Search Results: Titles starting with I from Martin Hartzold

London: Methuen, (1964). 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." 282pp. Plain, full purple cloth over boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped (36s net). Jacket lightly edgeworn with some light discolor staining to rear panel. Cloth bright and clean though with a faint crease running down spine. Text unmarked and with Experimental Form 1 questionarre present and complete. A scarce UK first of Bernard Rimland's landmark work on autism with the Diagnostic Check List for Behavior-Disturbed Children (Form E-1) occupying pp.221-236 intact, complete, and unmarked. The father of an autistic son and psychologist by training, Rimland sought to crack the guarded medical establisment and diseminate the exceedingly narrow research being done on infantile autism in the early 1960's. He researched and wrote the book independently, defying the prevailing science of the time which blamed the disorder chiefly on uncaring parents. His manuscript was picked up for publication by Appleton… Read More

Oswego, Oregon: Carnot Press, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4." Full grey cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped ($18.95). INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to first endpaper: "23 July 1979 / To Don Cummins - / from his "cuz" and one-time / co-worker in fuel oil & blow / down air.- / Now at last the U.S. diesel / car is here, and from what / I've heard due to a great / extent because of your own / efforts! / With warm regards, / Lyle / C. Lyle Cummins Jr." Jacket lightly edgweord with the short horizontal crease along lower front panel edge. Apart from inscription text clean, unmarked. An attractive, sound copy. Lengthy errata slip tipped onto a second endpaper in front. A family association copy of this exhaustive treatise on the history of the internal combustion engine authored by C. Lyle Cummins, Jr., son of the founder of the Cummins Engine Co. and inscribed to cousin and longtime firm engineer (son of the company's… Read More