Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left..... More
Cat.No: 212110
London: Fabian Society, 1975. Pamphlet. 13p, stapled wraps, 5.25x8.5 inches, very good condition. Young Fabian Pamphlet 41. More
Cat.No: 302279
Austin: Migrant Clinicians Network, 1990. Paperback. x, 140p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, foldout map, officers, board, clinicians, index, very good paperback resource book in glossy blue wraps. More
Cat.No: 258413
London: Publicazione della casa de Trey & Co. Ltd., [ca. 1920?]. Paperback. 71 pp., illustrations, wraps. 7.25 x 5 in. Inserted is a flier in Italian (printed on both sides) for an Austrian manufacturer of crowns and dentures, folded once. With a 16-page booklet titled “Il Problema: Del Dentista Coscienzioso..... More
Cat.No: 297457
Jersey City: Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., 1929. Staplebound. 15 pp., color illustrations, color printed wraps. A single vertical fold runs down the entire textblock. In this copy, only a few leaves have been colored green by a (presumably) young hand. An interactive book and advertisement for toothpaste targeting children. The kids in..... More
Cat.No: 298647
Stockholm: Foretagsekonomiska institutionen / Department of Business Administration, University of Stockholm, 1989. Paperback. ix, 196p., a few figures in the text, alkaline paperstock in glossy 9.5x6.5 inch printed wraps. Near-fine copy, briefly inscribed by author on title page and signed as "Ake." Pages 151-164 are in English, constitute the "conclusion"..... More
Cat.No: 180948
Barcelona: Eduardo Farreras, [ca. 1920?]. Paperback. [1], 65 pp., illustrations, wraps. 9.5 x 7.25 in. Tear extends about an inch up from the bottom edge of the second leaf. Some spotting on the front cover. A 20-page price guide in Spanish is inserted, dated on the last page: “Barcelona, Noviembre..... More
Cat.No: 298636
Mexico City: La Caja de Cerllos Ediciones, 2014. Hardcover. unpaginated, 8.75x10 inches; boards slightly rubbed, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 280004
New York: William Godwin,Inc., Publishers, 1932. Hardcover. 369p., nicely gotten-up hardbound book in openweave brown cloth boards gilt, untrimmed foredge, slight foxing/toning to endsheets, good hinges, spine letterings dim but legible, a sound, clean, unmarked copy. Author cites anecdote and statistic to argue that the pursuit of health can be..... More
Cat.No: 287664
Saigon: Nguyen-Van-Công, 1951. 151p., foxed wraps, inscribed by author in English. First 71 pages in Vietnamese, the rest in French. OCLC lists just two copies. Advice on nutrition, health and dental hygiene, with a great deal of Vietnam-specific content. Ho graduated from the Catholic Aurora University in Shanghai and was..... More
Cat.No: 125141
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1940. 32p., wraps, pages partly uncut. Five B&W photo plates showing skulls with incisor teeth intentionally removed. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 99 #3. Modern punks have nothing on these guys. More
Cat.No: 133920
Littleton, MA: PSG Publishing Company, 1988. Paperback. viii, 216p., illustrated with tables and graphs, color plates of dental problems caused by HIV infections, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 71825
San Francisco: San Francisco Coalition for Public Health Services, 1991. Pamphlet. 17p., wraps with a "bite" take out (as issued), 8.5x11 inches, staples rusted else good condition. Not found in OCLC as of 1/2023. Dr. Peter Lurie was the co-chair of the San Francisco Interns and Residents Association and Dr..... More
Cat.No: 298334
New York: American Russian Institute, 1939. Paperback. 149p. [1]p., advertisements, paperback journal, 5.5x8.5 inches; small scratch on top edge of front wrapper, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 270934
Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2006. Paperback. 65p., coated paperstock, high-definition reproductions of color and sepia prints, softbound in 11.5x10 inch decorated wraps. A very nice clean copy. Graphic in the extreme, somewhat enlivened by a terminal section of "medical caricature" More
Cat.No: 221224
Frankfurt/Main; Berlin: China Studien- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1980. Paperback. ix, 169p. paperback, very good. A collection of letters, poems, and other writings reflecting the experiences of Magdalena Robitscher-Hahn, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis to Bolivia, eventually finding medical work in China. After terrible experiences in KMT-controlled areas..... More
Cat.No: 291901
Berkeley: Center for Labor Research and Education, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1965. [50]p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch coated wraps, wraps lightly foxed along stapled edge else good condition. Research series. More
Cat.No: 161279
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. More
Cat.No: 194955
