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The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, January 1925
NY: The Lakeside Publishing Co., January 1925. First edition, Stapled Softcover. 112pp; Some stains, especially on cover and bottom left corner throughout, chipping to cover edges, 2" of top of spine strip removed, cover is tanned with age, corner bumping, creasing and moderate soiling. Evidence of insect eating damage to last 10 pages and portion of spine. Fair condition.
Very scarce early nursing journal with a picture of J. Beatrice Bowman, R.N. on the cover. Josephine Beatrice Bowman was one of the first members of the newly established US Navy Nurse Corps in 1908 and became the third superintendant of the program. This volume contains articles on Our Government Nursing Services, Budgets for Private Duty Nurses, Applying Preventive Medicine Early, The Etiology of Scarlet Fever, etc. Includes many advertisements.
The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, November 1922
NY: The Lakeside Publishing Co., November 1922. Light edgewear, 1/2" of bottom and top spine strip removed, cover is still bright, corner bumping and some soil. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good condition.
Very scarce early nursing journal, contains articles on refining the hospital personnel, the nurse and health diagnosis, the nursing of eye cases, supervising the child's sleep, Blood grouping, the American Red Cross and School Nursing, the American Hospital Association Convention, etc. Includes many advertisements. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good condition, no dust jacket as issued.
The Tramp Printer
San Diego, CA: Ash Ranch Press, 1987. 36 pp. Approximately 1 1/8 x 1 1/4". LIMITED EDITION of 126 copies, this being #21. Dark blue leather with stamped green ink and blue foil decorations on both covers, letterpress, illustrated by Don Hildreth, printed in blue ink up through the title page, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Ash Ranch Press #3)
A prince of the road, the king of vagabonds, the tramp printer -- all these titles for a man who dropped in occasionally at a print shop and helped out and then hit the road again. A fond memory story in a beautiful little binding.
The Transcendent Man
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1953. 244 pp. Approximately 5 x 7 1/2". First edition, first printing with price of $2.50 on dust jacket flap. Gray boards, red and black spine letters with very minor rubbing to extremities, usual toning to text block, near fine condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition with crease and rubbing on back. NF/NF.
A science fiction story about an unseen alien race, called Capellans, living among us, harvesting "the thought forces released by humans at death."
The Treasure Cave: A Book of New Prose and Verse
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. 7 3/4 x 10". Red cloth over boards with black stamped lettering and design, bookstore stamp on inside free endpaper, various illustrators with Daphne Jerrold being the most prominant, both black and white illustrations and tipped-in color illustrations, no dust jacket, corners bumped and a little worn, otherwise in very good condition.
A collection of stories and poems from the time, mostly romantic in nature. The Treasure Cave contains a nice mix of male and female authors, with Rafael Sabatini being perhaps the most well-known.
The Trouble With Eden
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First hardcover printing. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some edge wear, drink water mark, some shelf wear and minor chips, not price clipped. Red cloth over boards with gilt spine title, top edge has small red ink stain, some tanning, otherwise very good contion.
Jill Emerson is a pseudonym of Lawrence Block (b. 1938). Block is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. This fiction novel, set in New Hope Pennsylvania, has a diverse set of characters, some who struggle against temptation and some who don't.
The War in the Air and Particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 390 pp. (with six of the advertisement pages in the rear missing) Approximately 5 x 7 3/4". 1st edition. Red-cloth variant binding (much more scarce than the common blue one) - third state, title in black on cover with illustrated paste-down, title and publisher on spine in gilt, considerable foxing on page edges and some throughout, otherwise, very good plus condition. (Curry 1979, p. 526)
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) is often called the "father of science fiction" along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. The War in the Air is a military science fiction novel, originally published in The Pall Mall Magazine, about the futuristic idea of using aircraft in warfare.
The Wayward Bus
New York: Viking Press, 1947. 312 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Pictorial jacket is in very good condition, with some wear, slight chipping of the spine, tape repairs to the inside of the jacket, original price of $2.75 intact, first edition first printing dust jacket. Grey cloth over boards with crisp lettering on cover and spine, blindstamp on front cover the same shade as the rest of the binding, top stained red, in near-fine condition. (Goldstone & Payne A23 third issue)
Originally thought to be one of Steinbeck's weaker novels, it was actually financially successful. The interesting thing about it is that no one single character in the book dominates. Rather, the viewpoint shifts from one character to another quite frequently, with access to the character's thoughts through an internal monologue. Adapted to film in 1957 to some success at the box office, it starred Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey and Rick Jason.
The Wayward Bus
New York: Viking Press, 1947. 312 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Pictorial jacket is in very good condition, with some wear, slight chipping of the spine, tape repairs to the inside of the jacket, original price of $2.75 intact. Dark reddish-orange cloth over boards with crisp lettering on cover and spine, blindstamp on front cover a lighter shade then the rest of the binding, top is not stained green and there is no book club dot so likely some variant of first printing, slight edge wear to covers especially along the bottom edges, stained on the upper page edge corners, otherwise in very good condition. (Goldstone & Payne A23a)
Originally thought to be one of Steinbeck's weaker novels, it was actually financially successful. The interesting thing about it is that no one single character in the book dominates. Rather, the viewpoint shifts from one character to another quite frequently, with access to the character's thoughts through an internal monologue. Adapted to film in 1957 to some success at the box office, it starred Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey and Rick Jason.
The Well Known Family Game
Germany: n.p., (ca 1920). First edition presumed. Slipcase with chips and small loss of paper affecting two words of the instructions, glossy illustration to front cover, directions to the game on back cover, in good + condition. Twelve cards, 1 1/2 x 2 1/4", cards titled and crudely illustrated in blue, some with roughly trimmed edges (as issued), in about near fine condition.
An apparently unrecorded gambling card game, manufactured in Germany in the early 20th century from cheap materials. The cards are lettered in pairs from A to F and illustrated with members of several "families" such as George Brown, Mrs. John Smith, etc.