By S Weir Mitchell (16 results)

Condition: Very Good. Early printing. 'Author's Definitive Edition,' Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 421 pages, green cloth, gilt top edge, black spine labels. With ten b&w illustrations. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, slight color loss at the spine; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Good. Copyright 1900. A standard vintage copy. Binding is tight and square. Text is lightly yellowed and has a small amount of underlining and notes. Black cloth boards are lightly scuffed and have bumped corners. Previous owner's name is written on first front end paper. No dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 567pp. In decorative, illustrated cloth covered boards. Inscription dated 1944 to prelim; a merry christmas postal carrier stamp affixed at front paste down; and cloth at spine somewhat darkened, just a very good copy withal. Howard Pyle (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Cloth. Top edge gilt. Volume Two. Frontispiece with tissue guard.; 12 mo. Illustrated by Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Reprint. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name; 567 pages. Illustrated by Howard Pyle (illustrator).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. A nice copy of a scarce item. Four color plates plus frontispiece all present as issued. The frontispiece has been backly treated and has been repaired archivally, 2 of the four plates were loose and have been reinserted original decorative cloth binding with top gilt, free front endpaper excised, light shelfwear to hardboards; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages Very Good No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Clyde O. Deland (illustrator).…

Orange Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 13th Printing. Shaken binding, usual age toning to the textblock, else clean and tight; Cloth binding, lightly bumped at the spine tips and board corners;Lightly scuffed back cover. Lacks dust jacket; 585p., including index. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. First Printing. No dustjacket, bound in yellow cloth with black lettering and design on spine and upper half of front cover, laid-in blue, orange and tan illustration of ships in town harbor on bottom half of front cover. Good to Very Good Condition, with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, moderate to heavy browning to edges of interior pages, three small dings to bottom edge of book which cause bb-sized chips to bottom edge of a couple pages of text, slight fading to cover spine. Front cover lettering and illustration is virtually unrubbed, bright and attractive. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for small green inkstamp of pen and inkwell on upper right corner of front endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. Later Printing. No dustjacket, bound in yellow cloth with black lettering and ornate design on spine and front cover, small laid-in colored illustration of man in tri-corner hat in middle of lower half of front cover, 567 pages. Good plus Condition, with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, moderate to heavy browning to edges of spine and interior pages, slight waterspotting and dustsoiling to bottom edge of book, small ding to bottom edge of book with bb-sized chips and small closed tears to bottom edge of pages 149-179 of text, slight fading to cover spine. Front cover lettering and illustration is bright and attractive, with some rubs to edges of small laid-in illustration. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for small green inkstamp of pen and inkwell on upper right corner of front endpaper.…

2 vols: 306 + 261pp. Frontis illustrations by Howard Pyle, with tissue guards. Light cover soil, front free endpapers torn out of both volumes, small tear (1/4") in front blank: VG no djs.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Pictorial mustard cloth. Good binding and cover. Minor rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Tan cloth cover with color pictorial is frayed at corners and spine caps with bumped corners but in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name in antiquated ink on front end sheet. Pages are clean and in very good condition. . Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Olive-green cloth with light green titles and the emblem on the city of Philadelphia. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 12mo; 7.7 inches tall; 567 pages followed by 4 pages of adverts. Four b/w plates by Howard Pyle. Cloth has age-soiling and scuffs on the rear board. Hugh Wynne is a preeminent historical novel within American literature, particularly for its portrayal of the Revolutionary War era. Primarily unfolding against the Quaker setting of Philadelphia, Mitchell skillfully captures the nuances of both social dynamics and military history of the period. Much like Churchill's contemporaneous works, this novel brims with meticulously researched historical and social details, offering readers a captivating glimpse into Revolutionary-era Philadelphia. Originally published in 1896, and was republished many time including this 1897 reprint. which contains corrections to the original publication correcting some errors with manes and places. Illustrations by Howard Pyle (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Xxv, 80 Pp. Full Brown Leather, One Of 10 Copies Printed On English Handmade Paper, Taller And Thicker Than The 990 Copies Of The Limited Trade Edition. Fine. (Glenn Todd's Copy).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 74 Pp. Brown Cloth, Beveled Edges, Gilt, Floral End Papers. First Edition. Book Of The Speeches And Testimonial Letters And Telegrams At A Large Congratulatory Dinner At Delmonico's, With A Full List Of The Approximately 360 Attendees Which Included Man Of The Most Prominent Men Of Intellect And Scholarship In New York. Abraham Jacobi (1830 - 1919) Was A German Physician And Pioneer Of Pediatrics, Opening The First Children's Clinic In The United States. To Date, He Is The Only Foreign-Born President Of The American Medical Association. He Helped Found The American Journal Of Obstetrics. He Is Regarded As The Father Of American Pediatrics. Born In Hartum (Now A District Of Hille), Westphalia, He Was The Son Of A Poor Jewish Shopkeeper And His Wife Who Educated Him At Great Sacrifice. He Attended The Gymnasium In Minden. After Graduating There, He Studied Medicine At The Universities Of Greifswald, Göttingen, And Bonn, Receiving An Md At Bonn In 1851. Shortly Thereafter, Jacobi Joined The Revolutionary Movement In Germany (See Revolution Of 1848). He Was Detained In Prisons At Berlin And Cologne In 1851, And Eventually Convicted Of Treason And Imprisoned At Minden And Bielefeld Until His Discharge In The Summer Of 1853. Upon Release, Jacobi Sailed To England, Where He Stayed With Both Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels. In The Following Autumn He Moved To New York Where He Settled As A Practicing Physician. He Remained In Contact With Marx And Engels And In 1857 Jacobi Was Involved In Founding The New York Communist Club. Starting In 1861 At New York Medical College, He Was A Professor Of Childhood Diseases. From 1867 To 1870, He Was Chair Of The Medical Department Of The City University Of New York. He Taught At Columbia University For 30+ Years From 1870 To 1902. He Later Moved To Mount Sinai Hospital, Where He Established The First Department Of Pediatrics At A General Hospital. He Was President Of The New York Pathological And Obstetrical Societies, And Twice Of The Medical Society Of The County Of New York, Visiting Physician To The German Hospital Beginning 1857, To Mount Sinai Hospital Beginning 1860, To The Hebrew Orphan Asylum And The Infant Hospital On Randall's Island Beginning 1868, And To Bellevue Hospital Beginning 1874. In 1882 He Was President Of The New York State Medical Society, And In 1885 Became President Of The New York Academy Of Medicine. From 1868 To 1871, He Was Joint Editor Of The American Journal Of Obstetrics And Diseases Of Women And Children. Civic Work Was An Important Part Of His Life. He Advocated For Birth Control And Civil Service Reform And Opposed Prohibition. He Was Strongly Anti-Hohenzollern During World War I.[4] In The Summer Of 1918, A House Fire Destroyed The Manuscript Of His Autobiography And Other Personal Papers At His Lake George Home. His First Wife, Fanny Meyer Jacobi (1833−1851), Was A Sister Of Sophie Meyer Boas (1828−1916), The Mother Of Ethnologist Franz Boas, Who Also Attended The Gymnasium In Minden. In 1873, He Married Mary Putnam Jacobi, Also A Physician. She Was The Very First Female Student At The Faculté De Médecine De Paris In Paris, France. Works Include: Contributions To Midwifery And Diseases Of Women And Children (With E. Noeggerath; New York, 1859); Dentition And Its Derangements (1862); The Raising And Education Of Abandoned Children In Europe (1870); Infant Diet (1874); Treatise On Diphtheria (1880). Jacobi Contributed Chapters On The Care And Nutrition Of Children, Diphtheria, And Dysentery To Gerhardt's Handbuch Der Kinderkrankheiten (Tübingen, 1877), And On Diphtheria, Rachitis, And Laryngitis To Pepper's System Of Practical Medicine (Philadelphia), And Has Published Lectures And Reports On Midwifery And Female And Infantile Disease, And A Number Of Articles In Medical Journals. His "Sarcoma Of The Kidney In The Fœtus And Infant " Is Printed In The Transactions Of The International Medical Congress In Copenhagen. [See Wikipedia Which Has A Longer Article].…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1914 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 14 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…