50,000 outside the law: an examination of the treatment of those certified as mentally defective
London: National Council for Civil Liberties, 1951. 4op., slender paperback, bottom of spine crunched, a reading copy. More
Cat.No: 237898
London: National Council for Civil Liberties, 1951. 4op., slender paperback, bottom of spine crunched, a reading copy. More
Cat.No: 237898
Chicago: International Graphoanalysis Society, 1970. Pamphlet. 30p., softbound, a 9x6 inch stapled pamphlet in plain printed grey wraps. Item is a bit crimped along the spinefold and the staples are rusted with migration. Else sound and clean and free of any markings. Most entries are in English but preparers include..... More
Cat.No: 253804
Oakland: Asian Community Mental Health Services; California Department of Mental Health, 1981. 10p., slender staplebound booklet, 11x8.5 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 218453
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1852. 72p., frontis woodblock illustration and a couple of wood-engraved tailpieces & initial, first issue 6 x 4 inch calf-backed marble-papered boards titled in gilt; exceedingly worn foxed copy with inept color added to frontis. A poor copy but intact, handleable and legible. Title suggests Robert..... More
Cat.No: 76420
San Francisco: the monthly, 1929. Magazine. Respectively 36, 32p., staplebound 12x9 inch semi-coated paperstock throughout; ads, photoportraits, activities, records. Both magazines are dust-soiled, and February has a large dampstain that penetrates to interior leaves without adhesions or loss of text. Good-only copies. More
Cat.No: 178063
[Oakland? CA]: n.pub. [1970?]. Four page shop paper, 8.5x11 inches, mimeographed - poorly, edge wear, stapled in the upper left hand corner. Leftist shop paper for a Caterpillar Tractor factory in the East Bay, with members from three unions involved (IAM, UAW and IBEW). The longest article (page and a...... More
Cat.No: 232188
Tappan & Hartsdale: Confide Personal Counseling, [1970s]. Eight-panel informational brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, very good on yellow stock. The Director was Garrett Oppenheim and offered the unusual option of taped couseling which utilized cassette, 8-track or open-reel recordings mailed between the counselors and patients (thus the estimate that this..... More
Cat.No: 236406
Assen, Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. xiii, 176p., hardbound in openweave cinnamon cloth boards gilt, in dust jacket; lower corner has suffered a bad corner bump affecting textblock (but not the printblocks) as well as covers, while the upper corner-tip has a much milder bump. Otherwise quite sound..... More
Cat.No: 231112
Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991. pp.467-632, appendixes, references, notes, figures, small stain on last pages (backlist pages) otherwise good first edition trade paperback journal in pictorial wraps. The entire issue is devoted to the subject. More
Cat.No: 107770
Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館, 1952. Single issue of the post-revolutionary magazine on medicine for the masses; pp. 31-62; faint ex-library stamp on cover, edgeworn, some underlining. This is a special issue on the prevention and treatment of mental illness. Text in Chinese. More
Cat.No: 219065
San Francisco: Operation Counterforce, no date, circa 1960. 56p., staplebound 10x7 inch plain printed wraps, slight offset soil with mild crimping near staples. Homegrown political notions assuming, in the beginning of this text, a paternal understanding why people espouse various politics; this highmindedness quickly disperses. The anonymous author purposes to..... More
Cat.No: 148903
Oakland: Centro de Salud Mental, [1973?]. Six-panel folded brochure, 4.75x8.5 inches, text in English, services, programs, fees, staff, map on back, very good on stiff cream stock. leaflet/brochure for a mental health and social service center of Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. More
Cat.No: 208814
Sacramento: California Department of Education, 1992. xiv, 178p., 9x6 inch wraps, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 176446
New York: N.D.P. Corp. 1994. Paperback. 95p., coated paperstock throughout (alkaline, tinted cream), every page printed with red panelling around the splendid black typography; 8.5x5.5 inch wraps; a respectful and handsome production in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 171642
Syracuse, NY: J.C. Allen, 1976. 18p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches; address penned on rear cover with canceled stamp, otherwise very good. Poetry and a personal prose narrative about forced mental treatment, psychiatric abuse, and commitment to various institutions. More
Cat.No: 224044
Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 1989-1991. Paperback. First four issues of the LGBT journal, various pagination, trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Three issues (2-4) have the words 'reprint edition' printed in the lower right front corner. More
Cat.No: 108034
Oakland: Alameda County Public Health Department and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center, A Joint Publication, 2003. Paperback. xii, 55p., professionally-printed on alkaline paperstock, 8.5x5.5 inch softbound. A fine clean copy. More
Cat.No: 220854
San Francisco: The Manifest Foundation, 1999. Two leaflets,4.25x11 inches printed one side only with b&w photos at top followed by information on the planned workshops, the dates and the organization contact info, very good on white stock. The leaflets advertise two different weekend workshops for gay men. The Childhood Liberation..... More
Cat.No: 262264
Charlotte, NC; Sarasota: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), 1994-2002. Magazine. Eight issues of the magazine, all 8.5x11 inches, minor handling wear or old price labels, generally very good. Issues present are vol. IV no. 4, vol. V no. 1, Vol. VI no. 3, vol. VIII nos. 1 and 3..... More
Cat.No: 198351
Zagreb: The Gallery of Primitive Art / The Gallery of Contemporary Art / Glyptothyeke JAZU, 1987. Paperback. 196p., color and b&w reproductions on clay-coated alkaline paperstock, captioned with extensive vitae and running texts in Croatian and English; softbound in 11.5x8 inch glossy frenchfold white wraps. Cover is somewhat handled, with..... More
Cat.No: 236148
Berlin: Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, 1986-7. Two issues of the journal, 34p. and 52p., 8.25x11.75 inches, text in German, photos, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 98859
[Sacramento]: State of California Health and Welfare Agency, Department of Mental Health, Citizens Advisory Council, October, 1979. Paperback. iii, 171p., 8.5x11 inches, foreword, introduction, overview, summaries, discussions, conclusion, appendice, stables, very good trade paperback in white decorative wraps. More
Cat.No: 229509
New York: National Research League, 1935. 11p., wraps unevenly browned with chipping on the edges else good condition; 8.5x11 inches. Three articles: The social basis of psychological theory by S. Diamond, Employment trends, The struggle for Abyssinia's independence. More
Cat.No: 118109
New York: National Research League, 1935. 12p., wraps slightly worn, last two pages chipped in the margins and detached (but present), 8.5x11 inches. Articles include Painting in Fascist Italy (on the Futurists), Personality and revolution, and Unemployment trends. More
Cat.No: 118120
Berlin: Senatsverwaltung für Jungend und Familie, 1993. Paperback. 287p., text in german, first edition, red wraps with a quarter inch chip on front edge of cover not affecting text or structure. Dokumente lesbischschwuler Emanzipation des Referates für gleichgeschlectlichte Levensweisen #8. More
Cat.No: 140952