Search Results: Medical experimentation on humans from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

New York: W: W: Norton & Company, Inc. Publishers, 1925. Hardcover. 251p., hardbound early (possibly first) edition in black cloth boards spine- and cover-titled with onlaid printed labels, lacks the jacket, casing worn with a tiny bald spot at the heel showing fray, three corner-tips slightly turned, spine label's margins chipped, top edge dotted with foxing, terminal leaf to index is half-detached (it may have been late presswork inserted in the bindery; its verso bears a Norton menu), and two sentences have been lightly underlined in pencil (see p.3, the other lost). Text is personably written, not a dry "mind control" rant, condition good (if "good-only"), Watson's attitude precedes Pavlov/Gantt/Ban experiments.

Santa Rosa CA: Self-published by author Ketchum, 2007. Hardcover. [2]p. (Shulgin intro), iv, 1-360p., illustrated with numerous chemical formulae plain & fancy (the fancy are presented in neat small boxes color-xeroxed throughout the final quarter of text). First (and possibly last) edition, in 8X11 inch laminated boards, Text stock is entirely clay-coated paper, presswork is professional-level. Condition: slightly edgeworn, but expect structural and aesthetic damage to front hinge, where the pastedown of endsheet has begun to lift away from front board, a half-inch gap at gap's top end, dwindling away 3/4 of the way down. No leaves are lost or even at risk, book is slightly musty. All other aspects of the item perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a good (good-only) copy that is inscribed and signed to a "great editor!" PLUS: five standard leaves imprinted with ten full pages of text, corner-stapled and somewhat edgeworn from storage in the smaller book. This inserted pamphlet is credited to Ketchum… Read More

Dallas, TX: Dan Smoot, 1959. Magazine. pp. 305-312, wraps, creased for mailing. Complete issue, punch holes for binder in left margin (as issued). Issued headlined "Facts on Fluoridation" Whole issue devoted to an attack on Fluoridation.

Bethesda: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service / National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Mental Health, 1963. x, 212p., first collected edition bound in open-weave black cloth with cover label gilt on a red field. Spine is unlettered. Boards are lightly damp-stained and end-sheets are foxed; no mustiness, fortunately, interior is clean and sound except that title page is rubber-stamped sloppily with a huge "PAID" notice. Public health service publication no. 1050. Editor Livingston's introduction is dated May 1963; it took five years "editing, reediting and review" for him to feel these essays were publishable, he and we may consider them important. In part a brief survey of experiments run quite often in prisons by people like Harris Isbell; he's the one who kept a Lexington KY inmate on LSD for 175 days consecutively. This is not the book that will tell you that, but there are citations of a half dozen other experiments by Isbell, plus essays and… Read More

Sao Paulo: Sherit Hapleita, 1985. 110p., wraps, edges slightly foxed, black and white photos, including atrocity photos. Was also published in English as "The Angel of Death: the Mengele dossier " by the Brazilian Association of the Survivors of Nazism.