Bliss Michael, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 12 short stories by various authors. Featured are The Gerrard Street Mystery by John Dent, A Slippery Customer by Robert Barr, Sherlock Holmes Great Canadian Adventure by Jack Batten & Michael Bliss, The Tattooed Man by Vincent Starrett, Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Maureen Jennings, The Cure by Eric Wright, The Greenhouse Dogs by James Powell, Shaving with Occam's Razor by Rosemary Aubert, Bombed by Peter A. Sellers, This Town Ain't Big Enough by Tanya Huff, Lost in the Mail by Robert J. Sawyer, The Map by Andrew Weiner. SIGNED by Maureen Jennings on the title page. In fine unread condition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Michael Garland (illustrator). Pictures by Michael Garland. First printing. SIGNED by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

PICTORIAL HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. MICHAEL GARLAND (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, Second Printing. The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the ffep. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. States: "First Edition". The number line goes to 1. Flat-signed by the author on the 1/2 title page. $29.00 on the flap. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shelf wear/edging to dust jacket. Corners of covers lightly bumped. 1st ed/1st printing. Signed by Author(s).

Second paperback edition in publisher's original illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 336 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs to the central pages. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Bill Brown - Enjoy! Michael Bliss - Toronto January 8th 1995'. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0802073875 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

near fine dust-jacket, cover price $40.00, attractive copy, very good hardcover with black spine and green boards, tiny ding to lower front corner but book appears unused. nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED across the title page: To Blake Cady with the author's best wishes Michael Bliss May 2006 (recipient Blake Cady MD 1930-2023, pioneering oncologist). BLISS, MICHAEL. Harvey Cushing: a life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 1st printing number line starting with 1, xii, 591pp., . Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and patient records, Michael Bliss captures Cushing's professional and his personal life in remarkable detail. Bliss paints an engaging portrait of a man of ambition, boundless, driving energy, a fanatical work ethic, a penchant for self-promotion and ruthlessness, more than a touch of egotism and meanness, and an enormous appetite for life. Equally important, Bliss traces the rise of American surgery as seen through the eyes of one of its pioneers. The book describes how Cushing, working in the early years of the 20th century, developed remarkable new techniques that let surgeons open the skull, expose the brain, and attack tumors--all with a much higher rate of success than previously known. Indeed, Cushing made the miraculous in surgery an everyday event, as he and his team compiled an astonishing record of treating more than two thousand tumors. Moreover, Cushing was also a leading authority on the pituitary gland and a pioneer of endocrinology. And in his spare time, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his massive two-volume biography of William Osler, who was Cushing's colleague. This is the definite Cushing biography, an epic narrative of high surgical adventure. Written by a prize-winning medical historian and acclaimed author, it captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary life, illuminating the contributions of a surgeon who has earned an enduring place in the pantheon of medical history. - CONTENTS: Opening: the surgeon and the general -- Western Reserve: the Cushings of Cleveland -- Making a Yale man -- Making a Harvard doctor -- Making an American surgeon -- A window on the brain -- Opening the closed box: the birth of neurosurgery -- The bottom of the box: interragating the pituitary -- Adieu the simple life -- Adieu America: Cushing goes to war -- An American surgeon at Passchendaele -- Fathers and sons -- Johnson and Boswells: chief and harem -- Sprinting to the tape -- Regius professor at ale -- Closing: inheritance and memory. ISBN 9780195169898.