Search Results: Insanity

NY: Appleton. Good; Ex-Lib with markins. 1968. Hardbound. 0891971971 . 247 pages .

New York, 1961. hardcover. near fine. 8vo, maroon cloth. New York, (1961). Near fine. Signed by the author.<br/><br/>

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. hardcover. very good/good. Ed. by Winfred Overholser. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. chipped. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.<br/><br/> "The first authoritative and comprehensive treatise in English on the relation between law and psychiatry. Ray became the most influential American writer on forensic psychiatry in the 19th century." GM 1739.<br/><br/>

Basilea [Basil]: CIBA, 1961. 1st edition. Hardcover. Exterior soiled, tiny worm hole from front to back. Lacks black slipcase. One page has a half-inch tear at bottom.. Oblong Octavo in grey boards with black spine; 144p, indices, numerous color & b/w plates; small b/w photos of the artists. Uncommon work on the art of the insane, with a short introductory remark entitled "Pequeños maestros de la locura" [ Small masters of insanity ] by Cocteau. Very nice color and b/w reproductions.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, ( 1957). Third printing. Hardcover. fine /very good. photos. 8vo, 284 pages, clothbacked boards; vg dj reinforced w. tape inside Famed Chicagoan becomes a cosmetic queen, then was unjustly committed to an insane asylum. Photos.

New York, NY Dell: Laurel, 1988. Paperback First Edition Thus (1988), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition Thus (1988), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good in Wraps: shows very light wear to the extremities; faintest hairline crease top to bottom near the front hinge and a couple of barely discernible stress creases at the backstrip; fifteen pages mid-text show a tiny bit of loss due perhaps to a bump right at the corner tip; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding shows the very slightest lean, while remaining perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and several minor, unobtrusive flaws. Not far from 'As New'.NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.8 x… Read More

London: Simon & Schuster. 2008. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Black & white illustrations. 306 pages. Explores the history of the world's oldest psychiatiric hospital - Bedlam from its beginning in 1247 and examines London's attitude to madness over the centuries. The second book in the author's London trilogy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Oslo: J W. Cappelens Forlag, 1949. First Edition. Boards. Good/Good. First Edition. 182, [1] pages. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Thick pressboard covers with embossed title and author name. Original printed dust jacket. Dj is worn, browned at spine, and with soiling. Text in Norwegian (?). Untrimmed. Boards. The first edition of a biography that describes the "unrevised, impassioned diary of an Oslo underground leader, written while imprisoned at Mollergt 19 in Oslo in 1944. Transferred to Germany, he wend down with the Westphalen. This daily record of his thoughts and the prison routine had been pricked on rolls of toilet paper and blown through a ventilator under his cell. It falls into two distinct parts - the first, covering his 78 days in solitary confinement, revelas a struggle against despair and insanity ... the second covers the remainder of his imprisonment, the semi-starved prisoners' preoccupation with food, super-sensitivity towards his cellmates. A moving human document but dated." (kirkus review).

paperback. Selection des Collections de la Compagnie de l'Art Brut. 7 Avril - 5 Juin. 1967. Illustrated throughout, a few in color. 126pp. Slim 8vo, glossy printed wrappers. Paris: Compagnie de l'Art Brut & Musee des Arts Decoratifs, (1967). A very good(+) copy.<br/><br/>

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 371pp. 8vo, black boards, d.w. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2003). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Oxford: Clarendon, 1989. First. hardcover. fine/very good. 366pp. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. partially faded from sun exposure, otherwise very good. Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1989). First Edition.<br/><br/>

Charleston, VA, 1855. unbound. 1 page, 9.75 x 7.5 inches, Charleston, Virginia, October 1, 1855, to Dr. Rufus Woodward, during Bell's brief retirement, in full: "Your letter was received just as I was leaving home, and with some others accidentally overlooked until to-day, when the application of an interested party to learn where a patient could be sent when insane, to a State Hospital, reminded me of it. I need scarcely say that I shall be very willing to be referred to via connection with your...for which I wish all success. Hoping that this reply may not be too late for your purpose." Irregular left margin; natural folds but otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: The Rufus Woodward Archive: sold at Alexander Autographs, February 2007; The Richard Manzi Collection; Argosy Books.<br/> <br/> American physician and one of the most important figures in Mental Health during the early 19th century. He was one of the founders of the Association Institutions for the… Read More

London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1845. xx,184,124,(28),xxvi(7) pp. Octavo. Original green patterned cloth. Gilt title on spine. Minor professional restoration to the spine. Original yellow coated endpapers. A number of library rubber stamps on the front endpapers. Pocket removed from the rear paste down. Inner front hinge reinforced. A few marginal library stamps on the edges of the text. Two folding charts. A much nicer copy than the description! The text block clean and tight. This copy was bought from an Alberta region Hospital on a book call many years ago. They had a small quantity of titles that all related to insanity and for some reason we forgot about this title until now. The book was given to Dr. Watson? by the author probably when the book came out. The book appears to be very scarce and there has only been one copy at auction and not copies on the internet. Thurnam played an important part in the development of psychiatry by introducing the principles of the… Read More

Utica, New York: State Lunatic Asylum, 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. v, 504 pages. July 1870-June 1871. Brown cloth. Ex-National Institute of Health copy, properly de-accessioned through the Library of Congress with surplus stamp on second flyleaf. Illustrated with a full page photograph opposite page 28. Cloth. Contains an article by E. R. Hun, M. D. called "Haemoatoma Auris" (or sanguineous tumor of the eternal ear), describing the condition ("for a long time observed as a frequent concomitant of insanity"). Hun reports on various cases and makes clinical observations. Most importantly, there is a full page photograph of an example inserted opposite page 28 on the last page of the article. Stanley Burns, an eminent medical photography collector, in his "Early Medical Photography in America (1839-1883) [the seventh installment in a series about photography in medicine) notes that this image is "probably the first use of an actual clinical photograph in an American medical… Read More