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Frontispiece, xv, 108 pp, 1 leaf. Original paper-backed boards. With one correction and one modification (by Harvey Cushing, in pencil) to a poem by Arnold Klebs on p. xv. Near Fine, in dust jacket. First Edition. "One hundred copies on Winterbourne paper, for the members of The Harvey Cushing Society." There was also a trade edition, of 400 copies, in a green cloth binding. SIGNED BY HARVEY CUSHING TO OLOF SJÖQVIST: "For Olof Sjöqvist/ with the trigeminal not painful/ regards of/ Harvey Cushing." In 1938 the neurosurgeon Olof Sjöqvist had published a book entitled Studies on Pain Conduction in the Trigeminal Nerve: A Contribution to the Surgical Treatment of Facial Pain, hence the meaning of the words in Harvey Cushing's inscription. See Garrison-Morton 4908 for Sjöqvist's 1937 paper on "trigeminal tractotomy" for the treatment of pain in trigeminal neuralgia. At the 70th birthday party for Harvey Cushing in April 1939, Olof Sjöqvist was in attendance. "Olof Sjöqvist of Stockholm, who had been spending a year in New Haven as a Rockefeller Fellow, presented a birthday volume of papers written by Cushing's friends and admirers in Sweden. . . . Sjöqvist's remarks in presenting the Scandinavian birthday volume were, in best Swedish tradition, most felicitious" (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, pp. 706-07). Sjöqvist's remarks were published in the book Harvey Cushing's Seventieth Birthday Party April 8, 1939. Speeches, Letters, and Tributes (pp. 24-26). OFFERED WITH: Typed Letter, Signed, from the publisher Charles C. Thomas to Olof Sjöqvist (dated February 24, 1940) about the book Harvey Cushing's Seventieth Birthday Party April 8, 1939. Speeches, Letters, and Tributes. Published for the Harvey Cushing Society. OFFERED WITH: Carbon copy of Sjöqvist's reply to Charles C. Thomas (dated April 3, 1940). OFFERED WITH:: Typed Letter, Signed, from the publisher Charles C. Thomas to Olof Sjöqvist (dated January 5, 1940), presenting a copy of the prayer by Rev. George Stewart at Harvey Cushing's funeral service. OFFERED WITH: Carbon copy of Sjöqvist's reply to Charles C. Thomas (dated February 1, 1940). Charles Thomas writes ABOUT THE PRAYER: "This small edition for private distribution is on whole single sheets of hand made paper". Offered here is a carbon copy of the retyped prayer. The privately-printed copy of the prayer sent to Sjöqvist is NOT present here. Seller Inventory # 16472
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Bibliographic Details
Title: A Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey ...
Publisher: Springfield : [Charles C. Thomas], 1939.
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
