[Philadelphia]: Grant, Faires & Rodgers, Printers, 1876. 1st Printing. 16 pp. "Rules for Nurses in Training", pp. 8 -13. Application, pp. 14 - 15. 8vo. Original publisher's printed blue-grey paper wrappers, sewn. The hospital was incorporated in 1861, and from that date its mission included "the practical training of nurses..... More
Edinburgh: 1878. 1st printing (presumed). Bifolium, printed p. 1 only. 10-1/2" x 8-1/8". Printed self-wrappers. A printed APPEAL for contributions to Baroness Burdett Coutts' Turkish Compassionate Fund to benefit refugees from the conflict in Constantinople during the winter of 1877 - 1878. The body of the text, a ten stanza..... More
(n. d.). Circa 1890s - 1920s. 8 labels, printed recto only. Sizes vary. Largest 2-7/8" x 3-3/8"; smallest 1-1/4" x 2-1/2". Mostly white paper printed in dk blue, black or green; one multicolored. Labels include: - "Dr. Haynes' Arabian Balsam" for colds, coughs, sprains, burns, bruises, etc., Providence, RI - Sulphur..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1898. A later printing of a work first 1st published in 1893. Cf. Bitting, p. 47 [with the 1906 edition]; Wheaton & Kelly 707. Not in Cagle. vii, [1 (blank)], 323, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's gunmetal-grey cloth..... More
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Recruiting Publicity Bureau United States Army, 1945. 1st Edition. Broadside. Linen-backed. Large illustration of a woman in a blue WAC uniform carrying a surgical tray. Poster: 37-3/4" x 25-1/4". Backing: 39-1/2" x 27-1/4". Cream paper printed in blue, grey and white. Backed in linen with white paper coating to poster..... More
London: The Library Association for The Royal College of Nursing, 1974. xiii, [1], 223, [1] pp. 12" x 8". Blue cloth stamped in gilt with blue box. Pink dj printed in black. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. 1st edition (Cordasco 801658). xiii, [1 (blank)], 224 pp (including Index). Color frontis, "General Plan of the Circulation". 96 intratextual figures (No. 73 folding). 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original blue cloth binding with white red cross adhering cloth belly band. "The object of..... More
London: Whitehead Morris & Co., 1897. 4th Edition, Ninth Thousand. Association copy, with Holland's daughter's signature. 39, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Black paper wrappers, with white lettering, stapled. Holland, active in social service & having worked as a director of the Popular Hospital, in 1896, at the..... More
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1956. 1st Edition. 232 pp. 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Red & blue dust jacket. The book "describes the first three years of a nurse's training at one of the most famous teaching hospitals in the world, Edinburgh Infirmary." [dj..... More
East San Diego, California: The Wight House Press, (1936). 1st Printing. 16 pp. 16mo. 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". White paper wrappers, printed in green, stapled. "The purpose of this series of Chap Books is to provide writers with authentic local color and professional & picturesque speech covering various fields of endeavor..... More
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1892. Third Edition. 1st published in 1886. xv, [1 (blank)], 142, [2 (adverts)] pp. Index concludes text. 60 intratextual figures. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's olive green cloth binding with black stamped lettering to spine & front board. Pale yellow eps. "Ambulance work has..... More
St Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, 1917. 1st Edition. 374 pp (including Index). 130 illustrations. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4". Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, 1906. 1st edition. 50 pp. Frontis + many b/w photographic images throughout. 8-1/8" x 6". Grey printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A record found on OCLC, but no institutional holdings listed. Rare in the trade... More
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys. 1804. 1st US edition, with Notes and Additions (American Imprints 6561; Austin 1073). [2], [vi], [ix] - xii, 163, [5 (adverts)] pp. Numerous mispaginations, though text continuous. Errata slip tipped onto ffep. 12mo: a^6 A - O^6. 6-3/4" x 4". Period full mottled..... More
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, [1899]. 1st edition. 12 pp. Typographical ornament to front wrapper. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's printed pale green paper wrappers, stapled. A scarce publication relating a speech given not too long after this storied Training School for Nurses celebrated it's quarter century mark [founded in..... More
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1930. 1st edition. [6], 265 pp. Crown 8vo. Black cloth binding stamped in gilt. Red topstain. White dust jacket with color pictorial of a nurse to front panel. Originally published in serial form in Cosmopolitan in the late 1920s, and falsely advertised as a journalistic account drawn..... More
Philadelphia: Edward Trust, Publisher. Press of International Printing Company. 1916. 1st edition thus. [ii (front paste-down)] - xx, 295 [with rear paste-down paginated] pp. Adverts first 20 pages & last 3 pages. Lower margin adverts in text. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. Brick red cloth binding with black stamping. A..... More
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto & verso. 5" x 3". Buff printed paper. More
Oakland, CA: The Senior Class of Samuel Merritt Hospital School of Nursing, 1939. 1st printing (presumed). 40 pp. Many b/w photographic images of the students and staff throughout. 9-1/4" x 6". Brown wrappers embossed with gilt design to front wrapper, stapled. "The Nurse's Prayer: May we be strong, and calm..... More
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge School of Nursing, 1905 / 1907. 1st printings (presumed). 2 items, one a single sheet folded once, and the other a booklet of 8 unpaginated pages. Circular: 10-1/2" x 8". Address: 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". White printed paper. Includes: The Cambridge School of Nursing Circular of Information from..... More
New York: Printed by Lange & Hillman, Steam Book and Job Printers, 1870. 1st edition (Neviins I, p. 91). vii, [3], [9] - 274, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Inserted plate p. 58. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & gilt..... More
New - York: Published by James V. Seaman [et al], J & J Harper, Printers. 1820. 1st American Edition [thus], From the Fourth London Edition, Corrected and Improved (American Imprints 2004; Austin 1160). One of 3 1820 imprints of this title [all printed by Harper], no established priority. OCLC records..... More
Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co., (1902). 1st edition (Cordasco 00-4838). 127, [5 (blanks & index)] pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations throughout. 9-3/8" x 6-1/8". Maroon cloth binding, gilt printed lettering to spine. More
(n. p.): (Friends Asylum for the Insane), (1907). 1st printing. 2 sheets, one folded once. Green and white seal for the "Friends Asylum" to graduation invitation. Program: 5-3/8" x 4-1/2" (when folded). Invitation: 4-5/16" x 5-9/16" (Oblong). Both items printed on white paper. More
Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, 1907. 1st edition. 66 pp. B/w photographic images throughout. 8-3/8" x 6". Red printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Not located on OCLC. Rare in the trade. More
