Hidden Valley Road Mind by Kolker Robert, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. 377 pp. First printing, first edition. Binding tight, boards as new, internally pristine with no highlighting, no underlining, no price clip. This is a broad-ranging, highly readable, and deeply unsettling book that tells the story of a family beset with schizophrenia and in doing so provides meaningful insights into the devastation caused by the disease. A fine book in fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; Second Printing. Owner's bookplate on front endpaper. ; 9.6 X 6.5 X 1.4 inches; 400 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. 377 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Soft Cover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. (First Edition, Sixth Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First edition. xxi, 377 pages illustrations 25 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. GR0010.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. London. Quercus Editions Publishing. 2020. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo. 6.5 x 9.3 . ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 340 pp. Grey boards with bold gilt titles to the spine. Wraparound photography to unclipped dust jacket. Design by Andrew Smith. Book and jacket are as new. A small corner sustained a tear during photographing but it has been repaired and is minimally visible. Frontispiece of the family in black and white. Don and Mimi had 12 children. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after the other, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? The Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenic mother, to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amidst profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK are for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail Tracked. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing. Blue covers in a brown & pictorial dust jacket. 8vo. 399 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 377 pages. Published in 2020. Book-length account on subject. One of the most valuable books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several, including the Oprah Book Club Edition (with identifiable slug in front). Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Robert Kolker's "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind of An American Family". Mental illness, at its most acute and intolerable, probed with both empathy and rationality. A profound and moving account, it is indispensable for our time when the more prevalent - and more manageable - MOOD disorders - notably, bipolar, or going from manic to depressive, from high to low - are seen and understood by the general public as MENTAL disorders, which they are not, and the fundamental distinction therefore needs to be made. Mental illness, that is, to not make sense and to be completely out of touch with reality, is much more serious, much more difficult to manage, and usually incurable. "Six of Don and Mimi Galvin's twelve children were diagnosed with schizophrenia, starting with their eldest son who was diagnosed in his late teens, by which time, five of his brothers were also breaking down. With six family members ill with a disease about which medical opinion shifted every few years, the foundation of the Galvin family didn't so much tilt as tip over. Deftly weaves the history of diagnosing and treating schizophrenia into the narrative, as the Galvin family became a monumental case study in humanity's most perplexing disease" (Vanessa Cronin). If your brother (ten of the twelve Galvin kids are boys) is crazy, and you are not, how does that affect you? Does his illness somehow drive you crazy, too? "For a family, schizophrenia is primarily, a felt experience, as if the foundation of the family is permanently tilted in the direction of the sick family member" (Robert Kolker). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Kolker collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Robert Kolker. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Robert Kolker signed a very limited number of copies to celebrate the book's auspicious launch on April 7, 2020 in lieu of a book tour that could not be undertaken due to the pandemic. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Oprah Book Club Edition (with identifiable slug in front). A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American journalist-writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 038554376X. Signed by Author.