Herbert Silvette: First Edition (40 results)

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st. 291 pp., appendix, biblio, index. Very light wear. DJ: edge tears, rubbing, scuffing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "Medicine and medical men in seventeenth century England." Captures the "essence of the period's comedy, at the same time that he evaluates. . . the position of medicine in seventeenth century life." Dust jacket has edgechips. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1958 1st ed. 256pp. red cloth 8vo: Good+ in a near Very Good dj in poly cover [red cover cloth is faded; thin ink line bottom edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A novel by the American academic physiologist and pharmacologist Silvette (1906-2002).…

Condition: FINE. First printing. The 3rd humorous novel written under this pseudonym ("of a respectable professor of pharmacology and a cat-fancier") - the chronicles of a bumbling professor to a post-war England. 320 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Rather uncommon in this condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offprint from Annals of medical History, New Series Vol 8, No. 4. 4to. 348-352 pp. Original printed beige wrappers. Some cover use else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Frontispiece cameo portrait. xvi, 27 pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Small octavo, pp. 243. INSCRIBED by the author on the free front endpaper to G.S.T. Cavanagh, late Emeritus Professor of Medical Literature at Duke University; Curator of Duke's Trent Collection; author; and antiquarian bookseller. Book is Good and sound in the publisher's textured black cloth with spine lettering gilt. Color illustrated dust jacket is Poor only, with perimeter rubbing and chipping, discoloration and abrasions on rear panel, and a 3/4 inch loss at foot of spine. Jacket protected now from further wear by a new sheet of archival mylar. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. book shows aging to page edges. there is a light bow to rear cover. front gutter has a stain. front and rear endpapers have aging where not covered by dust jacket. the jacket is fine and not price clipped A book about labor unions and public opinion polls.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat scuffed and edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 291 pages; Description: viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Physicians in literature --English drama --Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --History and criticism --Medicine in literature 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 291 pages; Complete with a comprehensive bibliography. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat scuffed and edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 291 pages; Description: viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Physicians in literature --English drama --Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --History and criticism --Medicine in literature 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 291 pages; Complete with a comprehensive bibliography. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 291 pages; Description: viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Physicians in literature --English drama --Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --History and criticism --Medicine in literature. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 291 pages; Description: viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Physicians in literature --English drama --Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --History and criticism --Medicine in literature. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, first editioin/first printing, gray cloth with gilt font in red decorated design on spine, appears unread without any marks, writing, very tight binding. Former owner's book plate is on inside front cover, hidden by dust jacket flap. Dust jacket equally fine, not clipped and price indicated. Now under mylar wraps. "When scientific truth and popular belief converged on the stage of 16th & 17th century England, the synthesis often yielded a lively humor for the play-going public." Chapters include: urine, bleeding, remedies, charms & potions, great men & quacks, virtuoso, the French disease, science & satire. Appendix, bibliography, index. Numerous excerpts from plays and poetry which add color and humor to the sorry state of 17th century medicine.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies, this being #100 which is also Initialed by Silvette. 8vo. 12 pp. Original printed green stapled wrappers. This is a tight, fine book. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Slightly dampstained. (literature, novel).

Hardcover. First Edition. Slight slant to spine, long inscription on front free endpaper. About near fine in near fine dustjacket with a short closed tear and two tiny chips to edges. From the flap: ". a fantastic satire on the publishing world of New York, in which Literary Choices are the capricious arbiters of success." ; Octavo.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Limited/Numbered. INSCRIBED by Herbert Silvette, both the "late" author and his own executor. A Very Good copy of this 12 page stapled pamphlet. Numbered #99 of 100. #. Signed by Author(s).

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. 27pp +.

FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. EDITED BY FRANCELIA BUTLER BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS MODEST CORNER RUB WITH A SHORT TEAR AT THE BOTTOM REAR SPINE CORNER, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Edited by Francelia Butler. 8vo. viii, 291 pp. Original grey cloth. This is a fine book in a lightly rubbed near fine DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. 27 pp. Bound in black cloth. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "Library Copy | Herbert Silvette" In addition, Silvette has amended the catalogue with the addition of an item by pasting in two entries from a British dealer's catalogue as well as writing in in pen "39-A." after entry 39 on page 13. Near fine. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Near Fine. New York 1950 first edition. Dutton. Hardcover octavo. 320p.Very Near Fine (just faint spotting on top closed page ends.) no owner marks. in VG dj. "Rollicking reading" . "Scholarly pilgrimage of a marvellously bumbling professor to.England." (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of largely yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed with tiny loss, some overall dust staining, not price clipped (12s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 279pp. An American university professor makes his first voyage to England in search of a long dead poet. By American physician and medical historian Dr Herbert Silvette (1907-2002). Quite a scarce book. Jacket by Stein (illustrator).…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 18 pages. Subjects; Philemon Holland. Coventry, England. Doctor of Physicke. Short-Title List. Collected Writings. Medical Writings. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 18 pages. Subjects; Philemon Holland. Coventry, England. Doctor of Physicke. Short-Title List. Collected Writings. Medical Writings. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sharp First Edition, First Printing; square, tight and clean throughout. Very light wear to spine ends and a faint, but present, circular water-stain on the front board. Else Near Fine. Equally attractive unclipped has some edge-wear and chipping and a couple of small pieces out of the back cover but not effecting any image or text. A faint water-stain on the front cover. Still, a nice example protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Inscribed and dated by the author on the ffep. An excellent collectable copy of a very difficult title to find in any condition and made scarcer still with the author's inscription. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offprint from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. VI, No. 1, January 1938. 22-33 pp. Silvette's personal copy bound in brown buckram with his bookplate front pastedown. Original blue wrappers bound in. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 4to. 160 pp. Original gilt-stamped black buckram. 8 copies were bound. Very fine.