Search Results: Medicine from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Seattle: Storm Peak Pr, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine. 2nd printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 177pp. Illus. Index. Glossary. Chronology. Quite a life! Near fine. Sold to you by a real book dealer!

n.p.: Privately published, 1998. First Edition. Soft cover. Collectible Very Good. Apparently the first printing and I have no knowledge of any other printings. English edition, whether first or not is not stated in English. Glossy white/cream 4to wraps with black titles. 279pp + 18 added pages titled, "Heart Attacks: The Leading Cause of Death Among Men. Presentation copy "To Dear L_____ / Sir (Gong's signature) / Aug. 98." His red block stamp (I am assuming as I do no normally deal in this material) with characters applied next to his name. Faint red ink from stamp on facing inside cover. Gong's signature on the last page appears be original but I'm not perfectly sure. The cover title is: HEALTH AND LIFE and is both in English and Chinese, as is his name. The date of July 1998 is also part of the cover title information. Laid in and folded are six printed or photocopied sheets about "Gong's Chinese Acupuncture-25 Years of Successfully Treating Pain & Illness in Western NY." The last sheet of the… Read More

L. A.: Haynes Foundation, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st printing. 4to hardbound. 240pp. Illus. Charts. Graphs. Tables. Conducted by the Stanford Research Institute. Back cover spotted. Good. No dj. Scarce.

Los Angeles: Haynes Foundation, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 240pp. Graphs & Charts. Bibliography. Browning to edges of cover. Still a very good copy. No dj.

New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fine. Cloth & boards. 319pp. Illust. Extensive Notes. Index. Owner's address label on front paste down, else fine in dj.

Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2005. Revised Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 6th printing. 4to pictorial glossy wraps. 276pp. Illus. Notes. Appendices. Index. Fine.

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1979. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st printing of the Lakeside Classics edition. 12mo cloth, top edge gilt. 518pp. Illus. Preface to new edition. Minor darkening to part of fore and bottom edge. Near fine. No dj as issued.

NY: Dutton, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 251pp. I've read a few pages of this book and it's a real good read. Fine in vg dj with a couple of short tears/snags. Unusual. Reprinted in paperback but scarce in the first edition.

Sydney: Australian Women's Weekly, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 1st thus. Colorful pictorial magazine wraps with heavier card covers. 128pp. Illus. Index. "Endorsed by the National Heart Foundation of Australia." Fine copy. Scarce.

NY: Harper & Bros, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 322pp. Illus. A 1938 fos on the ffep. Ex-library. Autobiography of a turn-of-20th-Century rural Kansas doctor. He carried a Colt Peacemaker to ward off "wild dogs." Better than most ex-lib copies because this one has no back sleeve & minimal markings. Physical condition vg in chipped dj with library label & piece of brown tape around backstrip near bottom.

NY & Chicago: Ernst Kaufmann, 1905. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Possibly the first or certainly an early printing of the English translation of this title. Small 8vo red cloth with colorful, nearly full size cover illustration showing an indigenous, almost American Indian-like man in colorful clothing (bare from waist up) & feather headdress, looking through the woods at a wild llama. 90pp. Four color plates inside including frontispiece. The ffep has been clipped along the fore edge, but in such a way we wonder if it was done at the bindery. Originally published in German. Very scarce in the original editions.

New York: Sheridan House, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. 444pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Owner's address label on front paste down. Sections: Medicine Up to a Hundred Years Ago, Medical Science During the Last Hundred Years, Surgery During the Last Hundred Years, New Social Aspects of Medicine. Cloth at top of spine split 1cm. Vg.

New York: Experiment, 2010. First Edition. Soft cover. As New. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 255pp. Signed by author. Fine, like new.

Vancouver: Granville Island Pub, 2010. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. (the actual image on the book is not the same one as normally shown on the market websites, but is similar). 319pp. Illus. Index. Presentation copy to J____ by author. Tiny bump to rear fore corner, else fine, like new. Publisher's custom book mark (color card stock) laid in.

Baltimore: Nutrition and Healing, 2011. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Apparent first printing. 4to glossy wraps. 116pp. Interesting indeed. Fine copy. Scarce in fine condition.

Chehalis: Human-Equine Alliances for Learning, 2013. First Edition. Soft cover. As New. 1st printing of POD publication. 4to pictorial glossy wraps. 139pp. Illus. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Signed by Shambo & Young. A remarkable study of the authors' mental health program in Washington State assisting & enabling troubled individuals through therapy involving horses. "... a guidebook explaining the HEAL Model for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy and Learning. Shambo "combines decades of experience as a horse trainer and coach with her training and practice as a mental health therapist." Fine, like new.

Bothell: Book Publishers Network, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Collectible As New. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 185pp. Signed (signed only, an in block writing, not cursive) by Sielsch on title page. Scarce now.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 232pp. Illus. The story of the "phenomenal" cryptid creatures that inhabit deep waters. Custom bookplate on the front paste down of George W. Earley, who collected all things crypto and alien and wrote a fiction anthology on the latter. The bookplate features a dinosaur and a rocket ship drawing. The green cloth has degraded to yellow on both boards, so this is a reading copy but a nice one with a near fine dj.

Putnam's, NY, 2002, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/New. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 235pp. Signed & dated by Hallman soon after publication. A wonderfully written, "inspirational and universal", true account by Pulitzer Prize winning Hallman about Sam Lightner, who was born with a rare disfiguring disease. Fine in dj.

NY: Harmony, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Cloth. 225pp. "Additional Reading." Signed by the author. Fine in dj.