role in raising awareness for the epidemic in its early years in New York City. The group first met in 1982 in the apartment of playwright Larry Kramer. Enno Poersch one of the group's founding members designed this poster. GMHC was one of the earliest organizations to distribute information about the disease. In 1982 they organized "Showers: A Benefit to Aid Gay Men with Kaposi's Sarcoma and Other Gay Related Immunodeficiencies." A Barnum and Bailey Circus benefit and the World's Toughest Rodeo event followed in 1983. <br /> <br /> The owner of World's Toughest Rodeo a traditional rodeo which had a normal primary sponsor of Miller Beer sold the show to the GHMC without realizing it would be an AIDS Benefit. After the show's owner panicked - he was worried about offending his conservative fanbase - the benefit was referred to only as "The Rodeo." The rest of the ads for the event outside of the New York City metropolitan area showed the traditional advertisement listing Miller as the show's primary sponsor. A fine example quite scarce. OCLC lists two copies with a third shown in the University of Rochester's special collections. Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc unknown books
19181716Toronto Ia. 1918. Good plus. 224pp. Folio. Original black half calf and cloth spine gilt. Corners and spine ends a bit worn. Text block separating from spine but still sound. Several leaves loose lightly soiled. Large folio ledger recording thirty-five years of health data for Clinton County Iowa comprising the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Health as well as a "Record of Cases of Disease Dangerous to Public Health." Clinton County is located just north of Davenport on the border with Illinois. Names of doctors patients and board members are all recorded providing an interesting glimpse into the life of the county over a significant span of time and a period of substantial growth in knowledge in the field of public health.<br/><br/>The opening leaf contains local health regulations such as burning or burying dead animals and livestock within ten hours and removing "nuisance sources of filth or sickness" from one's premises within twenty-four hours. The next item in the ledger is an emergency meeting dated January 24 1883 discussing an outbreak of diphtheria and the measures taken to quarantine and contain it. The first two-thirds of the volume is comprised of such meeting minutes. There is also a record of accounts paid and receivable for the county's Board of Health for the period covered. Some of the funds were spent on activities such as improving the cemetery April 1904. Interestingly part of the activity recorded is also for highway maintenance. The final section of the volume contains pre-printed ledger space for recording cases of disease deemed dangerous to the public health. Part of the space has been used to record births and deaths in 1905. Final pages record minutes of special meetings concerning outbreaks and quarantines in 1917 and 1918 particularly of scarlet fever diphtheria and measles. A wonderful record of public health in one rural county of Iowa. unknown books
199947465New York: Phaidon Press 1999. First edition of the photojournalist's second book a searing chronicle of global conflict by "the leading war photographer of today" Parr & Badger II. Thick folio original black cloth illustrated throughout with 382 photographs. Signed by photographer on the title page as follows "To all the people who open up their hearts to feel James Nachtwey." Introduction by Luc Sante. In fine condition. Laid in is an original lecture notice given by the photographer. Five-time recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal Magnum photographer James Nachtwey "must be considered the leading war photographer of today and not simply because he has covered so many of the world's recent conflicts. Nachtwey's reputation is due not simply to his longevity but because of the quality of his brutally compassionate photographs" Parr & Badger II:254. Inferno Nachtwey's second book and his first in over ten years presents unforgettable images of war famine and loss in areas such as Romania Bosnia Rwanda and Kosovo. To Richard Avedon Inferno is undeniably "the most painful and beautiful book in the history of photography." "In Nachtwey's photographs the boundary between living and dead is slim. The line between ecstasy and grief is almost invisible. You have to look very closely at these photographs" New York Times. Phaidon Press hardcover books
19092291N.P.: W.E. Scull 1909. First Thus. Near Fine copy in contemporary quarter calf over green cloth with bright gilt to spine; some bumping to crown of spine and corners. All edges marbled. Hinges professionally strengthened. Collating xxii 1 manikin 469 p.: complete including all manikin flaps functional and intact. Some offsetting to pastedowns front and rear. Internally a clean and pleasing copy else with multiple illustrations to guide women in the management of their own health and that of their families. While the two later editions of the same year contained a variant front plate and title page with publisher's information this first edition first issue was released without it. No institutions report holdings of this version; similarly there are no other copies of this edition on the market.<br/><br/>Initially released in 1906 under the title "Woman in Girlhood Wifehood Motherhood" this educational guide was updated and revised in 1909 to reflect improved medical knowledge and to put emphasis in particular on maternity. "The young mother commits many grave errors when caring for her baby by too often relying solely upon her own intuition or or upon the advice of ignorant friends." To help young mothers fill the gap in their reproductive educations Life Knowledge provides extensive illustrations and accompanying explanations to increase transparency. "Great care has been used in the selection of illustrations that they be both appropriate and sufficient in number to elucidate the text.a manikin drawn colored and put together with great exactness and explained in a descriptive key accompanies each book.any unavoidable medical terms requiring elucidation are fully explained in a glossary." An important detailed medical guide for young mothers at the turn of the century. W.E. Scull unknown books
1963182419Northhampton Mass: Gehenna Press 1963. Signed and numbered. Hardcover. VG/VG rubbed spot to leather spine & edge. slipcase has scuffing to back & side panels; rubbing to to lower corner; small black pen-like mark to front; illustration & signature unaffected. quarter leather spine w/ grey paper boards. unpaginated w/ 13 leaves. back cover pastedown pocket of 13 engravings. illustrated slipcase signed by the artist. A wonderful copy of this limited set produced by Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. This is copy 4 of 30 with quarter leather binding. Back cover pastedown has a pocket with 13 additional wood engravings printed on Japanese Moriki hand made paper. Each copy is signed by Sante Graziani. Slipcase illustrated is also signed by Sante Graziani. Sante Graziani was known for his public building murals. Gehenna Press hardcover books
1921006579Chez Jacoub Aulard & Cie. 1921. Limp Card. Paper pastedown on card. . Very Good. No. 58 of 300 copies on "Grande Fibre de Bambou de Cochin-Chine". Folio 38 cm square. 24 pochoir plates 3 of which are double pages with a brief introductory page and a limitation page at the end. Scarce with only two institutional holdings reflected on OCLC First Search both in France. Caricatures bear a superficial resemblance to those of Sem. The subject matter -- the rich pampered louche effete -- come in for gentle drubbing by both artists. But Chastel's caricatures strike us as more cutting edge more modernist and compositionally quite virtuosic in the manner that they can somehow incorporate cubist aesthetics all the time rendering likenesses that we suspect would have been instantly recognizable by contemporaries. And without being strictly speaking realistic Chastel recreates convincingly the atmosphere and spirit of scenes depicted. This being an album about the fashionable channel resort of Deauville we here are shown people at the gaming tables at the race track sur la plage and engaged in drinking dancing smoking and almost always peacocking -- looking to see and be seen! Condition: chipping of the paper along the spine as virtually inevitable given the material. Light soiling on the paper pastedown. Some gentle edge creasing of the leaves within a result of their not having the the exact same measurements and their never having been together. <br /><br /> Chez Jacoub Aulard & Cie. books
1919006581Paris: Collection Pierre Corrard. Chez Meynial 1919. First Limited Edition. Folio. . Near Fine. No. 285 of 300 copies. Printed on Japon from the Manufacture Asidzuoka. Folio. 48.5 by 33.5 cm. 4 leaves 8 numbered leaves followed by eight large pochoir plates. Pochoir artwork on top title page. Two title pages and uncertain that either qualifies as half title. The pochoirs are feasts of brilliant seductive color; we would consider this work one of the true high points of the pochoir printing movement from the early 20th century. The artwork can be categorized with equal claim as Impressionist Post-Impressionist or Art Deco. Condition: ribbon tie gone. A touch of light soiling on cover. Otherwise clean fresh with all tissue guards preserved as well. <br /><br /> Collection Pierre Corrard. Chez Meynial books
