Toronto: Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 1968. Pamphlet. [40] pages, illustrations, staplebound pamphlet. Very Good. History of services for the blind in Canada. Includes several photographs of blind people working, using different technologies (special glasses, a Lexiphone reader), and engaged in various activities (such as bowling). More
Cat.No: 340568
Chicago: Abbott Laboratories, 1951-1957. Pamphlet. Six booklets, various pagination, 9.75x12.5 inches, color and b&w plates, light wear otherwise very good in stapled blue printed wraps. The first booklet shows 24 color plates of external pathologies and 9 color plates of grafting corneas. Similarly, the Retinal Pathology booklet contains 40 photographs..... More
Cat.No: 224402
San Francisco: Josée Andrei, 1988. Paperback. 57p., 5.5x8.5 inches; b&w illustrations of the author's paintings, price sticker on rear wrapper, else very good. Blind poet and artist based in San Francisco and Belgium. More
Cat.No: 284653
Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1976. Paperback. 64p. in illustrated wraps, small stain on bottom edge, else very good condition. 8vo. Fiddlehead Poetry Book no. 193. Poems taken from the M.A. dissertation at McGill in creative writing of the Lebanese-Canadian poet, blinded as a teenager in the 1958 Lebanon crisis..... More
Cat.No: 318985
New York: the Association, [194-?]. Ephemera. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x6 inches when folded, together with two envelopes. Solicits bequests to support the organization's work at schools for the blind and clinics to prevent blindness. More
Cat.No: 214826
Sacramento: Lulu dot com, c2008. Paperback. 121p., wrap, touch of handling soil, else in very good condition. The blind San Francisco African American poet conducted numerous prison workshops, including Folsom. More
Cat.No: 75480
Pleasant Hill, CA: Stewart Books, 1980. Paperback. 57p., wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., very good condition. Theauthor grew up in a gold-mining camp in Colorado, where he was blinded at the age of 9 while playing with a dynamite cap. More
Cat.No: 284749
Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba: Casa Editora Abril, 2004. Paperback. 147p., shelf worn wraps, 4.5x7.75 inches. Text in Spanish. Medical project in Cuba & Venzuela to provide eye care and surgery. More
Cat.No: 197751
Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Association for the Blind, 1961. Hardcover. viii, 214p., cloth-covered boards, illus., fore-edge and top edge of textblock foxed else good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 285990
New York: [John Mason Brown], 1963. Handbill. 1 typed letter, text on one side only, signed by the author in blue ink. Very Good. Fundraising letter to pay for the production of recorded books for blind college students in a variety of fields produced by Recording the Blind, Inc. Brown..... More
Cat.No: 342702
Washington DC: Blinded Veterans Association, [c1990]. Paperback. 122p., 4x6.75 inches; pocketbook trade wraps, pages slightly toned, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 284652
Detroit: University of Detroit, 2001. Paperback. 119p., illustrated with a few production stills ("Los Olvidados") and a fine color cover ("Frida and Diego in Bed"), very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Four essays, including "Blind Men and Fallen Women in Mexican Cinema," "Puerto Rican Diaspora in America,"..... More
Cat.No: 179280
Los Angeles: Published by Almo, "His Master's Eyes" Co., 1938. Paperback. xvi, 124p., glazed paperstock throughout with scattered b&w photographic illustrations. Softcover; staplebound textblock in 8x5 inch decorated cardstock wraps. Third "edition" of a revision of the 1935 first issue. One blank has pulled back to reveal that the staples..... More
Cat.No: 183587
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, 1951. Hardcover. xvii, 269p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good condition. No dj. First published in 1933. Chapters include "The Preschool Blind Child," "Problems in the Emotional Life of the Blind," "Sex Behavior of the Blind" (with a section on "the problem of..... More
Cat.No: 284905
New York: Vantage Press, 1967. Hardcover. 152p. + [8]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, very good first edition in an unclipped, shelfworn, and dampstained dj. Author was a teacher and active church-goer who dedicated her life to helping the blind after becoming blind herself. Her sight was partially restored later in..... More
Cat.No: 287605
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, 1950. Hardcover. v, 173p., cloth-covered boards, 6.25x9.5 inches, corners bumped, previous owner's label on free front endpaper, else very good condition. No dj. More
Cat.No: 285136
Mahah, NJ: Educational Reading Service, 1970. [24]p., 7x9 inch staplebound pamphlet in pictorial wraps; color and b&w illus., in very good condition. Children's book. More
Cat.No: 328078
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Hardcover. viii, 270p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches, gift inscription on free front endpaper, bookseller's rubberstamp on rear pastedown endpaper, else very good condition. No dj. More
Cat.No: 285141
Bethesda: National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1964. Spiral_bound. 128p., find a few small sketches (part of journal entries), text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms. DISBOUND, unfortunately; left margin is perforated for a comb-style spine but the comb is absent and the printed cover sheet has its perforations torn..... More
Cat.No: 253969
Bethesda: National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1964/67. Spiral_bound. 145p., find a few small sketches (part of journal entries), text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms, reprint of the 1964 first issue, spiral bound in 11x8.5 inch copyshop wraps with black plastic spine. Mild edgewear, slight general toning, a very..... More
Cat.No: 253772
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1970. Pamphlet. x, 26 pages, staplebound pamphlet. Old call number in marker on front cover, otherwise Very Good. Genensky was a sight-impaired computer scientist who devised a closed-circuit television to assist people with vision difficulties. Genensky also designed and advocated for the official adoption of..... More
Cat.No: 340567
Paris: Hermann Éditeurs, 2017. Paperback. 302p., wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, illus., very good condition; inscribed and signed by Garner on the title page. Text in French. Speculative fiction with Helen Keller, the conceptual artist Shūsaku Arakawa (who was also Gins's partner), and Gins herself as characters. More
Cat.No: 280862
New York: The Tucker Publishing Co., 1900. 14p., stapled wraps, 5.5x7.75 inches, vertically creased, spine covered with clear non-archival tape, first and last pages evenly toned, contemporary pen underlining throughout. "From Cynthia M. Tregear" penned on title page; Tregear was the founder of the Sunshine Branch for the Blind and..... More
Cat.No: 261531
n.pl. Self-published by the author, 1990. Paperback. 224p., 4.25x6.75 inch wraps; small price sticker and small rubberstamp on title page, else in very good condition. Only one holding found in OCLC (7/2022). Letter inlaid to a prospective reviewer, signed by the author. The autobiography of a woman who was the..... More
Cat.No: 288915
Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1936. Hardcover. 190p., cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, some unopened leaves, else very good condition in an unclipped, edgeworn and soiled dj. Social novel with a blind hero, by a blind author. More
Cat.No: 286818
